It has snowed heavily twice since I got to Tokyo. The last time was less than a week ago.
Yesterday, it was 20 degrees celsius. Twenny-freakin degrees.
What is wrong with this city?
How can it jump 25 degrees upwards in the space of four or five days? Eh? Moogly?
To be honest, I'm not really upset about it: today I walked to the bank wearing a tshirt and some random trousers. No scarf. No jacket. No ring of cold resistance. Nuttin.
Actually, come to think of it, I got more "crazy gaijin" stares today than ususal. Hmmm, maybe it is cold, and I've lost my ability to feel it.
Bank? Did I mention a bank? My bank? That's right, ladies and gentlefolk, I now have a bank account with a bank that I will use for various banking purposes, like making bank transactions.
Unfortunatley, as far as I can tell, Japanese banks in general do not "do" internet banking. Which sucks majorly, since my credit card is attached to a savings account back in Oz, and I should be able to easily siphon funds between my accounts without filling out forms, and especially without having to nod and smile a lot at a bank teller who is in fact telling me that I have successfully closed my account and donated my earnings to the Yakuza.
We get our modem tonight.
Setting up our internet connection has been a little different from what I would have imagined. We have to set up a phone line for ADSL (no surpises there), and we have to set up an adsl 'connection', and pay money to NTT for the modem (okay, fine). But, when we rang about something else, they asked us who our "provider" was going to be. Aparently, we have to pay other people to actually handle passing out ip addresses, which'll cost a little more a month. These people could take up to a week before they actually activate our new adsl connection...grrr. I needs it.
I'm currently (finally) reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I picked it up from the Shinjuku station Kinokuniya for only 960 yen. Not bad. I'm almost finished though, so I think I might be doing some more purchasing soon...or actually start working on my Japanese...
Saranne will be coming over to stay in Tokyo for a few days on the weekend. That'll be cool. First Novocastrian visitor to our humble abode. I have convinced Thad and Stan to help me clean up the apartment a little...a lot. It's a little styesque at the moment. In about three weeks, Nathan will be staying for a week, so that's cool. He's off trekking through the jungles of Vietnam at the moment, so think of him, from time to time.
Well, work's calling, and I can't pretend not to hear it for much longer, so I'll see you again this side of the intarwebinets soon. Hopefully from the relative comfort of my own apartment.
