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Travis day

10:20pm JST Saturday 19 February 2011 (day 14941)

Hung out with Travis for a good portion of the day today, from 1pm in Ikejiriohashi to like 10pm in The Crocodile in Shibuya. We ate at Soul Food Bangkok, his favorite restaurant in Tokyo. I liked that the waitstaff was actually Thai! I ate pad thai, and Travis had something else.

He told me about his plans for business growth, and explained how he plans to use a sustainable growth model, have optimal exit strategies, and prepare for his future, all at once. Wow!

We brainstormed ways to implement fly2.nu, and a couple ways to make the area around his house quieter.

We walked indirectly to Shibuya by way of several diversions, esp around the stadium sized traffic spiral on 246 near Shibuya.

To the 6th floor in the Q building (with Starbucks facing Shibuya Crossing), we ate in Wired Cafe, ostensibly for its free internet access, of which there was little, unless I give them my cell phone email or my ISP email. No web-based email addresses. dang.

But he showed me a fun game called Manufactoria, which I'll readily admit is more fun for some people than others. I got to the third puzzle before I was temporarily stumped, and had to quit trying before my computer's battery gave its last oomph. I continued to think about the problem, though, and solved it in my head while in The Crocodile. When I told Travis he was like, "niiice," in a supportive way.

Unfortunately, I wasn't as supportive of him when he asked what the mostly-covered painting said on the wall behind the stage. I think he could have figured it out, but I just blurted it out and was like, "aw man; it says Crocodile!" sigh.

Moonshots played, and they're exactly the kind of music leaning toward that which I do not love. It wasn't utterly unacceptable, but I sure didn't dance much.

Lin arrived and they wanted to charge her 2000 yen to come in, but I wanted to go out, so we said bye to Travis and headed out.

lin

12:48am JST Sunday 20 February 2011 (day 14942)

Lin and I went to Starbucks to drink tasty beverages (though hers wasn't as tasty as she had hoped (I got vanilla cream frappacino for me, and chamomile latte for her; she thought hers was too sweet.))