September 3: Not Much to Say
Sorry folks, today's blog is destined to be a short one. >_<
Today's breakfast was some pork mixtures, shredded vegetable tempura and nori, along with miso soup and rice. It was all fairly good, but not my among my favourites certainly. I left the dorm and got to work on time, where I coded and debugged all day. My current problem is with a bug that only appears on certain ranges in the data, but I'm not able to determine what is unique about those points... Whatever it is it is really nasty, because it somehow causes memory allocation problems in RUBY of all things. >_>
Lunch was that wasabi chicken thing I had last week on rice. I unfortunately got ripped off again, as I took the only one available as i was walking past, and then, for the next person after me to take, the cafeteria ladies put out a noticeably larger one. >_< I swear I've never been rude or obnoxious (in the cafeteria, that is), so I'm not sure what this secret vendetta against my quest to actually get a sufficient lunch is about.
After eating I played handiball, which was kind of funny, in all senses of the word. >_< Aside from the usual silliness inherent in handiball, today there were veritable masses of people playing who had clearly not done so terribly often before... My team was a decent mixture of said noobs and people who normally played, as was the other team, but for some reason the other team felt the need to put all of their experienced people adjacent to eachother in their rotation. This meant that they would literally go 10 points on us before they rotated out, and then we'd just serve it and their noobs would stand there looking at the ball, or get hit by it, or hit it in a randomly/astrologically determined direction until we caught up. >_< I must say it wasn't terribly riveting to watch (and there were long lines to rotate back in due to all the players present), or to play for that matter haha. Oh well...
In the afternoon I "got" my lab e-mail address finally. Apparently it takes about this long to get one, for whatever reason. >_< "Got" is in quotation marks because the company apparently changed the password for the account in between giving it to Kabutoya-san over the phone and him taking the piece of paper he'd written it down on and giving it to me. Uhhh... Anyways, that meant that I installed/reinstalled Thunderbird about 3 times, and triple checked all the information I'd put in before calling Kabutoya-san over to explain that something was amiss. His solution was to click a bunch of buttons without reading them (in his defence, they were in English), get Thunderbird into a state that appeared to be mostly broken, and then click the "Create Account" button several times, expressing non-diminishing surprise each time doing so yielded the same failure message, before going back to call the people in charge of the account and finding out what was actually wrong. I somehow can't capture what happened with the right cadence without sounding acerbic, but I was actually just trying not to laugh during the whole episode. I made a noise every time he went for a button that I was pretty damn sure wouldn't do anything useful, but he always got there before it became anything intelligible, so I was just kind of sitting there going "Eh! Uh. Erk. Eh. Ngh! Uh. No- Uh. Mm." He's normally quite technically competent, so I really have no idea what that was about... After he left I reinstalled Thunderbird. :D Another thing about my e-mail address is that the part of it that's supposed to be my name is "robato_sumi". I was joking with my coworkers about who exactly this "Robato" guy is, and how we feel very sorry for him for having a name that rhymes (or "rimes", if you're being a douche in Scrabble, like me for example) with "potato". Now I'm thinking about how Dot might have pronounced it "R'beta" haha. I hope I never forget about this; you guys must all call me "Robato" upon my return to Canada. *<:B
After work I walked home in the lovely and refreshing typ(h)oon winds, and my trip was free of giant flying spiders! *shudder* I got home and ate dorm breakfast that was a giant omu-rice (scrambled eggs wrapped around a distinctive sort of ketchup fried rice, with ketchup on top) and miso soup (but no rice, as it was clearly otherwise engaged). I went to the Yokosan and bought more senbei and an ENTIRE BAG of grapefruits to put in the freezer! The bag cost 398円 for 5 grapefruit which normally cost 99円, so I am quite pleased with that. Unfortunately the Yokosan hasn't been selling figs of late, as I wanted to try freezing them too.
I'm actually in something of a position to get enough sleep tonight, so I will depart now to try to capitalize on that! I hope my excitement about not feeling horrible tomorrow doesn't keep me awake... >_< Damn, why did I say that...
Night!
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