Thursday, April 01, 2004
I woke up at 6 AM so I let Mae sleep in a while. I read a couple of articles in the Ensign. Mae is still covered with red spots. She called the Health Sisters and they recommended that she get some Hydrocortisone cream and put it on a couple of times a day. I worked on the presentation for Saturday. Elder and Sister Hyer came over about 10:30 AM. We visited and I was able to show them some things about their camera, but not much as I couldn’t get the driver to load. Mae cooked a chicken casserole for dinner. It was nice visiting with them. We are planning on going to Baguio next Tuesday and Wednesday. We think that the Clark’s and Maharry’s are going also. I took a nap this afternoon. We worked on the computer on various projects until almost 11 PM. I did go to town and get the medication for Mae and take some items to have copied. I sure love Mae even though she gets after me for my attitude sometimes.
Friday, April 02, 2004
We slept in so had to hurry to get to District Development meeting. Mae still had time to bake a cake for the Elders. We enjoyed the meeting. We stopped on the way home and visited with President Cabuyaban and looked at his farm. It is looking pretty good and hopefully within 8 to 10 days he will have the first product ready to go to market. Marlyn had dinner ready for us when we got home. We took a short nap and then went to pay the phone bill and to San Jose and mailed the birthday cards and bought some groceries. We went out to eat at Jollibees. After talking to Elder and Sister Hyer yesterday and hearing how one couple had served a mission in Nigeria and so wasn’t surprised at things here, we now think, it could be worse, we could be in Nigeria. We picked up some copies we had printed at the Book Store. We are receiving a lot of forwarded messages concerning the gay movement and same sex marriages in the U. S.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
We got up early, but spent time getting ready for the presentation this afternoon. We went out to Guimba and met Brother & Sister Baliola and their daughter Noemi at Doctor A. Lumiqued’s clinic. He prescribed some medication for her. We paid the bills as Brother and Sister Baliola can’t. While Mae was with the Dr., she asked him about the red spots on her back. He definitely feels it was a dust mite or something like that, and prescribed a stronger medication than what she was using. We came home and ate lunch, took a short nap, and went back to Guimba 2nd Branch to give a presentation on Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching. We were there by 130 PM, but no one else came until after 2 PM. We waited until almost 3:30 PM with only a few that came. We finally went ahead and gave the presentation. I hope it did some good. I felt quite discouraged over the way it went.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
We didn’t get up very early as Mae couldn’t go to sleep last night, so she stayed up and wrote the family letter. I slept in the chair most of the night because of stomach problems and then I woke early and couldn’t go back to sleep because of trying to think of how we can help these branches. I wasn’t in a very good mood when we went to church. After Sacrament meeting, I attended the youth Sunday School class. Mae attended the Primary, which went quite well. I visited with President Gasmena covering several items. Mae stayed after meetings and trained the Primary Presidency. We had dinner and relaxed this afternoon and evening. It rained for a while about 4 PM for a while. We set out on the porch and enjoyed it. I popped some corn and we played some games for a while. I borrowed the telephone from the ZL’s apartment so we could have two phones when our children call us tomorrow.
Monday, April 05, 2004
We got up at 6 AM so we could be ready when the family calls. They called at 6:10 AM and because of daylight saving time, in Utah, it was 4:10 PM Sunday Afternoon for them. All of our family was at Mike & Beck’s and had watched General Conference together. We visited for almost 1 ½ hours with them. It was sure good to hear their voices and they sounded just like they could drive over to see us. Time seemed to fly today. Mae did some training of the District Young Woman’s Presidency. I took the car over and got it washed. Mae got things packed for tomorrow. I wrote a e-mail to Scott and Mishelle about the house, in answer to a e-mail from them. Mae is having a lot of back pain this evening. The spots on her back are starting to clear up, but we are not sure if we have enough medication.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
We got up early and went to Tarlac. We stopped at McDonalds and got us some breakfast before going on to the Hyer’s. It was interesting because when we got to the corner where we turn up to their place, the Maharry’s and the Clark’s were also there. We all got there at the same time. Elder Maharry drove his car with the Clark’s riding with them, Elder Hyer drove with Sister Browning and I riding with them. We left the other two cars at the Hyer’s. Traffic was heavy, but we made it to Baguio about noon. We found the El Cielito Hotel and checked in, and then went to the mall. We ate at Kenny Roger’s which took us a long time to get our food, but it was pretty good when we got it. We then spent a little time walking around the mall. From there we went to Eba’s Silver shop and to the shops around the area. Elder Hyer kept looking for Mario’s Restraint but couldn’t find it. We asked several people but they just point some direction and tell you that way, even if they don’t have a clue where you want to go. We did have one man tell us he didn’t know, but that doesn’t happen very often. We stopped at one place where there was a group of old people in native costume, waiting for tourists to take pictures of them. After we took pictures, they wanted money, but when we only offered then a few pesos, they wanted at least P200. When we wouldn’t pay that much, they got very demanding. We walked away and they followed. When we got to the car we thought they had stopped, but after Mae got in the car, I turned and some of them started running towards me. I had to almost shove Mae over so I could get in before they got to us. We drove around the area several times more looking for Mario’s, before we had someone tell us we were one block down. We went there and ate dinner. It was very good and it was a lot of fun being together as couple missionaries. We were tired when we got to our hotel so each when to our own rooms. Mae and I watched the last half of “Shoot out at the Ok Corral” on TV before going to sleep.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
We met the others at 7:30 AM in the lobby, and then went to Camp John Hay’s and ate buffet breakfast. We met two other couple missionaries from the Ilongapo mission. It was a enjoyable morning visiting and eating. Just as we set down to eat, Sister Maharry’s son called to let us know the Sister Marjorie Fay Hinckley had just passed away a hour before. We had heard that she wasn’t at General Conference because of illness but were saddened to hear of her passing. The other missionaries were there for a two day break also. After breakfast we walked around the hotel grounds for a while and just enjoyed ourselves. The hotel had decorated the grounds for Easter. It was really very well done. They even had a pen with baby chickens and baby rabbits in it. We then rented a van and driver who drove us around town and took us to the shops we wanted to go. We had a very enjoyable day, but spent quite a lot of money. We thought we would head for home by 2 PM but we were later getting away, and then we stopped at the mission home and visited for a while there. We also stopped at some vegetable stands and bought strawberries, lettuce, a cucumber, potatoes and some green mangos. It was after 7 PM when we got to the Hyer’s. They invited us to stay, and I almost did, but then decided to drive home. We had a lot to unpack and bring in. Boy, we really realize the difference in the temperature between here and Baguio. It was really pleasant up there and almost cold at night. I set down to the computer to enter my journal, but kept falling asleep. I went to bed shortly after 9 PM, but Mae stayed up until 11 PM trying to figure out where we spent all the money. She also got some text messaging from President Cabuyaban.
Thursday, April 08, 2004
We slept in until 6:30 AM. We didn’t do much today but worked on the computer. Mae wrote some on the family letter. We figured the budget as to what we had spent on our trip. Mae took pictures of the items we have purchased to take home as gifts and put them away. She also worked on primary preparations. I spent over 3 hours, trying to get some pictures reproduced, for Mae. We went over to the Book Store to get some copies made but everyone is closed for Holy Week. I had to print them on our computer. I had a training this afternoon, but they called and rescheduled it for tomorrow afternoon. I got Brother and Sister Tabbilos’s B. R. filled written for them. This morning I fixed French toast with fresh strawberries, mangoes and yogurt. For dinner we had toast with fresh tomatoes and lettuce. It was good to have some of these fresh items. We were late getting to bed, but really didn’t feel we had done very much today, the time just flew by.
