Jun 21: The Internet and I
Today I woke up and had dorm breakfast of clams and assorted vegetables. I wondered if the clams were left out overnight, but Oohashi san doesn't seem to have that habit. >_< And besides, they weren't tempura. I thought I had missed the 8:54 bus today as I was slow leaving my room, and so I started to walk to LAWSON STATION to buy large bottled beverages to counteract the heat of the office, but as soon as I got halfway there, I saw the bus coming in my direction. D: I was glad (for the first time, and maybe the last) that traffic is so slow near my house, because I was actually able to beat the bus back to the bus stop without too much of a head start hahaha.
I arrived at work before I was supposed to be there (like every other day), and since I hadn't had the chance to buy my drinks, I went to the convenience store in the basement. Yes, my company has a convenience store that's behind card-access doors that is larger than my local LAWSON STATION by about a factor of two. XD I was very glad for it today, as I purchased 2L of water and drank all of it over the course of the day.
In the morning I finished off my cluster-based recommender. I found what I think was causing the problem, and it worked like a dream thereafter. However, when I was demonstrating it to Kabutoya-san, I asked about missing data for a cluster (A dimension that none of the cluster members are defined on, so the cluster itself has no go-to value in that dimension), which was the source of my bug, I believe, and he said that the way that it should be done is the way that was causing the problem, but either approach is reasonable, and that I should move on. Hmm... If what I was doing "wrong" was supposed to work, then where did the bug come from...? We'll never know, because now I have moved on to document filtering.
At lunch I finally had curry! The specials for the day did not look at all intriguing, so I actually managed to get by them and get some pork curry (they seriously call it ポークカレー or pooku karee, similarly tsumami-mono are referred to as スナック or sunakku). I then turned around and lined up behind someone who had a much larger, more interesting looking curry that is apparently "Java curry". Damnit! I need to get to know all the tips and tricks...
After lunch I played some handiball. I'm kinda bad at it, and my serve was totally ridonkulously bad in the earlier part of the lunch hour. After a while, the people we were playing against left, including the guy wearing an Eddie Bauer shirt, who I didn't get to ask where he got it. Good thing, because I looked it up when I got home, and Eddie Bauer apparently has a store in Tokyo. >_< After that we played 2 on 2 handiball, and I did much, much better. I think one of the major issues I have with handiball is that there's no room and no coordination between teammates. Since I'm larger than most of the people here, I don't really want to go barreling about, and so I end up just kind of standing in one place. In the 2's situation I had much more freedom and I liked it quite a lot better. Too bad the "normal" game crams 4 people a side onto that tiny court...
After lunch I did some of the exercises from the book, and apparently this is the last chapter I'll be doing, at least for the time being. Kabutoya-san says he's surprised at how fast I am (TEAM FAST), so maybe he won't be ready by the time I'm done chapter 6 and I'll have to do something else from the book haha. That's pure speculation though. I find when I have to read things (like papers or book exercise descriptions, it's very difficult to do and is very slow going. I think it's because I'm no longer focusing on coding and therefore the uncomfortable heat of the office really gets to me. Unfortunately I'm in a research lab, so plenty of reading is likely in store haha. D: Oh well, maybe I'll get used to it (not). Kabutoya-san was telling me about how it gets into the 30s here during the summer, and the office will have no AC for power saving reasons. Diuuuuu. Good thing the Yokosan has 2L bottles of water on sale for like 120円, as I know I'll be needing a lot of them.
At work, just toward the tail end of the day, my terminal that I do my work on stopped responding, and when I tried to close and reconnect to the server it was unreachable. It also turned out that the entirety of my internet was shot too! Yikes. I told Kabutoya-san this, and he said "oh maybe it's time to go home then". Haha. Too bad it's 5:55 and the previous bus just left a minute ago, and the next one is the one I usually catch at 6:30. D: Kabutoya-san determined along with a guy whose name I believe is Kyosuke that it was my computer's fault, and they told me that this wasn't surprising, as my computer is generally nothing but trouble, apparently. D: I regained my ability to connect to the server while they were twiddling away on my machine, and so I went back to work for a bit (with no Internet). At the end of the day (like 15 minutes later) I checked and the Internet was back again. >_< That ain't cool man... I really hope this is not the first of many little presents in store for me... I changed absolutely nothing, and touched absolutely nothing, and my network connection just disappears for like, 10 minutes!? D: And for no-one else, either.
Back at the dorm I had dorm supper, which was... Curry. Yes, the one day I manage to get to the curry at lunch was the one day Oohashi-san makes curry for dinner. Good thing I like curry. >_< There was also some shredded fake crab in a gelatinous sauce served over iceberg lettuce that was good, if a little salty. I told Oohashi-san that I'd be late the next day because I would be playing tennis with Kabutoya-san, and I am still reeling from how quickly and loudly she speaks. Everyone else who has received the panicked look from me when I don't understand what they've said in Japanese has slowed down, pointed, or broken down what they're trying to say into bite-sized, textbook grammar pieces (thank you so, so much). Not Oohashi-san. What she's saying gets reworded (so I don't get a second shot) in the equally ultra-casual style of speech she uses with extra questions tacked on. D: How do you take this "life" thing off of hard mode!?!? Oh well, she's very understanding, if not so understandable, and is very pleasant, so when I just say "uhhh... tabun" in response to the last of a series of about eight questions, she seems to act like it's an ok answer (it's totally not an ok answer). I wonder if there will be caltrops in my bed tomorrow when I come home...
Anyways, I'd best get to bed as I am shy on スリープ (suriipu, as I'm sure it'll be called over here in 3 years), so I'll say bye for now and excuse myself. Ciao!
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