Short but Sweet

This entry is going to be, in the words of the title, Short but Sweet.

I was at the Tokyo Big Site today for a trade exhibition.  There were a lot of booths and a lot of Japanese people.  There were also some "foreigners," by which of course I mean non-Japanese people (myself included).  It was a good time, and lots of people were milling about.  But I realized that you know you've probably hit on the right line of work when someone asks "how much will it cost for you to come install this machine at our warehouse?" and you say "roughly 3.5 million U.S. dollars" and they say, without batting an eye, "how long will it take for you to train us how to use it?  how fast does it run?"

So, without further ado, here's a picture of the Tokyo Big Site:

PS I did eat a bowl of soup tonight that was two boiled new potatoes and a cluster of octopus tentacles, which looked like Guinness Book of World Records Longest Fingernails clutching a pair of men's manlihood.