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Yasaka

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Last day for Calle to visit our Tokyo office. The week has been one long workshop to plan for 2013 fiscal year. Hard work but we have come up with some good ideas and we now have a rough plan that we will refine until April.

Lately both Chie and I have had so much to do both at the office and at home so we have not had time to buy groceries and cook. Today we also left office late so, again, there was no time to have dinner at home. Instead we went to Yasaka again.


edamame - soy bean

We had a quick dinner and then I went home, exhausted. Chie stayed a while longer to talk with some of our Yasaka friends. There is a big difference in the level of relaxation a talk with friends will have on you when you are native or just intermediate in the language. I was just too exhausted to enjoy the conversation, and if I had stayed it would have either went in to my own little “glass bubble” not talking to anyone or been, just like Playstation 4, dead-on-arrival when I got back home.

SONY Osaki and Yasaka

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Had a meeting at SONY Osaki in the morning so I went there directly, and met Calle and Sawaya-san outside the station. The meting went well and while the other took the Yamanote line to the office, with a billion other people, I had a pleasant ride on my bike 🙂


Usagi - bunny

In the evening I met Chie at Yasaka for dinner. We met a few friends there, as always. We stayed longer than we had planned to do because we got caught in the talk with our friends. I was kind of exhausted after all meetings in the day so I left 30 minutes earlier than Chie to get home and prepare for sleep.

Walking to the Office

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Yesterday was a national holiday here in Japan so we did not have to go to the office in the snow. But today the snow was still here, though not falling anymore. My bike still had slicks on so I walked to the office. It was cold and, though I was well dress and felt warm, it was great to stop by Starbucks to buy the biggest sized soy milk based hot chocolate you have ever seen… Unless you have visited Starbucks in US that is 😉

In the evening Chie and I met at Yasaka where we had some dead chickens and vegetables for dinner 🙂 Oh, and some dead pigs and vegetables too. And rice. IT was pretty dead too…


Yasaka

Just want to see how you react to facts 😉

Delta is using Linux

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On our way home we had upgraded our ticket to business class using our milage. Though it was not flat beds it was still pretty good… And it was on the second floor of a 747. The only fun thing that happened during the 9 hours flight was that my monitor stopped working with the message “[…] seat is rebooting[…]” and then it rebooted. The fun thing with this was, as you can see in the below picture, that Delta (well, maybe Boeing) is running Linux. Phew… I would have been worried if I had seen Windows 7 reboot when I know there is about 10000 meters drop to the ground 😉



The more boring part of the trip was that we departed Kauai 8:29 am and had a 4 hours stop over in Honolulu, of which we spent most of the time in the Delta lounge. Then I bought a Starbucks tea and brought it onboard. We slept a while then watched a lot of movies before landing in a rainy Tokyo. Got on the Airport Limousine Bus from Narita to Shinagawa Prince hotel and a taxi from there to home. Unpacked most of the things and then we had dinner at Yasaka. Shower. Bed. Sleep.