Wow, I really have no pictures today.

I started out the day with a message from an old high school classmate who I actually met at a summer science camp in 3rd grade. He writes self-help books of sorts. (Is that what you’d call Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? Because he translated that into Japanese back in the day.) We spent the entire morning talking in the club lounge of the Ritz-Carlton. Not quite my regular breakfast spot.

I’m not sure why I felt I had to eat lunch after that, but I went looking for the pumpkin sandwich I had a couple of years ago in Akihabara but the Donq bakery didn’t have it this year. I used the intarwebs and found an interesting-sounding Japanese curry restaurant but couldn’t find it and ended up eating Nepalese curry.

Then it was time to wander around Akihabara. I found a bunch of stuff I kind of wanted to buy but I bought nothing. I got ideas for a couple of things that I knew would be on eBay for much cheaper.

I made it back to my hotel in time to find that another old co-worker was free, but he didn’t get up until 3PM and couldn’t go to dinner until 8. Since he was laid off from Renesas he’s been doing a lot of nothing. We went and talked for a while over dinner and it was good catching up again.

That’s yet another day in Tokyo!