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I just talked to my aunt. She says that June is non-responsive; they don't think she'll last the weekend. She's leaving this afternoon, so I'm headed down at about 3:30pm -- unless Brooke decides she wants to stay at a friend's house, but that's unlikely -- she's wanting big brother around.

Karla went on to say that she's incredibly grateful to me, which was appreciated -- I mean, it's not like she hasn't been equally wonderful to me lately, and if she hadn't, I'd have still done all this. But it's nice to be explicitly appreciated.

In that vein, I want to say that elisandra has been amazing during all this. She's helped out with the kids when she could, and supported me even more often, through both visits and phone conversations. I haven't been the best boyfriend in the world during all this; thank you, beloved, for forgiving me.

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Called my old boss and semi-friend, Elaine, to see if she wanted to do lunch today. That's what I get for procrastinating; she's out of town until next Wednesday. Oh well, I'll call her then. Maybe I can do lunch with her next week while the rest of you whackos have to be at work.

Windows Help!

Hrm. I used to be able to find language support so that my computer could display Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. I need this again, as my Japanese studies will be resuming this fall, but I can no longer find the proper files on the Microsoft site. Anyone have a clue where I might go to do that?

Edit: I'm not talking about displaying these characters in IE; I've got that. But I used to have a program for displaying the characters in windows programs, and I can't find it anymore. I need something so that Japanese (and Chinese, and Korean; I assume I'll need three different programs) characters will display in other Windows programs.

I have Jwrite, (a DOS-based utility for typing in Japanese) but that isn't as useful as a windows program would be.

Additional: I found this, which is what I needed. But if anyone knows of any useful third-party software, let me know.

I can type in Japanese!

あなた　は　にほんご　を　はなします　か。　すこし　ちょっと　はなします。

This is the absolute BEST feature of WinXP! If I'd known about this in-built multi-input support, I'd have converted AGES ago! Now I just have to remember to switch back to English input when I'm done with the Japanese; you don't want to know what typing "this is" gave me in Hiragana¹

Forgive my atrocious grammar and simplistic sentence structure, folks. It's been a while.

Ok. The rest of this summer, time not spent actively searching for a job or being with others will be spent reviewing my Japanese skills and relearning what I have lost to neglect. Last time I did that, I got up to speed in weeks. It's all still there in memory, it just needs to be awakened by actually studing it. I may decide to start over at CSUS anyway; we'll see what my　academic advisors suggest.

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1 In case you do, it gave me ティｓいｓ. Which is, strictly speaking, not hiragana at all, but a mix of katakana and romaji. So sue me.

For those who don't speak 日本語, the above sentence says "Do you speak Japanese? I speak a little."

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It's over; June just died. Her son was with her. Karla's going down at 4pm, I may or may not need to be with Brooke (Blair is still going to be elsewhere). They'll probably come back Saturday or Sunday if they can get a flight; Monday at the latest.

She was a wacky old woman, and I'll miss her -- both the good and the bad of her.

Update: Seems I'm not needed to be with the girls anymore; they're staying with friends tonight and their parents will be back tomorrow.

Thanks to all.