Jirou's Sleepy Naptime

...Michi-chan's claws are sharp for something so small. My pillow is just feathers right now. Ooops? I think we need a different scratching-post, Tezuka!

Also, the hoverboard prototype broke down again because people keep forgetting that you have to use non-alkali batteries -___- I left a note and evvvvveerrrythiiinng. Do I need to make a department-wide announcement or something???

Gakkkkkuuuuunnnnnn~~~~~

Happy Birthday! I made you this cool watch and I'll find you later today but I'm really glad that you're my friend! ^____^

I dreamt about this awesome manga with all sorts of cool stuff and fun times, and when I woke up, I couldn't remember any of the details about it. Which sucks, I was hoping to actually read it or even write it down or something. Never mind the fact that I am limited to drawing blueprints >>;

But I have been thinking, wouldn't be awesome if you had an accurate mood ring? Like an actual thing where you can tell other people's emotions at the time? It would be really useful....

Still can't get over that awesome party. Thanks everyone for coming! I had a fabulous birthday and thank you for the presents :)

Golden Week means less work for most people, but mostly, it's the people at the front desk reminding me that it's Golden Week and that I shouldn't be at work >>; I just sort of sleepily end up here. I guess old habits die hard. Ehh, there's only a couple of days left, they can put up with me for a bit longer.

Tennis is hard :/ My serves are pretty awful, like I'm ten and relearning it...need to work harder~

-Jirou

Testing is underway for the starch battery! We pretty much genetically modified a potato to consist of nothing but starch and I think it's going to power what we want to it. I'll have to try the batches with different amped objects and then see how long each one takes, and the experimentation process for that is going to take a while, but we're moving forward!

The word bank for the cat translator is slow moving progress though :( Apparently, our test cats are pretty reticent, which sucks. But whatever, I'm resigned to me not being able to finish this by the end of the year...it doesn't look too bright for the translator future.

Another thing that isn't bright for my future is that nii-san wants to foist his kid off on me for their anniversary in a week's time...it cries a lot. And won't sit still. I can barely deal with it for ten minutes, let alone a whole night. I don't know what I'm going to do >>;

So...I really think I'm going to go and nap in Kei-kun's office from now on. I woke up from a nap in my office and there was a huge spider climbing up my arm. I have nothing against spiders, but huge ones on you when you're waking up and not ready for it, is not cool! I spilled juice all over one of my blueprints and the ink ran :( Now I have to redo it all over again. It took me three days to do it before.....

Is nothing safe? First frogs, now spiders...next thing I know, I'm gonna wake up and I'll have a tiger gnawing on my head :|

And I almost got ran over today, by someone who couldn't see that the pedestrian light said green. That was terrifying. He braked just in time, but god, I was so scared. I just sort of froze. Got to be one of the closest calls with death I've had. I didn't see him at all.

...I just want to go and nap for a long, long time and wake up without frightening things on me. I mean, other things can be on me~! Like kittens or rabbits or birds. Cute things. Things that won't make me wary of napping.

So, I was reading an interesting article about how scientists could potentially use water in batteries as a fuel and conductor. Which got me thinking about something. You know how like in elementary school, we use potatoes as small batteries for clocks and things? Couldn't we use other electrochemical substances that are as organic as potatoes to make electricity? It'd be a lot greener, like this water thing, if they get that working. Because then, if your battery explodes, you wouldn't be in danger of burning your finger, but just a small splashing or even having some starch product hit you.

Anyway, Maru-chan! Movies! Which action movie do you reckon has the cheesiest name: Reckoning Grudges or Pursuit of Redemption? Since those seem to be the worse movies around this year~

And no Gakkun, your electric wheelchair is not going to be any faster than walking pace :|

Sleepily yours, Jirou

Chooooouuuuu-kun~ Happy birthday! :D Maybe the next year be completely awesome and filled with lotsa progress. I'll get you your present tomorrow, since I won't have work then!

-Jirou

[ooc: It's a small collection of the photos that Jirou has of Choutarou with his old boyfriend and a little bio of what Kazuya was like from other people's eyes.]

Life just doesn't stop! I'm so sleeeppy, I don't like working this haaaaard. But Yuki-kun and I managed to finish the bare bones of the bacteria detector... albeit, with a bit of a bang. We didn't have to call the fire department this time, though! Just needed to use the fire blanket. This bacteria project is more exhausting than ever and I'm so out of my depth, but it's really rewarding at the end of the day. And the cat word bank is starting to draw to a close, so we might be able to start trying that out sometime next month.

I want to do something mechanically simple to make my brain stop hurting. Anyone have any stuff they want fixed? Like anything. Clocks, toasters, showers. Whatever.

-Jirou

I'll be back soon! Don't miss me too much~

Ahh, I hope I can sleep on the flight. I brought my pillow, but you know. Cabin pressure's weeiiiiird. And there can be crying children. I'm good at sleeping, but sleeping when there are screeching children behind you is difficult. And the flight is long. Luckily, I brought the new volume of Tooyama-sensei's new manga, so that should keep me busy, even if I can't sleep.

And now I'm worrying if I brought enough spare parts to build. Do they have stores that sell spare bits in England?

~Jirou