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I'm at home, in Tokyo, with my kotatsu and INTERNETS
Yes, I has my kotatsu heated table, some internets, some hot milk tea, and some Gardettos. What more do I need, besides maybe someone else to be under the kotatsu with me?
Packing sucks. I am bad at it. I was up very late and slept for one hour or so before heading to the airport. The flight was fairly uneventual; I watched the movie "Sixty Six" which was surprisingly good considering the premise (a boy's bar mitzvah is the same day as the World Cup finals), and then I slept for a few hours, and then I listened to my iPod, tried to do crosswords, and zoned out a lot.
I managed to actually fit my laptop bag into my big backpack and so didn't bother having anything shipped once I got here. It's really surreal to be back in Japan though, let me tell you. I spent most of the train ride sending "I'm home!" text message emails to people.
Got to Akabane station, got a cab... the driver was this uppity old dude who was first like "I CAN'T HELP YOU WITH YOUR BAGS" as I put them into the car and trunk, and then I told him where I live and he's like "where the hell is that?" and actually drove the WRONG WAY at first until I basically told him how to get here. When he got to the top of the hill he actually refused to turn right onto my actual road. Man. But it was still better than walking my shit up the stairs or hill, I'm sure.
Unpacked a bit and then decided to go to Akihabara for the sole purpose of Getting Internets. Really. I went straight to Yodobashi Camera and their E-Mobile stand and spent like 2 seconds pretending to be shopping around and then was just like "fuck it, yes, I want e-mobile, but will it work with my new laptop from America?" The totally friendly but spazzy and English-deficient guy was like "no, of course it won't, sucks to be you" and I'm like "wait, I HAVE the laptop with me, can we test it?"
So I whip out the mini-HP, we test it, and sure enough it works! So he's like "ok, we can sign you up for our service, BUT keep in mind there's about 20 notes of "if you use our e-Mobile gadgets with your heathen computer and its English-speaking weirdness, and something breaks, it's NOT OUR FAULT" in our contract," but... I didn't care. Signed up for a year's contract worth of it. It's gonna run me like $60 a month for 7.2 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload or whatever. The cool part is, it's a USB gadget, so I can basically have internet ANYWHERE! (Well, anywhere a cellphone would get reception.) The bad part is that I'm kinda running out of USB ports; on the big laptop, I have 3, so after the mouse and the internet I only have one.
I did ask if there was ANY English support for this thing and the guy's like "not really. Umm, we have a guy here who grew up in the Phillippines for a few years and kind of speaks English, want to talk to him?" So I did. He was probably a Sprint 6 (the lowest you can be and study with a native teacher at GEOS; like Laura I think I subconsciously level-check everyone) but he was helpful in knowing the proper vocabulary to explain papers to me like "and this is the warranty..."
I had to go around for 45 mins while they actually set it up so I looked at laptop bags (there were some cute ones for mini-HP's that ran around $20) and camera lenses (they had a Nikon D700 there to play with, with one of those nice 24-105 lenses attached to it. Sigh.
Got katsudon on my way home. I'm in Japan. Gotta get to Heiroku sushi sometime and see if anyone does a doubletake.
I am REALLY tired now, so I'm gonna go to sleep. Hard to believe I stayed up until midnight really -- that's what having the internet will do I suppose.
Packing sucks. I am bad at it. I was up very late and slept for one hour or so before heading to the airport. The flight was fairly uneventual; I watched the movie "Sixty Six" which was surprisingly good considering the premise (a boy's bar mitzvah is the same day as the World Cup finals), and then I slept for a few hours, and then I listened to my iPod, tried to do crosswords, and zoned out a lot.
I managed to actually fit my laptop bag into my big backpack and so didn't bother having anything shipped once I got here. It's really surreal to be back in Japan though, let me tell you. I spent most of the train ride sending "I'm home!" text message emails to people.
Got to Akabane station, got a cab... the driver was this uppity old dude who was first like "I CAN'T HELP YOU WITH YOUR BAGS" as I put them into the car and trunk, and then I told him where I live and he's like "where the hell is that?" and actually drove the WRONG WAY at first until I basically told him how to get here. When he got to the top of the hill he actually refused to turn right onto my actual road. Man. But it was still better than walking my shit up the stairs or hill, I'm sure.
Unpacked a bit and then decided to go to Akihabara for the sole purpose of Getting Internets. Really. I went straight to Yodobashi Camera and their E-Mobile stand and spent like 2 seconds pretending to be shopping around and then was just like "fuck it, yes, I want e-mobile, but will it work with my new laptop from America?" The totally friendly but spazzy and English-deficient guy was like "no, of course it won't, sucks to be you" and I'm like "wait, I HAVE the laptop with me, can we test it?"
So I whip out the mini-HP, we test it, and sure enough it works! So he's like "ok, we can sign you up for our service, BUT keep in mind there's about 20 notes of "if you use our e-Mobile gadgets with your heathen computer and its English-speaking weirdness, and something breaks, it's NOT OUR FAULT" in our contract," but... I didn't care. Signed up for a year's contract worth of it. It's gonna run me like $60 a month for 7.2 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload or whatever. The cool part is, it's a USB gadget, so I can basically have internet ANYWHERE! (Well, anywhere a cellphone would get reception.) The bad part is that I'm kinda running out of USB ports; on the big laptop, I have 3, so after the mouse and the internet I only have one.
I did ask if there was ANY English support for this thing and the guy's like "not really. Umm, we have a guy here who grew up in the Phillippines for a few years and kind of speaks English, want to talk to him?" So I did. He was probably a Sprint 6 (the lowest you can be and study with a native teacher at GEOS; like Laura I think I subconsciously level-check everyone) but he was helpful in knowing the proper vocabulary to explain papers to me like "and this is the warranty..."
I had to go around for 45 mins while they actually set it up so I looked at laptop bags (there were some cute ones for mini-HP's that ran around $20) and camera lenses (they had a Nikon D700 there to play with, with one of those nice 24-105 lenses attached to it. Sigh.
Got katsudon on my way home. I'm in Japan. Gotta get to Heiroku sushi sometime and see if anyone does a doubletake.
I am REALLY tired now, so I'm gonna go to sleep. Hard to believe I stayed up until midnight really -- that's what having the internet will do I suppose.
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There's a 28-200 lens out there as well (the 18-200 is DX-only), but they stopped making it awhile ago, and it still goes for a decent-sized chunk of cash used.