went for a 4km jog this morning that was meant to be 5km but my body gave out after many shorter run sessions over the last month
committed myself to lying on the floor (after showering and doing laundry - don't underestimate my ability to Do Dailies, figuratively) afterward only to remember that the Bocchi x Don Quixote collab goods went on sale today and I said that I would pick up some goods for people
the nice thing about Bocchi goods is that there are so many different characters you can obsess over (both main and side) that random trading goods actually become hypothetically easy to trade. really a wonder of character design.
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I ended up going to a fairly untrafficked (i.e. not akiba) donki a little after 10am, only to find out afterward that not all donkis had bocchi goods. to salvage some train fare (at the expense of minimal extra time), I hoofed it on foot to another donki (again, not akiba) with the rationale of "it's always fun to do a new walk and see what's around"
what's around was train tracks and a river but those are pretty fun to walk around. anyway the other donki was sold out of everything except for the record coasters, leaving me fairly convinced that there was no bocchi left in any donki in the country. (I didn't hard-confirm akiba, with no reports on twitter, but even if they had more stock, I would assume if anywhere sold out, it'd be there)
switching gears, I hopped on a train and headed to the Minato Science Museum, which was on my list as "free science museum that has LOVOTs".
as it turns out they no longer have LOVOTs because their robot exhibition is over (replaced by a youkai exhibition, which was actually pretty neat still), but I got to touch an Aibo for the first time as well as enjoy all your favorite science museum favorites (earthquake simulator, thing that makes a tornado, small models of cities).
this part of the day also involved a lot of walking (and a little rain dodging) as 2km to save 170y and see what Shinbashi has to offer is nothing at this point. My cheap streak goes so far as to walk 5 minutes out of the way to a supermarket to get a sports drink for 70y instead of 140y. That's like 840y an hour!!
Incidentally, what Shinbashi has to offer is a shop called "zero gravity curry" (meal pictured), which I walked across entirely by chance while chasing Sports Drink Value. I think the "zero gravity" refers to how the curry is solid and rests on top of the rice, but it's hard to tell because the shop's socials mostly hype up how nutritionally balanced the curry is.
with a name and look like that, I had to try! and I can confirm it was quite great curry - the solidness makes it more of a joy to eat than more liquid curry, and it was easy to carve radial slices out of my effective curry-cake and eat balanced spoonfuls of rice and roux. would definitely stop by again when I'm in the area.
final score: I forgot to mention I missed a train stop by 2 stations because I was researching galgun. also I put like 12km on my feet today. Feeling Healthy
