Early Monday Morning, Tokyo

The good news is, in Tokyo you can get a good cheap umbrella almost anywhere, and they always provide long plastic bags to put your wet umbrella in when you go inside a building.

Crunky!

As I mentioned, in Japan there seems to be a lot more interest in dark chocolate among the common people than in the USA. Dark chocolate versions of candy bars, both domestic and imported, are common. This is a good thing. Kit Kat, one of the most international candy...

I am not as cool as Garr Reynolds

Not by a long shot. I’m in a Tokyo hotel working on presentations. Here’s Garr in a Tokyo hotel working on a presentation. Notice the difference? He posts videos of himself talking about the 1-7-7 or 1-8-8 rule while I’m revising presentations that...

This is going to be difficult

Finally, I’ve got some time to blog. You know, quality time, like when you’re jetlagged out of your mind at an hour when the only things to do outside the hotel are or should be illegal? So I log on to blogger, and here’s what I get: As you’re...

Two semi-aerial views of Malaga

Malaga is Picasso’s birthplace. There’s a museum there containing a fair sample of his works, few if any of which were actually created in Malaga. He left at the age of 14 to go to art school in Barcelona. From the Alcazaba fortress. From the balcony of...