Notices by chris martens (chrisamaphone@hci.social)

gonna cross the date line… never done that before

i’m flying to tokyo today!! well, it’ll be tomorrow when i get there

I think we crossed it pretty close to midnight though so i was gonna be like wow it’s tomorrow now… well

I accidentally paid for a ¥200 charge with a ¥10000 note (meant to use a ¥1000 note). 🤦🏻 not sure if that was more the unfamiliar currency or just not being used to using cash these days in general

i’m on a train!

also the immigration line was long af and i definitely messed up the train transfer multiple times so it took me way too long to get to the hotel. i should sleep before any further misadventures

and of course the person i gave it to didn’t say anything to suggest this was surprising or rude, just very graciously gave me a large pile of notes back which i was super confused about until i got back to my room and figured out what happened

I think i was told “if you try to speak japanese you will just get spoken to in english anyway” but i have definitely needed to “eigo ga hanase masu ka? 😓” myself into mutually intelligible conversations

awake and having breakfast

somehow I didn’t realize this was a drive on the left side of the road place

i’m like an average sized person here it’s so cool

there’s so many joggers?? mostly older looking people??

hmm… should i go to the tiny old school “granny” bouldering gym https://granny-ueno.com/price/ or the huge famous B-PUMP gym which looks like it has some cool rooftop boulders https://pump-climbing.com/gym/akiba/

[Blooming status]

according to that gym i’m like a v1-2 climber but they had some very fun v1-2 problems

there’s like a 6yo kid at bpump projecting v4s

today’s breakfast

this city is great i like it lots

today’s dinner [food; fish as food]

an exciting new way to wake up