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i'm _patiently_ waiting for my CS professor to send out the final take-home
exam. after that, i have three more japanese classes and then i'm out for the
summer!

i'm meeting with my Japanese class for dinner and i'll probably see Yuki a
half dozen more times, but otherwise... my evenings and weekends are
free. free to prepare for Eriko's arrival in less than two months.

now that my regular evening obligations are gone, i find myself with... lots
of free time! that means that the laundry list of items that i tell myself
i don't have time to do can now be... put off for various other reasons!

Eriko had her interview and will receive a visa in one week. ;)

after cleaning the contacts on the battery and cables so that there is a clean
electrical connection, there appears to be a problem with the starter. i'm
not sure which component is the starter, though! my mg manual tells me how
to remove it in words, but no pictures...

in the last two weeks, i've had a head cold, an ingrown-toenail, and now a throat cold... what's going on?!

i appear to be fighting the throat cold off, but i am certainly feeling all
the symptoms and am currently losing my voice...

free software and more specifically, open source code, is an amazing phenomenon. compared to the days when all the software i used was closed... now i find out how anything
works, anytime i want...