Visa is in hand. All that’s left for me is to wait for my flight departure date, which is rapidly approaching on the 25th of September. It cannot come quickly enough. Sure, I enjoy fantastically my work as a shipping processor for a major paint producer and distributor, but surely there must be a more enriching and engaging experience that looms on the horizon. Ah, yes! Japan! Land of bleached medical face-masks and “moe” (read: young women in maid-costumes spoon-feeding you bean-filled fish pies).

In a continuing effort to discover exactly where I’m going to live and who my coworkers are going to be, I’ve tried to snoop as much as is humanly possible. I believe I’ve reached the limits of information that I could possibly glean from any currently available source. Let me give you an example:

I managed to navigate to the AEON school’s webpage where I’ll be working at, and their staff page. There I was able to access the first names of two foreign teachers, one of whom I’ll be replacing and the other who will be working with me. Through various combinations of key words in different search engines, and I discovered a blog and photobucket account containing highly relevant information. Of course, I don’t want to give away too many specifics on the interest of privacy.

I found this picture taken out the balcony of my future apartment.

Critical Information!

Crossreferencing the information contained therein with Google Earth (comparing landmarks contained within the photo to satellite images), I found it’s exact location. Using diddlefinger.com to procure that particular address, I put that information to use in search engines to secure the website of the management company who owned that property. I perused their subsidiaries and properties for the exact rental company and then to the specific apartment complex. The result?

HOO-WAH!

A pic taken directly from said website. Frickin’ awesome. I think I’ll be living on the left side of the building there, on the 4th floor, down at the end.