OK, one more post. Maybe I need to go to Japan next year. I'm currently sitting in the ANA lounge during my layover on the way home and marveling at just how mechanized, automated, efficient, spotlessly clean, and well, just how damn Japanese the Tokyo Narita airport is. There's a fancy machine for dispensing everything from fresh ground coffee to beer on tap. All the doors are automated. All the escalators slow down when people aren't on them to save energy. And there isn't a single speck of dirt in the entire place. It looks like you could eat off the damn floors here, including the ones in the bathroom. And speaking of the bathrooms, I've never seen so much technology go into a toilette. When I fired up my wifi, there were about 15 wifi networks in range, and every single one of them showed a full 5 bars strength. How is that even possible? Surely one of those hotspots is a ways away. I'm now convinced that Japan is magic.
Anyways, I'm going to go help myself to the sake bar. Later.