WHAT`S TODAY WHERE YOU ARE?

tomorrow came and went, as did another day after that, and, granted, i spent very little of the time since my flight out of sfo investigating internet options, but i`m still blaming japan`s absolutely perplexing dirth of wifi connectivity for my silence throughout an already very seriously contemplative and revealing 36 hours. 11/1 to 11/4 should have taken longer.

granted, again, i`m visiting outside the city until sunday and can`t expect too much. or can`t i? it`s japan! maybe if cell phones hadn`t advanced so quickly with email and internet capability since a decade ago the country would be better in line with personal computing developments throughout the rest of the world. i`m hoping to get some advice on hot spots during my lunch meeting in shinjuku tomorrow. i`m only in higashimatsuyama until sunday, but from there, although i`ll pass briefly through the city and will be in a city for a week afterward, i won`t be solidly in tokyo until 11/14. the leaves in kyoto had better be something special. you`ll hear all about them, and we`ll both pretend that we`re sharing in real-ish time -- but who knows what the time showing on my mobile rental means for you wherever you are.

for now i`m at the mercy of the internet cafes, and my growing desire to shake my laptop at the hp tower standing in my little computer space* to try to get some of what i`ve written to jump between the two machines is mostly the result of the several cappucinos i`ve had from the self-service drink bar. it isn`t really worth spending money for the internet when i can`t access anything on my own computer, so i`m getting my money`s worth by over consuming drinks that i wouldn`t have paid for or consumed had i not come to the cafe. bristling at that logic? welcome to japan.

i suppose i did need to confirm that meeting...and relay my phone number to several friends. now those are finished, i need to save myself some strife. the language input toggle key is directly right of the space bar on this keyboard, which is, i`m starting to think, just a "fuck you" to over large foreigners who stumble over the controls when changing between languages but can`t help accidentally keying the toggle when it`s most inconvenient. they`ll teach you to scorn their technological prowess. things are probably easier without wifi if you`ve got smaller hands. what?　did it again. get me out of here before i have another cappucino.

*i opted for a "business" type room instead of one of the larger one`s with a reclining massage chair, but a sign tells me that the latter are just like relaxing in the south pacific.