Entries this day: L-Breath Work

L Breath

2:04pm JST Friday 12 November 2004

Went to L-Breath, a camp/ outdoor sports store to check prices and stuff. They have GPSs available for way more than I can get in the US. I don't know about tent prices and stuff. Found there are portable throw-away propane tanks that can have stoves or lanterns screwed on to cook or see. The smallest size with pizo-electric starters were 7087 yen per stove or lantern. I'll probably get those if I choose to cook.

I need to start chatting with people who camp. What to get, what to leave, etc. It seems, I could get all the basic stuff (tent, sleepin' bag, foldy mat, GPS (yes, it's basic), lantern, stove) for 100,000 yen.

Certainly I can crush that price if I go to the camping-store area of town. I can double crush it if I buy used.

Work

12:10am JST Saturday 13 November 2004

Had four lessons at work today, including beautiful Mai and two relatively high level women, one genki and interesting, one the opposite, and one other student who I can't think of right now.

Mai was a late show today. I was reading Andrew's copy of Bill Bryson's universe for laymen book. Pretty good I think.

Chatted with Kobayashisan after work; he's my bicycle guardian who hangs out in Jiyugaoka. Rode home without incident until I was nearly home and had to hit my brakes hard when a guy on a bicycle with his girlfriend on back suddenly turned where I planned to be soon thereafter.