Friday, April 09, 2004
We attended District Development Meeting with the Paniqui Elders. We really enjoy these Elders and will certainly miss Elder Elison when he goes home in two weeks. He is really a special young man. Mae made a cake to the Elders this morning for a treat. We stopped on the way home and visited with President Cabuyaban and to see his farm. The rain really hurt his crop in that it was to much water, and it has really started the weeds to grow. I really hope this project works out. He asked if I could go with him to administer to his counselor, who has been sick for the last couple of days. We went with him. It was 1:30 PM when we got home. Marlyn had dinner ready for us. Brother Mercado and Brother Sylvia came over for me to train Brother Mercado on the Branch Organization reports. I also trained him on some of his responsibilities as District Executive Secretary. Mae and I then took a short nap. President and Sister Mercado came over to sell me a vitamin and mineral product. We enjoyed visiting with them and invited them to stay and have tomato and toast sandwiches with us for dinner. I typed on the family letter while Mae worked on primary projects. We were late getting to bed.
Saturday, April 10, 2004
We didn’t get up early as we didn’t get t bed until late. We went to Guimba and saw the Dr. about Mae’s back and Noemi’s medication. Mae’s back is doing much better but he feels that we should continue with the one cream for a little longer. We got enough medication for Noemi to last for two weeks. We then went to Moncada and took those medications to her. Her mother was in tears as she was about out of what she had and didn’t know how they could get more. We have made arrangements with the Doctor to provide what medications they need and we will pay for it. We came back to Guimba and ate lunch at Cindy’s. We then went to the chapel where Mae visited with the District Relief Society, while I taught a presentation to the Branch Presidents on “Interviews”. It went well and I had a lot of participation from the Branch Presidents and the District Presidency. Just before I finished my transformer and surge protector burned up. We came home and got something for dinner, and then I worked on the computer the rest of the evening. We have had a lot of black ants in our bedroom this evening. I have used spray and a fly swat to kill them.
Sunday, April 11, 2004
We attended meetings at Munoz 2nd Branch. Mae felt quite successful with the Primary. I went into the adult s. s. class and enjoyed it. I was going to attend the Aaronic Priesthood quorums but Brother Mico asked if he could visit with me. We visited for the full priesthood meeting. Mae and I drove to Angeles and checked into the “Oasis Motel”. It was quite nice. We then went to the mission home where President and Sister Brimhall invited the couple missionaries, the A. P. and the office Elders to a nice Easter dinner. After dinner we watched a video of the Trial and Crucifixion of the Savior. It was very moving but very enjoyable. The evening was very enjoyable as we spent time with such wonderful people. I didn’t sleep very well tonight.
Monday, April 12, 2004
We got up early and met the Maharry’s and Sister Hyer in the lobby. We drive over to Clark Field and met Elder and Sister Clark at the parade grounds where we all walked together. Elder Hyer came over later but didn’t walk with us because of his health. We came back to the motel where we cleaned up and then went to breakfast in the dinning room. The food was very good and we enjoyed visiting together. Mae and I checked out, went to the bank to cash a check, went to the mission home and met with Elder Shaw who helped us figure the set on our computer so we can show DVD’s on our projector. We went to the wood carving shop off Clark, then went to Dr. Rosales and got our teeth cleaned. We then stopped at DHL Quilting and looked at quilts. We bought a couple of baby quilts for Jessica and David’s new to be baby boy. We stopped at the Duty Free store and got some Brownie and cake mixes before going home. The traffic was bad and it took us a long time to get home. It was after 9:30 PM before we got home. We were very tired and son went to bed.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
We went to Guimba where we met Elder Ligaliga and Elder Folker and went out to Talugtug, a small town about 18 km North of Guimba. There, Sister Remy Leftakis, a former resident from there, but now lives in Chicago, and is here on vacation. She has several investigators that want to hear the missionary lessons and several that she is trying to get reactivated. We had an enjoyable time with her and the Elders. It was almost 3 PM before we got home. We lay down and took a nap, then ate some dinner. We went over to San Jose to do some errorns, one of which was to take some mail over to the Elders there. We got to their home and realized that we had left the mail home. We came home and got it, and then took it back to them. We left some tapes to have copied. We also went grocery shopping.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
We did go walking this morning. We came back and showered, ate breakfast and studied the Scriptures. I took a nap while Mae typed some of the material for the Young Women program that she wants saved. After lunch I balanced our statement and figured the budget. We went to San Jose and got the copies of the primary tapes. We also got some primary games laminated so they will last a while. We spend a lot of time on the computer, but sometimes it seem that we get little done. I visited with the Elders in Guimba concerning Branch 1 and 2, trying to figure out what we can do to help them. President Brimhall had interviews with the Elders today, and he did not express his opinion about teaching out in Talugtug, but he would like more information about it. I also have been trying to figure out what can be done to help Branch 1.
Thursday, April 15, 2004
We got up and went walking this morning. While walking we saw Sister Nieto, her daughter Wendy and her son Warren playing badminton. We visited with them for a few minutes before continuing our walk. As we were about back to the gate, we started to pas a older lady and Mae said good morning to her. She started talking to Mae and I was afraid that she had a friend for life. She continued with us clear out to the car. I was afraid that we weren’t going to get rid of her. Yet we felt bad that someone was so lonely as to pickup on a stranger and begin to tell her life history. We fixed breakfast of French toast, with fruit, peanut butter, honey and yogurt on it, and eggs. We read from the scriptures, and then both took a nap. Mae got on the computer to write letters. I had the car washed and oil changed, and then had Mae go with me to mail the baby quilts to Jessica and David and Shauna’s new baby. It cost us more to ship them than to buy them. We stopped by the Nuque’s to see how Brother Nuque is, as Sister Nieto said he was in a accident. They weren’t there and daughter said that they had taken her grandfather to Manila to the airport, so he could return to the U. S. She said that Brother Nuque had only received a cut above the eye, but was ok. When we came back home, Mae got back on the computer, again writing letters. I fixed leftovers for dinner. Mae didn’t finish the letters until after 7 PM. I then got on the computer to do my journal and wrote some more on my stories. President Brimhall called this evening and told me that President Go, in Belair, would like Elder and Sister Browning to come back up and do more training in Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching.
