All according to plan

Or the opposite of that.

Decided to go downtown today to go to the post office. Got all gussied up to do it too (meaning I shaved because I needed to do that anyways). The one minor detail I forgot was.... oh yeah, post offices close early.

Right.

I can't even excuse that one on being in Japan, they close the same time in America. So that was just me being dumb. Looks like I'll have to wait on the shipping stuff home number.

I was then planning to go to the internet cafe, because it'd cost less to hang out there than to go downtown and inevitably spend lots of money on shiny pretties that I don't really need whatsoever. Unfortunately, I submitted to the siren call of the Quarter Pounder meal and didn't have enough cash on me to go to the cafe, so I had to find an ATM.

When I found an ATM, it didn't work. I still am not quite sure what was wrong with it, other than that it kept spitting receipts at me and not giving me money. So I'll wager that it was either out of cash, or it smelled the American on me. Dirty prejudiced Japanese automated teller machine. We're people too!

So, to further convolute the plan, I needed to find yet another atm machine (THAT'S REDUNDANT). So I kept walking along until I found one.






Unfortunately, the next closest one was at the mall, the very place that I had been trying to avoid. I decided to just give in to fate and wander about for a bit. I ended up buying a new hat (a replacement for the one I wore all winter. Looks similar, but isn't so thick that I'm sweating to death in it). I also got a mounted bison head! It's a gashapon toy, but still, pretty neat. I got a ram before, but that sucked. Rams aren't cool. You ever met someone brag about killing a ram? It's not that hard.

Where was I? Right, the mall. I somehow remembered that I wanted to get some vitamins the other day, so I set out to do that. I spent about twenty minutes in the grocery area getting disappointed that I couldn't find any, until I bothered to look up far enough and see a sign that read in English "Pharmacy Area".

Oh.

So I headed over there to grab my spoils of victory (I can read English! Hurrah!). Not knowing exactly what I was missing from my diet of pringles, peanuts, ritz crackers, hash browns and Pepsi, I decided to grab some multivitamins to be on the safe side. In doing so I established the night to max out at spending roughly 3 times what I would have at the internet cafe.

Well, at least I got some exercise...or something.

Which was ruined when I remembered that I had a free milkshake coupon in my wallet and 25 minutes until the bus showed up.

On an unrelated note, my room, or at least my desk, is already messy again. Go figure. Nothing about 20 minutes of cleaning wouldn't solve for good but you know...

That's a whole 20 minutes of not doing nothing.

Meh.