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<\/p>\nOK, I\u2019m going to do the same thing I did yesterday because I\u2019m meeting my buddy for dinner and I\u2019m not sure how late I\u2019ll be out. Hopefully not too late, since I\u2019m not sleeping very well during this trip.<\/p>\n
I got up this morning and I have two things I needed to do. See the rolfer and visit my friend Moriwaki. The rolfer told me I should probably use heat to help my problem and it\u2019s dropped about 20 degrees since the trip started, so that\u2019s kind of rough. I wish I was at an onsen where I could take a nice soak but I\u2019m in Osaka. I\u2019m OK with pushing through the pain to see something really interesting but it\u2019s cold (in the 40\u2019s in the morning!) and rainy so that usually means it\u2019s a day for shopping. And while I\u2019m OK with shopping if I\u2019m with my sister, I really don\u2019t have anything in particular I\u2019m still looking for. Maybe some more USB-C cables, but those are available on Amazon at home. I did make a quick trip through Tokyu Hands and the Minecraft popup and the Nintendo stores, but meh. I\u2019m back in the hotel room. I took a nap and watched some YouTube. The important thing is to get on the train to go see Moriwaki.<\/p>\n
For breakfast I went back to the Drip-X Cafe in the Hotel Vischio. I saw the bicyclist from the other day and I joined them and got so busy talking that I forgot to take a picture of my hot dog until they left.<\/p>\n
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It was one of the good Japanese sausages with cheese and I really enjoyed it. The coffee is growing on me too. It was CHILLY. I went back to the hotel to grab a pair of gym shorts in case the rolfer wanted me to wear them. In the US they usually just have me stand in my underpants to assess my body misalignment but I wasn\u2019t sure how it worked in Japan.<\/p>\n
I started off towards the rolfer and by the time I got to the taxi stand my leg hurt quite a bit. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d make it in time if I walked with this pain in my leg so I took a taxi. Drivers here are either chatty or silent and I got a silent one today. It took no time at all to get to the apartment tower where the office was and he told me to go to the next tower over. After trying to figure out how to get into the tower, wandering around, it turns out he dropped me off right in front of the building I needed to be in. Sheesh.<\/p>\n
The rolfer was great. She\u2019s been doing massage therapy for at least a dozen years (I can\u2019t remember exactly what she said) so I left it in her hands and I felt great afterwards. HOWEVER, I knew that as screwed up as I got it was going to take a bit to fix everything. Sure enough, walking back to the hotel it started to hurt again. Not like in the mornings, but why push it? That\u2019s why I\u2019m back in the hotel.<\/p>\n
Oh, on the way home I went underground because it\u2019s CHILLY as I mentioned earlier. I was right near the Daisan building which is full of businessmen and there\u2019s all sorts of restaurants in the basement. I went to an Okinawan restaurant and tried to order goya champuru but they just ran out! I had taco rice instead, which was pretty good. Oh, if you ever do go down there keep in mind a lot of the restaurants allow smoking.<\/p>\n
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Sitting in the restaurant my leg started to hurt. I could\u2019ve forced myself to keep shopping or wandering around Umeda, but I wasn\u2019t excited enough to push myself. Anyway, the important thing is to meet Moriwaki tonight. I quite enjoy sitting and watching YouTube or Netflix and there\u2019s no other way to eat all the things I\u2019ve been eating besides coming to Japan so I\u2019m OK with all this. It\u2019s not ideal, but it\u2019s still fun.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/p>\n
I met up with my old co-worker Moriwaki for dinner. As always it was fun to talk and he\u2019s quite unique. He\u2019s about three years older than me and about to fully retire and move to Beppu. But even now, in his semi-retirement at 62, he bought a second house in Wakayama and goes fishing all the time. Basically, it\u2019s what I aspire to. He went to high school and college in North Carolina and has a unique perspective.<\/p>\n
We went to an okonomiyaki place because that\u2019s what I always tell him I want to eat. I don\u2019t know of any decent places in Portland.<\/p>\n
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Moriwaki also said eat it only with the spatula – that\u2019s the Osaka way. His was much smaller than my deluxe, so we also got yakisoba. This is after we\u2019ve eaten some of it.<\/p>\n
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He drove us to a Starbucks for dessert.<\/p>\n
Oh, I forgot to mention, he used to have a two seat Mercedes Benz convertible. I figured as a fisherman he\u2019d have a new car, something more beat up. Well, he has a new car, a two-seat Jaguar with an incredibly aggressive cam that pops when he hits the accelerator. It\u2019s always good to see the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, I\u2019m going to do the same thing I did yesterday because I\u2019m meeting my buddy for dinner and I\u2019m not sure how late I\u2019ll be out. Hopefully not too late, since I\u2019m not sleeping very well during this trip. I got up this morning and I have two things I needed to do. See the rolfer and visit my friend Moriwaki. The rolfer told me I should probably use heat to help my problem and it\u2019s dropped about 20 degrees since the trip started, so that\u2019s kind of rough. I wish I was at an onsen where I could take a nice soak but I\u2019m in Osaka. I\u2019m OK … Continue reading Japan 2023: Day 12 (updated)<\/span>