Prophet Zacharia

My day is over. I constantly have to try to figure out not only what time it is at home, but what day. 7 Miles of walking through the streets of Tokyo. Went to the top of the Tokyo Tower, the city is enormous. Skyscraper buildings for miles all around. Then as you walk through the districts, all you see is construction on new ones. It is incredible. Getting up at 4 am local time tomorrow to travel to Kyoto.

That should just be an auto signature setting that can easily be removed. I don’t particularly care to let people know wether I am replying from my office, my home or elsewhere, my auto signature on my phone matches that for my office outlook account.

I don’t sleep well on planes. Maybe one 45 minute nap and two shorter 30 minute naps. That may have been the longest 13 hours of my life. But Tokyo is great! The culture shock is phenomenal, and the language barrier extreme. We tried to get our dinner check last night. Our waiter came back to the table with 5 pens, thinking this was somehow what we were requesting.

Coffee and breakfast in Toronto tased good. No booze until 9 am. WTF?!?

3 am came up fast. Now let’s see if I can get any meaningful sleep on the plane today. An Ativan says “maybe”.

Happy birthday Dottles!

Yes, Pittsburgh to Toronto then onto Tokyo. My wife is still packing. I don’t know how, we are only taking carry-ons.

They played the DArk Side set all the way through the Animals tour in 1975. I think 1/23/77 was the first show without it in 6 years, if I am not mistaken.

I leave for the airport at 4:15. Toronto then onto Tokyo. 14 hours of flying. If I just stay up until I leave Toronto, that should ensure a nice long sleep on the plane, right?

I have the 1/20/72 DSOTM rehearsal CD, and they first show they played it 1/21/72. There are times you can hear “genius” and “amazing” being uttered by those in attendance, some of whom I believe were the sound engineers. They toured that for over 13 months before the record was released 3/1/73.

I don’t have anyone named Ed working with me.

I refuse to put up any Hurricane decorations until after Labor Day. I refuse to allow TWO summer holidays be overwhelmed by the Hurricane season holiday. I was never a big Scorpions fan, now I can’t get away from the song every time I go shopping.

Now that I think of it, I have a friend who has been singing the praises of sous-vide cooking his steaks this summer, then finishing them on the grill. He loves it.