My Japan Life

Now that I'm all up and running with my laptop and wireless connection here, I'll be blogging as regularly as I can to give you a look into my life when I'm back in Japan. It won't be as educational as other Japanese cultural blogs you can find on the net, but then again, I'm betting no one really comes to Chesterfest for the culture anyway...

I'll start by giving you a little look into our apartment. Welcome to Chesterfest Cribs, Kobe Edition!

Here's our building...

Here's our kitchen...

Here's our dining room...

Here's our living room... Where my Mom can see we display the Cebulski family picture on the right. And that's my mother-in-law hiding under that fashionable cheetah blanket.

And here's our toilet...

The only reason I bring up our toilet is to give you a better glimpse into modern Japanese society, where even the toilets are technologically advanced. From this control panel, which in over five years here I have never used, you can do all kinds of things, from wipe and dry your own ass to give yourself an enema if you're not careful. It pulses, it vibrates, it shoots all kinds of jets of water in different rhythms into different places for God only knows what reasons.

Me? I just sit here and pretend I'm Captain Kirk.

And this is an old model. My buddy has one that's a touch-screen keyboard you can put in your lap and play with while you take care of business!