Yawn. Something I do when I am tired or unimpressed.
I am both at the moment. Tired because I am effectively doing 3 jobs at the moment. Doing my regular teaching of English, playing stay at home dad when I am not teaching English and then when those two are done I am doing everything I can to get a #$%$##$@ online store operational.
Unimpressed by our new internet provider. They said it would take 7 hours to changeover to them from our original provider, NTT. That blew out to 2 days plus 7 hours…
Throw in that they spruik this service as being super fast when it’s only really pedestrian (typing here is still laggy) is slightly annoying and the phone line is now noisy (it might be the birds nest of wires) and I am genuinely unimpressed. The only saving grace is a the few extra yen we save for phone and internet service. I haven’t given the upload a real thorough shakedown yet, but I don’t have high hopes. It’s not worse than the old one, but it’s not significantly better either. Pretty sad when all the literature says 50M/s…
Scratch. When I am itchy or when something bites me. In this case, the little stool I sit on is one that I made for little people to sit upon, at which it is brilliant. When bigger people sit upon it, it works pretty well too. The problem is that I attached the legs using a straight sided through hole and wedged the round tenons. I failed to make sure the legs were properly seated, so they moved and stick out a little. Here’s a hint for myself, wear clothing with a thicker ’seat’ if I plan to twist around on the little stool. I won’t go into graphic explanations, but it bit me pretty hard where the sun rarely shines. 
Type, type, type is me bashing in information for the store. I got the shipping details sorted (you will be spoiled for choices) and a few other details nailed down. I just have to bash in all of the details after I work out a way to tier them all properly and attach order numbers to them so I can keep them all straight.
The main sticking point right now is a theme for the whole mess. I can’t even begin to think up what will look good and correct. Would wood grain be suitable? Tatami matting? Caligraphy paper with kimono silk accents? Shoji-esque? Akagashi with mokume accents? I don’t know, and I know that if I don’t do it now it might never get done so I get lumped with a standard theme/style that will make my eyes itch and my teeth ache.
Whatever, I need to get typing again.
Yawn…
Stu.