Friday, April 16, 2004
We got up and got ready to attend District Development meeting at Guimba Chapel with the Elders. We sure enjoy being with these young men. We will go out on Sunday and meet with Elder Brown and his companion and do some visiting of priesthood holders in the Guimba 1st branch, then we will meet with Elder Ligaliga and Elder Folker and try to get more information about the teaching of those in Talugtug. The problem there is that the cost to come to church will be P50 one way, and few Filipinos can or will pay that much. After meeting we went over to the Doria family and visited with them for a few minutes. I am sure the father went into the other room and kept quiet, so he would not have to talk to us. We asked the mother about coming to church, but she used the excuse that she isn’t feeling well. The boys had drawings for us and they would like to again go to Jollibees. We went out to President Cabuyaban’s and talked to him about his farm. The other morning he called saying that the market was no good and he was only getting P4 per kilo for the pechay. That is very low and he wont make it at that price. Today he was feeling better about it as he found that there are few growers and the price is now P14 and could clime as high as P30. He hopes to get us a payment on his loan by the end of next week. We are hoping that it works out for him. It was 2 PM when we got home and Marlyn had dinner ready. After dinner I took a nap. Mae made brownies and at 3 PM we went over to Gasmania’s where we wished Eva congratulations for graduating from collage. We also met with the District YM & YW and President Gasmania about youth conference. They asked if Mae and I would speak at the opening of the conference. They also want Elder and Sister Clark to speak at the closing of the conference. After returning home Mae got on the internet. We had some letters from some of our friends. I then worked on my journal for a few minutes. We stayed up until 11 PM so that we might call Shellie and Roy. We haven’t heard from them for a while and Mae got a little anxious to see how they are doing. It was good to talk to them for a few minutes. We have been getting some calls for the past few days and when we answer the phone there is silence and then the person hangs up. We are getting a little concerned about it.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
We went walking this morning and walked and took the camera with us. We enjoyed the walk and took several pictures especially of the flowers. Marlin Dator came over and I went over the training for the Priesthood Executive Committee. That took over 2 hours but I think was very well worth the time. We got an e-mail off to the Elders in Baler as to the training we would like to do when we go there on the 20th, 21st, and 22nd of May. We relaxed and watched a video of President Hinckley’s tour to Asia. We also watched the movie “Only Once”. I set the computer and projector up so we could see them on a larger view. It works very well, but I think we still need speakers that will hook to the computer. For over two weeks, we have been missing the writing stick to our palm pilot. We don’t know what happed to it, but Mae had been using the palm pilot while talking on the phone. When we realized it was missing, I search the front room area and even reached into the cracks of the cushions of the couch and big chairs, but did not find it. As I started to put the projector and computer away, there on the couch cushion laid the writer. Where it came from we do not know, but are glad to have it back.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
We attended the Munoz 2nd Branch. Mae went into the primary. I attended the youth S. S. class, and then I visited with the District Y. M. & Y. W. Presidents about using the film “Only Once” for the youth conference. They will come over Tuesday evening and view the film so that they can make a decision. I then went into the Elders quorum to attend the end of it. I think I was able to answer some concerns about the purpose of Church Disciplinary actions. Mae stayed after meetings to train the Young Woman’s presidency. I took a nap in the car. When Mae finished, I took her home and then I went out to Guimba to work with the Elders there. I first went with Elder Brown, Elder _____ and President Cabuyaban to visit some members. We first visited a young man that has married a non-member.  His name is Angelito Alcantara and has been on a mission and endowed although he does not wear his garments now. After visiting for a few minutes I challenged him to have his wife listen to the missionaries. He promised that he would ask her. The Elders will follow us on that reference. I talked to him about the eternal purposes of life and the possibility of having his family for eternity. We next visited the Dela Cruz family. Noel, their 22 year old son, was just killed in a accident last week. He was driving his trike when a jeepnie side swiped him as it’s driver tried to pass. The driver was drunk. As the jeepnie hit the trike, the trike was overturned with a girl in the cart. She escaped with only minor scratches, but Noel’s leg was caught by the bumper of the jeepnie and he was drug for some distance, sustaining death causing injuries. The Family is having a viewing in their home today and will later have the funeral. We expressed our sympathy and only stayed for a few minutes. We next went to the Matal family. This is the home of the parents of Annalisa. We have thought a lot of Annalisa as we have met her. We have also felt impressed with William, Annalisa’s intended husband. Both of who were there as we visited. Brother and Sister Matal seem to be wonderful people, but they are not coming out, as Brother Matal does not want to accept a calling. I visited with them about the blessings of the Gospel and told them that their help was needed in the branch. I hope we did some good in these visits. We then went back to the chapel and I met with the branch presidency of Guimba 2nd branch. I showed them how I felt that they needed to correct some baptismal and confirmation records that never got recorded. The had the original copy of the certificates, so I had them make new certificates and send them into the P.B.O. with a note attached stating that they have never received any indication that these certificates had ever been recorded. We also went over the situation concerning the members that live in Talugtug. I made assignments for the Elders to get me the population of both Talugtug and the town next to it. We need a listing of all members that live in those areas and those that are active. We Elder Brown and Elder Folker went with me to President Desalla’s home and we ask him about the maps that he has been trying to get for me. He gave me the phone number of Noel Delos Santos at the P. B. O. and asked me to call him, as he hasn’t been able to get him to respond to his requests. I took the Elders back to their apartment and then came home. It began to rain and I was in heavy rains all the way home. It was after 7:30 PM when I got there. Mae had dinner ready for me. After eating I felt completely drained and soon went to bed, but I had to sleep on pillows to prop me up because of acid reflex, eating that late and going to bed after eating. Mae was tired also so soon came to bed.
Monday, April 19, 2004
We over slept but still got up and went walking. Ronald Dator came this morning to repair our front porch light. With the crank calls which we have been receiving the past couple of weeks, Mae gets pretty anxious when she hears noises outside at night. I hope this will help her calm her fears as she can now turn on the porch light or the light in the shed from inside the house. He also informed us that he and his girl friend have set the 26th of June as their wedding date. We are very happy for that as he needs to get on with life and he is a very special young man. As Utah is now on daylight saving time we realized that we needed to get on the computer at 9 AM to talk to our family on the instant messaging. Jeff had a short e-mail saying that he was in Arizona and would be flying home this evening. Gale got on the instant messaging with us. Also Mike came on as did Shellie for a few minutes. Jeff had helped Shellie figure it out. It was a enjoyable experience visiting with them. After Mike and Shellie signed off, Gale confided with us that Jeff is having questions with his testimony. That was hart breaking news but we were glad that she confided with us. She has talked to their Bishop and he want to visit with Jeff. Gail also asked him to give her a blessing, which he did. Gale said that Jeff has agreed to visit with him. We will certainly be keeping him in our prayers. I had to spend some time working on my journal, as it has got neglected for a couple of days. It seem to be easy to let it go when we have busy days and are tired by evening. Elder and Sister Clark came about 7:30 PM. We visited and watched the two movies that Scott and Mishelle sent us. We really enjoyed visiting and having them here for the night.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
We got up at 4:45 AM and went walking at the collage. It was a very enjoyable time. We came home and showered, which took a little while with the 4 of us needing to get in. Mae and I showered first and then gave the bathroom to them while we fixed breakfast. After breakfast we read the scriptures for a while. We attended the Guimba and San Jose Zone Conference this morning. Both Sister and President Brimhall gave great messages. President Brimhall recognizes the Elders that have had a birthday since the last Zone conference. After giving them a candy bar, he gave me a package of Hershey’s Sugar Free Chocolate candy. He is always very thoughtful of me. We came home about 3 PM and got the Clark’s over night items, and then they left for home. Mae and I went over to San Jose where we bought some speakers for our computer. We bought some groceries and then went out to eat at Jollibees. At 6 PM we had Carolyn Rubio and Denny Eligado, the District Y.W. and Y. M. presidents come over to preview the film “Only Once” to see if they wanted to have it shown for Youth Conference. They feel it is a good one for the youth and would like us to show it to them. After they left, we pulled up the internet and had three e-mails, one from Becky, one from Shellie and one from Julianna. Mae sent Scott and Mishelle a short letter. I added today’s expenses to the budget and then caught my journal up to date.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
I am not sure what to enter today, wondering if we really accomplished very much. We walked this morning at the collage and enjoyed that. As we came back to the car to come home, we began talking about our concerns for Jeff, Gale and David. We are worried about Jeff and David’s testimonies. I finished a letter to Mike expressing our concerns and asking his help in determining if our fears have grounds to be concerned. I expressed my feelings that if necessary we would consider coming home. I hope that it will not be necessary. I sent a e-mail to Sandi, just telling her that we miss her and love her. We did some preparation on our talks for tomorrow evening for youth conference. I got a text from President Cabuyaban asking for more money, but I couldn’t get through to him. He later called and said he was able to borrow some from someone else. I hope he can make it and that we helped him more than we hurt him. I put on the Saturday morning conference tape and watched it. We went to the church expecting to attend activity night at 5:30 PM, but there was no one there. We waited and at 6 PM Sister Elisa came but didn’t have a key to the building. She tried to get one from President Nieto but he wasn’t home nor was anyone else, so activity night was canceled. This kind of planning and response doesn’t surprise me, but it does discourage me in what we are trying to accomplish. We came home and ate some dinner and then I put the next session of conference on. The only problem is I slept through the complete tape.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
We had invited the Elders over for breakfast and had expected four of them, so we cooked two packages of frozen potatoes, to fry with bacon in them, a dozen eggs, muffins (which makes 12 large muffins) and lots of fruit and juice. When they came it was only Elder Holbrook and Elder Ebanza. Elder Bos and Elder Jensen did not come, telling the zone leaders that they had an early appointment. We thought to ourselves “they should have let us know as we have cooked way too much food now”. We told the zone leaders that we hoped they were really hungry as we had fixed a lot of food, thinking that the four of them were coming. As we brought in the food, they said “Wow! that is a lot of food. We told them we were just kidding, that they didn’t have to eat all the food. But, as we were eating, the two Elders of them kept eating more and more, until they had eaten everything except 2 muffins and some of the fruit. We were amazed. We used to think that Elder Jex was amazing at how much food he could eat, but guess most of the elders stuff themselves when they are invited over. We listened to the Saturday afternoon General Conference tape. We also worked on our talks for this evening. We went over to the collage this evening. They weren’t ready for us when we got there so we just spent time with the youth. I lost a couple of chess games, but it was fun. We are not sure just how our talks went because we couldn’t read their reactions. You just have to hope they got something from it. We stayed for the get acquainted dance after our talks and enjoyed dancing with them. We commented that that dance went a lot better than some we had in Utah with the youth. Most of the youth got out and danced and the music was appropriate but could have been better selection to dance to.
