INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 12: INTERNET!!!

Today I stayed home and slept in niiiiice and late. :D  I got up at about 11:30 and went to the Yokosan to buy lunch (korokke are on sale again!  Yippee!), which is always disheartening, because they have some good looking food, but it's lying out on a table!  I'm pretty sure unagi should be refrigerated...  Also, they charge WAAAAY too much for everything other than korokke.  Today I saw a small box of RICE priced at OVER 250円!  That's ridiculous!  I'll stick to my korokke, thanks.  I also got some milk, which is also nice and cheap (relatively speaking).  I came home and called NTT to troubleshoot my Internet problems.  The lady answering the phone was very helpful and told me that the little black line->phone converter that the diagrams in the things they sent me showed me using was the problem.  Once I removed that from the works and just plugged the line into the jack (it fits as well as the phone one did, despite being a different size...) my Internet showed up.  >_<  Damnit!  Oh well, I now have Internet, so all past grief is immediately forgotten.

I tested out my Internet by torrenting the Eclipse IDE, and I got up to about 2.1MB/s, which is waaaay faster than I ever got at home.  I spent the remainder of the day at home catching up on stuff that I had missed due to my crappy connection.  Being able to watch a 5 minute YouTube video in less than 15 minutes is very, very nice.  >_<

I planned on going to the izakaya down the street for dinner, but when I went to go there, they were closed.  I hope that they are OK, and that closing on Wednesdays is just what they do for some reason.  I'm pretty sure they were open other weeknights, but I could have mistaken Saturday or Sunday for a weeknight, as they're in the middle of my work week.  Instead I had to settle for LAWSON STATION katsu-don, because there doesn't seem to be that much around Ikkidzuka that stays open past 7. >_<

I ate my katsu-don while watching StarCraft matches that unfortunately resulted in Huk's elimination from GSL (he's Canadian and a Protoss player, so I like to cheer for him).  I looked up where to buy board games in Tokyo, but it looks like they're hella expensive.  Moebius Games in Suidobashi priced Dominion at 6800円, which is like twice the price in Canada. >_<  I am going to try Yellow Submarine in Akiba tomorrow, and see if they have either Smallworld or Dominion for a slightly more sane price.  I would love to be able to show either of them to Fujimura-san and Nishida-san, not to mention the Niconico user on my floor in my dorm.

Sorry about the short post today; I don't have much to talk about because I just hung around all day in my room basking in the wonder of having proper Internet again haha.  Tomorrow I will be going to Akiba, so hopefully I will be able to relate my (mis)adventures there to you then.

Night!