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Wednesday nevening – bonus wednesday

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Sitting now in Detroit airport enjoying my second Wednesday of the week. Thanks to timezones .  Reminds me of one of my favorite Billy Collins poems called ” Vermont early November”.. that has the final line,,,

“… determined to seize firmly the second Wednesday of every month”…

.Nothing makes the world feel smaller than traveling all the way around it in a week. So far I’ve been traveling for 19 hours ‘today;  and still feeling pretty good , given that I’ve been sitting in 60 A for most of the day I don’t have much new to report. I read and worked most of the trip but took time out to rewatch one my favorite movies of all time.. American Beauty. I decided to watch it because one of my Japanese colleagues looked just like kevin spacey if kevin spacey were japanese, 10 years younger and very quiet.. Ok he looked nothing like kevin spacey,, but his spaceiness made me want to watch the movie..

it is superb…

ok.. gonna pass out as I wait for my flight to BTV.. more later

happy 2nd wednesday erveryone..

 

 

Wednesday-ish afternoon – どーもありがとう 日本 !

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At narita airport about to board the long 11 hour flight to Detroit… Just wanted to say thank you to all my friends in japan for such a productive and friendly stay here. This place is amazingly freindly and respectful… Ive been bowing and getting bowed out for so long that i think i'll miss the freindly bobbing and bending when i go home. I really do love coming here.. And hope to come back soon…

 

Ahhhh.. We're boarding now.. Gotta fly.

,ore from the other side.

 

Night all, nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – bus station sushi

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Productive last day at amagi.. began wiht a 5 mile run up and dwown the moutnain road with Luis and CHristian.. then all day of meetings. with a short brake for lunch and one hole of golf on the cute little green out back…

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By the time we got back on the bus for the 35 hour drive back to tokyo we wwere all pretty exhausted.. we hijacked the bus to stop at a convienince stor for ‘supplies’ (lots of beer and dried squid to eat).. it was quite a feeding frenzy in the store with Rolf and Tuji-san leading the check out..

 

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it was a pretty well stocked sore. They even carried ‘Vermont Curry;.. a pupular dish in Japan.. no one knows why it’s called ‘vermont curry’ thoguh.. it does have pictures of apples on it.. go figure. IMG_0297

 

We made one smore sop on the way home at a rest stop that had the largest , most complex codfffe vending machine the world has ever seen !IMG_0301

 

We got to the hotel about 9:30,  a nice older place…

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we quickly checked in then Simon, Ben and I waleled over to a suchi place in the bus station across from the hotel that those guys know well.. You gotta love a place where even the bus station sushi is better than our best suchi bars at home.. IMG_0303

 

 

we were swapping food stories when ben, who lives in china. whipped out his phone and showed us the duck beak sup he’d had a clients cafeteria the other day.. IMG_0304 IMG_0305

 

dinner was great and quick.. IMG_0306

 

then back through the empty bus station to teh hotelll IMG_0307

 

for a few more hours of work meetings.. .. these have been some long days.. but overall .. a very good trip

 

OK.. more form the road tomorrow,  thanks for everything Japan.

nite all, nite sam

 

-me

 

Monday night – inside amagi

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Spent the day in meetings today inside the Amagi IBM site.. it was just as well as it was raining and a bit streany nost of the day I did get out with my freind Luis for an ealry morning run on the steep mountain road.  THere were deer everywhere !

I came back to find these two wonderful pictures of last nights prm back home… So nice to see the kids all dressed up and having fun…

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The work day was interesting and fun.. a little challenging because of the language barrier. I really like the teams from both out occupancies..  We took time out from our discussions to take a picture… .

 

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I also took  short break to work on ‘eraserhennge’IMG_0268

 

Freaky thing was that my old IBM commercial was running occasionally in the lobby with Japanese subtitles..   Pretty funny to see it there !IMG_0269 IMG_0276

 

 

AFter dinner I went out to get some air  The air was pea soup thick with fog.. very cool and mysteriousIMG_0279 IMG_0280

 

OK.. jet lag is taking over..

time for dreasm..

 

nite all.nite sam

-me