First of all, I finally got the store to
validate last night, at the same time fixing the final major display bug in IE (I also got the
main site to validate as well. Hooray!). The final adjustments were made to the payment and shipping calculations, and live payment tests were completed. What does all that mean? It means you can now give us your virtual money in the brand spanking new
online store. Yay!
We are still recovering from Saturday’s all-night monstrosity of a show. We took a bus from Osaka at 10AM, arriving in Tokyo around six or seven. Things kicked off at 11:30, we went on at 12:20, and the event ran until 5 in the morning. Surprisingly, most of the people attending stuck it out the whole night. Well, almost everybody.
The next morning, our bus was scheduled to leave at seven. We rushed all the way to Tokyo station only to discover that it had been canceled due to the
typhoon. So we got our refunds and shelled out some extra cash for
shinkansen tickets. We got in line for the 8:03 train, which was already sitting at the platform, but the doors never opened. Announcement after announcement was made, saying the delays would be a bit longer, to be patient. Several news teams had been sent to shoot footage of the people huddled and waiting for the train. Eventually we got sick of the spray from the rain being blown under the platform roof, gave up our places in line and took shelter downstairs. Many people had elected to cancel their travel plans and were lined up for refunds.
There was a huge crowd waiting outside the turnstiles, being held at bay by legions of station attendants.
All told, we spent almost seven hours standing there, waiting for a train. (Almost as long as the bus ride would have been.) When service was finally resumed, it was a zoo, so we got in line for the second train out.
We had been up all night, after all, and it was worth waiting for a seat. The first train was standing room only in the cars with unreserved seats.
At long last we were on our way home, and arrived in Osaka three hours later. We returned to our respective homes and promptly died.
