Monday October 31, 6:32 p.m.
The witching hour is once again upon us. I'm sure
Roppongi, Shibuya and Shinjuku will be having their final
Halloween blowouts in the next 6 hours or so. And perhaps some of the more adventurous
gaijin types (read: drunk foreigners) may take over a car on
the JR Yamanote Line for an hour of revelry...that is, if the cops don't grab them first. Then, from tomorrow, department stores here will be taking a page out of the North American handbook and replacing
their orange and black displays with those of
red, green and white. Yes, once again,
J-Xmas will be landing in
The Big Sushi as of
November 1.
Yesterday, after my lone lesson with The OL (she was in far better spirits than last time when she was in a bit of a funk), I met up with The Anime Chamberlain in
Akihabara and helped him buy a couple of
anime figures...nothing too obscene, thankfully. Was kinda disappointed that there weren't all that many
Halloween types walking up the
hokoten, but then again the cops probably would've shooed them away in keeping with the new spoilsport rules. We then met up with a couple that The Chamberlain knows from
Toronto. They are just spending the next 2 weeks in
Tokyo. Automan even knows them although it was my first time to meet them. We ended up going to
Sushi Zanmai, the
kaiten version, up on the top of
Yodobashi Akiba. The couple were amply impressed by the massive size of Japan's (possibly) largest electronics store. When I entertain visitors from the home country, I usually take them up there since conveyor belt sushi is basically just a fantasy in T.O. Of course, we managed to pig ourselves out.
This morning, I had Cozy as usual for his early lesson and then I had several hours off before I saw Mr. Swank in
Shinjuku. I finally made the call to my real estate agent after a couple of rounds of telephone tag. On Wednesday, I have to go over to the office and pick up a form formally notifying
ABLE that I am leaving the premises. I snuck the call between watching the season enders of
"Hawaii Five-O" and
"Nikita". Yup, pretty rollicking stuff.
Season 2 won't be starting here until next Spring, but then again I will be heading home right in the middle of that season.
Looks like
Econoship may be the way I'm going in terms of moving companies. I've been seeing some good reviews about them. The Carolinan had sent me contact numbers for
Nippon Express via a friend but I'm not quite willing to call them cold and then have them try to give me a hard sell. I will have to make a decision within the next couple of weeks.
It's been comfortably cool for the past few days, but Mr. Swank told me that it might be getting a bit warm tomorrow. So, the humidity may not be going away just yet. Still, I think it's probably more preferable than
the freak snowstorm that's hit
the Eastern Seaboard.
Well, I've got The Beehive and then The Kimono Nurse here tomorrow but after that I'll be meeting up with MB in
Shinjuku for a rare Tuesday night at the movies.
"Captain America" is on tap. I've heard different things about it; The Satyr despised it while the bossman's wife enjoyed it to no end.