Dmitri's Bucket of Projects

I got home a few hours ago, spent that time catching up on mail, paying bills and repacking. Off to Dublin tomorrow, continuing on to Crete on Sunday. Yeah, nuts. Tokyo was good. The roll out was successful, and seeing my friend Al was really good. We putzed around Akihabara for half a day, checking out weird anime/techie stores and arcades. I dropped some money into a pachinko machine. Later we visited the Sensoji Temple (also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple), a Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Sunday I went out to meet him , his wife and their one year old son, in Yokohama. It was a nice area. We did a little boat tour, which was more about just having a nice rest in the A/C while still seeing stuff. the rest of the week I was just anxious to return to NY and start my little va-cay. The last night there I met Al at the Hachiko statue in at Shibuya, we grabbed dinner and hung out at a few arcade waiting for a down pour to end. I picked up my one gift for myself, an Xbox360 Wireless LAN adapter. Why? Because it was way cheaper there. IN the states it costs around $100. There it was 8,290 Yen, which is about $73. I needed one since the move, and opportunity came a knocking. :-) I'll upload pictures in a couple of weeks, when I get back from Crete. Or after the Adirondacks trip.

Landed in Tokyo Monday, and have been doing little else but sleeping and working. I'm staying in the Roppongi Hill area which apparently is quite the place to be. Having never been to East Asia, this is kind weird. It does make me want to take up a foriegn language. The whole place reminds me of an old friend. Fortunately or unfortunately, my dinners have predominantly been room service. Unfortunate in that it'd be nice to have time go out to restaurants properly, but fortunate in that room service is really just delivery from the rather nice restaurants in the area. I had a truly yummy katsu don my first night, and a yakisoba last night. I'm looking forward to the weekend as I'll get to hang out with my friend Alain. We were good friends in college but I haven't seen him in the years since he moved, with his wife, to Japan.

Japan Trip