“… 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..

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

,ore from the other side.

Night all, nite sam

-me

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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..

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.

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 !

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

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..

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..

dinner was great and quick..

then back through the empty bus station to teh hotelll

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

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…

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… .

I also took  short break to work on ‘eraserhennge’

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

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

OK.. jet lag is taking over..

time for dreasm..

nite all.nite sam

-me