A post inspired by random odd shit that's been going down recently, and named after the old TV show.

Buying things in bulk should be cheaper for the consumer than buying individuals.I saw some highlighters at Nafco today. 1 for 80 yen, or 5 for 398. Wow, by getting 5 of them, I can save 2 yen. There should be better savings from things than this. ( Read more... )

Something's going on in the southern part of Kurishita, on the other side of the Meigetsu factory from me, I just don't know what. Early this morning I heard what sounded like those campaign loud-speaker trucks blaring yoroshiku and arigatou all over the place. I thought it would stop eventually, but it's been going continuously since this morning ( Read more... )

Hey, I just made a new journal for the crazy stuff I'm doing in Japan. It's nanbanjin. It's friends only, so send the request and I'll hit you back as soon as I can. I'll try to update more often now. Dunno if I really needed a new journal though. Let me know!

Leaving in a few hours to head to Chicago. Looks like it's finally starting! Here we go!

My grandmother went home today, and I'm happy again. Actually, I'm pretty happy for several reasons ( Read more... )

I just got finished cleaning and polishing my old trumpet as well as I could. This old thing's been through a lot. It has some scrapes on it I didn't know about. It would still be a great instrument for a kid to start out on. Well, it'd be way better than a Yamaha student model. I'm still frustrated that I lent it to a "friend" and he said he left ( Read more... )

I had my application for an international driving permit sent off on Friday, and I got it Wednesday. That's way faster than I expected it would take. It's possible that I may never need to drive in Japan, maybe I'll never even want to. But now I've got a year that I can do it without taking the test if the situation arises.

The other day we all ate at Los Portales. They have it decorated all kinds of Mexican stuff on the walls. My grandmother had a taco. Yesterday she asked if the stuff we ate at that restaurant was Chinese... Then she said she likes tacos from Taco Bell better than the one she had at Los. Nothing Taco Bell has will ever come close to matching the ( Read more... )

Wow. So my grandmother asked me if I was still practicing my trumpet. I haven't played trumpet in 9 years. She told me not to sell it(exactly what I'm planning on doing) because I need to stay in music. Apparently she forgot that I play piano every day, guitar pretty often, I sing every day, and those aren't even my principal instruments. So even ( Read more... )

There really is no good way to do it. I usually just smile and nod, or say yeah to whatever it is she's talking about. Just today, in one day, she's managed to make me wish I were already in Japan. I'll tell my parents to their faces if I think something they're doing is completely wrong or stupid, but I can't say that to her. She's a racist and ( Read more... )