One Year and More

So last week was my 1 year anniversary of living in Japan, the day actually passed with little fan fare I actually almost forgot but I came here on 9/11 so its something that pops into my mind regardless. The first year here has gone by really fast, which I knew it would, I have got a steady job teaching English, I have bought 707 games/game hardware (according to my tracking sheet) but sadly my Japanese has improved only slightly. I have really enjoyed my time here and will hope for another good year going forward.

So why is this post so late, well I was pretty busy and when I wasn't busy I was sinking all my time into Borderlands 2, that game I got for the 360. I did beat it, it took about a week maybe a week and a half, but now I'm going though it again in what they call the real story where everything is harder (reminds me of how putting your name as Zelda in the original Legend of Zelda would give you access to the Second Quest were it was the same game but harder), then I still have all the DLC packs (which were part of the game of the year edition that I bought) and replaying with the other characters. So I will still be playing the game for a while, which is a good thing at least for me.

I also went to an out door concert thing that was going on here in the city for a few days. It was a lot of fun the band we saw was pretty good, it was kind of funny because the location was in the red light district so there were a lot of strip clubs and escort service buildings around.

It was also grandparents day again here if you remember last year we had lunch with my wifes grandparents which was basically a nice a bento box meal. I still haven't really gotten used to the food here at least not the traditional stuff, I don't think I ever really will I'm kind of a pain when it comes to food.

A few days later I went out with my wife and her friends to a festival that was at a shrine. Basically it was a lot of food vendors along a road and games for kids. I had a pretty good time even though it was really crowded. They had a flower arrangement section that had some cool pictures hanging.

When I got to work today I noticed that the signs that Daichi designed and I put into the computer came in and had been installed on the building. I know the one picture is not original but I did have to recreate it in illustrator which took a lot of work.

As far as games really not too much I did get another package of Saturn games from Yahoo Auctions (not the 80 or so games like last time) which had some good games. Ill just list the games off first up is another copy of Grandia, Sim City 2000, Tactics Ogre, Super Robot Wars F, another copy of Fighters Mega Mix, another copy of King of Fighters 96 (with out the instruction book), another copy of Fatal Fury 3, Samurai Spirits Boshidouretsuden (with out the instruction book).

Then the two games that where the reason I bought the lot in the first place, another copy of X-Men vs Street Fighter and another (working and with the instruction book this time) copy of Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter. Both games were the stand alone copies so they had real cases with pictures on the back.

After shipping all of these games cost me only $1.70 each which was not too bad.