6:28am JST Monday 16 June 2003

I'm in the cafe now, about to fuck around with my site a bit, first to encapsulate the days old calculation code and then to call it via some perl command that I can use with .shtml files or .pl files. This is a risky venture since I haven't done any flowcharting or rough drafting; I could just be wasting a bunch of time, which is rather foolish considering I'm paying by the hour, but it's what I wanna do right about now.

7:18am

All that stuff about working on my website.... cancel that. I had downloaded a security update, rebooted my computer, and it wouldn't come back up. Just beeped four times, and the sleep light was on, then flashed off five times consecutively, which is almost certainly a code that I can look up somewhere.

I'm guessing it means my computer was too hot, for the heat dissapation fan had gone into high gear. I've felt the machine hotter before, but maybe just not during a reboot cycle.

Anyway, it seems all fine now, but now I'm no longer at the internet cafe. And I'm choosing not to go back and pay another 380 yen to start an hour of .. it's 300 yen for each subsequent hour so I'll only lose 80 yen by going back. but I'm kinda not in the mood anymore. I'll read through the emails I downloaded and see how I feel.

I can tell even before I start that I'll just feel lethargic and sleepy. I imagine that society is going through a phase of attachment to our computers/internet connection, and that in 20 years there will be support classes for IAA Internet Addicts Anonymous - those that just want to be online cause it feels good.