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I don't know why I didn't post this earlier, but, I started a new blog. And i know all of my readers(Hi Mom) are gonna be super glad to hear this. So jump on over there and take a look around.

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It's stuck.

Now I know I'm not in Japan anymore, but, I have enough thoughts everyday that its good to have a place to let some of them out.
Today my main problem is that I have the word "Akihabara" stuck in my head. If I am saying it right it is the name of the street in Tokyo that houses "Electric Street". This is a very shiny place that sells every and all electronic bits yet conceived of. Seeing as how I was vacationing with The Kip the electrician, we spend a few nights there. But the way I have it spelled, I may not mean anything.
Any remedy suggestions will be welcomed. So far I have only tried saying it over and over in my head for a few hours. That seems only to stick it more firmly.

Boo for jetlag!

One thing you should never do in Japan is get jet lag. I guess you don't actually feel the effects of the jet lag-bug until you get home; but, from my research, you catch the jet lag-bug(or JLB) from the shiny bright lights on the streets of Japan. It proceeds to burrow into the sleep centers of your brain and makes you believe that 2.30AM mountain standard time(or MST) is actually 4.30 that afternoon.
The tricky part is, you don't know you've been infected until you fly back to your native time zone and wonder why you feel like you should be getting off of work at 2.30AM; when in fact, you have gone to sleep a few hours ago so you can get up in 3 hours to go to work.
Its a vicious cycle.
Fortunately after a few weeks under the intense ultra violet rays of most American work places the JLB shrivels and falls our the carriers ear during sleep(usually at his desk). But the intervening weeks can take its toll on the carrier, his family, friends, pets, girl friends(unless these are imaginary), co-workers, relatives, cars, near by food, passersby, religious authorities, house plants, and shoes.
So, in conclusion, when in Japan, try not to look at cool stuff. I know that most of you are thinking, "Don't be foolish. Cool stuff is why we have eyes, and Japans." And that is why I am going to step up and take one for the team. I will return to Japan next year and look at everything even more so none of you will have to. I know its a big sacrifice but I care that much for you.

I guess we're home now.

We got on a plane at 6p.m. on Sunday the 20th and touched down in the SLC at 6:20 p.m. And thats with a 5 hour lay over in San Fran. How do we do it, you ask; it's a lil' trick the Japanese taught me. The Japanese word for it is "tie me trabble", which loosely translates to: time travel. It's just one of those things you can do or you can't. You know like everything else.
I have now been awake for 31 hours and am not so sleepy because it feels like 3 in the afternoon.
Did I mention I also learned to see into the future? For instance, I can see me having a crap day at work tomarrow because of jet-lag.
You may be asking yourself, "Self, is there anything Sky didn't learn in Japan?" But whatever answer Self gives you, don't listen, thats guys slow.

P.S.

Thats a pic of me sitting in a new Skyline GT-R 35. I've come to find out that Skyline in Japanese means Skyline.

Last night in Tokyo!

It's our last night in Tokyo, or Japan for that matter, and I'm sad. Very sad. I don't know if you have been to Japan or not, but it is worth doing. It's so foreign but so easy. You can go out and walk at night, and if you don't think about it too hard, or breath too deep, you'd swear you were in any big city you would love to live in.
Tonight we sleep at the Yaesu Fujiya. It is as right in the center of Tokyo as you can get. We spent the day wandering around and taking the train everywhere we wanted to get a second look at, because, our train passes expire tomarrow.

Karuizawa again!

We are both getting pretty sick of our hotel in Karuizawa forcing us to be back here at 5 pm. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but there is nothing to do at our resort in the winter. We arrived 7 mins after the last bus for our resort leaves the train station, so we get to pay $40 to get there in a cab.
We spent the day shopping in Tokyo, and we got ourselves a hotel reserved for tomarrow night in the heart of downtown, a few blocks from the Imperial palace,(thats where Darth Vader moved after the Death Star was destroyed. If you ask Vader he still sticks to the story that the new guy bumped something in the control room and thats how it blew up. And trust me, you don't want to mention the name Skywalker to him. The guy really holds a grudge)
Anywho, we wil be in Tokyo again tomarrow, for the last time, and we will be rushing to cram in all the sites we haven't gotten to thus far. (So what if i used the word "thus"! lay off."