Friday, April 23, 2004
We went to Paniqui for District Development Training this morning but took the Munoz Elders out to Guimba on the way. We enjoy attending these meetings with the Elders and were especially being there as Elder Shaw and Elder Elison expressed there feelings as they will be going home this next week.
After meeting Mae had brownies for all the Elders. We then drove to Moncada to see Brother and Sister Baiola and Noemi to see how Noemi is doing. We encouraged them to take her to the doctor tomorrow. It was 1:30 PM when we got home. We got some lunch and did a little on the computer. I picked up some chairs from the church house for Mae’s baking class tomorrow. Mae made a Chicken Casserole which she will cook tomorrow morning as we are having the Clarks over for lunch. We then got ready and took the computer and projector over to the collage where Guimba District is holding Youth Conference. We showed the video “Only Once” to the youth. After the movie, President Mercado talked to the youth. I then told our experience and bore my testimony that I know that Heavenly Father gave us these commandments to help us be happy. We think that the evening went well and the youth got something out of it. It was late when we got home, filled out my journal and got to bed.
Saturday, April 24, 2004
We woke early, got ready & went to CLSU to hear Elder & Sister Clark speak at Youth Conference. Sister Clark spoke on Preparing for the Temple and Elder Clark spoke on The Second Coming of Christ. They both gave very good talks. After the talks, they had evaluations and testimonies. Then they awarded prizes for the games, etc. They sure seem like good youth. We came home, with the Clarks, and had lunch. We sure enjoyed visiting with them. They left at 1:30 p.m. to go to Paniqui to the Paniqui District Conference training. Mae had a baking class to give to the Guimba District Relief Society Presidencies. She had taken brownies (Texas Cake) to President Gamena when he did the printing on the T Shirts for her to use for a talk at New Beginnings in Paniqui. They loved the brownies and asked if she would teach a baking class. Elder Clark helped me set up the chairs; I had borrowed from the church, and take our big sofa chairs into the East bed room. The baking class was part 2 of the quarterly district R.S. Leadership Meeting. Part I was at the Church and Mae was invited to go there. I drove over to get the copies at the copy shop for Mae’s class and my training next week, but when I went to pay for them, I didn’t have my wallet. They let me take them anyway and when Mae came home, I went up to pay them. Mae said that she told the ladies, she could take 4 of them with her in the car, as they were waiting for trikes to bring them over. There were lots more than 4 who piled into the car. The sisters enjoyed the baking class and had a good time. They also enjoyed eating the brownies and cookies and took some home to their families. Sister Jean Gasmena had bought the ingredients for two cakes. She told Mae that if you buy a cake or brownies that size, it costs P300, but she had bought the ingredients for the 2 brownies for less than P180 and she still had half of the ingredients left over. She was excited. The problem, however, is that they don’t have ovens to bake them in. The R.S. President from Munoz 1, Sister Monta, said she would run right out and buy her an over. She does have more money than most of the other sisters because her husband is a seaman and works on a big ship. He is only home about 2 months a year. She later asked Mae if she could borrow our oven to bake her son’s birthday cake next month. Mae jokingly said “I thought you were going to run right out and buy an over.” She said “first I’ve got to find the money to buy the measuring cups.” They all laughed. Mae furnished the brownies she made to show them how, and then divided them into two groups and one worked in the main kitchen and the other group in the cooking kitchen. It worked well. We borrowed a fan from the Elders as it was really hot. I visited with Pres. Gasmena while Mae had the baking class. Marlyn attended also and while we were saying “goodbye” to all the R.S. sisters, Marlyn and her sister-in-law were in the house doing the dishes, sweeping the floors, putting up the chairs, etc. We sure appreciated it as we were so tired. Marlyn is a gem, we are so grateful for her. Afterwards, Mae & I relaxed a while before going to bed.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
We slept in as we had taken our showers last night so that gave us a little more time before going to church. This is our last week at Munoz 2nd branch. Sacrament meeting only lasted 45 to 50 minutes. Primary was not very well organized. They held primary back in the small room instead of the chapel, so there wasn’t room for me to attend. I went into the youth S. S. class and enjoyed that. I spent about ½ of the priesthood time visiting with the Young Men’s President about the need to spend time getting the youth out to their meetings. I then went into Elders Quorum meeting and the first thing that was asked is “What is the main adversity that we have in the church?” I raised my hand and told them it was laziness, I then expounded a few minutes. That caused a pause in the lesson. We came home and got some lunch, I then worked on my presentation for this afternoon and took a nap for a few minutes. Mae went with me to the church and helped me get my equipment in. She then took the car and went visiting some sisters. It was 4:30 PM before we could get started as we were waiting for members of the P.E.C. to get there. We did have everyone show up. I think it went quite well, but I am not sure just how President Nieto took it. I was quite straight forward in my presentation and at one point towards the end, Present Nieto got up and left. I was not sure if I had upset him or not, but he then came back with treats at the end of the meeting. I am not sure if he went to the tindahon to buy them or not. My legs are really hurting me this afternoon and by the time I finished the presentation they were really hurting. We then stood and talked to President Nuque for another half hour. My feet and legs hurt until I am about ready to cry. Mae helped me enter my journal before we went to bed. She also rubbed my feet for me. I fell asleep but Mae stayed up until after 11 PM writing a e-mail to our family.
