Tim’s Ramblings

A bit more abstract. This is the all glass curvy wall of the National Art Center, Tokyo.

More film shots will be coming soon as I just developed 2 rolls. One from the horse farm and one from Japan (finally).

Just some B&W photos for today.

Here’s Shelly at Sweet Melissa restaurant at dinner. The “gotta have a wine glass” theme continues :)

A shot of Shinjuku outside of the West Gate from a few months ago.

More HDR photos from the Art Museum.

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Just another subway shot :)

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The tram station at Dulles International. Crappy airport. Nice architecture.

The hallway at the National Art Center, Tokyo. Got there early enough before the Man Ray exhibit opened for me to take a pic while they were still mopping the floor.

For anyone wondering…yes…this is the longest I have gone without posting a photo in a row. Saturday I was at my parent’s and I didn’t get to editing and Sunday I was traveling. I got home Sunday to find that my luggage never made it to Cleveland from D.C., my gas was turned off at my house due to maintenance that happened and they needed access to my home, and my new license plates for my car was not sent…needless to say, after 24 hours of traveling I was in no mental state to update.

Many of the issues have been resolved though with my run of bad luck I dread looking at all the mail that was held for me for fear of what else might have gone wrong. However, I will post tonight all 3 days worth! :)

日本からこのブログを見ているみんなのために日本語でもメッセージを書こうかと（・・・といっても両親以外いるのかな?）三日連続アップデートしていないことは分かっています。今まででも三日連続はミスしたことないと思うけど一応言い訳はあるんです。土曜日は両親の所に止まり写真のエディットをしなくて、日曜日は空の上でした。日曜日クリーブランドに着いたら荷物はワシントンから届いていなく、家に帰ったら車の新しいプレートが送られていなく、その上ガスが止まっていました。ガスはどうも近くで工事をして問題がないかどうか家の中に入る必要があったらしく、もちろん僕は家に2週間もいなかったのでガスが止められました。まったく・・・ま、このように次々に起きて写真などを載せる気もなく一日終わってしまいました。

大体の問題はもう解決したので（ガスもＯＫで荷物は夜中の11時45分ごろに届きました・・・）もう大丈夫だと思うけど、なんだかこれだけ悪運が続くと、今朝もらった2週間分の郵便にどんなものが潜んでいるのか・・・ま、いずれにしろ今晩には三日分アップデートします！＾＾

Today’s odd drink is by none other than Tropicana. But I have a feeling this is very very regional…you won’t find this in the US I don’t think. It’s orange juice with rare cheese flavor. Um. Yeah. It smelled odd to begin with. When you drink it it tastes like watered down OJ but…watered down with thinned out yogurt-ish slightly cream cheese-ish flavor. Eeeeyeah. I finished it. Can’t say I’d have another. Gave me heartburn too…

You see these fortune tellers setting up shop here and there in Tokyo at night. Never tried it. But you sometimes see guys stopping by for their fortunes read or advice. I guess good advice is good advice, even if it comes from some guy in an alley?

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Just one photo for today…too tired. I took this shot of this very bizarre and unique building walking back from my morning meeting in Ebisu. It looked like an event hall type facility but the outside is just incredible. I’ll have to come back and take more pics some other time (if I can remember where it is again…)

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New drink here in Japan. Or at least I’ve never seen it in the US. It’s basically Diet 7-Up but with caffeine. 85mg of it. That’s a lot. It’s 5ml more than a can of Red Bull. Unfortunately it tastes a lot like the old Pepsi Clear from the early 90′s…and that is NOT a ringing endorsement… Oh well.

Went to dinner with Kent and his wife Asuka in Shinjuku. After dinner we went to a game center and I managed to grab both of these at the same time :) I still have the touch…sometimes :)

Beer crates. I just liked the poster next to it. It’s an Okinawa noodle place.

Almost 11pm and Shinjuku Station was still PACKED.

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