Rich Seymour's stochastic statements.

Here I am sitting in a room with these nice grass floor mats. Doors in Japan are… right about 6 feet tall or so. Which means that I will probably hit my head at least once during my visit. The toilets are high tech, with heated seats. Outside I saw something of perhaps the bay or the ocean and it looked very picturesque. In fact I took a picture that I will upload later.

It’s 10:10 AM here and somehow I managed to feel completely normal regarding the time change. I hope it stays that way.

Had breakfast of fish, rice, miso soup, mini-fish, tofu, salad (with mayo), omelette with ketchup and some pickles and stuff. Green tea and coffee as well. So little sugar but a fair amount of salt. From what I recall my Mom telling me, her Dad would eat his eggs with ketchup. I do too sometimes, but in Japan it’s standard. I feel like when I get home I will have to get like froot loops or cocoa pebbles or something to restore my sugar balance. I did have a green tea (macha) kit kat, which I’ve been wanting to have since I saw it on the internet. It was pretty good, with a mellow green tea flavor.

This hotel/spa in Izu is crazy nice. Also the Kobe Interdisciplinary Simulation School (aka KISS) looks like it will be fun… I can’t read or even pronounce Japanese, but I understand the universal language of the UNIX command line. Yay.

Also there is a guitar here, which I haven’t played yet, but I surely will.