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The clock says it's 7:33 here. I've been up for most of the past 22 hours by my math. I'm sitting here in a McDonald's in Asakusa typing this up. Commercialism is funny like that. Here are my notes from the trip...
Got to the airport at 8:15... counter opened a few minutes later, so yay
Tweeted up Tee Morris, found out he was at the airport, so I met up with him before he flew to CES
Five Guys on the concourse. Win, but couldn't finish my fries.
Flight took off a little late. They needed a United crew to bring the de-icer. I saw the dudes outside my window. Makes me want to switch career paths. Imagine sitting on a giant kinda cherry-pickerish sort of thing blasting water at stuff. It looks like so much fun.
ANA service... awesome! SOOOO MUCH FOOD!
Bok Choy stuffed with rice, potatoes, carrots, small salad, Pepsi Nex (read: apparently diet, but they're too cool to stick a t on the end in Japan),
Ice cream was more ice than cream. Took a little while to actually thaw enough to be worth trying to eat.
Full flight, except for the lucky bastard in center row with two seats hugging his pillow... douche.
In flight entertainment- watching Ghost Town, Never seen it before.
Break the Chain and some Go-on music on here. Woot.
Editing in airplane movies sucked. "Get the [GOSH DARN] ____" bad. "They removed his organs... want to see his organ?" bad.
Got, by my calculations, two or three hours of sleep judging by the flight time the screen is giving me. Coupled with the early wake up call I gave myself this morning, the math works out. I'll try to stay up until 9ish tonight or just as long as I can. Then I'll take it from there. This whole jetlag business shouldn't hit me all that bad. I hope.
Oh, and I wish I could fly ANA everywhere. Yummy food, nice flight attendants, good movies...
Halfway through the flight now. Probably should have rearranged my carry-on before getting aboard. My snack bars, camera, maps and DS are up in my backpack, while my laptop (dur) and iPod are down here. Protip: Don't bring snack bars and stuff. You don't need them. Honestly.
Maybe I should have brought the Comanapricil. Unfortunately I'm seated near nobody I could imagine as Oprah. One of my third grade teachers. But not Oprah.
Really hoping some of you out there get that joke.
I can see Russia from myhouseairplane.
Really smooth flight. Nice landing. Wish I could have gotten the chance to meet up with Pat, but they were kind of whisking us through Customs-- you couldn't go elsewhere unless you had an international connection.
The exchange rate here was like 6 yen higher to the dollar than Travelex gave me. Damnit. Protip: Screw what people say. You don't need yen right when you land. Just have a huge wad of cash (the exchange office at Narita doesn't take cards).
Also, the JR Pass people were cool too.
On the Narita Express train right now. This thing is so fast and comfy. All I need is a snack bar, a power port, and a nicer pillow and I'll have full license to say suck it, Amtrak.
I am a vegetarian. Worked out damn well on the plane (I got my food first! :-p) but now I'm on the ground, I can't really stick to it, if only for this week. Some of this stuff, I don't really know what's in it till I take a bite. One word: Onigiri. Salmon inside rice inside nori. A mystery if ever there was one. A damn tasty mystery.
I get the feeling you need a Suica card for *everything* around here. Even the fl-- train attendant coming around accepts Suica as a payment type for her stuff. It's like if DC had their Metro's smart card able to pay for everything. Then again, DC doesn't have as many vending machines. :-p
So I got to the hostel, collapsed in the bed for a bit, took a shower, then took a walk. It was quite refreshing. It's a good bit warmer here than B-more.
I've figures out my natural defense against jetlag-- not sleeping until a reasonable local time, just keeping the batteries running until then. I'll collapse at 10 or so and set my alarm to wake up at 6.
The culture shock is also setting in to an extent. I can count the number of foreigners I've seen since leaving the Narita train on one hand (hostel residents excluded). I do feel a little bit lonely, but that will probably change in the morning when I roll out to Asakusa.
I got the fries here at McDonald's. They're crispier and greasier than ours, in case you're wondering.
