I'm home! Well, at work.

I'm back in California, sitting at my desk at work. My kitties were very, very glad to see me when I got home. I felt like such a traitor turning right around and going to work!

My watch says I leave Tokyo in a little less than five hours. At exactly this time on exactly this day, I was in the Saibu department store admiring some $1700 kittens. Or maybe I was on the roof. Soon I'll get on a train to the hotel, pick up my luggage, get on a train to Shinagawa, pick up the Narita Express and ride that for an hour, then stand in the checked-luggage-inspection line for well over an hour and then the line to actually check luggage and after that I'll start the 20 minute walk to the gate and just make my plane. Then I'll have a nine-hour somewhat-turbulent flight. Odd how much of this is in my future. Since I'm apparently still in Saibu I'll say that the kittens sure are cute.

I'm in the sniffle-and-cough-only stage. I sure hope that's the last one.

My impressions on returning to the US:
1) My, we have a lot of space per human being! A LOT! Enormous!
2) We need it.