After a fun-filled Friday night, Saturday and Sunday were pretty unremarkable. But, I’ll give it a try.
Saturday Kuniko and I went out to run errands. First we went to the nearest Vodafone shop to get me a new cellphone. The old one was doing OK, just a few disturbing power glitches. I’ve been itching to upgrade for a while now, and so I picked up a new model the day it came out.
While the old one had a TV built in, it became obsolete the day Kuniko moved in and brought her TV with her. This new one has lots of interesting new features – some of which are useful. It has a built in GPS unit, so it can guide me to where I need to go, which may be handy in the future if I’m looking for a particular address for a job interview.
It has a motion control sensor, so it can tell what position the phone is in. That’s kind of cool because it makes the games more interesting, and there is one application that works as kind of a mini-planetarium. It knows where you are, and then shows you a guide to the stars above you, that moves as you move the phone around.
It also has a VGA screen – so it can show those complex Japanese characters just as well as my laptop. It really makes a huge difference – I’ll never be able to go back to a regular phone again.
Anyway, I’m still finding out new features – so if I find something else cool I’ll write about it here.
We also went over and rented a movie, and then picked up some gyoza on the way home and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. What a weird movie. The oompa loompas were great, but I’m not sure how I feel about the rest of it. I definitely like the original better.
Sunday Kuniko went off to see a student off at the Osaka airport, so I stayed home and studied, tried to keep my computer running (it is getting slower and slower), and in the evening I heated up some sho-chu and I’m sitting here sipping it while I type. Kuniko should be getting home late this evening, and we’ll have a little soup and then probably go to bed early. I’ll have my first full week of classes next week.
