{"id":152,"date":"2008-06-10T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-06-10T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:22:41","slug":"monday-and-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/monday-and-tuesday","title":{"rendered":"Monday and Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t plan to post, but I&#8217;m listening to my new <a title=\"Spitz with English subtitles\" href=\"http:\/\/jp.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gi9z175C9r4&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Spitz<\/a> CD and loath to stop, so I&#8217;ll blog while I&#8217;m hooked to the computer.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday saw me waking several times in the early morning because my fear of oversleeping kept me from a restful sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 So after six regularly interrupted hours of sleep I got up at 4:40 and ready for a long trip to Osaka.\u00c2\u00a0 I visited an SME manufacturing support setup and two of the member companies there in what was more of a scouting trip than an actual sales visit, but it turned out well.\u00c2\u00a0 I was exhausted by the time I returned and battling a little cold which I believe a good dose of sleep should quickly cure, but sleep&#8217;s hard to come by right now.\u00c2\u00a0 So it was this exhaustion that drove me to turn in before Janet showed up on skype, and I&#8217;m glad for the nine hours of sleep I got, even though the cold&#8217;s not quite gone.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s workload was less intense, comprising two meetings in Tokyo to gather economic information on Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried to keep my calorie intake down, inspired by\u00c2\u00a0my extra padding\u00c2\u00a0and by the <a title=\"Jonathan's family restaurant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathan.co.jp\/home\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan&#8217;s<\/a> menu that shows the calories for every meal, but I think I had better wait until my cold is gone.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had a good talk with Janet despite some skype issues and should now be getting busy with packing, because tomorrow I check out.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be a day of heavy lifting, especially with one of the four suitcase wheels knocked out of whack to where it blocks when it&#8217;s leading and causes the suitcase to tip.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that Japan&#8217;s June humidity and it&#8217;ll be a fun day &#8211; I&#8217;m on my last song, so I better get ready to turn in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t plan to post, but I&#8217;m listening to my new Spitz CD and loath to stop, so I&#8217;ll blog while I&#8217;m hooked to the computer.\u00c2\u00a0 Monday saw me waking several times in the early morning because my fear of oversleeping kept me from a restful sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 So after six regularly interrupted hours of sleep I got up at 4:40 and ready for a long trip to Osaka.\u00c2\u00a0 I visited an SME manufacturing support setup and two of the member companies there in what was more of a scouting trip than an actual sales visit, but it turned out well.\u00c2\u00a0 I was exhausted by the time I returned and battling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}