chezmax

I wrote all this on the plane at about midnight, eastern time, while on the plane to Osaka.

How strange...

My watch (and brain) says it is midnight. I have another two or so hours before landing. However, it's bright as day out, as the local time is somewhere around 3 or so in the afternoon... (I left Vancouver at 1:05 local time and land in Osaka before 4 local time... So it must be sometime between those).

Traveling west is a bit of a head trip... Hooray for the 35 hour day.... And I'm still too giddy to sleep. I'm going to sleep well tonight... Whenever that is. I think they're going to serve another meal before landing. I hope.

I've watched quite a few movies today on the seat back video screens to pass the time.

Quick reviews:
Away From Her - very very sad, but very well done, telling the story of a couple in their early 60s, and the tragic tale of the wife's battle with Alzheimer's. It seemed to hit extra hard as its set very close to where I live (Brant county)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - incredibly bad. Worst acting I've seen all day. Strange casting choices...
The Time Machine - actually moderately entertaining and not too bad.
Air Canada enRoute Student Short Film Festival - short films by Canadian students in film schools, selected by a panel of judges. These were around 10 minutes long, and I watched about two hours of these. They ranged from cute, to interesting, to confusing, to silly. Was a fun way to spend two hours.

My rowmate is an older Japanese woman who doesn't speak English, and has been watching movies most of the trip, but not listening to them... She's watching Paprika now (which is Japanese) and she might enjoy it if she was listening... She has headphones (passed out at the beginning of the trip) and I tried to offer to let her use my extra set (which shed be able to hear... The free ones don't block out any sound) but she wasn't having any of it.

Oh well.

Just a little more time to go...

Some hours later, I touched down at Kansai (KIX), had some short but confusing moments with customs and security, and walked out and ran into

she_prime, my most gracious host of graciousness.

From there, we hopped onto a JR train into the city, which took the better part of an hour. Meg took me to her apartment where I unloaded my stuff, and then we went to seek dinner.

She took me to this place that she described as a "Japanese Denny's". Which quite intrigued me at that rather obscene our. (I think it was 27 o'clock for me at that point). So we arrived at "Royal Host", and it.. was kind of like a Japanese Denny's. I pointed at something on the menu, and Meg fielded the questions, and some time later, I had a tasty dish with rice, tasty beef, an egg, some mushrooms, onions, tofu... and a seaweed salad and miso soup, and this inscrutable but tasty dessert. She had a club sandwich and fries. *boggle* We then came back, and hung out for a bit, before I fell asleep...