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Well, okay, so something is messed up on my old old t-mobile phone such that it doesn't seem to want to talk to the internet. I'm thinking to just drop it down to a talking-and-texting plan and dealing with it... but I'll try to call them back later on someone else's phone and try to figure it out. (They said "You could go to a t-mobile store... but they're basically going to just put you on a phone line there to call us back.")
As for yesterday, I did walk to Safeway and get some things, like grapes, and stuff to make sandwiches, and whatnot. The funny conclusion I came to is that stuff is actually not more expensive in Japan than it is here -- the difference is that the supermarkets here just have 1) a lot more stuff and 2) a lot BIGGER stuff. Like, boxes of cereal look huge to me now here, things like that. I think my brain had decided that fruit is a lot more expensive in Japan, but in actuality, it's not THAT much more expensive, it's just that here there is a ton more selection. Like, in Japan, if I want grapes, I have to get these huge grapes with seeds in them, and they're expensive; here, I can just get a huge thing of seedless grapes fairly cheap. Apples are a lot cheaper here, melons are a lot cheaper too. But some things like bananas (which I think Japan gets from the Phillippines) and oranges (which they grow in Shikoku) are pretty comparable there.
Or maybe things also got more expensive here. I'm not sure.
In the evening I went out to the east side to go through some puzzle stuff (and some other stuff) with Mike. I did a test run of how to bus out to Microsoft in preparation for going to Mystery Hunt this weekend (my guess is that I'll do a lot of bussing and make people pick me up from the Overlake transit center). Anyway, bussing itself wasn't so bad, except that I went to the stop here at 5:29 for a 5:32 bus. Which never showed up. Apparently I just missed it, which sucks, as I was out there for half an hour waiting for the next one. The only good thing is, the 6:04 bus is not peak time so it's cheaper. And I was so confused on the 545 bus that the guy let me ride for free; I must have really seemed like a clueless tourist. Seriously, the big difference of why I really like trains instead of bussing is, first, train stations tend to be indoors, second, trains are generally on time, never early, sometimes a tiny bit late, and in general they also post which train is arriving next and at what time, so there's never a question of "Did I miss it?"
I'm still somewhat schedule-shifted -- sleeping at 5am, getting up at noon, which is basically 10pm-5am in Japan, which kinda makes sense. So I didn't really do anything today, because I suck. Actually, the only thing that sucks is the lack of walking around at all.. the main reason I really need to get up earlier is so I can get out of the house during daylight hours and walk, since it seems a little weird to walk by myself at night over here. But, people will come over soon and go to dinner, so that should at least be fun, yay.
Something amusing: Jess's dog Chompers has figured out that yes, this room is off-limits-to-dogs, and doesn't come in. However, what he does instead is, he lies down at the door and stares at me pitifully. If I close the door, when I open it, he's lying there... or if the door is open... well, right now, he's snoring in the hallway. It's cute. I feel guarded!
As for yesterday, I did walk to Safeway and get some things, like grapes, and stuff to make sandwiches, and whatnot. The funny conclusion I came to is that stuff is actually not more expensive in Japan than it is here -- the difference is that the supermarkets here just have 1) a lot more stuff and 2) a lot BIGGER stuff. Like, boxes of cereal look huge to me now here, things like that. I think my brain had decided that fruit is a lot more expensive in Japan, but in actuality, it's not THAT much more expensive, it's just that here there is a ton more selection. Like, in Japan, if I want grapes, I have to get these huge grapes with seeds in them, and they're expensive; here, I can just get a huge thing of seedless grapes fairly cheap. Apples are a lot cheaper here, melons are a lot cheaper too. But some things like bananas (which I think Japan gets from the Phillippines) and oranges (which they grow in Shikoku) are pretty comparable there.
Or maybe things also got more expensive here. I'm not sure.
In the evening I went out to the east side to go through some puzzle stuff (and some other stuff) with Mike. I did a test run of how to bus out to Microsoft in preparation for going to Mystery Hunt this weekend (my guess is that I'll do a lot of bussing and make people pick me up from the Overlake transit center). Anyway, bussing itself wasn't so bad, except that I went to the stop here at 5:29 for a 5:32 bus. Which never showed up. Apparently I just missed it, which sucks, as I was out there for half an hour waiting for the next one. The only good thing is, the 6:04 bus is not peak time so it's cheaper. And I was so confused on the 545 bus that the guy let me ride for free; I must have really seemed like a clueless tourist. Seriously, the big difference of why I really like trains instead of bussing is, first, train stations tend to be indoors, second, trains are generally on time, never early, sometimes a tiny bit late, and in general they also post which train is arriving next and at what time, so there's never a question of "Did I miss it?"
I'm still somewhat schedule-shifted -- sleeping at 5am, getting up at noon, which is basically 10pm-5am in Japan, which kinda makes sense. So I didn't really do anything today, because I suck. Actually, the only thing that sucks is the lack of walking around at all.. the main reason I really need to get up earlier is so I can get out of the house during daylight hours and walk, since it seems a little weird to walk by myself at night over here. But, people will come over soon and go to dinner, so that should at least be fun, yay.
Something amusing: Jess's dog Chompers has figured out that yes, this room is off-limits-to-dogs, and doesn't come in. However, what he does instead is, he lies down at the door and stares at me pitifully. If I close the door, when I open it, he's lying there... or if the door is open... well, right now, he's snoring in the hallway. It's cute. I feel guarded!