Waki and I got back to Tokyo late last night. Our flight made an emergency landing in Alaska because one of the flight attendants got sick. It was the first time I’ve ever been to Alaska, and flying over it was pretty amazing. It didn’t look like too many people live there, we saw […]

To anyone leaving comments, I’m sorry if the system on my blog is messed up. Every since my site got screwed up by Hostgator’s non-existent back-up service, my comment system has been broken. Old comments appear in new posts so I’ve been going through simply deleting them. Do not fear if your comment suddenly appears […]

This is about as far as $20 will get you at the average Turkish restaurant in Tokyo. It took us about 5 minutes to eat those little spoonfuls of babaganoush and hummus. Oh I love Middle Eastern food and oh how I wish it wasn’t so tiny and expensive in Tokyo. This photo was taken […]

There are several of these creepy ads on the train now, combining people’s heads with things like cabbages and in this case, potatoes… Oh the savagery of Photoshop in the wrong hands…

Holy crap can’t stop listening to Hendrix!!!

Vitaly dragged me out of the office last week and got me signed up at the local gym. I knew I was out of shape and basically the human equivalent of a jelly donut, but I didn’t realize just how far my health had spiraled out of control until I hit that treadmill. Those 5 […]