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I'm sleeping under my table
No, I'm serious. See, as it turns out, the table in my apartment is actually a kotatsu. It has a heater underneath the table surface. So I put the blanket/pad I've been using as a futon pad into the table (I don't have a real kotatsu futon set; this is because I'm a moron and didn't take Sam up on his offer to use the old one his family isn't using anymore) and it's been trapping heat fairly well.
Downside is, of course, it really only works for the lower half of my body, although I've sort of manipulated the pad and my real blanket in such a way that it's heating most of me. But THEN the downside is that I can't really move, and this isn't a particularly comfortable way to type; I'm worried about screwing up my back again. Though laying down under the kotatsu isn't too bad and I put some of my futon under it, so I think I'm going to be able to sleep with at least half of my body under it, some just on the floor, some on my futon. Hopefully none of this is going to set my apartment on fire.
Uhh.. let me try to take a picture of this setup with my cellphone camera:
Self-portrait of girl buried under table
Anyway, tomorrow I should hopefully be able to actually go to GEOS and call some people and find out about getting my heater fixed. Or something goddamnit.
As for today, I spent the afternoon goofing off for a while; I even played Puzzle Pirates for an hour, by which I mean I actually got on a boat in-game and puzzled with other people, which I hadn't done in forever due to the obvious timezone issues. Basically, I didn't really know exactly what the hell I was going to do, and I was hoping to catch my downstairs neighbor at home and ask her about the heater.
Eventually I got bored and went to Chiba Prefecture. I even got to ride another suspended monorail! It turns out the Chiba monorail is like the Shonan one, although this one I only took for two stops. It was cool though.
In Chiba, I went to Mint, the card store chain I've been going to various locations of. This one was both really awesome and really awful for various reasons. I got the Furuta intai cards for 500 yen (the 27 regular; I did not buy the boxed set for 4000 yen), and a set of 10 Dragons 2002 cards for 100 yen, and some other stuff, mostly a few 2005 packs since they had so many. I really have to finish writing more store reviews, argh. They had some awesome 1970's cards though. I have no reason to own those, though it was great seeing stuff like a 1975 Yoshiro Sotokoba card. I'm such a geek.
I got the "tachibana" teishoku (hirekatsu, ebi-fry, and sasami katsu, which is chicken and stuff) at the Tonkatsu Wako in the basement of Chiba station, and it was really really good. It was actually the first time I'd ever gotten real food from Wako, despite that I get sandwiches from there a few times a month. I had sort of figured I'd just get food somewhere in Chiba, but couldn't find anything really interesting, and wasn't about to walk to Costco in this weather :) I had debated stopping in Makuhari or elsewhere, but just didn't. I'd never been to the main Chiba station before, so it was good to finally go ahead and do that, although the area around it is super-confusing.
And then uh, I came home. I know, exciting. I dropped laundry off in the combo machine at the laundromat and went to Max Valu and bought some stuff to make hot tea here, except eh, the royal milk tea mix kind of sucks. The other tea is kind of okay. We'll see how often I actually bother drinking hot tea; I just thought it'd be good to try to do while I have no big heater and all.
The last two nights I've been watching some doramas while putting some baseball cards in cardbooks. I watched the first episode of Hachimitsu&Clover last night, and watched the first episode of the dorama adaptation of One Pound Gospel both last night and tonight, and then I also watched the first episode of Yukan Club tonight (yeah, it aired last season, but whatever). H&C is... another one of these 5-friends college doramas where there's 3 guys and 2 girls and they have weird love triangles. It's kinda amusing though, so we'll see. One Pound Gospel is just as retarded as I remember it being from ninety billion years ago when I actually watched/read Rumiko Takahashi's stuff, though I might just watch it for the sake of seeing Kobayashi Satomi yelling at Kamenashi Kazuya about what a gluttonous gutless wonder he is. Yukan Club, on the other hand, kicks ass. It's kind of like a combination of many other recent school doramas, and completely over the top, and yet it's amusing in doing so, at least in the first episode. They fight crime!
Downside is, of course, it really only works for the lower half of my body, although I've sort of manipulated the pad and my real blanket in such a way that it's heating most of me. But THEN the downside is that I can't really move, and this isn't a particularly comfortable way to type; I'm worried about screwing up my back again. Though laying down under the kotatsu isn't too bad and I put some of my futon under it, so I think I'm going to be able to sleep with at least half of my body under it, some just on the floor, some on my futon. Hopefully none of this is going to set my apartment on fire.
Uhh.. let me try to take a picture of this setup with my cellphone camera:
Self-portrait of girl buried under table
Anyway, tomorrow I should hopefully be able to actually go to GEOS and call some people and find out about getting my heater fixed. Or something goddamnit.
As for today, I spent the afternoon goofing off for a while; I even played Puzzle Pirates for an hour, by which I mean I actually got on a boat in-game and puzzled with other people, which I hadn't done in forever due to the obvious timezone issues. Basically, I didn't really know exactly what the hell I was going to do, and I was hoping to catch my downstairs neighbor at home and ask her about the heater.
Eventually I got bored and went to Chiba Prefecture. I even got to ride another suspended monorail! It turns out the Chiba monorail is like the Shonan one, although this one I only took for two stops. It was cool though.
In Chiba, I went to Mint, the card store chain I've been going to various locations of. This one was both really awesome and really awful for various reasons. I got the Furuta intai cards for 500 yen (the 27 regular; I did not buy the boxed set for 4000 yen), and a set of 10 Dragons 2002 cards for 100 yen, and some other stuff, mostly a few 2005 packs since they had so many. I really have to finish writing more store reviews, argh. They had some awesome 1970's cards though. I have no reason to own those, though it was great seeing stuff like a 1975 Yoshiro Sotokoba card. I'm such a geek.
I got the "tachibana" teishoku (hirekatsu, ebi-fry, and sasami katsu, which is chicken and stuff) at the Tonkatsu Wako in the basement of Chiba station, and it was really really good. It was actually the first time I'd ever gotten real food from Wako, despite that I get sandwiches from there a few times a month. I had sort of figured I'd just get food somewhere in Chiba, but couldn't find anything really interesting, and wasn't about to walk to Costco in this weather :) I had debated stopping in Makuhari or elsewhere, but just didn't. I'd never been to the main Chiba station before, so it was good to finally go ahead and do that, although the area around it is super-confusing.
And then uh, I came home. I know, exciting. I dropped laundry off in the combo machine at the laundromat and went to Max Valu and bought some stuff to make hot tea here, except eh, the royal milk tea mix kind of sucks. The other tea is kind of okay. We'll see how often I actually bother drinking hot tea; I just thought it'd be good to try to do while I have no big heater and all.
The last two nights I've been watching some doramas while putting some baseball cards in cardbooks. I watched the first episode of Hachimitsu&Clover last night, and watched the first episode of the dorama adaptation of One Pound Gospel both last night and tonight, and then I also watched the first episode of Yukan Club tonight (yeah, it aired last season, but whatever). H&C is... another one of these 5-friends college doramas where there's 3 guys and 2 girls and they have weird love triangles. It's kinda amusing though, so we'll see. One Pound Gospel is just as retarded as I remember it being from ninety billion years ago when I actually watched/read Rumiko Takahashi's stuff, though I might just watch it for the sake of seeing Kobayashi Satomi yelling at Kamenashi Kazuya about what a gluttonous gutless wonder he is. Yukan Club, on the other hand, kicks ass. It's kind of like a combination of many other recent school doramas, and completely over the top, and yet it's amusing in doing so, at least in the first episode. They fight crime!