Updates

Well, after getting Dad's email today pointing out that the blog needs updating and broadening past food, I figure that I should write something. At the same time I realise that it's been a couple of weeks since the last entry.

Well, what has happened? Sonia was here for the weekend, but left today to go back to Bangkok.

This weekend we decided that we'd had enough of sitting working at the computers (our home laptop, Sonia's work laptop, and my work laptop) at a desk the size of a postage stamp. The answer (or course) is to buy a wireless router. Which we did at a place called Bic Camera. It's essentially a department store, but focused mostly on electronics.

So off we go to Bic Camera in Ginza (posh area in central Tokyo). Easy enough to find the wireless routers, but a bit more difficult to figure out which one is a good balance between the cost and the features. Given that we have one in storage in HK, we were not in the market for a good one. Rather, just something that will do the basics until we get the shipment sent up to Tokyo. Eventually we selected a box that had a good picture on the outside, and some logos that looked like they meant the router would do what we want.

After getting it home, I unpacked it and started setting it up. Problem is, the software is all in Japanese. I tried looking at the appropriate website to download a software update in English, which I found. However, the version available in English was older than the Japanese version on the router. In the end I decided to make do, and after some mucking around I managed to get the appropriate settings made.

So I write this from the coffee table, where the laptop sits comfortably. TV is showing the movie "The Transporter" except here it has the French name "Le Transporteur". Not sure why, but that's what they call it.

I have just got back from the gym, after doing 30 minutes on the bike. These days I'm up to resistance level 12, and doing the time at about 90rpm. That turns out to be about 11.3km, burning somewhere around 470 calories. At least that's what the bike readout says.... Doing that between 4 and 5 times a week, with weights 2 or 3 times.

Daryl: time to get a move on - you are falling behind!

That's all for tonight. More later.