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using the "free wi-fi sponsored by Google".
My plane boards in 20 mins or so.
So, since I last wrote an entry... I went down to send my internet stuffs back to KDDI (not too hard). At the postoffice I asked if they could forward my mail to the US and they said no, not even if I pay for it. Sigh. Not sure what to do about that. Mostly my residence taxes, I am a little worried about.
I had katsudon for lunch, it seemed appropriate for my last meal in Japan, I guess.
Then I stopped by the au shop, and they said that I COULD certainly cancel my phone at the airport. I think I may have accidentally used the wrong word when calling on the phone.
Came back to the house via a conbini where I got milk tea and a snack. Sam was just arriving with his car. Fortunately I had already put all of my baggage downstairs, so all we really had to do was put it into his car. Then I walked him around the house and pointed out the things like the keys, the trash, which stuff I left behind, etc... I guess technically if I make a trip back before he sells the house I could go grab some of the stuff there but in reality I kinda wrote it off as gone, so not a big deal.
And then we got on our way -- thanks to the Skyliner being down, Sam gave me a ride to the Tokyo Air City Terminal in Hakozaki, which I had never heard of before, but which has buses every 15 minutes to the airport. And thanks to him giving me a ride, this trip was SO easy on my back -- I got out of his car and put my stuff onto a cart, pushed that to the counter and bought a bus ticket and then pushed the cart to the bus, where baggage handlers took my bags and put them into the luggage compartment. The bus was fairly full so I sat next to some random guy who slept the whole way. I kinda zoned out too to be honest... though when we passed Chiba Marine Stadium I got kinda sad.
(As an aside, Sam's phone went off with an earthquake warning while we were driving... seems there was infact a 6.3 in Fukushima but we barely felt it in the car. Mostly I think you really just feel the quakes if you are in a building. There was just a quake in Fukushima again and I kinda sorta felt it here but mostly this airport seems very very very stable insofar as buildings go.)
Got off the bus and immediately put my stuff on another cart here at the airport, where I pushed it right up to the counter. Both bags weighed in at 22kg. Yay! (23kg is the limit.)
Now here is where my story sucks. I went to the au/KDDI store and went to cancel my phone.
Not only did it take like 40 minutes (thank god I got here at like 3:15pm!!) but... they first got confused because I also had KDDI internet, which they were able to confirm I'd cancelled and paid for. Then they made me pay 15000ish yen for something... which was my LAST MONTH bill for them?! I thought there was a mistake but what the hell could I do about it. THEN I had to pay another 15000 yen for not only this month but for a cancellation fee -- I thought that I was on a 2-year contract, and I'd had the phone almost 4 years, so dammit there shouldn't be any fees, but apparently since I keep changing my plan, that somehow interrupts that time period. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
The REAL problem is that I simply didn't have that much cash on me. And they didn't take credit cards.
So I ran over to the UFJ ATM and it rejected my card and told me it was inactive. Which freaked me out. I then went down to the 1st floor to the Citibank ATM, and THAT fortunately worked. I was able to withdraw money and pay the scumsucking bastards at KDDI (okay, really, it was 4 women in suits acting all perky and apologetic, but I'm kinda angry anyway at having to pay like $400 out of nowhere).
And so my phone is cancelled.
What kinda sucks is that the pictures/sounds I downloaded from the Fighters site, including the Fighters theme song that I used as my cellphone ringtone, were ALL on the simcard, so they're all gone :( The pictures I had on there, and my emails, and my address book, are all intact, so that is good. Including the voicemails I'd saved, so I still have my father's last time he called to wish me happy birthday in 2008. (I really gotta figure out a way to save that somehow.)
Bleh.
Anyway, with that bitter taste in my mouth I went through security, which was completely empty and so very quick. Yay.
And well, here I am now, about to go board a plane and go to Seattle.
I feel very very strange, but I guess I'll get through this time somehow.
Also the pro baseball season started today here. Yokohama and Rakuten won. I love this kinda backwards baseball stuff going on lately. The other games at 6pm just started. I wish I was there... this year is going to be so very weird.
Guess I should give up my spot at the wifi counter and go get on a plane, huh.
My plane boards in 20 mins or so.
So, since I last wrote an entry... I went down to send my internet stuffs back to KDDI (not too hard). At the postoffice I asked if they could forward my mail to the US and they said no, not even if I pay for it. Sigh. Not sure what to do about that. Mostly my residence taxes, I am a little worried about.