Japan is a fun place. But you know what'd be more fun right now? Sleep. That's right, sleep.
Got to the airport at 8:15... counter opened a few minutes later, so yay
Tweeted up Tee Morris, found out he was at the airport, so I met up with him before he flew to CES
Five Guys on the concourse. Win, but couldn't finish my fries.
Flight took off a little late. They needed a United crew to bring the de-icer. I saw the dudes outside my window. Makes me want to switch career paths. Imagine sitting on a giant kinda cherry-pickerish sort of thing blasting water at stuff. It looks like so much fun.
ANA service... awesome! SOOOO MUCH FOOD!
Bok Choy stuffed with rice, potatoes, carrots, small salad, Pepsi Nex (read: apparently diet, but they're too cool to stick a t on the end in Japan),
Ice cream was more ice than cream. Took a little while to actually thaw enough to be worth trying to eat.
Full flight, except for the lucky bastard in center row with two seats hugging his pillow... douche.
In flight entertainment- watching Ghost Town, Never seen it before.
Break the Chain and some Go-on music on here. Woot.
Editing in airplane movies sucked. "Get the [GOSH DARN] ____" bad. "They removed his organs... want to see his organ?" bad.
Got, by my calculations, two or three hours of sleep judging by the flight time the screen is giving me. Coupled with the early wake up call I gave myself this morning, the math works out. I'll try to stay up until 9ish tonight or just as long as I can. Then I'll take it from there. This whole jetlag business shouldn't hit me all that bad. I hope.
Oh, and I wish I could fly ANA everywhere. Yummy food, nice flight attendants, good movies...
Halfway through the flight now. Probably should have rearranged my carry-on before getting aboard. My snack bars, camera, maps and DS are up in my backpack, while my laptop (dur) and iPod are down here. Protip: Don't bring snack bars and stuff. You don't need them. Honestly.
Maybe I should have brought the Comanapricil. Unfortunately I'm seated near nobody I could imagine as Oprah. One of my third grade teachers. But not Oprah.
Really hoping some of you out there get that joke.
I can see Russia from my
Really smooth flight. Nice landing. Wish I could have gotten the chance to meet up with Pat, but they were kind of whisking us through Customs-- you couldn't go elsewhere unless you had an international connection.
The exchange rate here was like 6 yen higher to the dollar than Travelex gave me. Damnit. Protip: Screw what people say. You don't need yen right when you land. Just have a huge wad of cash (the exchange office at Narita doesn't take cards).
Also, the JR Pass people were cool too.
On the Narita Express train right now. This thing is so fast and comfy. All I need is a snack bar, a power port, and a nicer pillow and I'll have full license to say suck it, Amtrak.
I am a vegetarian. Worked out damn well on the plane (I got my food first! :-p) but now I'm on the ground, I can't really stick to it, if only for this week. Some of this stuff, I don't really know what's in it till I take a bite. One word: Onigiri. Salmon inside rice inside nori. A mystery if ever there was one. A damn tasty mystery.
I get the feeling you need a Suica card for *everything* around here. Even the fl-- train attendant coming around accepts Suica as a payment type for her stuff. It's like if DC had their Metro's smart card able to pay for everything. Then again, DC doesn't have as many vending machines. :-p
So I got to the hostel, collapsed in the bed for a bit, took a shower, then took a walk. It was quite refreshing. It's a good bit warmer here than B-more.
I've figures out my natural defense against jetlag-- not sleeping until a reasonable local time, just keeping the batteries running until then. I'll collapse at 10 or so and set my alarm to wake up at 6.
The culture shock is also setting in to an extent. I can count the number of foreigners I've seen since leaving the Narita train on one hand (hostel residents excluded). I do feel a little bit lonely, but that will probably change in the morning when I roll out to Asakusa.
I got the fries here at McDonald's. They're crispier and greasier than ours, in case you're wondering.
Japan is a fun place. But you know what'd be more fun right now? Sleep. That's right, sleep.
chipper
calm
tired
bouncy
busy
mischievous
bored
shocked
sleepy