8/23/22 Boy In Japan?

     Boy has now been in Japan for 5 days.  It is hard to have a conversation with him, first off, he never was great at communicating.  Second, we are on opposite sides of the planet, so we get up almost when he is getting ready for bed, and vice versa.  He also spent the first three days on the move, so we didn't want to be in his way, texting if he is trying to figure out where to get off from a train or whatever.

    He arrived in Tokyo, which is a huge city as anyone knows.  He was there for most of last week, one day recuperating from his 16-hour flight, and then doing a little site seeing.  I believe Saturday he jumped on a bullet train to take him to Sendai, which looking at a map is up from Tokyo, towards the upper most part of Japan.  Looking at the map, he did pass by Fukushima, which about ten years ago had a nuclear reactor fail after an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the safety precautions.  There is still leakage, but according to their scientists, even the fish in the area is clean enough to eat as far as radiation levels.  Anyways, Sendai is about an hour and a half from that.

    He keeps sending pictures of meals he is eating.  I know he goes crazy for all that type of food.  I just see rice and filler on most of the plates, I prefer meat on my plates.  He did say Sendai is like the Texas of Japan, in that they are known for their beef.  He said he also had a dinner of Wagyu steak and that it was good.  If it is 10:00am here, they are roughly 12 hours ahead, and the time there should be about midnight.  Around 5:30am, he sent some pictures of him in his "bunny suit", the clean room outfit people wear to go inside a fab.

    He has been rather frustrated at how the people work over there.  He is used to working alone, with no supervision, but right now, he is the expert and has a whole crew of people looking over his shoulder and waiting for him to guide them.  He says he went to the bathroom, at the start of his day, and was hoping that they would have started breaking down the tool, opening it, and no, he came back, and they were all standing in the same spot, waiting for him to get them started.  I am guessing this is why they scheduled him to be there for two weeks.