大阪

[akujunkan]

Seeing as I'm going to be on a business trip in Shiga prefecture for six days next week, and since a three day weekend precedes said business trip, I decided to head down to the Kansai area for the duration. (I can justify this by the fact that I would have had to get up at 6 am to make it to the conference on the day of, but need only leave 20 minutes beforehand from Kyoto-fu.)

I spent all of yesterday wandering around Kyoto, which is perhaps my favorite city in Japan. I spent over two hours at Kennin-ji, which has now become my favorite Buddhist temple in the country; more on this later.

Today I find myself wandering about in Namba, stalling on buying a new computer. (My old one gave up the ghost a little over two weeks ago.) There are a lot of sweet, sweet machines out there, but they are expensive and use the Japanese keyboard, which I still dislike, even after all these years. Plus there is the issue of getting it and the old machine back home. And the fact that I am going to have to buy a car sometime within the month.

But, overall, good times.

That will be all.

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Wah on computer death!! I was kinda wondering about your lower profile here :-) but knew you have a lot going on there (what with the whole driving thing and media appearances and all!! ;-) ) It's too bad you have to wait to get a new one, but hey, finances have a mind of their own (as I sadly know). Look forward to your posts when you can then! :-D

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Yup, she is well and truly dead. Which is to say, I can turn her on, but not make any changes to the HD, surf the net, or dl, without making her crash.

And they don't service this brand in Japan. Go figgur.