...but this isn't really a problem. Anyone wanting to steal bandwidth would have to get a signal from like 300 feet away through a rice field or two, or park outside our house where they'd be really, really obvious.

A warning--this entry is ridiculously long, since it has all the entries I would have made over the past three weeks. As such, I'm LJ-cutting it. I'd like to think it's neat and interesting, but...well, it's lengthly. Individual entries have been separated to prevent the "Wall of Text crits you for 9999, you die" problem.

( Long entry is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong )

We get a house in the middle of a spider-infested rice paddy!

Okay, maybe it's slugs instead of spiders. ^_~

It sounds like it's a pleasant country village surrounded by mountains, so softlykarou gets to take the raised road through the rice paddies to school like you see in all those anime. Falling cherry blossoms in season only, I think. Rent is only ¥17, ( Read more... )

Kitahiroshima (creative name, ain't it?). Sadly, I know almost nothing about it. It looks like it's only been a city since the big city consolidation a few years ago. It's a bit country-esque (1000 sq. km, but only 29K people), but it's only 20 or 30 miles from Hiroshima proper, so that's not so bad. The actual distance depends on where in ( Read more... )

I cleaned my room! There is nothing on the floor anymore, my bookshelves are neat and tidy and everything is visible (no more two-rows deep to hold all the books). Now I just have to vacuum and dust more. The shelves and the dresser are dusted, but there are probably other places that need it.

My visit with softlykarou was quite long (eight days), and a ( Read more... )