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Apartment Hunting in Japan - Part 3
We stayed in corporate housing for the next month waiting on our furniture to make its voyage across the sea. No reason to move in if you have to sleep on the floor. When the boxes arrive it will be my job to unpack and get the house in a livable condition. It is one of the main reasons K.L. has brought me along. She will go out and work while I do the heavy lifting. I am not avidly looking for work until the move is over. So I wait. And I enjoy the wait. Japan is a fascinating place.
One of my hobbies is checking my email. I’ve gotten really good at it. Just takes a few clicks and wham-o I’m there. On this day there is an email from ABC News, “Want to go to Baghdad?” Ut-oh. I haven’t worked for months at this point. I am feeling a tad bit useless. Besides my incredible email skills that is. And I have not worked for ABC since coming to Japan. So I talk to K.L. about it. You see that is one of the main things I have learned about a relationship. Free will is gone. I can’t just do something anymore. I must ask. And more importantly, I must remember to ask! I remembered. I asked. She said yes.
So the furniture arrived two weeks later. It would be another two weeks before I would make it back from Iraq. My sole reason for being in Japan was to unpack. My sorry ass isn’t there. I felt horrible.
But I made it home, and still had plenty to unpack. We’ve put most everything where it needs to be, although there are still a few brown containers (bachelors call them disposable furniture) littering the place. We love the view. “It’s like I live in a news set”, was what she said last night as the lights of Tokyo blinked across our 8 large glass panes. And it is. A friend came over and the first words from his mouth were, “You don’t’ deserve this view. I’ve lived here for 10 years and I’ve never had a view like this.” And don’t worry, the construction hasn’t gone high enough to block anything. We hear the noise at times from their work but that just means its time to turn up the radio.
Now if only I could get the combo A/C heater to work! Damn thing’s directions are written in Japanese.
One of my hobbies is checking my email. I’ve gotten really good at it. Just takes a few clicks and wham-o I’m there. On this day there is an email from ABC News, “Want to go to Baghdad?” Ut-oh. I haven’t worked for months at this point. I am feeling a tad bit useless. Besides my incredible email skills that is. And I have not worked for ABC since coming to Japan. So I talk to K.L. about it. You see that is one of the main things I have learned about a relationship. Free will is gone. I can’t just do something anymore. I must ask. And more importantly, I must remember to ask! I remembered. I asked. She said yes.
So the furniture arrived two weeks later. It would be another two weeks before I would make it back from Iraq. My sole reason for being in Japan was to unpack. My sorry ass isn’t there. I felt horrible.
But I made it home, and still had plenty to unpack. We’ve put most everything where it needs to be, although there are still a few brown containers (bachelors call them disposable furniture) littering the place. We love the view. “It’s like I live in a news set”, was what she said last night as the lights of Tokyo blinked across our 8 large glass panes. And it is. A friend came over and the first words from his mouth were, “You don’t’ deserve this view. I’ve lived here for 10 years and I’ve never had a view like this.” And don’t worry, the construction hasn’t gone high enough to block anything. We hear the noise at times from their work but that just means its time to turn up the radio.
Now if only I could get the combo A/C heater to work! Damn thing’s directions are written in Japanese.
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