Friday-ish night – Like Mars

Greetings from Mars.. well.. not really, but I always think that landing in Tokyo is a bit like landing on Mars.. It’s like our planet, but different in huge ways. I’m here over the weekend for some work business that i’m really looking forward to. I am hoping it will be good, having spent 17 hours on planes to get here. As i’ve said before.. I don’t really mind long plane rides.. it gave me time to catch up on work.. and peace out…

Some trips I talk the whole flight.. and others i just peace out.. this was a mix. I ran into our friend Krista in the airport on the way out which was fun…

Then on the flight to DC I met this really awesome guy, Steve who’s from Richmond.. He works at Dealer.. and is a really hardcore astronomer. He showed me some AMAZING . Check out some of his astrophotography here.

His card says star stuff.. but so does his arm.. I saw his ink and realized it was Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen… the four most common element sin the known universe.. and an anagram of our name COHN ! How cool is that !!!!??

The flight to Tokyo was quieter.. about 15 hours.. and I had only 6 hours of battery on my laptop.. even though the plane had plug in power, my monster retro machine pulled too much power and kept turning off the outlet in my eat.. sigh.. That was ok.. between that and my ipad I was able to get through my entire email backlog… (it’ll be back tomorrow but it still felt like progress.

I also slept a little and watched a little TV.. mostly with no sound. I did watch ‘Blades of Glory’ without sound… just to see the set.. it was filmed in the building we lived in for the Colony. It was wild seeing it with different decorations. My friend Bob built the ice rink for the movie.. Here are some scenes where you can see our building .. 615 Anderson in LA’ s toy district.

Here’s a really freaky thing.. As I was watching this incredibly dumb movie… i also noticed that the guy in the seat ahead of me was watching a different dumb scifi movie.. and I’m 99% sure it too was filmed in that same abandoned warehouse.. Check out these columns

very strange !

I slep a bit and woke to found us over the Bering straights

We got to Narita about 4:30, I got on the train to Shinagawa and was in my hotel by 6:30.. I was oo sleepy to do much other than walk around in the cool tokyo evening. Christmas is everywhere here.. decorations, music, fake snow..