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  05.20.2001
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I'm not sure why I did it, but I did -- I
volunteered to set up an Alumni group here
in Tokyo. Strange, I know.
One minute I'm attending a free Simon Fraser
University Alumni luncheon, the next I'm
organizing an association. I've been a part
of so many groups and clubs over the years,
and never put effort into any of them, that
now I guess it's my turn to start paying
some dues.
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Karen home in six days...Yeah!
 05.17.2001
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Happy birthday to Karen my wife. Twenty five
years old.
She grows more beautiful with every passing
day. Aren't I a lucky man?
 05.16.2001
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In case I never mentioned it before, my company
has moved to a new office tower -- super
swank,super tall, and right next
to the very fashionable Shibuya station.
I've never had an opportunity to work in
a place like this before, not surprising
considering nobody around here is
digging any ditches or pressing out any car
parts. Though, you know, I gotta say that
I like it. I never thought I would, but,
I do, I like it. I like how the air is always
just the right temperature. I like how the
sinks in the washroom have sensors that turn
the water on when you put you hands under
the faucet. And I like the way the carpet
feels soft under your feet but all walls
are covered in polished granite and marble.
I'll try to put up a few pictures of our
new place in the next little while so you
can see what I'm talking about.
Besides the change in location, nothing else
is new. My job status, and responsibilities,
are still in a frustrating limbo state until
the President can decide what he wants me
to do. I have two desk areas; no new computer
for my programming job; and my old computers
from my website (MixPizza) lie in a heap
in the corner while nobody wants to figure
out how to route them through the firewall
and out onto the open network.
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The theme of today's pictures is "signs
of Tokyo"
 05.15.2001
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Well, I've been back in Tokyo for three days
now and I'm just starting to emerge from
the haze of jet-lag. I was a fool. I arrived
in Tokyo 3:30 pm on Saturday and went to
bed at 10 o'clock. I woke up on Sunday at
7:30 pm! Can you believe it? That's about
21 hours sleep. Anyway, I was up all night
and had to go to work on Monday morning.
Needless to say, I wasn't at my most productive.
Karen's in Vancouver right now and I miss
her all ready (is that not cool?). Since
this is probably the last time that I'll
have a couple of free weeks to myself without
any kids around I figured that I'd have one
last crazy, drunken, bacheloresque romp around
the bars and pubs of Tokyo. The strange thing
is, I have no inclination whatsoever to have
this 'party to end all parties' -- oh,well,
I guess that means that it was good that
I got married when I did, y'know, before
I got all calcified and stuff.
Work is as wacky and unfathomable as ever,
but more on that later
For now, I'll offer up a link for all of
those aspiring poets that I know are out
there in Internet land...the haiku generator.
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