8-20-2008

So apparently summer is slowly dying, as the heat is toning down and the sounds of cicadas are slowly fading away and the crickets take over the night. August is in it's last half and I head for Japan soon.

I adopted an abandoned laptop to take to Japan, reformatted it and replaced it's Korean Windows XP OS with an US version with the help of the internet. I don't have any problems with a Korean OS but life is just easier if I can cuss at my windows crapping out on me in the same language it primarily displays. After installing a few drivers I felt the need to get some add-ons for the five year old laptop, so I purchased a wireless USB, a USB hub, some new headphones, and a universal card reader, all for about $50. Unsurprisingly, electronics are not expensive at all here in Korea. Unsurprisingly, all this shit really doesn't add much when the actual core machine is a relic in computer years, a 40gb, 500mb RAM laptop with little battery capacity.

The laptop is one of the few things I feel I should bring along to Japan. Along with some clothes I guess.

I gained about fifteen pounds over the summer, burgeoning near the 180lb range. Fortunately, all my pants still fit. The way I figure is, with all the continuous weight training I did over the summer, I gained about seven pounds in muscle and eight pounds in fat. Or maybe I'm just trying to pretend I didn't become a complete fatass. Since Japan is expensive as fuck, maybe I'll lose weight as a result of being unable to afford any food over there.

I might not have any money left by the time I go to Japan at the rate I'm going. I got dragged to Lotte World today, a theme park in Korea that, like all theme parks, just sucks up money. But w/e.