I Don't Normally Blog At This Hour

I'm in beautiful, sunny Florida right now.  It's beautiful and sunny.  Well it WOULD be sunny, if it were on Japan-time like my body and brain are.  But NO, it's got to be on late-night-east-coast-time which inconveniently makes it dark while I'm awake.  

I'm here for a trade show at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.  The trade show is  ICE USA, which I think is where Mickey and Minnie and Donald do a musical number while ice-skating, but I'm not totally sure.  This is Orlando, and the Magic Kingdom is ubiquitous here.  

Actually, in this circumstance, ICE stands for "liquId water undergoing phase transition to solid via reduCtion in temperaturE, which is apropos because part of my job involves rolling large amounts of thin plastic from one roll to another.  So I will be here until Friday.  After this trade show, I will begin Phase II of my training at our sister company, located conveniently right behind our company.

Before I get into that, let me show you another awesome picture of Orlando!

There's also this building which is crooked:

And this is what the hotel I'm staying in looks like in the lobby:

And here's my gigantic room.  It's seriously pretty big.  Actually, it's altogether probably considerably bigger than my apartment back in Omura.  In fact, I'm thinking of moving in here.  

You might be thinking "Is that a bong on he shelf under the TV?  What kind of hotel IS this?"  Or, if you're normal, you might be thinking "Is that a drum case in the middle of the living room?  Is Brazil on the road again?  Where can I catch a show?"  To which I would of course reply "Duh, I'm in ORLANDO.  Already said it once."

So clearly, there are lots of things happening in the world.  I missed a blogging day because I was in transit for literally more than 24 hours to get from Nagasaki to Orlando.  And that brings me to my next point:

I think I may be blogging less in the near future.

Now now, everyone just calm down.  Not a LOT less.  But I have realized that I want to REALLY take advantage of the time I have left in Japan, because my days are numbered.  So I'm going to get out there and go to more parks, take some Japanese language lessons, hang out with friends more, watch more Japanese television, eat more raw animals, and take more pictures.  This should be mutually beneficial because you only really like my blog when there are pictures, and I can't come up with enough to say when I don't have pictures.  Plus, I can say that I plan on doing all this WITH CONFIDENCE because frankly, the weather's gotten nicer.