2011 - NZ To SF - Day 110

Day 110: (31 August 2011):
- Since not leaving for Fuji, stay in Osaka even longer.
- Lots of organizing place to stay in SF.
- Leg worse, quite painful & swollen.
- Meet Ben & co for lunch again. To a set meal place, the 3rd place Ben mentioned for places to eat around work.
- Ume chicken. Nice, nothing too extreme.
- Head back, feel like a snack. Sashimi, vegetable drink & azuki ice cream sandwich from tamade.
- Long day of relaxing (so good to relax a bit), trying to fix computer (need Ben’s password for create Haiku USB boot), & CS / SF messages. Laundary(?).
- Meet Ben for dinner @ office. Got info & decided on a nearby fugu place during lunch.
- Bought an expensive Y5xxx set meal to share & a fugu dish we were curious about. Pretty empty. No one notice us enter, apologize.
- For all single serving dishes, gave us two! So nice of them, we felt a bit bad about it.
- Raw is definitely the right way to eat fugu. Wonderful texture. No tingly toxin though.
- Strange disk / wax paper boiling bowl to make rice thing.
- Ben chat as he make. He from Nagoya. Translate a bit for me & about my travels.
- After dinner, bow, show us outside. Give Ben Y1000 coupon.
- Walk to Umeda, some kind of CS meetup.
- Check Blarney Stone first. Gaijin hangout. The elevator: Jap. saying “there is a lot of gaijin here, I see one already,” then Ben burst out laughing, guy bow & apologize.
- At HUB, slightly expensive, gaijin sports bar.
- Chat a bit. Have some beers.
- 2 girls walked in, straight to a French guy & gave him their number.
- OK, but some didn’t speak English that well, some OK conversations, but nothing too good.
- Head home after long day. Try Haiku boot. Not work.
- Prev. attempt with Ubuntu disk: start booting, then say file system not found, & no longer work after.
- Life supermarket. Plan for weekend.