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recent
The homecoming reviews are mixed. On the one hand, it is nice to be settled again and in a position where I can start something without thinking about being uprooted again in a month or a week.
I have been looking for some "nature" in tokyo and may have found a fair bit. Unfortunatly, I also found streets crowded with thousands of people buying all manner of crap that they don't need. This causes me to want to stay inside.
Sometimes I have to go out though. Yesterday we took the train to Hadano, the nearest mountains, and had a nice day-hike across a little ridge and were back by afternoon.
Today I had to go out to the new mac shop in Shibuya (what a hell-hole Shibuya is!). I visited the clue-less mac genius to ask about my broken display. They had no idea what the problem was so they suggested that I send it to the factory to get it fixed for a flat rate of $500, regardless of what the problem actually is. After some pressing and about thirty minutes of the expert staring into his computer screen (I dont know if he was really looking at anything or just waiting for me to get fed up and leave) he ventured a guess that it may be just a bad cable. He could try to put in a new cable to see if that is it, but it would take a week, and if that is the problem, will cost over $200 to fix. I asked to buy just the cable so that I can do it myself, but he refused to sell just the cable, basically saying that they want the repair business so they can't sell me the part.
I didn't feel safe leaving my computer to him, and didn't want to leave it there for a week, so I took it home and took it apart to see if I could just find a loose cable or something. No loose cable, but I found why the frame broke so early after I got it. There was a big crack on the inside frame of the display which it appears the manufacturer had actually attempted to tape up! I should have opened it to inspect it right after I bought it.
dang.
Welcome back! I missed you LOTS while you were gone. And I've marked you down as a potential hire for my international gigolo ring--so don't you worry.
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