good morning

thought id start the morning off by sharing one of my japan stories :) i think a week of stories in piece meal may be a better approach than me trying to write it all...

other than the food, the second most annoying thing about japan was coffee - there must be some huge import tax on it or maybe they just like to torture people who drink coffee as opposed to green tea like how we punish people who smoke with high prices...but in any event a coffee the size of a grande here is over 4 dollars! and they dont even have the venti size - that is just un heard of. the one good thing about it - now when i buy 2 dollar venti coffees at starbucks it seems cheap to me :) i wonder how long that will last (probably until i get off my butt and order some senseo coffee from their website!!!)

other than that random japan story, i didnt sleep again last night. dev came over and like i predicted he wasnt so happy when i wanted to go to bed "early" which was 11 pm and which by my standards is not early! anyway he finally let me sleep, and at 2 when he came back to bed tried waking me up, succeeded, and then i was awake till 5 am. i was not a happy camper when the alarm went off at 630....

today is pattys bday so im gonna go out to dinner with her and whomever else she invites, then to rupas, then hopefully out with j+j...