I had katsudon for lunch, it seemed appropriate for my last meal in Japan, I guess.
Then I stopped by the au shop, and they said that I COULD certainly cancel my phone at the airport. I think I may have accidentally used the wrong word when calling on the phone.
Came back to the house via a conbini where I got milk tea and a snack. Sam was just arriving with his car. Fortunately I had already put all of my baggage downstairs, so all we really had to do was put it into his car. Then I walked him around the house and pointed out the things like the keys, the trash, which stuff I left behind, etc... I guess technically if I make a trip back before he sells the house I could go grab some of the stuff there but in reality I kinda wrote it off as gone, so not a big deal.
And then we got on our way -- thanks to the Skyliner being down, Sam gave me a ride to the Tokyo Air City Terminal in Hakozaki, which I had never heard of before, but which has buses every 15 minutes to the airport. And thanks to him giving me a ride, this trip was SO easy on my back -- I got out of his car and put my stuff onto a cart, pushed that to the counter and bought a bus ticket and then pushed the cart to the bus, where baggage handlers took my bags and put them into the luggage compartment. The bus was fairly full so I sat next to some random guy who slept the whole way. I kinda zoned out too to be honest... though when we passed Chiba Marine Stadium I got kinda sad.
(As an aside, Sam's phone went off with an earthquake warning while we were driving... seems there was infact a 6.3 in Fukushima but we barely felt it in the car. Mostly I think you really just feel the quakes if you are in a building. There was just a quake in Fukushima again and I kinda sorta felt it here but mostly this airport seems very very very stable insofar as buildings go.)
Got off the bus and immediately put my stuff on another cart here at the airport, where I pushed it right up to the counter. Both bags weighed in at 22kg. Yay! (23kg is the limit.)
Now here is where my story sucks. I went to the au/KDDI store and went to cancel my phone.
Not only did it take like 40 minutes (thank god I got here at like 3:15pm!!) but... they first got confused because I also had KDDI internet, which they were able to confirm I'd cancelled and paid for. Then they made me pay 15000ish yen for something... which was my LAST MONTH bill for them?! I thought there was a mistake but what the hell could I do about it. THEN I had to pay another 15000 yen for not only this month but for a cancellation fee -- I thought that I was on a 2-year contract, and I'd had the phone almost 4 years, so dammit there shouldn't be any fees, but apparently since I keep changing my plan, that somehow interrupts that time period. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
The REAL problem is that I simply didn't have that much cash on me. And they didn't take credit cards.
So I ran over to the UFJ ATM and it rejected my card and told me it was inactive. Which freaked me out. I then went down to the 1st floor to the Citibank ATM, and THAT fortunately worked. I was able to withdraw money and pay the scumsucking bastards at KDDI (okay, really, it was 4 women in suits acting all perky and apologetic, but I'm kinda angry anyway at having to pay like $400 out of nowhere).
And so my phone is cancelled.
What kinda sucks is that the pictures/sounds I downloaded from the Fighters site, including the Fighters theme song that I used as my cellphone ringtone, were ALL on the simcard, so they're all gone :( The pictures I had on there, and my emails, and my address book, are all intact, so that is good. Including the voicemails I'd saved, so I still have my father's last time he called to wish me happy birthday in 2008. (I really gotta figure out a way to save that somehow.)
Bleh.
Anyway, with that bitter taste in my mouth I went through security, which was completely empty and so very quick. Yay.
And well, here I am now, about to go board a plane and go to Seattle.
I feel very very strange, but I guess I'll get through this time somehow.
Also the pro baseball season started today here. Yokohama and Rakuten won. I love this kinda backwards baseball stuff going on lately. The other games at 6pm just started. I wish I was there... this year is going to be so very weird.
Guess I should give up my spot at the wifi counter and go get on a plane, huh.
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Wait--didn't they let you keep your phone? All the pictures I took with my phone when I was with AU were still on my phone and I just put them on a microSIM and then transferred them.
BTW, you could have just gone to the ward office and arranged to pay residence tax there before leaving. Oh well. They might not bother to get you for it if it's just a small amount.
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So, all the photos I took myself with my phone, or had sent to me by friends, those are all still there on my phone. It's the things that were downloaded from the Fighters mobile site, those were apparently tied to the sim. I guess that makes sense, otherwise people wouldn't have to pay a subscription fee to the site to download stuff, they'd just get their friends to send them to them.
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Oh, suck! >_< That's really nasty.