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What a nutso evening. So Jenny broke the showerhead in our shower, which freaked me out, but I had to run down to meet up with people for dinner -- it was my idea that we should have a yakiniku party tonight because 1) it's the 4th of July, so BBQ is called for 2) post-JLPT destressing, and 3) Jenny's going-away party. We had a group of 8 - me, Jenny (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
eiriene), februaryfour, doubt72, weyrlady, replicant_rasa, seishinbyou, and Shinsuke, who I hadn't seen in ages. We were supposed to meet at the station at 6:50 or the restaurant at 7, but when I got to the station at 6:52 I found Aaron and Shin. M showed up shortly afterwards and Ai and Doug a bit after that, and Shin went to the restaurant and it turned out Gabriel was already there. Jenny, on the other hand, didn't come with me when I left, and called a cab, so she was like 15 minutes late, as usual. The table kinda split into two halves essentially since there were two burners. Aaron and Gabriel and Shin and I were one half, and our eating speed was basically driven by Gabriel dumping all the meat onto the grill and taking a ton at once, so we all had to keep up with him, basically. On the other hand, Shin had found a whole bunch of coupons online to get us all cheap drink bar and some cheap plates of meat, so in the end, despite how I worried about the price being high, it turned out it was only 1400 yen per person! Our Guts Soul expeditions are 1580 yen per person, so go figure.
I mostly talked to Aaron and Shin and that was good since I hadn't seen Shin in a long time (I think not since we went on our crazy train expedition FAIL in January) and they could talk about videogames and the screwed-up-ness of working in Japan and so on and so forth.
Every time I see Shin we have the following exchange:
Me: "It's good to see you again, I haven't seen you in forever."
Shin: "Yeah, it has been a while, hasn't it?"
Me: "Yeah. Because you suck."
Shin: "Yes, yes, I do."
Amusingly, we pooled money and paid at the table, Shin used a credit card, and the waiter guy was waiting for him to give back the money/mints tray. And I'm like "Yeah, we usually just go up to the register, you know" and Shin's like "well, being around people talking in English and all made me feel like I was in the US again!"
Shrug.
After dinner, most people dispersed to their homes. Ai and Doug were coming over to our home so Jenny could give them some house stuff of hers... I stopped to talk to Shin for a bit (like "you know, if you wait another 7 months to hang out with me, I won't be here anymore") and then I decided to run by Ito Yokado on my way home. I found shower heads and bought a fairly simple one for 2000 yen, also got toilet paper, and came home, maybe only 10 mins behind the others, so they were in Jenny's room putting together some bags of stuff.
I had to find my pliers to pry out the broken showerhead stump pieces, but other than that it turned out that the new showerhead fit the old pipe just fine, so I just screwed it in, and yay, showerhead. It was surprisingly easy. I wonder if this kinda thing happens in Japan a lot.
And then I have mostly been chilling for the last hour or so. My left arm still hurts from a combination of volleyball yesterday plus cramping from writing today for the JLPT test, but I think it'll be okay. This week is gonna be kind of busy.
And after tomorrow I will have the house to myself again... kinda crazy. I'm debating what to do about the "wall" I built to make Jenny's room separate. It seems like I should probably just leave it there and keep two separate rooms, doesn't it? I dunno. I guess then at least I'd have a guest room for whenever anyone wants to visit Tokyo, or it could also be used as a board games room if I ever actually invited anyone over.
eiriene), februaryfour, doubt72, weyrlady, replicant_rasa, seishinbyou, and Shinsuke, who I hadn't seen in ages. We were supposed to meet at the station at 6:50 or the restaurant at 7, but when I got to the station at 6:52 I found Aaron and Shin. M showed up shortly afterwards and Ai and Doug a bit after that, and Shin went to the restaurant and it turned out Gabriel was already there. Jenny, on the other hand, didn't come with me when I left, and called a cab, so she was like 15 minutes late, as usual. The table kinda split into two halves essentially since there were two burners. Aaron and Gabriel and Shin and I were one half, and our eating speed was basically driven by Gabriel dumping all the meat onto the grill and taking a ton at once, so we all had to keep up with him, basically. On the other hand, Shin had found a whole bunch of coupons online to get us all cheap drink bar and some cheap plates of meat, so in the end, despite how I worried about the price being high, it turned out it was only 1400 yen per person! Our Guts Soul expeditions are 1580 yen per person, so go figure.I mostly talked to Aaron and Shin and that was good since I hadn't seen Shin in a long time (I think not since we went on our crazy train expedition FAIL in January) and they could talk about videogames and the screwed-up-ness of working in Japan and so on and so forth.
Every time I see Shin we have the following exchange:
Me: "It's good to see you again, I haven't seen you in forever."
Shin: "Yeah, it has been a while, hasn't it?"
Me: "Yeah. Because you suck."
Shin: "Yes, yes, I do."
Amusingly, we pooled money and paid at the table, Shin used a credit card, and the waiter guy was waiting for him to give back the money/mints tray. And I'm like "Yeah, we usually just go up to the register, you know" and Shin's like "well, being around people talking in English and all made me feel like I was in the US again!"
Shrug.
After dinner, most people dispersed to their homes. Ai and Doug were coming over to our home so Jenny could give them some house stuff of hers... I stopped to talk to Shin for a bit (like "you know, if you wait another 7 months to hang out with me, I won't be here anymore") and then I decided to run by Ito Yokado on my way home. I found shower heads and bought a fairly simple one for 2000 yen, also got toilet paper, and came home, maybe only 10 mins behind the others, so they were in Jenny's room putting together some bags of stuff.
I had to find my pliers to pry out the broken showerhead stump pieces, but other than that it turned out that the new showerhead fit the old pipe just fine, so I just screwed it in, and yay, showerhead. It was surprisingly easy. I wonder if this kinda thing happens in Japan a lot.
And then I have mostly been chilling for the last hour or so. My left arm still hurts from a combination of volleyball yesterday plus cramping from writing today for the JLPT test, but I think it'll be okay. This week is gonna be kind of busy.
And after tomorrow I will have the house to myself again... kinda crazy. I'm debating what to do about the "wall" I built to make Jenny's room separate. It seems like I should probably just leave it there and keep two separate rooms, doesn't it? I dunno. I guess then at least I'd have a guest room for whenever anyone wants to visit Tokyo, or it could also be used as a board games room if I ever actually invited anyone over.
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Personally, I've never heard of anyone breaking a showerhead. The industrial plastics they use these days are pretty tough. However, since Japanese showerheads are usually on the ends of hoses, I guess it's possible that one could drop and break one.
I think the reason for there being a lot of cheap showerheads available is because it's a cheap and easy "home improvement." The showerheads in older houses and apartments tend to get clogged up, or the water pressure might be so low that you might want to get a showerhead that is supposed to give you more pressure.
I know I've been PO'ed by the anemic showerheads that they have in hotels, and I've always changed the ones in the places I've lived in.
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It started spurting water from the back of the head, I took it down to figure out what was up, and it was cracked in half. That's all.
And as I paid Deanna the 2000 yen she spent on it, I'd appreciate if I don't get erroneously blamed for dropping it. I didn't drop it at all.