Day 12

Second Sunday here, well more than my second tired day here.  Why?  Dinner went so late last night, I didn't get back until late, and still had to do some blogging.  But anyways, it doesn't matter, I got up in time to go to McDonald's again for lunch (double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke are good, especially with the amount of INTENSE exercise I did today, without DDR, nonetheless).  Well, that was tasty.

Following lunch, a long walk to the bike store to pick up my bike!  I didn't realize it would be so far, probably just felt farther than it really was.  The walk was about 5 minutes towards the Daiso, then 3 minutes to the school, then another 5 minutes to the train station, and then yet another 5 minutes to the bike store.  All in all, I was pretty sweaty by the time that was over, so I was ready to stand inside of a cold bike store until it was ready.  Thing is, the bike was sitting there ready for me to pick up (after paying, of course).  Total cost for the bike and lock?  5250 yen, or about $50 (US).  Not bad for a used bike that I'll probably be getting rid of at the end of the summer anyways.

So, since it was Sunday, I didn't think that the Yamasa building would be open.  Silly me, it was, and good thing I checked, because now my bike is registered (fully, I think - I still need to check on that tomorrow).  All it was was just a sticker and signing my name on a form, no payment or anything (which caused me to be a bit leery about the whole thing).  Oh well, I do have the sticker, which should be enough for at least the ride to school, probably for the rest of the summer, as long as I don't do anything incredibly stupid.

At this point, still no replies from my friend, who may have just gone to Tokyo and decided to not go through with our plans (of actually going together).  I just know one thing, that next weekend won't be so boring - I'm getting out of Okazaki and getting to either Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, or some large city.  Hopefully Tokyo for 1) Akihabara for gaming, 2) Shinjuku for taking pictures of the sky scrapers, 3) Minato for the Tokyo Tower (and thus pictures of damn near half of the Metropolis), and 4) whatever other wards happen to interest me.

Well, night has fallen, I have all of my work done, so the last thing for me to do is to give you a picture and text.  Cheers.

This is a manga cafe, open 24 hours.  You can go here and rent a booth for a certain amount of time to either read manga, surf the web, probably drink coffee or some other drink you enjoy, or just commiserate.  I didn't go beyond this point, which is a shame, because there's apparently a good arcade just down this way.  DDR count for the day could have potentially 1/5.