Monday, April 26, 2004
We slept in and did not go walking as my feet are so sore. I have gone back onto Mannatech, hoping that it will clear up my problem. Marlin came and washed our car. Marlyn was here today to do the house cleaning. We got on the instant messaging with Scott, but he was late getting on because he had to do a update before it would let him on. We had become concerned because we had received that we must update messaging in order to get on the other day. We were afraid that ours was the problem, but it looks like the kids are not updated yet. Jeff came on later and we enjoyed visiting with the two of them for a while. After they signed off, Mae worked on the internet for a while longer. As I am having trouble walking, because of my feet, I took a nap. This afternoon we went to the bank and got our money for next month. We also bought our groceries at CVC. Our Elders were there shopping also, so we gave them a ride home. While Mae put the groceries away, I repaired the light fixture in the kitchen. Mae got back on the computer, so I put the conference tape on and watched general conference and played solitary. Sister Mercado came over and visited and Mae was able to help her with the program for June’s Primary Leadership training meeting. Mae will help with that.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
I woke at 5 AM but Mae was still sleeping. My feet are feeling much better this morning. I won’t do that again. I said prayers and did some planning. The phone rang at 7 AM and woke Mae. We thought Sister Nida Valenton was coming to give us treatments, but she didn’t come. At 10 AM we had a brown out, so that stopped us from working on the computer and most everything we are in need of doing seems to be on the computer. I don’t know what we would have done without this computer. It was hot, so at noon we drove to Tarlac and had lunch at McDonalds. We then went shopping for some material for me two pair of slacks and Mae a couple of dresses and a jumper. We got home at 5 PM, found that the power was back on, so with the exception of eating spent the rest of the evening on the computer. It seems that we have so much to do.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
We got up and went walking this morning but as we haven’t done so for a few days, we soon got tired and came back. When we got back, President Gajonera and Sister Lorna Gajonera came over to ask for some advice. His 1st counselor is planning on getting married May 15th but the Father-in-law is threatening violence if they get married in the Temple. He is even threatening killing the young man. We discussed the situation. President Gajonera and President Cabuyaban are going to try to visit the father. If it is just threats with no action, then the couple will go ahead with their plans. If it is more serious we will get back in touch with President Brimhall. I had called President Brimhall to ask for advice. After they left we took our showers. Sister Nida Valenton came and gave both Mae and I treatments. We also discussed a business plan with her, trying to see if it would be feasible for her to open her own Physical Therapy office. My main concern is that she is too generous to the point that she might work herself broke. While we discussed the possibilities we had lunch. She left about 2PM with some homework to do. I will also try to get the cost of having a special table built. I went down to the tire store to get a new set of tires for the car, but they didn’t have a full set of four like they said they did but will get them in next week. We went to the church at 5:30 PM again today, but again there was no Youth Mid-Week Activity. We stopped to visit with President Neito, but they weren’t home. I worked on the computer this evening. We had the drinking water co. come with water this evening.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
David called us about 6:15 AM Philippine time, to tell us that they have a new baby boy, born 10:45 AM Mountain Standard daylight saving time. He is 19 ½ inches long, 6 lb 14 oz and has a lot of hair like his brother Tyler. Both Shauna and the baby are doing fine. They haven’t picked a name yet. We went walking at the collage after talking to David and Tyler. Emily is having a hard time adjusting to Shauna being gone to the hospital. I spent a lot of time on the computer today and when I was off of it, Mae was on it. This evening President Gajonera and his counselor came over for some more advice. They had been out to Guimba to visit with his counselor’s girl friends father. They said the father would not listen to them but said that if they got married any other way than in the Catholic Church, he would have the young man killed, and told them that this world was not large enough to hide from him. He said that after they were married that way, he didn’t care what they did. I called and talked to President Brimhall, who called President Mains. President Mains said that he would talk to President Oaks and get back to us. We left that much with President Gajonera and his counselor along with having prayer for things to work out, and will let them know when we hear more. President Brimhall advised them to keep the date they had planned of May 15th as scheduled. I watched the Sunday Session of General Conference while Mae worked on the computer. It was almost 11 PM when we went to bed. We got a short but nice e-mail from Jeff.
Friday, April 30, 2004
We got up and went to District Development meeting. President Brimhall called to say that he had received word from President Mains asking if it might be possible for Joselito Tobias, the 1st counselor to President Gajonera, and Maritess Gamurot to get married at the Temple early on the 15th of May and then get civilly married in the Catholic Church that evening. That is a possibility that we might explore. He will do more checking with the Area Presidency. Meeting was good with the Elders and we have two new Elders in our Zone and lost 1 set of Elders from Guimba 2nd. We were sorry to lose Elder Brown from Guimba 1st Branch, but he had been there for about 7 months. Elder England from Star Valley Wyoming is one of our new Elders. We enjoyed visiting with him. Elder Jensen is also familiar with Star Valley as his Grandfather is from there. After meeting we went over to Dr. Sam’s and paid the bill for Noemi Baiola. It wasn’t as much as we expected, so we are not sure just what happened. When we got home, at about 1 PM, Marlyn had dinner ready for us. The power has been out every since 8 AM. After eating we took a nap but it was hard as it was so hot. We set out side on the front porch most of the afternoon and evening as there was a little breeze that helped. We set out this evening with candles and played a game of Rummy. I finally won the game. The power came back on at 8:15 PM.


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Ebean supports using Savepoints
which are a feature of most Relational Databases
in which we can create a Savepoint (nested transaction) inside a transaction which can
commit or rollback as a unit of work.
If we have a task that performs some operations which can fail/rollback, but don't
want to loose all the work for the entire transaction Savepoint
provides a mechanism to do this.
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Savepoint
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can be rolled back leaving the outer transaction to continue and potentially commit.
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from the transaction.
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Links¶
README.md¶
demuxfb - demultiplex exported facebook json chat data!¶
demuxfb is a Python package to reframe conversations from Facebook ‘Download Your Information’ json dumps into a more exact form, accounting for the different categorizations of messages that the json metadata itself does not distinguish.
Motivation¶
Facebook chats are very feature-rich. All within a chat, there may be polls, events, video and audio calls, embedded games, and more. But the Facebook ‘Download Your Data’ exportation format fails to reflect these features; many distinct categories of messages are structurally indistinguishable from ordinary text messages.
When analysing the dataset, should an automated event reminder, ‘Reminder, 30 minutes until 10 PM.’, be treated the same as a human-written message? This should be up to the analyst to decide, not the exportation format.
Scope¶
This package defines a method to ‘parse’ Facebook JSON data for single chats into a more useful and complete representative form. This form is intended to be used an intermediary for analysis on the dataset.
We achieve this by string-matching message content to known schemas for the special feature-driven messages. The JSON messages in the original time series are promoted into appropriate Python classes according to these rules.
This process is limited in several ways.
It is difficult to establish a formal spec of what these schemas are – we are on the outside, so it has been up to human inference on a limited dataset. So, given this difficulty in verification, the rules may be wrong or incomplete in the first place, or may silently become obsolete in future Facebook updates.
Facebook features are region-specific. Currently, this package assumes an Australian dataset, so the inbuilt rules will fail to detect things like sending money through messenger (a U.S. feature).
The Facebook exporter compresses the natural data. For example, Alice typing ‘Alice waved hello to the group.’ is impossible to distinguish from Alice using the wave feature. We take a parsimonious approach in these kinds of situations where there is no single correct answer, even though different or more complex procedures may emperically be better in the relevant context.
Expect misclassification.
Installation¶
The recommended approach is to download the repository and copy the src/demuxfb
folder to wherever you’re using it, and just put import demuxfb
as with any
other source package. This allows you to easily modify the source to suit your
exact needs, if necessary (see the Modification section).
Alternatively, if you’re happy to use the code as is, you can download binaries from the Releases page. The date components of the version numbers signify that the release was built against a Facebook archive dataset generated on that date. It is recommended that you use fresh Facebook archives and the most recent release.
