The Last Few Days

As a follow up to the Cheetos I spoke about last post, the verdict is in and....... (drum rolllllllllll)..... they are not good :-( or well I shouldn't say not good just they are not the same. Basically the best comparison I can give is to say they taste the way white cheddar cheez-its taste when you were expecting regular, theres something just off with them. I really didn't like them and only ate half the bag, I won't be getting those again anytime soon.

A few days ago I got a package from home with some very important things that I had requested. First and foremost was some Franks RedHot sauce which is not available here in Japan. I love hot sauce but the only thing I could find here was Tabasco but I'm not really a fan of Tabasco. I also had ordered some Nintendo gamebits so that I could open and work on some of the consoles and games I have bought here.

There were a few other things nothing too exciting some gum, candy and a few game cases. There was also a surprise from my niece, first off there was a card from my sister that was beautifully decorated and designed by her. Secondly there was a picture of handprints that had been turned into turkeys for a thanksgiving day card of sorts. It looks great but someone misspelled thanksgiving at the top, and I know it wasn't my niece. Sis I'm looking at you!

The next day I opened up the Super Famicom using the bits and tools that were sent in the package and it was pretty gross inside. I have seen dirty/dusty hardware before but this thing had what seemed like hay inside and in some places the remnants of a long ago spill of something very sugary aka sticky. Unfortunately I was so grossed out and busy cleaning that I forgot to take more pictures of the whole process but it ended up taking me about an hour and a half to clean it up. There is still more work to be done to get it really clean but for now I'm happy with it.

Last night I was going to my Japanese class and stopped by the Book Off that is close by and I found a game I didn't even know existed. IQ Remix + for the PS2, I have the original game on the PS1 and have seen the sequel IQ Final but I was unaware that there was a game on the PS2. In the states the first game was released under the name of Intelligent Qube, it was a game that my sister got when we first had got our first Playstation turns out a lot of people liked it and it was pretty rare it now goes for about $100 on ebay. The Japanese versions are not as valuable but I just like the game and am excited to try this PS2 version. While I do have a Japanese PS2 unfortunately it is still in the states so ill have to wait till I make a visit home before I get the chance to try it out. The best part was that I had a coupon for 100 yen and the game was 105 so I ended up getting the game for just 5 yen (5 cents)

Today my wife and I went out to eat, it was one of those all you can eat places. We had 90 minutes to eat as much as we wanted. I love these places because its a lot of meat, I used to go to places like this back in Boston. When we walked in I told my wife we would need a "Mark like performance", anyone that has gone out to eat with my friend Mark will understand what this means. This was basically my Thanksgiving as I stuffed myself with as much as I could eat, we added it up and ended up getting about 15 plates of just meat then others to get some vegetables and salad (not that I ate that stuff).  We defiantly got our moneys worth but felt like throwing up afterwards.

When we were walking back to the bus station I took some pictures of the illumination that had been put up near one of the shopping districts.