Right now I’m sitting in my hotel room in Osaka, doing what I’d do at home. Playing with my computer. It’s the middle of the afternoon, but it’s kind of nice being in a hotel room and no someone else’s house. Not that I don’t just sit at our friends’ house in Toyama playing on the computer (which I did). I even found a bug in the Vim configure.in while I was there.
This was our travel day to Osaka, and I think my mom is taking it easy with my sister in their room which is right next door. I’m sure I’m overdoing the free intarweb access here because I just downloaded a 2+GB compiler onto my Mac. Not that I needed it right away, but like I said, we’re taking it easy right now. My mom isn’t that young any more and we don’t want to torture her too much.
We left Toyama station, where they’re going to have the new Hokuriku Shinkansen come through and that’s the construction in the background. On the complete opposite end of Japanese train lines is the one-car diesel car which I think heads up to Mt. Tateyama.
Ugh, I have lens flare!
I told my sister to get some of the coffee out of the vending machine but she didn’t like it at all. I thought it was fine. We made jokes about the name of the coffee. By the way, we stopped at Tsuruga today, which is the the terminus of the ??? (the Obama line).
Here’s our train!
I like not having to belt up like on a plane, and it’s a whole lot quieter as well. My only complaint is that it’s harder to use the men’s bathroom, as the train rocks a bit. Other than that, I’d much rather take the train.
I had to have one random shot out the window.
One not so random, of a giant Kannon-san (goddess of mercy).
And of course a picture of the Suntory distillery as we sped by.
I’m still sitting in the hotel now, but I have to leave to meet my old co-worker tonight.
