Today’s deck is the Crystal Magic Tarot.
It’s neat, it’s one of those where they go “The Fool is this hyper specific kind of stone” but then also have imagery unto itself so the imagery is being helped by the vibe of whatever crystal is mentioned.
Today’s reading is just a general vibe check reinforcing that “I feel good and I’m finally doing stuff I want” sort of vibe.
I ordered an iPhone 17 a while ago and it finally arrived. To be fair my 15 is still pretty good but I just felt like upgrading for the heck of it. It helps that iPhone transferring and such is shockingly smooth, like, when I was done I didn’t need to transfer mobage accounts or anything like that.
There’s one problem though… the SIM card.
Turns out iPhone 17s in Japan don’t come with a SIM card slot for some dang reason. And to explain what came next I need to tell you about one of the many adventures I’ve had with logistics in this country.
You see, Japan doesn’t give SIM cards with phone numbers lightly because they don’t want criminals to have burner phones, so they only sell data plans to tourists.
When I moved to Japan my Visa was only for one year (still is, gotta renew it yearly) and that means that a lot of contract-based stuff has been out of my reach.
The pattern is that even if I’ve lived here for however long, the real estate company or the phone company will go “yeah sorry, we can’t give you a contract but we could give you one if you paid the whole contract time at once”.
Translation: Pay three YEARS worth of phone service/rent at once.
Thankfully, where there’s a need there’s a niche and companies do exist to help gaijins in that position. For this specific case of the cellphone service I went to Sakura Mobile… I think “Sakura” is a bgunch of services for foreign students and whatnot.
Anyway, I logged into their website to see how the heck to change to esim and I found a bunch of other details that would’ve been good to know like six years ago.
Like for example not just the fact that I can buy extra data if I run out, but I can also change my plan to something with more than 10gb of data.
Or the fact that all I needed to be able to use 5G was tick a box… though to be fair they do explain that if your phone isn’t 5G-compatible you will deadass not get any signal at all so it’s understandable.
Overdue realizations aside, I looked up how things go and basically I gotta tell them I wanna change to esim (also gotta do it if I change phones), where they’ll ask me my ID and send a code to my house via mail. When I get the code I get a QR code which is the QR code to get the esim going.
Bit of a pain in the ass but could be worse.
Not much novelty today aside from that, with my schedule as messy as it is I haven’t done much in general…
Oh wait there IS one more thing.
So you all remember the LED that decided to terrorize me while I was asleep a while back? Turns out its damage was that the battery became Forbidden Capri Juice.
I realized it because I went to pick it up from wherever the fuck I left it to be able to sleep and it was bulgier.