After choosing a version, the binary can be installed with
pip install demuxfb-VER.tar.gz
This should work for Python 3.8+, and may incidentally be compatible with earlier Python 3 releases.
Usage¶
You can download your Facebook data at https://www.facebook.com/dyi/. Before beginning the download, you must set the file format to ‘JSON’ and confirm that the ‘Messages’ option is checked.
Once the archive has been generated and you have downloaded it, unzip it.
Your chats should then be located in the messages/inbox/
and
messages/archived_threads/
subfolders. From here, a simple usage example would
be as follows.
from pathlib import Path
import demuxfb
# 1. Point to where the conversation will be fed in from the disk.
path = Path('C:/users/nicho/downloads/facebook-nicholaskilleen/'
'messages/inbox/ourchat_95kldfjg4')
feed = demuxfb.ChatFolderFeed(path)
# 2. Create the chat (takes a while, reports progress to stdout).
chat = demuxfb.build_chat(feed, 'Nicholas Killeen')
# 3. Do some stub analysis with it.
print('Number of text messages in the conversation:',
len([message for message in chat.messages
if isinstance(message, demuxfb.message.TextMessage)]))
Documentation¶
The documentation is available online at https://nick-killeen.github.io/demuxfb/.
You can also read it in source or with help(demuxfb)
in Python, or can compile
it with Sphinx by using the Makefile in the docs_src/
directory.
Modification¶
You may want to extend or modify demuxfb’s vocabulary to work better with your dataset. This is not possible to do through the package interface, so you will need to modify the source. This section can help get you started.
demuxfb works by iterating through all JSON messages, for each consulting an ordered list of rules until one of them ‘matches’ the current JSON iterate and produces an appropriate message object. It is these rules that define the parsing logic, so they will generally be the focus of any modifications or additions you would like to make.
All rules are defined in the src/demuxfb/_rules.py
file. For example, consider
the scenario of wanting to recognize JSON snippets similar to the following as
PlanDeletionMessages
:
{
"sender_name": "Jacob Smith",
"timestamp_ms":<PHONE_NUMBER>210,
"content": "Jake deleted the plan Saturday Hangout for Sat, Aug 5 at 12 PM.",
"type": "Generic"
}
Then, in the src/demuxfb/_rules.py
file, we might have the following rule:
@_register_rule()
def _match_plan_deletion_message(cf: '_ChatFactory'
) -> Optional[msg.PlanDeletionMessage]:
if cf.match([_Tok.SENDER_ALIAS, ' deleted the plan ', _Tok.PLAN_TITLE,
' for ', _Tok.PLAN_DATE_TIME]):
message = cf.make_common(msg.PlanDeletionMessage)
message.plan_title = cf.captures[_Tok.PLAN_TITLE]
message.plan_date_time = cf.captures[_Tok.PLAN_DATE_TIME]
return message
return None
All rules are registered with the @_register_rule
decorator. The order in which
these registrations appear in source will correspond to the precedence of rules,
more general rules being defined at the bottom of the file.
Rules have two possible return types: they return None
to indicate their
non-applicability to the current state, causing demuxfb to move on to the next
rule; or they instantiate and return a specialized message object which will be
copied to the output structure (here PlanDeletionMessage
). These types are
defined in the src/demuxfb/message.py
file, where you are free to add your own
or change the existing ones.
Rules take in a single _ChatFactory
argument that encompasses the world state.
This state persists throughout the sequential parsing process, and includes:
A
message_json
property that contains the current JSON that is meant to be turned into a message.An identity manager for the participants in the conversation.
Token definitions (which can be updated dynamically, though no rule currently makes use of this).
Scoping variables, such as
plan_is_active
– one might expect that a genuine plan deletion event will not occur if there does not exist an ongoing plan, so, we can set and unset this variable when we recognize plan deletion and creation events and use it accordingly (see the actual_match_plan_deletion_message
in source for an example).
The relevant documentation for this starts at the definition of _ChatFactory
in the src/demuixfb/_chat.py
file, but an explicit visit there is not
immediately necessary, since the existing rules in src/demuxfb/_rules.py
exemplify the repetitive use of small collection of patterns.


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OFFICE SPACE (20th Century Fox) Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Diedrich Bader. Screenplay: Mike Judge, based on his "Milton" animated shorts. Producers: Michael Rotenberg and Daniel Rappaport. Director: Mike Judge.  Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
In the small television-sized doses which are his forte, Mike Judge is one of our savviest social satirists. Freed of the "Beavis and Butt-head"-inspired hand-wringing by many conservative critics, Judge has been able to show in "King of the Hill" what his supporters have known all along: that Judge observes behavioral quirks as well as anyone, whether his subjects are media-fried teenagers or middle-aged suburbanites. In OFFICE SPACE, his first live-action feature, Judge turns his attention to corporate culture, a world of cubicles, coffee and numbing sameness ripe for skewering.
It's not a new target for Judge. In fact, the animated shorts he created about a put-upon office worker named Milton (played in the film by "NewsRadio's" Stephen Root) even pre-date "Beavis & Butt-head." Here he expands the concept to focus on a computer programmer named Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) at a software company called Initech. Peter loathes everything about his job -- the grinding commute, the chirping customer service operator in the next cubicle, the mountains of pointless reports, the passive-aggressive pestering by his boss Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). That all changes after a visit to a hypnotherapist leaves Peter with a new perspective, and a blissful disregard for preserving his position. While "consultants" preparing for layoffs have most Initech employees scrambling to justify their existence, Peter's id-run-wild "straight-shooting" has him in line for a promotion.
The first 45 minutes of OFFICE SPACE exploit the concept to its fullest, resulting in some wonderfully surreal, wonderfully funny moments. The opening traffic jam sequence alone is a sly riot, including a futile exercise in "fastest lane" selection and a geeky white programmer who blasts gansta rap on his car stereo but locks his door when an actual black person walks near him. Gary Cole, who so brilliantly nailed the Mike Brady cadence in the BRADY BUNCH films, is equally slick with the self-help tones of an inept middle-manager ("If you could just remember to do that from now on, that would be great"). For a while, it looks like Judge is going to head into inspired territory, lining up the newly revitalized Peter for a supervisory position which could turn Initech upside-down.
Then, in a depressing turn of events, Judge appears to run out of ideas for the premise he spent the first half of the film setting up. Instead of continuing his cannon shots at bureaucratic tyranny, he launches into a lame caper in which Peter and his about-to-be-downsized co-workers Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman) -- no relation to the singer -- try to rip off Initech by introducting a computer virus into the accounting program. As even the characters in the film note, the premise is a rip-off from SUPERMAN III, and Judge doesn't do anything interesting with it to justify recycling it. OFFICE SPACE grows tiresome in its last half hour, flipping back and forth between the conspirators' anxiety over getting caught and a limp romance between Peter and a sweet waitress (Jennifer Aniston). After a decent televison episode's worth of keen-edged satire, Judge lets his script dribble into bland conventionality.
