Monday – the first day of Golden Week. I had the whole day off, and pretty much spent it relaxing, cooking, reading and playing Nintendo. As you might expect, Kuniko had to work.
I also took a crosstown hike to the big shopping center to look at laptop computers. My old Toshiba that I’m using now is getting slower and slower, and now it is to the point that I click on the browser to get it started, leave the room, and when I come back it is ready to go. It takes forever. The computer is four years old, and I’ve used it almost every day of that time, so I can understand why it’s a little tired out.
I was surprised to find that the laptops available for sale here in Japan didn’t give me a lot of value for my money. Without going completely geek, the video cards are cheesy generic Intel cards and the processors are two steps behind what I can get in America. Isn’t that strange? Anyway, I’m going to have to continue with my plan to get the laptop in America and have my folks fly it over with them to Hawaii this summer.
Today was actually pretty hot in the morning and afternoon, but in the evening it got cloudy and muggy. It won’t be long before the air conditioners will need to be running again. I can’t believe how fast the seasons seem to change here.
Kuniko got home a little early, and so I was in the middle of cooking Red Lobster Biscuits, only because I missed them – I haven’t been to a Red Lobster in years. The biscuits turned out pretty good – similar to what I remembered – and Kuniko and I ate more than I’d like to admit on this journal. Luckily I cut down on the amount of butter – I don’t want to kill anybody. We sat in the afternoon sun and chased the biscuits with an endless supply of cold beer from the fridge, and before long we were both pretty drunk. There is not much better than sharing some homemade biscuits and getting drunk in the afternoon – I’m glad I married someone who can appreciate the finer moments in life.
Tomorrow I’m going to meet up with Antoine to celebrate his birthday, and I’m expecting a pretty wild night. Kuniko has to work all this week, so we won’t meet up again until I come staggering home late Tuesday night. I wouldn’t expect a coherent update from me until Wednesday night at the earliest…
