From the helpful idiots guidelines at tsa.gov

Please keep in mind that these rules were developed after extensive research and understanding of current threats.
    Oh shit!  I heard someone on the Internet in another country may or may not have talked about making a bomb out of water!  Quick!  Cover your asses and confiscate the Starbucks!

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And we're back! The apartment looks like a bomb went off, and we're trying to sort through all the events of the past few weeks. I'll post more as I uncover, but right now, I'm just really tired. Three *hours* of turbulence over the Pacific-- I have never hurled in an airplane in my life, but I came pretty close. Yak. On the up side, we had ( Read more... )

I think i'm beginning to like Bangkok a little more.

It's a lot ruder than Japan, that's for sure. But the fact that we were staying at a luxury hotel certainly improved my outlook. One of thefreak's friends is a travel agent and got us a hookup at a swanky hotel for our last two days here ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a delicious dinner of white meat, potatoes, a side dish with berries, vegetables, and a pie.


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I gotta post these, because I haven't so far. Real quickly, though, because we had to walk over a mountain to get to the next town with a good internet connection, and I don't want to walk back in the dark ( Read more... )

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This morning, we stopped at the bento place to get something to eat on the train to the airport. I'm pretty sure we the guy with all the tattoos that wandered in and ordered breakfast was yakuza. Apparently, yakuza wear pink pajamas. And I, for one, will not be the one to tell him they look silly ( Read more... )