Neon Lights Video Game Style

Staying at a hotel right next to Tokyo Station.  You can see the bullet train buzz through.  (No noise though, at all.)  Skylines in Japan, especially when it involves Tokyo Tower, always makes me feel like I’m part of a video game.

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Quick stop at Tokyo before heading out to other parts of Japan and Asia.  I’m staying at a very efficient business-type hotel that one will call Boutique in the U.S.  No hipster-I’m-Too-Cool-to-Lit-Up -the-Room Sufficiently attitude here.  Everything, true to Japanese efficiency, makes perfect sense in the tiny room.  Coffee came in packets.  But you don’t [...]

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We Just Wanted to Call to Thank You for Supporting….

Couple of weeks ago, I was checking my messages on my cell phone while I was having dinner with two couples.  I heard a very unfamiliar voice start, “Hi, we just wanted to call to thank you for supporting marriage as an institution and for you to support Prop 8….”  I dropped the phone as [...]

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Seat Backs and Tray Table

On my way to and back from D.C.  I listened to this song by Fountain of Wayne.  Over and over again.  And now, I cannot get it out of my mind.   I wish I can embed the song on the site.  The words were hillarious yet  identifiable in so many ways, it made me [...]

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“Hey, are you Korean ?”

Seriously, I’m very anti-social when it comes to traveling on air.  For the past 30 years that I have started to fly on a regular basis, I can use my ONE hand to count the times that I’ve actually chatted up (or responded to a chat-up) a fellow passenger.  Today, en route to D.C. on [...]

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Birthday

I had the strangest birthday ever this year.  Not only that it was a number that many seem to make a big deal out of, but of incidents and occurrences that surrounded the event and days after that.   I also realized, that I have always stressed that I was not a “Birthday Person,”  I don’t [...]

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