I left a bit later today as we didn’t expect the customer’s sample to arrive before 10am, but it arrived earlier than expected, so after a strategy discussion regarding the customer visit we began measuring the sample.  It’s fun to measure with our Nanite system – it was my first real try – because with the automated translation stage you can tell it to measure in certain places, leave the office to buy lunch, and come back to the measurement half done. 

The measurement went well and the next step will be to measure at the customer site.  Suddenly I can feel the salesman’s rush I never thought I would. 

After readying the system for shipment to the exhibition we went for dinner at a Korean place, where I had a squid ink hotpot, a black soup with the spices glimmering on it in opalesque red.  The ink didn’t stain my teeth or tongue, as Ihalf hoped it would, and I couldn’t tell that it added to the taste, but after wiping my mouth the napkin showed black stains.  I tried a mixture of beer and makgeolri, a sweetish Korean raw rice wine, which tasted better than either of the parts or even what one would anticipate from the sum of the parts.  For dessert, green tea ice cream and a corn tea (sic). 

Another walk to the hotel along the love hotel alley and another flurry of thoughts along the line of how awkward it must be to have to specifically go to a designated place for love.  “Hey honey, how about a ‘stay’ at the hotel Bagus tonight?  Or what do you think of the Grand Chariot?” 

Tomorrow: weekend -  and underwear washing, most likely.  ¦-(