Brian's Japan Adventure

January 27th, 2007

Turbo Day

About once a month I seem to have a “Mental Turbo Day” where I seem to get ten times as much done and think ten times as fast as any other day of the month. It sort of makes up for those days when I’m dumb as a rock and even slower moving. This was that day. I decided to start working on my new project at 11am and promised I’d put 8 hours into it today. At 8pm I stopped that project for the day, having finished everything I could do without an Internet visit. I have now restored and updated all aspects of one of the businesses I shut down last summer before I came over here. Tomorrow I will be ready to add new things and expand upon where I left off before. None of it is actually online or active yet, but could be very quickly. 

The only break I took this afternoon was to watch the last half of the “Howard The Duck” movie that Marc was watching on TV. You don’t know real entertainment until you’ve seen “Howard The Duck” dubbed into Japanese. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Or at least I hope it is.  When that was over, I rode over to the carryout and got dinner. It was really cold today again, and I didn’t really want to go out, but it was that or a noodle bowl. I can live with the cold more than the noodles.

While working, I saw several new ways my idea could be expanded to integrate with several of my other websites, as well as integrate my experience with blogs and my newfound interest in Podcasting.  I’m going to be very busy upon my return to the States. In many ways, my lack of Net access might be a good thing in this case. If I had been at home, all these ideas would be implemented and started by now…as far as they go. I’m seeing new plans and new ideas at a crazy rate. This will be without a doubt my most well planned “business adventure” yet.

Aloha, Hawaii?

One thing that came up at the library yesterday was some goofy research about Hawaii. One thing that I learned is that they have few or no buses in Hawaii. Unfortunately, my driver’s license expired last week, so if I were to go straight there, I couldn’t even rent a car. That’s going to be a problem.

Even more crazy, the airline wants $600 for a flight from Japan to San Francisco and then to Hawaii or I could pay $900 for a flight directly there (not!). In case you’ve never seen a map, Hawaii is about half the distance from here to San Francisco. If I were to forget the whole thing and go home to Dayton for while and buy a ticket from Dayton to Hawaii later, it’s well under $900. If you can figure out that logic, explain it to me!  Ad to that the fact that the airline wants an additional $125 just to change or cancel the ticket I already have, then the cost for a Japan-to-Hawaii flight goes up to $725. I can already think of a list of things I’d want to have mailed to me before going to Hawaii, so I’ll throw in an extra $50 for postage costs, bringing a Hawaii vacation to $775 at minimum, without any transportation options once I get there. No, I think I’ll pass.

If I’m dead set on Hawaii, I can still go with much less hassle for slightly under $900 (not including hotels etc…), which still isn’t bad. Or I could take that $900 and drive around a while within the States to squash my “travel bug.”  I’m single and don’t mind fast food and camping, so I could make a $900 road-trip vacation take a long time I think.

Tomorrow

I have tomorrow off. The final exam for N-Sensei’s class isn’t until next Monday, so there’s nothing required on the agenda for tomorrow.  I’ll go up to the office first thing in the morning to print off lessons and materials for the rest of the week. Even when I don’t have any classes up there, I’m going to have to go anyway because that’s the only computer printer I have access to here. Too bad their copier is so bad. I used to print lessons up there and then print off my copies in Takahashi. I may have to start paying for copies at the convenience store now. Sigh.

The library is closed on Mondays, so I know I won’t be going there. I can spend a little time “playing” on the Internet up in the office, but not for too long. Maybe I’ll go to Megalo again, or maybe not. I think I have plenty to keep my occupied at the apartment for one more day. Tuesday will be another long day in Fukuyama, followed by the regular routine in Hiroshima on Wednesday.

Bwahahahaaa!

Look at that, I got all the way through the blog and didn’t say a word about Mom calling me at 5am because she forgot about the time difference!  I didn’t mention it all!  I am so generous to not tell the whole world about that. Oh… Whoops!

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