It wouldn't be fair to suggest that Judge is only comfortable with characters as cartoons -- Hank Hill is more endearingly human than most sit-com creations put together -- but that seems to be the case in OFFICE SPACE. The robotic Lumbergh and the muttering Milton create the strongest impression in the film; not coincidentally, they're the most extremely absurdist creations. When Judge tries to turn OFFICE SPACE into Peter's quest for professional meaning and personal fulfillment, it just doesn't work. He's much more effective pointing out the surreal yet all-too-real details of industrial park anthropology, but there's not quite enough material here to make it a thoroughgoing delight. Mike Judge has taken his gift for creating hilarous short films and overstayed his welcome.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 cubicle dwellers: 5.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Review By David Wilcock (C)1998
Running Time: 108 minutes
Starring Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle and Teri Garr
Directed and Co-Written by Mel Brooks
OSCAR Nominations: Best Script, Sound
An affectionate parody of the classic movies Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Wilder plays Dr. Victor Frankenstein's grandson, Frederick Frankenstein, a teacher of brain surgery, who calls his grandfathers work 'doo-doo' and insists that his second name is pronouced as 'Fronk-en-steen.' However, Frederick recieves his grandfathers will, which states that Fredrick should recieve his castle in Translyvania. Frederick moves there, discovers a book called 'How I Did It' by Victor Frankenstein (which includes dialogue from the oringinal film) and soon Fredrick is obssessed with creating another monster, played by Peter Boyle.
Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, who wrote the script, deliver a good selection of gags, and a large dose of nostalgia. Much of the lab equipment seen in the film, was donated by Kenneth Strickfaden, the creator of the lab equipment in the oringinal Frankenstein. The film is filmed in black and white, and uses many old time linking devices. Even the frame ratio was done in old style, of 1:85. And when Frederick, his butler Igor (Feldman) and his assistant Inga (played by Garr) first enter the lab, Colin Clive (the professor in Frankenstein) can be heard shouting out the instructions to bring the monster to life. All of these elements combined, plus superb shadow and lighting effects, bring a spot-on representation of the classic Universal Studio's monster movies of the 1930's.
So, Brooks may have managed to get the atmosphere and feel right, but has he got enough gags in the picture to carry it along? The answer, luckily, is 'Yes' The picture has far more laughs than Brook's Blazing Saddles (1972) and The Producers (1968), mainly due to the cast. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman (particulary good, especially with his eyes), Teri Garr and Peter Boyle (hillarous as the monster, especially when he does a routine of 'Putting on the Ritz') are all excellent, and the minor characters are great aswell. Kenneth Mars is fun as a police cheif, and Gene Hackman is superb as a blind hermit (spoofing the famed blind man sequence from Bride of Frankenstein) Of course, it's not just the actors that are great, the writing is usually excellent also, with some great references to the oringinal films, and some funny asides to the camera by the fish eyed Marty Feldman.
With some great old style horror music composed by John Morris, superb black & white cinematography by Gerald Hirschfield, and the above mentioned acting, writing and atmosphere, Young Frankenstein is probably the best Mel Brooks film. Sadly, Brooks seem to lose his way after this excellent comedy, churning out dismal fare such as Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), and the awful Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). Young Frankenstein, then, comes highly recommended, as a reminder of how great Mel Brooks (and Gene Wilder) were.
OVERALL=**** out of ***** (4 out of 5)
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| DOSE: |
1 tablet |
oral |
MDMA |
(pill / tablet) |
Iíd like to describe the soul-satisfying experience that is MDMA use. Iíve done ecstasy about 7 or 8 times, but my most vivid memories come from my third time using it. I take Prozac and Wellbutrin (anti-depressants) daily, but stopped both 2 days before I planned on going clubbing. My boyfriend and I almost always roll together.
We got 2 pills (white with Bacardi bats on them) at the club and my boyfriend took one first to make sure that there was nothing wrong with it. After about 30-40 minutes, he wasnít rolling, but he wasnít feeling bad either, so I decided to take mine. Shortly after, he began to get a little nauseous and lightheaded. I sat with him for about 20 minutes. Then we got up and danced and socialized for about 20 minutes. Even though I took the pills later than my boyfriend, I started rolling first. The roll always starts the same way for me. Music sounds even better than usual and colors seem brighter and make me happier than they normally would. After realizing that itís beginning to kick in, I normally get excited and before long I have a huge smile on my face. I think stress often inhibits my boyfriend and causes him to roll only after he sees that Iím enjoying the effects of the pill. After dancing for about 45 more minutes, we leave and rent a hotel room.
There has only been one time that I have rolled without my boyfriend, and it paled in comparison to the other times. My favorite effect of MDMA is the genuine love that overcomes me. Iím always very affectionate, compassionate and kind to people I meet when rolling, but the experience is so much more satisfying when Iím with my boyfriend. My favorite environment to be in while rolling is alone with my boyfriend. Being with friends or in a club come second.
At the time of my third ecstasy experience, my boyfriend and I had been having a rough couple of weeks in the relationship. I had been getting frustrated with him way more than what I think is normal and it seemed like a lot of things about him bothered me and built up into resentment. The night we spent in the hotel room stopped that cycle of resentment and replaced it with lasting feelings of love and acceptance. I believe those feelings are even with me today, because I came to some powerful realizations.  I could feel those feelings of love drowning out things that had been bothering me recently at the time. I could practically feel the negative energy leaving my body.
So with the heavier, emotional description out of the way, I can talk about more entertaining things. One of the awesome effects of ecstasy is for me is that giving a massage feels just as good as receiving one. Itís a great situation to be in when youíre feeling so loving and compassionate. Almost anything that touched my skin felt good and made me smile. Iíve also always loved how MDMA does not make me feel ďdruggedĒ at all. It just feels like being more awake. My senses are sharp, my thinking is clear, and I have energy. Iíve been told my eyes look very awake and lively. I smile constantly.
My absolute favorite thing to do while rolling is to take a shower with my boyfriend. Water feels splendid, I can totally appreciate how good my boyfriend looks soaking wet, Iím not worried about anything, and I can just enjoy a simple shower. Soap feels great too, and we normally take turns washing each other and shampooing each otherís hair. I love feeling water droplets hit my closed eyelids. My boyfriend is normally the one to pull me out of the shower after 30 minutes, because he knows that I love it so much that Iíll just stay in there and overheat.
Hitting the cool air outside the bathroom feels great. We kiss and touch each other on the bed. I get totally immersed in the present. The sensations are too wonderful to be thinking of anything else. I really like sex without MDMA, but I absolutely LOVE it when Iím rolling. My boyfriendís erections are a little slow, but he always been able to come at least once while rolling. What makes sex on ecstasy great is this -- we both become driven by the desire to please each other, not ourselves. This makes sex last about 8 times as long as it normally would for us, because neither of us is hyperfocused on our own orgasm. Weíre much more able to appreciate kissing, touching and other foreplay. By the time weíre done, weíre both extremely satisfied. We talk, kiss, cuddle, and eventually fall asleep.
The only time Iíve ever felt ďhung overĒ after using ecstasy was when I took too much -- 2.5 pills. I also suspect that those particular pills were at least half MDA. The roll is similar to MDMA, but I get more energy, stay awake longer, and the feeling of empathy is practically non-existent with MDA. In the case where I took too many pills, I felt worn out, nauseous and had no appetite the following day. When I take 1-1.5 MDMA pills, I normally feel happy and relaxed the following day. Most times, I smile the whole following day, enjoying the afterglow.
I feel that MDMA has added so much to my life. I was a nice person before I used it, but I discovered pure compassion for others like I had never experienced before. I am careful to remember the thoughts that come to me during the roll, so that I can remember the deepest empathy Iíve ever felt and have it with me every day. I have gained priceless insight from my experiences with MDMA.
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Compose your async functions with elegance.
