Yesterday's T3A

It turns out that I fell asleep pretty much as soon as I got home last night, so here's a quick T3A for yesterday, whilst I wait for my program's morning data-crunching to finish.

This time let's go in order of increasing length of explanation.

#3 - Andrew is back!

Yesterday Andrew (otherwise known as An-chan 3) had his first day back at work in Japan after several weeks on sick leave in Australia. It's awesome to have him back!

#2 - My program works!

Although the term "works" is certainly a pretty loose characterization, which encompasses a wide range of functionality and effectiveness, I very distinctly passed a milestone yesterday whereby my program can now easily, smoothly, and efficiently do any of the tasks for which it was designed without any silly bugs getting in the way. With one click I can trim all the data files to their specified lengths. With another click I can batch-process all of them and condense their data output into one file. I'm psyched. :)

#1 - Entertaining train ride.

I met an interesting girl at the bus stop last night. From the moment we started talking, she reacted to everything with this continuous, high-energy, edge-of-insanity laugh. Beyond that, it was interesting to meet someone with absolutely no aspirations whatever in life.

Her: "Do you always head home this late?" (laughing)
Me: "Depends on how busy things are at work... how about you?"
Her: "Well, I work from about 8:30am to 9pm" (giggling)
Me: "Wow... those are long hours to work every day."
Her: "Actually that was my last job. Now I start work around 2pm." (laughing)
Me: "Really?! That's awesome... What do you do with all that free time?"
Her: "Nothing. I guess I sleep for some of it." (nervous laughter)
Me: "You don't have any hobbies, or dreams you're following, or anything?"
Her: "No. Actually, I'm thinking about quitting this job... The hours are kinda long." (slightly manic laughter)
Me: "You're kidding. You only work a half day, and that's too long?"
Her: "Yeah..." (still laughing)
Me: "So if you had all the time and money you wanted, what would you do with it?"
Her: "... Nothing, really." (hesitant laughter)
Me: "Uh-huh. Interesting..."
Her: (laughs)

This went on for about half an hour. :P