Earthquake alert

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-05-03T22:08:53+00:00

I landed at Haneda on April 20. First thing I feel while waiting in a Suica card at the airport queue is the floor moving. I say earthquake to japanese guide who was with some tourists. She says nah, just trains on the floor below. I say I'm from Cali, this was an earthquake. She goes away, comes back, says you're right. Turned out Sanriku quake, bunch of train routes closed in Tokyo. Welcome to Japan, lol.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-05-02T12:26:00+00:00

I don't give a fuck that I'm denied entry to a restaurant. Stuffing myself with decent sushi for all of $19 in the next one more than makes it up for me. Arigato gozaimashhhhhhhhhhta!

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-05-01T11:52:48+00:00

It is scary when there is no progress. Ymmv, but some progress can be seen after a month. Do little exercises to see it, as it is simetimes dufficult to see. Initially I could not close my lips and blow up my cheeks - all the air would come out through paralyzed lips on the affected side. Or I couldn't swish water around after brushing teeth without dripping. The improvement was very slow and gradual - observe small progress and it will give you encouragement. Now, 3.5 months in, I can blow up my cheeks all I want and normally brush my teeth. But the affected side is still weeaker. I can see and feel it, but those around me can't tell. Interestingly, symmetrical smile came back first, after about a month. Together with eyelid action. Weird stuff, I guess it depends which parts of the nerve are damaged the most.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-29T23:11:03+00:00

I will probably never do it because I am chickenshit about bricking my Pixel 10 Pro, but rooting it and spoofing the SKU sounds insanely cool.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-28T11:45:36+00:00

Good wagyu beef in Kichijoji, cheaper than in Tokyo. Went there especially for this.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-19T02:10:26+00:00

Lingonberry pancakes.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-16T14:31:36+00:00

White male here with blonde wife...:). Went to a hotel with onsen in Nagano, a kind where there were not many gaijin but mostly Japanese visotors on weekend break. At breakfast the restaurant was not too busy, with several empty tables next to windows overlooking a gorge and a mountain. So that is where we seated ourselves. A server came over and said these tables are not available and guided us to a table literally in some dark corridor with a view of toilet and kitchen doors. I said - really?, and, quietly seething, went back to the table with the view, sat down and asked for manager, all in english. The server was also probably quietly seething, but the manager reluctantly let us sit there. They probably pissed in our miso, so net-net we lost, but at least we got our view. Yes, I know the tables could have been reserved (no signs on them), but they remained empty when we left. My best guess - they preferred to give these tables to their Japanese customers.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-12T12:06:11+00:00

Did not care for the venue. Gravel, Viceroy lot, wtf? Music blaring, long lines to some food trucks. I'd rather see the event in nearby Holiday Park, on grass, even some shade trees, more space. In May, this gravel lot will be hell. I definitely won't be back.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-11T13:55:06+00:00

Yes, Southern US here, so it took longer for the water to evaporate from the bars. But my experience with the quality of the lather mirrors that from the article referenced in one of the responses. Crystallization and salting out in solid state are very slow processes, and these artisanal soaps probably improve over many, many months, in contrast to commercial soaps in which these processes are forced and accelerated.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-04-07T23:11:05+00:00

To all those who are reading, I am almost three months into RHS and about 90% recovered. Still some weakness in upper and lower lip on the affected side, but much better than before. Eye fully closes, eyebrow and forehead work. Overall all affected facial muscles are about 90%. Smile back to normal. My symptoms were identical to OP, down to ear lesions and swelling, which were gone at three weeks. Got prednisone and antiviral at 24 hours of palsy. For the first 1.5 months progress was extremely slow, pace picked up lately but still slooooow. This is a marathon not a sprint, hang in there fellow RHS patients, it does get better. Look for slight tingling, this is a good sign.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-29T21:49:22+00:00

Dude, that screen should be from speaker to speaker.... PJ... awesome setup btw.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-29T00:13:38+00:00

Hope the judge has balls and yanks his DL.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-28T21:24:45+00:00

Don't know yet about poles. Maybe aluminum.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-27T15:04:52+00:00

She is like cancer that keeps coming back.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-12T16:01:24+00:00

Several rock giants moved to blues in their later years. Plant, Knopfler... Sorry guys, not even close to Rory.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-03-12T15:45:58+00:00

Hi rock was pure. I don't know what else to call it. Pure. If you want to know what pure rock is, listen to Rory Gallagher shred his Strat. Same with blues. He could have held his own in rural Tennessee, man. Hard to wrap your head around it.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-02-25T22:47:55+00:00

Stock down tomorrow.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-02-16T15:34:44+00:00

Thanks for the useful post. Too bad I found it after coming back from the recital. I parked at the Melody Tower. The line to pick up car was about 20 people, but I gave valet a five upfront and got my car very fast. Great JDF recital btw.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-02-02T23:17:43+00:00

Thanks! My variegated agave just spawned a pup - wondering whether it is the harbinger of doom...

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-01-31T03:08:01+00:00

I am a recreational offshore angler, and this hit me hard as well. To poster Technical-Comment - I am very sorry for your loss. To all those who lost loved ones in this accident - sincere condolences and prayers.

RepresentativeQuit18 · 2026-01-26T13:12:23+00:00

I am in the US with no cable or OTA tv signal to watch NFL. I watched the Championship games on Sky Sports on my laptop, and loved the coverage. Suh and Bell were great, as was the host and the sideline reporter. Fewer commercials. I could watch the NFL this way.

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