Late night, late morning, and the rain that had been predicted nearly every day in the weather report finally arrived. softlykarou went out with a friend to fetch breakfast, and then came back, ate, and we left just under the buzzer to allow the hotel staff to clean our room ( Read more... )

You can tell Japan is a high-trust society with good social cohesion because the elevators hang around forever but close instantly when you press the 閉める button.

I woke up late, so after showers and breakfast again at Lotteria, softlykarou and decided to go to Sanjūsangendō again. But apparently everyone else had the same idea, because when we got to the ( Read more... )

A couple days ago, softlykarou and I took a bit of time to head down to Iwakuni for the Kintaikyou Matsuri. For those who don't know, 錦帯橋 is a famous bridge that's built in a series of arches over the river, and every spring, Iwakuni has as festival there that, in addition to the standard things you find at Japanese festivals, reenacts the processional of a ( Read more... )

Yep, you read that right. It's not willingly, though. Two days ago, my laptop sudden began exhibiting extremely alarming behavior (read: freezing solid 3-5 minutes after starting up). Fortunately, I'd already backed up most of my important stuff (except my Morrowind installation with mods GRRRRRR), so if they have to replace it completely it's no ( Read more... )

So, last week I missed basically everything that happened on the internets because my parents were in town. If you don't remember my Kyōto entry, then I suggest you reference it again because we went all the same places. :-p The only difference was that this time, it was hot and humid instead of cold, and we walked everywhere ( Read more... )

All right. Now that I'm no longer sick, I can actually write about our Kyōto trip!

We were going to leave last Friday after softlykarou got back from work, but when we arrived in Hiroshima bus center she noticed that her purse was missing. It turned out that she had left it back in Chiyoda, where one of the station attendants had picked it up, checked the ( Read more... )