[quiz] LJ shortage / heading home

[ickaimp]

Trip to LA:
Train schedualed to depart Tucson: 8:45pm
Train actually left Tucson: 2:35am
Train schedualed to arrive in LA: 6:45am.
Train actually arrived in LA: 3:45pm.
Then my sister, who was to pick me up, bless her soul, arrived at 6pm, only to have her car break down 3 blocks from Union Station, in Little Tokyo. (upside: got japanese food. didn't eat on train. food was goooooood.) She got towed back, I had to call to ask for another ride.
Arrival at folk's house: 9pm.

Pretty much took over 24 hours from my house to my folks house. For what is a 10-hour drive via car. But am very glad to have seen parents, Neechan and Consibs again.
Hoping the trip back goes smoother. *salutes*

Plus side, have now finished watching Detective Academy Q. Very happy. Entertaining plunnies as we speak. Must look for manga scans/translations to see how different it is in there. *wiggles happily* ^___^

Random fact: Ran has the cops as #4 on speeddail. (someone dies, she calls 'shi')

And meme, snagged off of about half my friendslist. ^^;;

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-actually, I mourned, because I wanted to see how everyone was doing...

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[sleepyhowie.livejournal.com]

Random fact: Ran has the cops as #4 on speeddail. (someone dies, she calls 'shi')

Really?! Where'd that come from?
Haha... perhaps if she put it on some other number they won't stumble across as many murders ^^;;

[kurobahikaru.livejournal.com]

"Shi" and "yon" are the two different ways to pronounce the number four in Japanese. "Shi" is also the way to pronounce the kanji for death. So Ran speed-dials 4 for "death/dead body." Easier to remember that way. >XD

Icka is making evil Japanese word puns. Too much Japan time for her (or maybe not enough?). *whispers* I think the anime has gone to her brain. ^.~ XDDD

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Icka is making evil Japanese word puns.

Yup. Cannot tell you how happy it makes me when someone actually gets the jokes. ~_^

Too much Japan time for her (or maybe not enough?).

Not nearly enough. ^__________^ My accent is beyond terrible and I still only have about half of both Kana alphabets memorised. Kanji. Ugh. -Maybe- ten of those. Still don't have the numbers memorised...
... tho, granted, I don't have much of a use to practise it anymore. ^^;;

[kurobahikaru.livejournal.com]

I am a punster myself, which makes a friend of mine whimper and groan when I get into it with other people. It makes her crazy. >XD

I used to have both sets of Kana memorised... but then I forgot. ;.; I can understand about half of what I'm hearing on PGSM. Not sure if that's just general SM knowledge or Japanese knowledge, though... And the only reason I have the numbers memorised is because I worked seasonal at a retail place where we had to count product every night. I livened it up a little ^.~ Didn't use the proper object-counting numbers, but I can count! XD

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

You see a close up of her phone book in manga 47. It looks like Shin'ichi is #1 (since that's who's phone she was calling).
All the entries are in Kanji, except for #4, where it says in katakana 'kopi-'
Which, unless I'm guessing wrong (entirely possible, been wrong before, be wrong again), means 'Cop' ^^;;