luckykaa

Last evening here. Not sure if I'll have time to update before I leave.

Everything is packed except a tiny handful of things I need tomorrow.

Discoveries so far...

Lost my flight booking details - lucky I have a spare.
Remembered head - Lucky it's screwed on right.
Found Convention had provided a Restaurant guide - But I was actually quite happy with my scattergun approach to finding food.
Also got a spare Yokahama Tourist map from somewhere (probably con pack again), but I had one already from 1st day here.
I seem to be insanely tired.

Off to Hakone today.

( Tourist blogging under cut )

Went to blogging panel. Touched on fanfic and the associated vocabulary being applied to mainstream lit.
"Who's Tolkein's Mary Sue?"
"Gandalf!"
"Yeah, Okay..."

Zygote Panel was hijacked by Zygote games. Looked pretty good. Educational games that provide education AND gameplay. Scored a free game from it too.

Closing Ceremony followed. And now it's over. Sigh... I want another one..

Masquerade was running a bit late. Not even the Japanese can get that to run on time.

I need somewhere better than the lj scrapbook to put my photos. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Only 12 entries. Fantastic Sword display over deliberation time. Nabbed some video before deciding Continuous wind would work better.

Photos will be posted when I get back.



Also wasn't using flash so results are going to be variable.

Hosted by George Takei & Nozomi Ohmori.
( And the winners are: )

So, today it's the sleepy town of Ito. Starts with long train ride. Hopefully my feet will forgive me yesterday's punishment.

Dithered around at the station working out trains. Lunch was random thing on a stick. Found the train I wanted. Was confused because the destination board named a station not on the route.

Pleasant, rather tatty seaside town but black sand is a little non-seasidy. Picked up a walking tour map which told me what I'm looking at (but no context). Wasted too much time this morning waking up and getting out. Otherwise would have looked at Atami.

Decided to get the Shinkansen back. Much faster than local trains. And I get to do some train spotting. Taking photos of Shinkansen is hard. Only a few seconds to snap. Shutter lag is big problem.

Back for beer crawl. Joined Steve Rogerson & 13 other geeks to Beer Village, "Cheers" (nice selection of international beers), and an obscure bar on floor 2F (1st floor) of a non-descript building.

We filled the place up.

Decided to leave early. These are hardened beer drinkers, some of whom have had thick bushy beards longer than I've been alive. No way could I keep up.

Gallons of water drunk: 174.

Maybe not, but it's damn hot.

hopefully this cut will work. Not 100% sure with a PDA.
( Tokyo, Swords and technology )

The story so far...

Starting at Convention day -4

ln note form on PDA so rather bitty.

Everything is shockingly efficient. Security theatre only took about 10 mins. Gave me way to much time to kill. Decided I didn’t feel lucky enough to gamble £20 on a Supercar.

Eventually we had a gate number. To my delight, my mid-triplet seat was exchanged for an aisle seat. Even better, the middle seat was unoccupied. Better yet, the window seat was occupied by a very nice gal who goes by the name Tamsyn. She was heading to Japan to teach English. And she happened to be a science fiction fan. Told you she was nice.

Airline entertainment systems now have Video on demand. Quite good. Saw Flushed Away. Not bad. Has cute slugs. Dinner was fine. Will avoid airline cooked breakfast in future....

Will post next day in new entry to avoid losing it again.