CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 12:29 PM, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

> >> Make sure your Human Being knows all of the consequences of her decision
> >> as it brings the Borg back into her life and she may not like that.
> >
> > Well, if it's in Tokyo, just point her to the shopping and kissaten.

> Don't know whether you've noticed, but it is A LOT more different for 
> those who started out here and have been away to adjust to coming back. 
>   My wife has a hard enough time spending a few days with our friends on 
> base and then re-compressing when she has to cross the gate back into 
> Japan.  My daughter hates her school more and more as she sits in at the 
> base school and is starting to really understand what a pit Japanese 
> "education" (sic) really is.

Well, I'm not ex-military, so the bases would be out.

> Tokyo can be an extremely cruel place.  Just this morning at the local 
> Kasumi (supermarket that's part of Aeon Group) asaichi the Muzak system 
> was murdering Ziggy Stardust ... "Starman" and "Ground Control to Major 
> Tom" on a squeaky synthesizer before moving on to BeeGees and Marky 
> Mark.  The horror ... THE HORROR ...

My wife thinks Tokyo is proof that Japan is the Land of the Gods. Of course,
we only visit anymore, and don't live there, but still she's in absolute
ecstasy whenever she's there.

Mike