We checked out today, Ola to catch a flight back and I to check in to the Toyoko Inn that I originally had intended to stay in.\u00c2\u00a0 By nine o’clock we arrived at our partners’ office, where we stopped in for a quick coffee and tea before I took Ola to the Tokyo station.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turned out, he could have managed on his own, but it doesn’t hurt to provide a safety net.\u00c2\u00a0 We were already later than the worst rush hour, so the subway was not too crowded, and again emptied at Akasaka-Mitsuke.\u00c2\u00a0 At the Tokyo JR station I was a bit peeved that just in order to get on the platform I had to buy a ticket and couldn’t get a refund, which is something they manage to do at the Metro station.\u00c2\u00a0 A corollary of that I suppose to be that if your loved one (your darling, your joe) boards a bullet train (shinkansen), you get to wave goodbye at the wicket gate.\u00c2\u00a0 Romantic, eh?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
After I got back, we soon headed out to visit a customer who had recently bought our instrument.\u00c2\u00a0 He had some suggestions and questions but was satisfied with the results he was getting.\u00c2\u00a0 I improvised a scan protector with the top of a steel vessel for a\u00c2\u00a0specialty coating system, which might get him better results, but (a) he can’t measure with it and coat at the same time and (b) the Scan Protector<\/a> we make is five times lighter and easier to handle.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n On the ride there I’d dozed on the back seat, but on the ride back I sat in the passenger seat and stayed awake and alert the whole time and discussed music promotion in Japan with Mitch.\u00c2\u00a0 He used to do that before he joined our partners.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n