Charles in Japan

Plans for this weekend

Tonight meet up with Yoshiko and Testsuo!  Yoshi is finally back in Tokyo for a few days with Kodo.  It's going to be good to see them again.

Tomorrow, either go to the self-funded bonenkai (year end party) or go out to eat with Yasuko.  I'm tending to the later, because the bonenkai is going to be about $55 of all you can drink liquor for three hours and I don't feel well enough to get my money's worth out of it.  That and Yasuko's last name is Amano.  How awesome is that?  (That's a Gunbuster reference)

Saturday, probably go furniture shopping then probably meet up with Kana for dinner.  There is supposed to be a famous, or maybe just popular okonomiyaki place near my apartment that I want to try.  Now if I can just find it again...

Sunday, hang out and do whatever during the day, maybe some shopping.  Emily is having a Christmas party at her house that evening I'm going to, but it's in Chiba.  I haven't looked, but it maybe a couple hours to get there.  Directions are somewhere in gmail.  George in Tokyo too, so I'll get to see him there, and probably Tetsuo too.  I'm not set up to make anything yet, so I'll probably just bring wine.  I think there is a good liquor store near me, but I haven't been to yet. 

Monday is a vacation day.  No plans during the day, but I'm going to go see Kodo that evening.  I've missed them every time they've come to Dallas, (yeah, no excuse) so I'm going to see them in Tokyo.  Probably would of been better in Dallas.  I think they played small venues.

Am I finally going to start?

My first post.  I've had this account sitting here too long and it's time to get it started.  My first week or two here in Tokyo was all excitement, after that I've just been exhausted.  More on why I haven't written later, but I'm happy to say I believe I have an apartment to move into and getting settled should help things a lot, although now I have to go shopping and pick stuff up for the new place.  It's small, about 6-jo (or 6 tatami mats).  I decided location was most important to me, and I'm in Ebisu, the most expensive area of Tokyo right now.  If not it's really close.  The location inside of Tokyo is great.  You really can't get any better.  I'm a one or two minutes from the main JR station and a little noisy, but it's central to everything.  There aren't many options at the price I was looking at.

I hope to write more later.  Unfortunately Japan is way behind when it comes to free internet and I may not get to post again until I get internet.  I'll probably back post some about my trip to Taiwan and some of the things I've done in Tokyo up to this point.