Elizabeth Tasker

Noted!! Thanks 🙂

Today was the last day I felt I could wing it without a full shower, so that would have been perfect if the gas man didn’t appear! I was pondering options earlier, and forgot about the Miyamaedaira onsen.

With every surface (including the stove) buried under boxes, I didn’t bother connecting the gas.

Reader, the gas also does the hot water.

Three days of moving, cleaning and toilet seat engineering later… I’ve just had a shower.

My apologies to the entire neighbourhood.

There are two wolves inside you. One will only eat while in your arms, and the other will not move an inch until you have exited the premises for at least an hour.

That’s actually two cats. And they’re inside my apartment.

It’s the same—that’s a standard size for the toilet room in Japan 🙂

A calico cat has her face stuffed in a mug.

We’re apparently sharing a water 🧐

Cats have gone on hunger strike. (Neither takes change well.)

#CasperCat is refusing to move from the drawer under the bed. I crawled on my belly and put two plates of food in the drawer with him 🤦🏼‍♀️

#NorahNeko has been convinced to try food… if it’s served next to mine & she eats it with her paw 🧐

A toilet seat in a plastic bag resting against a building, ready to be picked up and carried.

And now I am carrying a toilet seat through the streets of Tokyo at dusk. Looking damn casual.

Took a quick detour to mail back the old apartment router.

The shop dude had questions. He fought them bravely.

A toilet with a built in sink that runs into the tank sits with a regular toilet seat fitted. The water is running properly from the tap into the tank. The floor looks wet from the previous time when that didn’t happen.

AND YOU SAID THIS COULDN’T BE DONE!

OK, one person said that.

It was me.

But! We’ve now survived two flushes without needing an arc.

Thank you! I found a similar video which was incredibly helpful.

a cartoon of winnie the pooh sitting on a tree branch Alt: a cartoon of winnie the pooh sitting on a tree branch watching the rising water below him.

Oops. Caused a flood.

RUN AWAY!

Or maybe turn water back off.

To reset my old apartment to Level 1, the property office insists the fancy washlet toilet seat be removed.

After failing to recruit the movers, I’ve concluded my degrees in theoretical physics and astrophysics have fully prepared me for this mission.

I am purchasing… a spanner.

A calico cat is somehow walking along the tops of the hangers in a closet.

Pro: no longer hiding in bathroom.
Con: unlikely to end better.

#NorahNeko

Despite being trivial, I paid the movers a small fee to install my washing machine.

Turns out my new bathroom doesn’t fit my old washer.

Guy installed new parts on the spot for cash—which anywhere else I’d suspect a scam, but in Japan just made me grateful I’d been sufficiently lazy to outsource!

I am now in an apartment full of boxes!

#NorahNeko has decided she lives under the seat in the bathroom. #CasperCat has refused to leave his carrier.

I have been unable to find a teaspoon 🧐

A pile of moving boxes with a picture of a panda on them is stacked in the apartment.

Was I ready for the movers to arrive? Absolutely not. Are we ploughing ahead, and packing a box filled with old bills because I didn’t get round to stuffing in the shedder. Yes.

A stack of white mesh panels on the balcony.

17 million cut zip ties later…!

Metal mesh panels from the 100 yen shop and a lot of zip ties!

A day before my move, and I can’t put this off any longer. The catio—which is 83.78% zip ties—must be deconstructed 🗡️

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Pixel art text mode style picture of a tower standing by a cliff. The tower looks ancient and mossy, made of pinkish stone. Birds are standing on the building top. there is rocky platforms at its base as well as a little tree, some stairs and a character standing. The building got a lower entrance and a higher entrance leading to a higher level on the cliff on which a little building blends into the mountain.

The old tower

#textmode #pixelart #gamedev

The property office insists on the apartment being returned exactly as first rented.

So the bidet toilet seat (standard even for public loos in Japan) is being removed and the fuse box returned to the state where the electrics trip if the aircon is on and you look contemplatively at the kettle 🤨

Because it's been a while, here is an update of my plot on the altitude of the Hubble Space Telescope versus time

In my opinion, that's still quite a long way off. But I'm not an expert on this topic, as I'm a scientist and most interested in understanding how the Earth formed 🙂

Repeatedly failed to persuade the postoffice online system to recognise my ID (to arrange mail forwarding) until I realised the problem was that I hadn’t included my middle name when entering my details, resulting in rejection of the ID as clearly belonging to a compete random 🤦🏼‍♀️

And Over to You: Five Conversations on Sample Return Mission And Over to You: Five Conversations on Sample Return Missions Half a Century of Partnership, A New Era of Discovery And Over to You is a...

On Thursday (02/25) at 5pm JST I'll chat with Nate Taylor (Australian Space Agency) about the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission 🛰️, and the challenge of outreach for tiny asteroid grains that might tell a story as big as Earth. 🔭 Will this go smoothly? We have no idea. Come and join us for this online webinar 🧪

Unemployed man with zero drive boils pasta and meets strangers who instantly overshare their traumatic life story. Women appear. Exclusively defined by someone's extremely specific sexual fetishes.
🗝️🐦📚 (Murakami) #Booksky

Reader, I did not vibe.

The most BEAUTIFUL moments of February 24th of the past

The fibre internet enters my new apartment in the bedroom. The kitchen wall, meanwhile, is a white-painted impenetrable shield of Wi-Fi doom.

The renovators (who thought they were finished) have been asked if there exists a higher art form than myself, a cable, and 27 rolls of duct tape.

That first week was rough! I did not know if he would adjust or just hunger strike until released. Now, he's still very nervous around me, but he plays with Norah when I'm out and is great company for her!