Sometime later on this arduous travel day of mine I’m arriving back in the gool old U.S.A. after spending the past week and a half in Japan. Full reflections forthcoming; for now you can read about one slice of the trip here.

It takes more than 24 hours to travel from the east coast of the United States to the east coast of Japan, even if you do it in one long-ass flight as I did last week. Getting home actually takes no time at all, and in fact getting from Japan to California takes negative time. I’m leaving Japan on Wednesday afternoon and arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday morning. I’d get home even earlier if they let me take the big time machine through customs.

I’ve never actually spent time in San Francisco before and I guess today I won’t either. I’m leaving before I got there.

I’d always heard San Francisco was a little weird but this is just ridiculous.