Monday, July 21, 2008

Day 26

Oww, migraine.  I haven't had one of those in a while, so I didn't get up until noon again.  Probably for good reason, but even after that, it took two Excedrin, some orange juice, a shower, and some walking around to fully clear me up.

Before I was fully cleared up, I managed to purchase another bike.  This one is now fully registered, and comes with two locks: one on the back tire that locks the back wheel when you're away from the bike, and the standard one that goes through the spokes (or wherever you want it to) and a nearby locking area.  It's a nice bike too: almost the same as the last one, though missing the option for different speeds; has a bell, a light, working breaks, non-deformed basket, and comfortable seat.  All in all, a very good purchase for the price, $120 BRAND NEW.  Time to be all crazy about locking this thing up wherever I go from now on.

Lunch was my standard first meal of Sunday, a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke at McDonald's.  Tasty and unhealthy as ever.  I can even feel the bubbles from the coke in my nose as I'm writing this.  Following lunch, I went to Jusco to either get shopping done or some "undercover work".  By that, I mean take some pictures of the Sanrio store for Lauren.  Taking pictures in a shopping mall is always sort of awkward, but I was covert enough for it, didn't alert anyone, and got a few mediocre pictures.

I then went shopping at Seiyu to get essentials, namely food.  And a pillowcase that's too small, so I'll have to return it later this week.  Pasta and beef again for dinner.  Man, that stuff's easy, but is getting repetitive.  I should try something different later this week.

Here's a picture of something interesting I saw in the supermarket, taken at a large gathering area of sorts.

This is in the middle of the Jusco department store of the Aeon "mall".  What you see here is a large gathering of people watching sumo wrestling on a fairly small television (for that number of people), but I guess the wrestlers are large enough anyways that even a 19'' TV would be fine.  Tickets to the event ranged from about $30 up to over $10,000 (I'm fairly certain).  Most of the event is ceremonial, but still a really big (pun most definitely intended) thing over here.

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