{"id":81793,"date":"2008-07-22T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81793"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:18","slug":"time-for-a-quick-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20080722\/everyday-events\/time-for-a-quick-trip","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Quick Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decoboco here, getting down to real work starting at 8 a.m.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hot \u25a0 the sun rises early \u25b2 and other reasons wake me up in the morning\u2026<br \/>\nTwo motorcycle inspections in the morning, parts orders, and if the parts arrive, let&#8217;s go! \u266a<br \/>\nBut not all the parts came in, so it&#8217;s a no-go.<br \/>\nShoppe sent me an email saying &#8220;Bright going?&#8221; The content&#8217;s a bit different, but something like that.<br \/>\nWell, I&#8217;ve got most of my work done, so I figured I&#8217;d pay my summer respects to the big shots at &#8220;Bright Logic,&#8221; Takenaka and Watari.<br \/>\nGotta do it \u2605<br \/>\nHeaded home to change, grabbed a gift or two, and now I&#8217;m heading to Atsugi with sweets made by the pastry chef who&#8217;s currently ranked #1 on the Decoboco ranking \u2605<br \/>\nOff we go \u2605 to Atsugi\u2026<br \/>\nGot the car out and cranked the AC\u2014nice and cool inside. Can&#8217;t do that on a bike \u2605<br \/>\nMade it through the traffic just fine \u2605 said a quick hello, chatted a bit, then got out of the way since they were working.<br \/>\nTime to go \u2605<br \/>\nActually, the real reason I asked for the car was because I wanted to pick up some blinds and curtains on the way back.<br \/>\nHeaded to IKEA Minato-Mirai and met up again 20 minutes later, splitting up inside\u2026<br \/>\nI always carry a notebook with my shopping list, so I zoomed around looking for stuff\u2026 but no luck!<br \/>\nSold out. So I just grabbed something else instead.<br \/>\nMan, having a car sure makes you want to haul everything\u2014this thing&#8217;s 180 centimeters long!<br \/>\nThe boss was waiting at the store, but had some business at Uniqlo.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s on the way back on Meguro Street, so we stopped by.<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t find anything no matter how hard I looked, so I asked the female clerk, &#8220;Excuse me, where would these underwear\u2014pants, I mean\u2014in this fabric be?&#8221;<br \/>\n# Right over here! This is it! #<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a T-shirt, right? Pants. P-a-n-t-s. Underwear.<br \/>\n# Oh, o-v-e-r h-e-r-e #<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s a T-shirt! We just released pants in this fabric, so let me check for you.<br \/>\n# Okay, be right back # \u2026so I wait. Then Shoppe calls out, &#8220;Hey, hey, check this out!&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat is it? That&#8217;s cool \u2605 For real \u2605<br \/>\nShows me a &#8220;Hajime no Ippo&#8221; T-shirt from a magazine collaboration.<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s total anime nerd. It&#8217;d be better if it was Kamogawa Gym instead,&#8221; he says with a sharp critique.<br \/>\nThe female clerk comes looking for me, who&#8217;d disappeared.<br \/>\n# A small store like ours doesn&#8217;t stock it, and since it came out in April, we&#8217;re out of stock. #<br \/>\nI thought, &#8220;But it just came out,&#8221; but there was no point arguing, so I bought it online at Uniqlo instead.<br \/>\nGot back to the shop, checked out a Silver Wing that was leaking oil, and called it a day.<br \/>\nWanted to upload photos but forgot the cable\u2014bummer ~<br \/>\nReally glad to have had the car today.<br \/>\nThe shopping street wrong-way incident? All good! The one-way wrong-way? All good!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll email you about that thing.<br \/>\nMeow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoboco here, getting down to real work starting at 8 a.m. It&#8217;s hot \u25a0 the sun rises early \u25b2 and other reasons wake me up in the morning\u2026 Two motorcycle inspections in the morning, parts orders, and if the parts arrive, let&#8217;s go! \u266a But not all the parts came in, so it&#8217;s a no-go. Shoppe sent me an email saying &#8220;Bright going?&#8221; The content&#8217;s a bit different, but something like that. Well, I&#8217;ve got most of my work done, so I figured I&#8217;d pay my summer respects to the big shots at &#8220;Bright Logic,&#8221; Takenaka and Watari. Gotta do it \u2605 Headed home to change, grabbed a gift or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[61,55],"class_list":["post-81793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bright-logic","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}