Wrap Up

Somehow after what feels like an eternity on various airplanes and dirigibles I've made it safely home to Massachusetts. All in all, while I had a fantastic time in Tokyo, I'm happy to be home with punky monkey who seems happy to see me (won't stop licking my hand! but, too skinny!!). I'm happy the Patriots didn't up and lose while I was somewhere between Minneapolis and Boston. I guess I'm even glad I didn't mouth off to the border security guard who was castigating and mocking the non-English speaking Japanese waiting in the customs line. Good job with your career choice there, jackass.

Cultural highlights of the week were Kabuki and sumo. More enterntainment-wise, the last night's pre-flight box karaoke extravaganza and the Tokyo Pinsalocks at the Basement Bar were both great. I had some really fantastic food (all of it ordered by people more fluent in Japanese than myself) and got what I hope will be some interesting source video for a few projects I've got in mind. My overall media plan worked well enough though it looks like one of the Pinsalocks files did come up corrupted. I think next time I'll bring my own laptop to minimize chances of language OS confusion.

Thanks again to KPH for putting up with me. Thanks for the people who read here (and commented). We may post a few retrospective links here to other stuff but by and large, this is the retirement of q813 and resumption of more typical things. Thanks again for reading!