Glad to have got here at all. Flew Ali­talia. Plane’s brakes broke down as we were taxi­ing for take­off; a 6.50 am take-off turned into a 10.15 take off. The pre­vi­ous night Geeklawyer slept at ter­mi­nal 2 Heathrow which was very noisy and so Geeklawyer got about 1 hours sleep.

Dur­ing the inter­change Geeklawyer sat in a Rome depar­ture lounge with loads of LOUD Italian-American stereo­types, who looked like the cast of Good­fel­las on a shoot­ing break — though oddly one of the women was decid­edly fit and well under 200lbs; odd for an Amer­i­can chick. Geeklawyer man­aged to avoid mak­ing any jokes along the lines of “Who’s stir­ring the sauce back in New Joisey?” on account of the worry that start­ing a punch up in an air­port would only delay him join­ing the flight to Tokyo — by about 5 years.

Then, trans­ferred to an Ali­talia Boing 777 at Rome which looked as though it had been been built by Fiat 10 years ago: all the bits inside the cabin were bro­ken or falling off and the engine sounded like the big end had gone.

Finally Geeklawyer arrived at Tokyo to dis­cover that his weak Japan­ese was not merely weak it was pos­i­tively effem­i­nate. Like com­menter Alas­dair he resorted to point­ing at things and look­ing pathet­i­cally in need of help. Very convincingly.

And oh my God, the fuck­ing heat. From a cold rainy UK to what appears to be the sur­face of Venus.

Fucked on account of no sleep, fucked on account of the heat. Fucked & dis­ap­pointed by his lack of facil­ity with the language.

Only good point so far is that the hotel is both very good and very cheap. It has sweet sweet fast broad­band. It also has an air con­di­tioner pow­ered by a used Star­ship engine & Geeklawyer has it wound up full. It also has one of those oddly com­plex toi­lets. He don’t know that he dare use it in case it tells him he has a rare dis­ease that is has detected from analysing his urine. Hee may piss in a bot­tle and throw it from the win­dow. Talk­ing of which he drank a bot­tle of the infa­mous ‘Pocari Sweat’ which was oddly tasty.

Going to bed now. Intend to abuse Aki­habara dis­trict and hunt Hello Kitty porn for the Harem.

Hope to feel bet­ter on the morrow.