I'm currently sat on the couch and watching the sun rise over the city on the first morning of living here in Tokyo.
After taking care of all the paperwork upon arrival here yesterday afternoon I set about setting up the Mac Mini so I could listen to some tunes and immediately realized that I had the wrong monitor cable to connect to the tv. And I was also starting to get hungry. So, I set off up the street and discovered a cool 24 Hr grocery store in a new building complex less than 5 minutes away - yes, I bought a Sushi dinner and some Special K for breakfast this morning. I also spoke to a nice lady in a Sanyo store who very nicely used sign language to tell me where to go to get the cable I needed.
So, armed with Sushi, a male-to-male (think about it) vga cable and something for breakfast I headed back to the apartment and got myself organized.
I then decided that before I fell asleep I should try out the bath. The nice lady from the apartment company had shown me how to work it all before she left me to my own devices yesterday but I was still in for a shock when I started it up myself. Not only does it heat (and maintain) the water at a pre-defined temperature and fills the bath to a specific level automatically, but it tells you that it's going to do it and lets you know when it's ready too! And if that wasn't enough, there is another control unit in the ktichen that talks to you while you're over here in case you can't hear what it's saying the bathroom. Yes, it scared me the first time - what can I say? I had jet lag!
This place is filled with all kinds of electronic Japanese-speaking wizardry that I know will take me a while to figure out. Fortunately, the washing machine has English instructions and if all else fails they've shown me how to request the laundry service too.
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