And its driving me nuts.  There is a game called Evony that i’ve been playing online, and i just can’t get online to keep up with it!

Its also proving really hard not being able to communicate with everyone.  No msn and no cheap phone, or email, or anything.

Hopefully they will hook me up this week and it should be really fast as its fiber to my door!  The fiber connection is right there, just need them to put in a fiber router.

The new place is shaping up really well thou.  The extra space is really noticable, and the new layout makes the most of it.  As soon as the net is hooked up I’ll be able store the rest of the computer gear and get everything sorted out.

Had a couple of friends over for dinner on Saturday night.  Wasn’t entirely sure of the menu other than my new recipe of Satay Chicken.

The new layout with the dining room in the small room worked perfectly!  Its cosy, but very workable. 

We had a wonderful dinner.  Went Thai/South East Asian.  From memory Satay is not a core Thai dish, but worked really well with the rest of the meal. 

Still have some clearing away of things to do, think I’m waiting for the internet connection to be sorted so i can clear away the computer gear and then put the whole main room into place!

Little dog loved the company and was very well behaved the whole night, just slept under the table near his people!  The wine and food flowed and was a great night.

Its been over a week now and I don’t have internet in the apartment yet.  Very odd its going to take three weeks for USEN to install the connection.  I was blown away that it would take so long as everything in Japan is normally really efficient.

We tried to get it installed faster, but a factor of living in Japan is that when something is going to take X amount of time it is going to take X amount of time.  Forget trying to speed it up!

The good news is that from looking at my connection box it will actually be a full fibre connection to the box in my apartment.  Will be interesting to see just how fast everything is with fibre.  My old building was on ‘fibre’ but the distribution within the building was shared.  Honestly I was never unhappy with the connection there it was very fast and most of the time it was waiting for the sites to respond.

I also had really great speed for downloads and torrents.  My connection to work was also really great and just as fast as being there!.

So back on topic, no internet except for going to the common lounges for access.  It was fine the first couple of days, but I’m not starting to feel really cut off from things.

I’ve realised that my life here in Tokyo is very dependant on a good internet connection.  It provides not just my email, but also my TV programs, news and telephone connections. 

I do have a phone connection, but international calling on local telecoms is prohibitively expensive. 

Well all going well, but I have no internet!  Luckly I can get wireless internet in the lounges here for free.  Not a bad thing for work and also the online games i play that need quite alot of attention!

Slow day as its now a relax day.  One thing of note is that on Saturday the washing machine packed a sad after the second load?  I tried everything but it kept coming up with an error.  Damn these computerized appliances.  I followed all the instructions they gave me and it still came up with an error.

I phoned the concierge desk and they told me that a full english speaking person would not be available until Sunday, not big deal at all.  Well an hour later (and we are talking like 8pm and night one of the staff turned up with the maintenance man to have a look at it.

End result was that the outlet filter was completely clogged up with junk (and could not have been me as one load of washing won’t do that).  They were so nice and loved Tonto who was all over them!

Phone call on Sunday from the management to check i was happy as the team who had come at 8pm on Saturday were so worried that there lack of english was a problem.  I assured them that i was completely happy and deeply appreciative of the efforts they had gone to. 

Everything is now falling to place thou and some order from the chaos  is forming.  The main rooms layout is looking good. The bathroom area is in place.  Now it just a matter of sorting out the pantry and closets.  The huge storage cupboard has loads more space in it even with all my books and travel stuff in it and the while I’m not sure of the final bedroom layout I’m going to let the place now fall into a natural flow and go from there.