With bach
, it is very easy to compose async functions to run in series or parallel.
var bach = require('bach');
function fn1(cb) {
cb(null, 1);
}
function fn2(cb) {
cb(null, 2);
}
function fn3(cb) {
cb(null, 3);
}
var seriesFn = bach.series(fn1, fn2, fn3);
// fn1, fn2, and fn3 will be run in series
seriesFn(function(err, res) {
if (err) { // in this example, err is undefined
// handle error
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [1, 2, 3]
});
var parallelFn = bach.parallel(fn1, fn2, fn3);
// fn1, fn2, and fn3 will be run in parallel
parallelFn(function(err, res) {
if (err) { // in this example, err is undefined
// handle error
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [1, 2, 3]
});
Since the composer functions return a function, you can combine them.
var combinedFn = bach.series(fn1, bach.parallel(fn2, fn3));
// fn1 will be executed before fn2 and fn3 are run in parallel
combinedFn(function(err, res) {
if (err) { // in this example, err is undefined
// handle error
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [1, [2, 3]]
});
Functions are called with async-done, so you can return a stream, promise, observable or child process. See async-done
completion and error resolution for more detail.
// streams
var fs = require('fs');
function streamFn1() {
return fs.createReadStream('./example')
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./example'));
}
function streamFn2() {
return fs.createReadStream('./example')
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./example'));
}
var parallelStreams = bach.parallel(streamFn1, streamFn2);
parallelStreams(function(err) {
if (err) { // in this example, err is undefined
// handle error
}
// all streams have emitted an 'end' or 'close' event
});
// promises
var when = require('when');
function promiseFn1() {
return when.resolve(1);
}
function promiseFn2() {
return when.resolve(2);
}
var parallelPromises = bach.parallel(promiseFn1, promiseFn2);
parallelPromises(function(err, res) {
if (err) { // in this example, err is undefined
// handle error
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [1, 2]
});
All errors are caught in a domain and passed to the final callback as the first argument.
function success(cb) {
setTimeout(function() {
cb(null, 1);
}, 500);
}
function error() {
throw new Error('Thrown Error');
}
var errorThrownFn = bach.parallel(error, success);
errorThrownFn(function(err, res) {
if (err) {
// handle error
// in this example, err is an error caught by the domain
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [undefined]
});
When an error happens in a parallel composition, the callback will be called as soon as the error happens.
If you want to continue on error and wait until all functions have finished before calling the callback, use settleSeries
or settleParallel
.
function success(cb) {
setTimeout(function() {
cb(null, 1);
}, 500);
}
function error(cb) {
cb(new Error('Async Error'));
}
var parallelSettlingFn = bach.settleParallel(success, error);
parallelSettlingFn(function(err, res) {
// all functions have finished executing
if (err) {
// handle error
// in this example, err is an error passed to the callback
}
// handle results
// in this example, res is [1]
});
series(fns..., [extensions])
Takes a variable amount of functions (fns
) to be called in series when the returned function is
called. Optionally, takes an extensions object as the last argument.
Returns an invoker(cb)
function to be called to start the serial execution. The invoker function takes a callback (cb
) with the function(error, results)
signature.
If all functions complete successfully, the callback function will be called with all results
as the second argument.
If an error occurs, execution will stop and the error will be passed to the callback function as the first parameter. The error parameter will always be a single error.
parallel(fns..., [extensions])
Takes a variable amount of functions (fns
) to be called in parallel when the returned function is
called. Optionally, takes an extensions object as the last argument.
Returns an invoker(cb)
function to be called to start the parallel execution. The invoker function takes a callback (cb
) with the function(error, results)
signature.
If all functions complete successfully, the callback function will be called with all results
as the second argument.
If an error occurs, the callback function will be called with the error as the first parameter. Any async functions that have not completed, will still complete, but their results will not be available. The error parameter will always be a single error.
settleSeries(fns..., [extensions])
Takes a variable amount of functions (fns
) to be called in series when the returned function is
called. Optionally, takes an extensions object as the last argument.
Returns an invoker(cb)
function to be called to start the serial execution. The invoker function takes a callback (cb
) with the function(error, results)
signature.
All functions will always be called and the callback will receive all settled errors and results. If any errors occur, the error parameter will be an array of errors.
settleParallel(fns..., [extensions])
Takes a variable amount of functions (fns
) to be called in parallel when the returned function is
called. Optionally, takes an extensions object as the last argument.
Returns an invoker(cb)
function to be called to start the parallel execution. The invoker function takes a callback (cb
) with the function(error, results)
signature.
All functions will always be called and the callback will receive all settled errors and results. If any errors occur, the error parameter will be an array of errors.
extensions
The extensions
object is used for specifying functions that give insight into the lifecycle of each function call. The possible extension points are create
, before
, after
and error
. If an extension point is not specified, it defaults to a no-op function.
extensions.create(fn, index)
Called at the very beginning of each function call with the function (fn
) being executed and the index
from the array/arguments. If create
returns a value (storage
), it is passed to the before
, after
and error
extension points.
If a value is not returned, an empty object is used as storage
for each other extension point.
This is useful for tracking information across an iteration.
extensions.before(storage)
Called immediately before each function call with the storage
value returned from the create
extension point.
extensions.after(result, storage)
Called immediately after each function call with the result
of the function and the storage
value returned from the create
extension point.
extensions.error(error, storage)
Called immediately after a failed function call with the error
of the function and the storage
value returned from the create
extension point.
MIT


Package io.pravega.client.stream
Interface IdempotentEventStreamWriter<Type>
-
- Type Parameters:
Type
- The type of events that go in this stream
- All Superinterfaces:
java.lang.AutoCloseable
public interface IdempotentEventStreamWriter<Type> extends java.lang.AutoCloseable
A writer can write events to a stream. Similar toEventStreamWriter
but with the ability to provide aSequence
onwriteEvent(String, Sequence, Object)
to prevent duplicates, in the event that the writer process crashes and restarts. This class is safe to use across threads, but doing so will not increase performance.
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description void
close()
Calls flush and then closes the writer.void
flush()
Block until all events that have been passed to writeEvent's corresponding futures have completed.EventWriterConfig
getConfig()
Returns the configuration that this writer was create with.java.util.concurrent.Future<java.lang.Void>
writeEvent(java.lang.String routingKey, Sequence sequence, Type event)
Send an event to the stream.
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Method Detail
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writeEvent
java.util.concurrent.Future<java.lang.Void> writeEvent(java.lang.String routingKey, Sequence sequence, Type event)
Send an event to the stream. Events that are written should appear in the stream exactly once. Note that the implementation provides retry logic to handle connection failures and service host failures. This method takes aSequence
on each event for the purposes of preventing duplicates. Sequences are user defined and assumed to be monotonically increasing. If a sequence is passed to writeEvent that is less or equal to a sequence previously passed to writeEvent, the event is acked without wiring it to the stream. This allows for applications with a deterministic writer to de-dup events in the event that the writer dies.- Parameters:
routingKey
- A free form string that is used to route messages to readers. Two events written with the same routingKey are guaranteed to be read in order. Two events with different routing keys may be read in parallel.sequence
- An ever increasing sequence. If this method is called with a lower sequence the event will not be written.event
- The event to be written to the stream- Returns:
- A future that will complete when the event has been durably stored on the configured number of replicas, and is available for readers to see. This future may complete exceptionally if this cannot happen, however these exceptions are not transient failures. Failures that occur as a result of connection drops or host death are handled internally with multiple retires and exponential backoff. So there is no need to attempt to retry in the event of an exception.
-
getConfig
EventWriterConfig getConfig()
Returns the configuration that this writer was create with.- Returns:
- Writer configuration
-
flush
void flush()
Block until all events that have been passed to writeEvent's corresponding futures have completed.
-
close
void close()
Calls flush and then closes the writer. (No further methods may be called)- Specified by:
close
in interfacejava.lang.AutoCloseable
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