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My knee had started hurting as I returned home from Chigasaki, and since Seki canceled our Sunday plan, I just stayed in to heal up. Didn't even go outside. \o/ Bluesky and Raskura reading.

Today I did some food shopping, getting a decent supply of whole wheat and rye bread. Then back to Chigasaki to meet Seki again, and explore a new mall -- he says it opened last week! We ate at a Spaghetti Goemon that isn't even on Google Maps! Otherwise it's not that exciting a mall, but he appreciates having a new restaurant option near him. I appreciated the low CO2 of mall restaurants, especially at 16:00. I had spaghetti with pork shabu-shabu and "lots of vegetables"; it was good but I had to fight my own brain, which kept expecting Italian-ish flavors from a spaghetti dish. ( Read more... )

So I've privately called my downstairs store the world's shittiest Lawson's, but I owe it an apology. Today I checked out several other conbini, and mine is unique in being able to pass for a grocery store.

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On to today's explorations in Chigasaki: ( Read more... )

Yes, I just discovered I can embed Flickr images and Google Maps.

"How can you feed yourself without a car?", some Americans and Canadians ask.

As mentioned before, a Lawson's conbini (convenience store) is directly downstairs, though that's admittedly unusual. Despite being rather small, it has milk, oranges and presumably other fruit, ham, raw pork, pasta, olive oil, udon, eggs, and frozen vegetables. This is just from popping in and out of it, without mentally cataloguing everything it does carry (thus the 'presumably'.) You could probably cook a balanced diet just from it alone, if you wanted.

[Edit: okay, so I checked several other conbini today, and mine is unique in passing for a small grocery store.]

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And you know? Most of all this area is detached single-family houses. Two-story, minimal yard, not that far from each other, but houses not sharing walls. Sample, sample, sample, sample, sample, even some two-story apartments/houses in the commercial zone

Let's post something so I don't fall totally behind... last 3 days were mostly spent exploring the area on foot. 10th, I wandered down Rte 467, and over into Shinbayashi Park, which is properly large, and also has lot of steps in one place. Many more steps than I realized. And I didn't even get a good view at the top, just some TV/cell towers surrounded by shrubbery. And then I got to see if I could go down deep steps without injuring myself. Yes, but it felt fraught... apparent safety rope was often too far from the steps to hold! ( Read more... )

So, yesterday: I worried I'd gotten a germ after all, since I woke up with a slight sore throat and almost-congestion. There was an alternative explanation, "sleeping in a cold dry room", but who knows. I went out for a walk and ended up out for 3 hours, which suggests good health, though I was doing easy pace. ( Read more... )