A day at home

I spent too much time at home on my computer today. That seems to be usual for my days off. I didn’t really enjoy it because it was freaking hot today. It wasn’t as hot as it was last week, but it’s still very hot that when you sit down, you’re still sweating and feel like you want to die. I woke up late even though it was very hot in the morning. I mean late is around 9am.

I did a lot of reading on the internet today. There were a lot of things that I needed to check up on like reviewing how to learn Japanese from some interesting websites. I also did an extensive cleaning up project on my computer. I had uninstalled a lot of programs that I don’t use to try to free up space on my C drive, which was unsuccessful. All those programs were installed and stored on my D drive, so it didn’t have any effect at all. That was a bit disappointing, since my computer will be going slow forever now. Its stupid windows that’s taking up so much room and all of their updates. What I found out today, was that my computer is missing my F drive too. That means I don’t have a CD-ROM drive…again. I’ve had this problem many times before with this laptop and each time Best Buy had to reformat my computer to load up all the software and hardware from the beginning. They claimed to have backed up my information, but lost everything in the process. I was…pissed off at them. But I’m not on warranty anymore, and I’m in a different country, so I don’t think that I’ll be able to fix the problem by next year. That’s when I’m planning to get a new laptop for my computing needs. I sure hope that this one lasts me till then, but that’s highly unlikely. I would like to upgrade my windows software to the new Windows Vista and get all the cool fixings like the dual processors from AMD and a large hard drive from Seagate.

I wanted to play a game that I had on CD, but that didn’t work, and that’s when I learned that I don’t have a CD-ROM drive to begin with. I had to reboot many times, and even downloaded drivers from the Sony website, but nothing had changed the status quo. I was not happy about that. I like vaios because they look cool and have pretty good functions, but my CD-ROM drive has NEVER worked from the day that I bought the damn laptop. So for my next laptop, I’m thinking about jumping the Sony ship and getting something else that’s a bit cheaper, but has the power I need for all my cool projects.

I decided to finally pay my bills today at 7-11. That cost me about $150 which is a lot. I haven’t noticed how much my bills have increased and how much money I’ve spent in the past month. It wasn’t the highest that I’ve spent, that was back in January when I sent money back to my family, but that was the only other time that I withdrew that much money. I’m finally a millionaire… only in yen though. But that’s a nice milestone to achieve; I just need to put that to good use to make more and to be able to turn that into dollars.

I watched the end of the American President during dinner, since I only watched the beginning of it the other day when YSki was on the computer. I was disappointed in myself that I didn’t do any reading for Japanese, or the book The Alchemist. I almost finished the book, but somehow, when I’m at home, I can’t get any studying done. I need to go out and find a good place to study at. I’m not sure where that could be since there really isn’t that much around here. But I’ll have to look around to see a place I feel comfortable and can get things done. That’s my plan for the month of August, but I’d also like to get some traveling done too. I need a good destination to go to and hopefully someone there to show me around, although I could go by myself too. I’ve had to do that this whole year anyways.

I updated all my xanga entries for the first year I’ve been in Japan. I was finally able to do it. I was finally able to write a journal entry for every day that I’ve been in Japan. I didn’t think that I would be able to keep up, but I’m glad that I was able to follow through on it. At times it’s been a nuisance, but I think that in the future, when I want to look back at what I’ve done, I’ll have a record of it.