jetlag........

Well I got back late Saturday night to my home. It was a smooth flight back with no problems. (But I hate going to LA Airport). I couldn't sleep Saturday night and slept a couple hours yesterday (Sunday). But last night I couldn't sleep again and now its Monday morning and I am ready to go to bed. One one problem its time to go to work... HA! So I guess I will chew some black-black gum and drink lots of coke today...

Anyway glad that trip is over.... But had some good experiences.

Driving the boss's car....

I had a funny experience today. We got a phone call from an executive we work with. He went drinking last night and left his car in the parking lot of our company. He doesn't work at our company. He is actually a customer. But a very important and powerful customer. He asked us to pick up his car at our company and take it to him.

Well..... he car is a brand new Lexus GS. Very nice!!! Very expensive!! We were happy to pick it up for him. We took it on the highway and testing the power and control of the car. We drove it around and had a good time. We basically drove on the kosoku as fast as we could which was exciting. So we finally took the car back to him and told him we went for a joy ride. He didn't seem to care and told us thats why he bought this car. So it was a funny experience to be driving his brand new expensive car. I took a quick picture of it.

My meetings are all over and now I am going to start packing. Tomorrow I finally get to go home but it looks like I will be back at the end of next month. So thats ok. I said before this has been the hardest business trip I have ever had. I can't believe how many meetings I had here this time. Crazy crazy!!

It will be nice to sleep in my own bed tomorrow night.

Friday Morning....

Wow the time flew... Its Friday morning. I have spent the last 3 days in meetings, on trains, in more meetings, on more trains and going out with colleagues and customers to dinner and drink. This has been the hardest business trip I have ever had. I have been so busy..... its been crazy. But so far its been a very successful trip which is good.

I really wanted to make some time to hopefully meet a few people I have taught English to. But I guess I will have to wait until next time. So I am disappointed about that. Also I wanted to go to Sapporo for a couple days but my schedule is just really too hard this time. But I will be back I guess in a couple months maybe even sooner. I am thinking about spending Christmas and New Years in Sapporo this year. So I will see if I can do that also.... But I will be back before then.

The weather in Nagoya isn't as hot this year. I keep waiting for some really hot and wet weather but it feels just really warm. Utah is sooooo hot this year it actually almost feels good here. But I don't like the humidity.

Well time to go to work.

Back to Nagoya....

Well I am in Nagoya now. I got here late late Monday night. Since then I have been so busy and have only a few hours of sleep. The weather is a little cooler than I thought it would be. But Utah has been so hot this year that I guess it may just feel cool I don't know.

One thing I am learning is that I must be getting older. Last night I had to go drinking with the company. Maybe I was just tired but I just didn't have energy. While I sat there last night I kept thinking to myself how much I really hate this custom now. I used to actually like it and look forward to it. But last night for some reason I thought it was a stupid way to waste 5 hours. I just wanted to get back to my room and sleep. It was kind of funny to walk down the street to the Subway with 25 drunk people. I myself didn't even drink. Maybe thats why I hated it....hehe. But really I just thought to myself that I would rather do so many things with my time than just drink and waste it away.

So I finally get back to my room and go to bed. Then I wake up and its 5:00am and I am not even tired. I only got a few hours sleep but feel ok. Its jet lag.... But tonight will be the same thing only with customers. So another late night.... But I guess its a part of the job. I often wonder if most people here in Japan look forward to this custom... The guys at my company sure seem to.

Tomorrow its off to Yokohama and then Tsukuba.

If I can just hang in there today and tonight.....

I need a coke.

Ahhh Friday Afternoon...

There is almost no better feeling than Friday afternoon around 4:00pm. The day is almost over and the weekend is here. This is the time my brain usually turns off for the week. So its that time right now and I am feeling good. Its been a long week as usual but a good week. Not as crazy as the last few weeks I have had. So now I am thinking about the weekend. I guess I will be playing tennis Saturday and Sunday morning. Then... I will take some friends shopping.

I have some friends from Tokyo staying at my house this week. Its been fun to see them. So I am their tour guide for the next few days which will be fun. They will fly back to Japan next week. I will be going also for business so kind of crazy.

The weather here is really really hot. As I said in my last post. But this year across the United States we have been having a heat wave. So Utah is not the only hot place around. Other areas are even hotter!! But it's still hot here and tomorrow will get even hotter. So that means lots of ice cream for me!!!

I have been in our cafeteria for the last 25 minutes watching a car chase on CNN. A guy robbed a bank and the police have been chasing him. We have been watching it live. Pretty exciting actually and now its finally over. I am glad no one got hurt. But the robber is going to be in prison a long time I think. He even shot at the police while driving. So that made my afternoon a little exciting...hehe.

Well its about my favorite time of the week... I guess I will enjoy it. Monday is here toooooooo sooooon....!!

Hotter than Hell!!!

It is hot!!! I really like summer but not when its 40 degrees everyday. We are having a major heat wave here now. No rain, no clouds, no wind, nothing. Just blue sky and heat!!! I played some tennis yesterday and today in this weather and it almost killed me. I was sweating so much and drinking so much water. But hey its better than snow right?? Anyway... its tough to do anything outside in this heat. Tennis is about all I can do. Also work in my garden. But thats it! After that its inside with the nice air conditioner. Oh yea and don't forget the ice cream!!!

But one problem is the mountain fires. Its so dry now that we are having a lot of fires in the mountains. My house is at the base some mountains and last week we had our first fire. There will be more. But this year seems early. Usually we don't get this hot weather until mid August... So its going to be a long summer I think!! A long hot summer!

Air Show:

I had a chance to go to an air show with my dad. He is retired military so we had VIP seating. It was really awsome to see the airplanes and military jets. Check out the video above of this air show taken.

Also here are some pics I took.


This is part of the crowd at the show. There were about 100,000 people who attended. I had front row!




Here is a picture of the famous F-16.

Here is a picture of a Japanese Zero Fighter from World War 2. There are only 4 left in the world that actually fly. This is one of them.

This is a piicture showing the history of Americal fighters.