Together Every Day

Haha - so I made a new year's resolution to be more together. I feel like most things in my life are going pretty well, but I always feel like I'm scrambling to catch up with things. I'm always just a couple days behind. So I made a new year's resolution that this year I will be together and on top of things. I even got a coffee mug that says "I will be together every day" (note that this is Engrish, and I GUARANTEE that that isn't the meaning that was intended. Will post a picture later).

Anyway, I have clearly not yet succeeded in fulfilling this resolution. I had planned tonight to post some pictures from this past weekend, where some friends and I gathered along a hillside in Nara between two ancient rival temples to witness the ritual burning of an entire mountain! But I accidentally made some quiche after I got home (or at least the bastard child of a quiche and lasagna, perhaps in a threesome with zucchini casserole. It was originally intended to be gratin, but it has been reborn and resuscitated many times, its body and soul replaced piece by piece to the point where it consists of more new ingredients than old now, twisted and evil - something of a Darth Vader casserole, if you will.) which took more time than I had intended, so the yama-yaki post will have to wait until Thursday night. I've got some good pics though, so tune in then!

By the way, things are going well at work - I'm working with a new robot now, and I've spent the last couple days wading through pages of code, all horribly undocumented except for a few cryptic comments, all in Japanese of course. Today, after a bit of translation work and a couple Vulcan mind-melds with the robot, I finally managed to accumulate about 1/10th of a clue about how things work, and I was able to write some code to calibrate the alignment of the robot's drive wheels and get it to move in a straight line! It's certainly nothing to brag about, but it was a small victory for me, and very encouraging!

Ok, must sleep now, so I can proceed to continue working on getting to the point where I can prepare to begin to consider striving to think about coming as close as I can to doing something that appears to be starting to approach a semblance of upholding my new year's resolution.