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HTML clipboard Right now, I'm doing maintenance for my PC. It's a PC I built myself, and the main hard-disk on which the OS is installed seems to be aging, so I replaced it with a new one. A leap from 80GB to 250GB.
This is kind of a large-scale project, because I'm doing it all the way from installing the OS to a new drive. I'm pretty much constrained to sit in front of the machine all day, to install the software or move the data, etc.
Inevitably, that causes lack of conversation with people. By coincidence I had a couple days with no lessons, so I even had a day in which I had absolutely no exchange of spoken words with anybody.
Therefore, I made some phone calls to my old pals in order to keep my speaking ability while we learned about each other's recent lives. And what came up as a kind of interesting thing in the chat was that she live in an apartment building whose name is a crap.
Well, that applies to me too, actually. My apartment building has this glorious name of "City Homes". I feel pretty nervous when I have to tell that to someone. When I'm asked my address, I go straight from the street number to the room number and skip the embarrassing name.
(Stupid names for apartment houses. This is one of the merciless Japanese problems, folks.)
But nonetheless, some people just "force" you to tell your apartment's name. In those occasions, I intentionally make a mistake and say "City Boys" or "Sherlock Holmes" and then say "Oh, sorry, City Homes" because it helps ease the tension and embarrassment. No, I don't. I'm kidding.
11:34 PM
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