No longer homeless
Moved in on Wednesday, after getting 'sorry, you have to change room if you want to stay' signal in hotel. Unfortunately, my ordered Muji bed was still three days off (Saturday), so I had really only two options. Buy camping gear + sleep on floor (*ouch*), or move to different room/hotel.
The first option was cheaper and left me with tangible stuff - super lightweight sleeping bag + camping mat. Sleeping on the floor for 3 days wasn't excessively fun (mostly due to forgetting to turn on airconditioning first night -> woke up with 5-10 degrees in the room, and shivering in the cold. the other nights were ok, except airconditioning was bit noisy.
Another bitter disappointment were utilities; I expected I needed only water and electricity (who in their sane mind would want to mess with gas?), but it turns out shower + bath water was warmed by the gas (as well as the oven/plates), so I had to order gas, but it would come only on Saturday => 3 days without shower.
Yesterday finally got the bed (very efficient service), as well as gas, and celebrated the gas with long soak in the bath, and went to enjoy myself in city after that. Shopped for a bicycle (Cannondale Bad Boy Disc or Ultra, not sure which), but couldn't find it in the stores I found then; also, shopped 100mbps (uplink and downlink) fiber-based network connection for my home. 3-week delivery time is a bummer, but 30 euros/month is reasonable I think (FLET's + OCN + NTT providing assorted bits of the service I believe).
Today went for hanami (watching the cherry trees) with 3 other coworkers after finding local supermarket and garbage disposal place; had quite fun, maybe might even post pictures at some point. Interestingly enough, only the women actually drank alcohol, men tea :-)
The first option was cheaper and left me with tangible stuff - super lightweight sleeping bag + camping mat. Sleeping on the floor for 3 days wasn't excessively fun (mostly due to forgetting to turn on airconditioning first night -> woke up with 5-10 degrees in the room, and shivering in the cold. the other nights were ok, except airconditioning was bit noisy.
Another bitter disappointment were utilities; I expected I needed only water and electricity (who in their sane mind would want to mess with gas?), but it turns out shower + bath water was warmed by the gas (as well as the oven/plates), so I had to order gas, but it would come only on Saturday => 3 days without shower.
Yesterday finally got the bed (very efficient service), as well as gas, and celebrated the gas with long soak in the bath, and went to enjoy myself in city after that. Shopped for a bicycle (Cannondale Bad Boy Disc or Ultra, not sure which), but couldn't find it in the stores I found then; also, shopped 100mbps (uplink and downlink) fiber-based network connection for my home. 3-week delivery time is a bummer, but 30 euros/month is reasonable I think (FLET's + OCN + NTT providing assorted bits of the service I believe).
Today went for hanami (watching the cherry trees) with 3 other coworkers after finding local supermarket and garbage disposal place; had quite fun, maybe might even post pictures at some point. Interestingly enough, only the women actually drank alcohol, men tea :-)
posted by Wanderer at 11:40
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