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Nachiko and Erika

19:03pm JST Friday 09 June 2006

Met Nachiko and Erika for lunch today! The lunch had originally been planned for Odawara, the day before I broke my shoulder. Super thanks to each of them for 1.5 and 1 hour train rides each way to meet me near Futakotamagawa!

Rain forced us inside instead of a picnic by the river, but we enjoyed chatting and chowing on one of the benches in the middle of the prepared food counters featuring every imaginable overpriced food one could buy in Japan.

Played a question-asking game that started out with softball questions and then finished when I asked "who do you want to meet?" and Nachiko was like Mother Theresa, and Erika was like, I don't know, and I was like, "the person who orchestrated Airplane Day" and explained why I smell a proverbial rat in the official version.

Nachiko's interest seemed piqued enough to do some research for herself. Rockin'

Yuka

01:14am 10 June 2006

Hung out with Yuka tonight; we ate dinner in an Italian restaurant in Ginza, then scoped the view from a nearby 46 story highrise with supa-fast elevators! They didn't have super fast ac/deceleration, but once they got going, there were pretty speedy.

We randomly sat in the various display model chairs on the 46th floor; they seem inviting, yet a bit standoffish given a numeric designation and nameplate above each one.

I enjoyed getting to see a part of Ginza I had never seen before, and learning the location of the famous fish market.

Had fun chatting with Yuka about sem-random topics, from past to future.