What to Do on a Day Off

It seems that lately my days off are spent indoors with a TV marathon of my own choosing limited only by what's available on the internet.  It's not that I don't WANT to get out and explore the town some more, but it's cold and I don't really have anything pressing, and I have laundry to wash and baths to take, so I just stay in most of the time.  Once the weather is nicer I'll definitely get out more.

Last night after work I went out to dinner with some friends.  We went to a Japanese-style  restaurant where there's a big hot plate in the middle of the table and then you order some dinner sets of your choice that usually come in a big bowl that you mix up and cook into something like a big vegetabley and meaty pancake.  We ordered an all-you--can-eat set which was really interesting because the all-you-can-eat places in Japan usually give a time limit.  So we had about an hour and a half to eat all-we-could-eat, which we certainly did.  I was so stuffed by the end that I could barely move.  But it was all delicious.

Out of sincere kindness, one of my friends at dinner said that while I'm here, if I'm ever in ANY trouble, or if there are places in Japan I want to visit or events I want to see, any time I'm more than welcome to call the other guy who was there.  And, since the guy doing the talking was the other guy's superior, he couldn't very well say no.  So it sounds to me like somebody's going to have quite the credit card bill once I leave town.

The sun stays up later and later each day as often happens when winter melts into spring, so I should be able to take more pictures around town even after I get home from work in the upcoming days.  Hopefully that will make for good blogfodder.  But for now, I have to go.  There's a 30 Rock marathon on!