It's here!

The new TV arrived today, I think I am going to be very happy with it!

New TV

I have been with out a working TV for about 3 months now, so after contemplating the options I narrowed down what I wanted and decided on the Regza Z8000 the 37 inch model.  And today was the day to go out and buy.  Surprisingly enough I didn't have to room all over Tokyo looking for a good deal I hit the jackpot at Kojima in Hiyoshi.  I thought that I might have to pay as much as ¥188,000.  I certainly didn't want to but that was the last quoted price that I had seen.  Well they had it for ¥138,000 and the best part was that they said that I could get a ¥30,000 discount if I signed up for Hikari fiber.  Now I had already signed up, but they said they would cancel that for me and sign me up with a new plan, so I agreed.  Now I had already made arrangements for NTT to come to my house on the 26th to install the cable.  So I told the staff I want you to see if I can't keep that date.  They called and said they couldn't.  But Mike was very persistent, and didn't want to take no for an answer.  After a long back and forth wit the clerk, I asked him to call NTT again, and tell them he had an unhappy customer on their hands and wanted to have the installation on the day that I desired.  They still wouldn't budge for him, so instead of setting a date for installation with him I said I would rather talk to NTT personally and see what I can do.  Actually it was quite stressful and I figured that since it seems like NTT is putting such a big rush on getting everyone to sign up with them, I would try and get my way.  I tried to tell the guy that the workers are to come anyway on that day if I cancel then they have an opening and why can't they just come then.  I makes sense to me, and the argument isn't over,  I figure they just may get tired of dealing with the noisy foreigner that they may give in,  we'll see. 

Even in the day time!!

Casey this is for you, walked right past this guy 2 o'clock Sunday, wondered why he was standing so close to the tree, sure enough he was marking his territory. And public restroom no more than 100 feet away.