WOW! Craziness

I feel like it's been forever, you guys!!!  I'd say it's b/c I lead such an adventure filled life (which is obviously true) but a large part of it is me being lazy and procrastinating by rereading Death Note / online comics / other random internet stuff.  Of course, not surprisingly, I'm also procrastinating now...  oh well.  Wednesday's a holiday, right?  I'll catch up on sleep then.

So first of all, it was Monday today, and, although the day straightened itself out fairly quickly, the beginning was not particularly auspicious.  Mainly because of the following incident: I was trying to make some copies when the copier jams (not unusual), so I took it apart to unjam it, grab something that I thought was paper but was actually something covered in ink, get ink all over myself and have to go find people to fix it.  I was distressed.  Before school starts is entirely too early to be breaking technology.

Next, let's talk about my apple cider experiment.

So the whole thing started while I was talking w/ one of my coworkers and I found out that Japanese people have NO IDEA what proper cider is.  The best they can think of is this pop that is called Mitsuya Cider, which is not really cider.  It's like Sprite or something (I may have mentioned this before, as well as my extreme sadness the first time I tried it...)  So, I decided they really needed to be exposed to the awesomeness that is fresh apple cider and, having found instructions on the interwebs, I made an attempt.

Here we have my sustenance for the project:

Salad sushi.  Yummy.  (Unless you've recently visited me and decided you can't eat it.  Then I just feel sad for you.  XOXO)

 Look at all the apples I got!  12 bags of 'em!  I went to the store and I think the cashiers were giving me some funny looks.  It's all good though.  As I was bagging, another customer looked at me and was like "apple juice?" and I was like "you know it, dude."  Also, I found normal sized apples at a fairly reasonable price!  I was really excited.

Here's my set-up:

Brand new blender and jug!

Midway through:

So let me tell you a little story about my brand new mixer.  I went and bought it and was making my cider, BUT THEN, midway through the process, it stops working!  I was distressed!  I thought I'd have to go buy another one!  Then, my friends assured me that it's really easy to return stuff in Japan and I was given confidence that I could take it back and get another.  So I did!  And it worked!  And it was mostly in Japanese!  Go me  :)

But, I had planned on making two batches of cider and taking one to a party Sat night, well that didn't work b/c there was no blender, so now I have all these extra apples sitting around...

I eventually got the cider finished and took it to school and shared it around.  It was good, but not the best ever, I think b/c I ended up dumping so much water in b/c I was afraid that the blender would break again if there wasn't a little liquid to start w/.  Everyone said they liked it anyway.  It made me miss real cider.

Well, that's about it for today, other than random stuff like I don't think this old house/electric system can supply me w/ enough heat for the winter w/o blowing a fuse or three and the bugs in the shower (I need to pore some more nasty draino stuff on them) and I really need to go write another exam... but you really aren't interested in that sort of thing.  ALSO: computers at school w/ viruses on them that nobody told me about and people have known about for awhile apparently and are only just now getting around to banning us from using the computer/getting it fixed. I'll probably take my computer to school tomorrow.

Next time (maybe) we find out about having friends visit and serenading them on the streets!