It's AliiIIVEE(ish)!

[akujunkan]

In which I am cautiously optimistic about mon réfrigérateur.

Attentive readers will remember that I have been fridgeless for about 2.5 months now. After several discussions with metal_dog5 on what determines whether refrigerators Live or Die, I tried some emergency measures.

Namely, pulling the fridge as far away from the wall as possible (thus making it difficult to get into and out of the front door, but oh well), and experimenting with different outlets.

One of the things that originally did my fridge in was the fact that the wall socket into which it was plugged died. As in, there is absolutely no current running through the damn thing. So I got an extension cord and tried plugging the fridge into the outlet across the room (which means I'd have to unplug it whenever I do laundry, but whatever). That didn't work.

But only because the extension cord apparently couldn't handle the current. Plugging it into a third outlet seems to have brought some semblance of life back into the old hulk. Which isn't to say that the situation is ideal: on the highest setting it is not cold, but coldish, but even coldish is an improvement over the past two months.

So, yay.

That will be all.

Comments

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

Is the wiring in buildings in many small Japanese towns like this? It would explain why so many look at you oddly where you live, you seem to be much more comfortable in another country than homelanders expect you to be.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, actually my apartment in K-town was for a family (rent is cheap in a place where the average age is 65), so my landlords worked hard to keep the place up and the tenants happy.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

A family? As in more than one person in your tiny lttle rectangle? Wow. I wish it wasn't so materialistic here. But, then again, I have room for all our books, DVDs, CDs, kids toys, and I have hot water....which is better?

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Actually, that apartment had three rooms, a laundry alcove, separate bathroom and toilet, and a storage shed outside.

The lease to my current place actually forbids more than one person from living here.

If I could get housing assistance here you better believe I'd be moving into a family apartment again.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

Oh. Cool. That would be awesome, but it also would be too tempting for you to purchase more awesomeness that would be a bitch getting back across the pond.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Point. I'm already worrying about how I'm going to get the stuff I've already bought over...and I literally have three pieces of furniture, including the futon.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

OMG! You're a victim of our commercialist society. Must you own so many things!? :-)

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

No, I just want the better stuff I bought in Japan. The only way our commercialist society could make me a victim is by somehow deciding to market books as The Coolest Thing To Buy.

Then I'd be like a sheep to the slaughter.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

Yeah *ahem* Stephanie Meyer *ahem* J.K. Rowling *ahem*

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

...I said books, not feces.