Hendrik wrote:
> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Don't rub it in! I just couldn't hack the real Japan, so I had to move to
>>not-quite-Japan instead.
>>Now I while away my days in embittered working retirement, gazing at the
>>ocean and drowning my sorrows in cheap local hooch.
> 
> Could be worse: these days i am exposed to the grimey look of the cherry
> blossoms on my way to work in T-shirt and sandals (not even socks!),

Pretty much what you used to wear in Okazaki then :-)

> dreaming of all the money i could make in Tokyo... poverty sucks...

-- 
"UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.