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long day

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2005.08.01

With Jonathan's departure on Friday, today was the first day during which Shan and I were solely responsible for the upkeep of the systems at the client site. Needless to say, things went awry at 17:00 this afternoon when a promotion didn't go right. By 21:00 we had the system stable again, but not really functional.

Looks like it's going to be a "learning curve" sort of week....

Some readers of this journal may find it of note that the Japanese consider room temperature to be about 25C. I don't just say this from personal observation - I've had this confirmed. When I told my coworkers that we in Canada consider 21C room temperature, they all squawked.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner