June 26: Buying an Iron
This morning I got up prior to noon, partially due to the fact that I realized that the entire time I had been dozing (about an hour and a half), a kid nearby was practicing his recorder. On a completely unrelated note, I now feel rage rather than nostalgia when I think of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". D:<
I snacked on korokke and headed for Akiba for the day with the hope of finding an iron. I got to Akiba pretty uneventfully, though I must say I worry about getting deported for cracking up at the Yamanote line's little "english lessons" that appear on the TV inside the trains. Last weekend the lesson was what a "BA" is, and some example sentences such as "We need someone with a BA", and "I majored in History!". Colour me skeptical on the first one... This weekend it was even more humourous, as the word of the week was "fire". The example dialog was "Why did they fire you?" to which they suggest you reply "It was a misunderstanding!" XD Wow... Learning to be tricky on the Yamanote line... Haha.
In Akiba I checked around a few stores to find one that sold appliances, and I ended up purchasing my iron for about 1800円 after finding a Sofmap store at one end of the pedestrian part of Chuuou street that sold them. I was considering going somewhere I could get one used or something like that for ultra ultra cheap, but I would rather not have to deal with the consequences if said iron were to do something horrid like light my shirts or my entire dorm on fire, and twenty bucks is cheap for something I will presumably use steadily for an entire year.
After buying my iron I went arcade hopping for the rest of the day. Oddly enough I seem to enjoy playing 3rd Strike more than Melty Blood at the moment, possibly because I feel like I'm playing waaay below my ability at Melty Blood, but with 3rd Strike I was never good in the first place hahaha! I played a bunch of 3rd Strike and a little Melty Blood at CLUB SEGA 2, and then played Typing of the Dead (2?), which is House of the Dead (normally a shooting game), but instead you have a keyboard and you have to type the words on the screen to kill the zombies. It was surprisingly difficult, because the words were Japanese in romaji, so the letter combinations were extremely unfamiliar. I made it to the second stage, at least, and it was actually incredibly fun, so I may play it again.
After playing a few other assorted games, I went to go upstairs to check how lined up Project Diva was, and saw that I didn't need to go upstairs to find out. Yes, the lineup for Project Diva was COMING DOWN THE STAIRS. D: Oh my god is that game ever popular! The patch seriously introduces like 6 songs tops, none of which I believe are ultra-hard (so it's not the uber hardcore people craving new challenges), though Just Be Friends is part of the patch, and I know that to be a pretty awesome song in its own right. The CLUB SEGA was super into it though, which was totally awesome. All the staff were cosplaying Vocaloids, and they had some non-staff looking Miku cosplayers wandering around and keeping people in line company. I think if I want to play Project Diva in the near future, it will have to be in Yokochuu hahaha. That lineup would seriously take like, at least an hour and a half.
I had a really early dinner at Time for Homemade Curry, and I decided to try their something-something-black curry, to see if it was more savoury than their regular one. Not a hit. >_< It was edible, but I think I have discovered the first Japanese curry I don't actually like. It was quite spicy and a little bitter. The kurobuta katsu was good as usual though. I still cannot figure out how to make their stupid machine accept my money though, so I always have to pay using Pasmo. >_<
After dinner I went and played DDR. Note to self: after dinner, without having played much DDR in the past SEVERAL YEARS, do not attempt to play twice in quick succession, and most certainly do not play Drop Out to finish your first set, and then attempt Healing Vision (a song I have never beaten, even when I played relatively frequently) to finish your second set. I made it like, 20 seconds into Healing Vision, and then just had to walk off the pad because it was really, really not happening. >_< I wandered over to the actual Taito game station (not the HEY!), and ended up playing Mushihimesama for a bit. I played on normal, and it was actually a very reasonable game. I got to the third stage on one coin, so I was like "why not try the next difficulty up for my next coin?" Mmmmmnope. I got absolutely destroyed in short order, although through copious bomb-spamming I actually did get to the second stage. Back to easy-- I mean "normal" mode (it's the lowest difficulty setting) for me! I wonder if I can get good at Mushihimesama. The Mushihimesame Futari BLACK LABEL machine is like, VERY spectator friendly in the HEY!, so if I do end up getting decent I know where I can show off (yeah right I'm staying miles away from that ego-smashing machine).
After my Mushihime stint I went wandering a little bit and checked out an oldschool console game store. They had stuff like Kirby's Dreamland and Super Mario Bros 3. and stuff, and there is a little thing that appears to be a Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) all in one for like 4000円. I looked all around their tiny, packed store at their games, but didn't find anything that called to me. I did find the Dreamcast version of Space Channel 5: Part 2 behind a glass case for 12800円. WHAT!? I guess I'm not going to find a cheap copy of Space Channel 5 while I'm here, although maybe a non-mint PS2 copy will go for less...
Due to my copious DDRing, I was starting to get quite tired by 7:30ish, so I started to make my way home again. My trip home was marred by the bus driver for the #6 bus not waiting for me even though I was clearly running for his bus, and then being forced to wait more than half an hour before the next bus came. In Canada, I'd totally understand, as it's not normal for bus drivers to wait, and our buses are always so late that they need all the help they can get to remain even close to on schedule. Here, every time I've seen someone running for a bus, the bus driver has waited, so I'm a little miffed that this courtesy was not extended to me, even though the bus driver probably knew full well that the next one wasn't going to come for 30+ minutes. Oh well... I survived and got home, buying myself some katsu-don at my local LAWSON STATION, because by this point I was actually kinda hungry again due to my early dinner.
Anyways, I've really got to go to bed, as I have to get up very early tomorrow to accept a phone call from the Canada-Japan Co-op people. I'm keeping my phone beside my bed as my lifeline in case I don't wake up.
Ciao!
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