On Jan 5, 11:03 am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
> has exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>
> >On Dec 25, 8:14?am, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Dec 24, 10:38 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Hope everyone has a great holiday season!
>
> >> > John
>
> >> Christmas is a holiday? ?The only holiday I got this week was
> >> Wednesday when we all went round to the Emperor's place for cake and
> >> punch!
>
> >> At any rate, Happy Tannenbaum to you as well.
>
> >I'm having a great holiday, Japan let me out for 2 weeks.
>
> You too? The ancients must be generous. I got a 17-day parole myself, in fact.

Got back in late last night. Used the auto gates to skip the queues.
It took the technology 4 attempts to read my passport, 2 to read the
barcode on the re-entry permit, 3 to process the fingerprints, and 2
for the photo. Then they needed an official at the desk anyway.
Clusterfuck. At least I didn't have to queue. Walked through customs
with no bag check, so plenty of untaxed hard-to-find-in-Japan booze
for the bar.