Getting Lost is Even More Fun When You Know Where You Are

I was able to cram all the exploration I need into Today. I went out, and when I returned, I came back with plunder and spoils.

I love sleeping in on weekends. I was up until 2AM watching movies on my laptop, so that also played a factor in it. I left the apartment at about 12, and took the bus to Computer City. I had seen the building before, and had suspected it was Computer City beforehand, but until today I had never gone in to confirm. It was beautiful. Three floors of computers, cameras, and game systems. I came here to find a new external case for my a terabyte hard drive I brought with me. The old one was broken before I even came here, so having all the files back would have made my day great on that alone. It took a while to find what I was looking for. There were plenty of external hard drives, but I only needed a case, and finding a part that specifically works with another part is one of the hardest parts of computers.

I had forgotten my smaller map, so when I got out of computer city I didn't know what to tell the taxi driver for directions. I called Dane, and got the words I needed. From Computer City, I went to the South Gate and walked around the center of the city for a while. I knew what I was looking for, but it was being strangely elusive. You'd think it would be easy to find a Walmart, but for once the stupid store was being discreet. Normally Walmarts love to put a big Walmart sign on the front of their building, but I actually walked past the place and didn't even notice it. It was actually on the basement floor of a small mall. The only sign I saw outside was the size of a sheet of notebook paper. Even when I went inside the mall, I ended up getting lost a couple times looking for it.

In typical convenience store fashion, I went in for one thing, and walked out with a dozen other things without even finding what I originally went in for. I don't regret it though. I found some root beer (Sarsparilla technically) and hot chocolate, so it was worth it. All I wanted was a lamp for my plants, but I didn't see a single lamp for sale in the entire place. I'll probably just go to Lotus to get one later.

This was my first time on my own inside the city walls, so I didn't know what buses came by, or where they stopped. My original plan was to save some money by only taking a taxi to Xiaozhai and then take a bus home. I didn't see any empty taxis where I was though, so I ended up walking outside the walls looking for one. I guess I got lucky because the first bus stop I wandered by just happen to have a bus that also stops directly outside of Gaoke.

Good day today. I got my 500+ gigabytes of files back. I got some crappy root beer. (It's still tastes a little bit like root beer, so I'm drinking it anyway.) I got home in one piece.