From One Hot Place to Another

So I told my boss I want a new contract, which means I'll be here another year. Another year in Japan, folks, what does that mean for David, I wonder?

Eh, who knows. I've largely given up on trying to figure out what the future holds, I only try to at least buy a plane ticket a couple months in advance so as to save a few bucks.

Speaking of which, I'm looking at plane tickets to Palau so I can go visit Buka next month, but it's kinda spur of the moment since I didn't think I was going to be able to go what with moving, but now that we know we're not moving next month I'm free to go somewhere and I think I'll try to stick with my original plan to go see Buka in Palau. Having said that though I'm looking at about $1k for my plane ticket, but, fuck it, who's counting in the long run, I'll get to go to Palau for a week and do whatever it is people do there. And, theoretically I'd have a place to stay and someone who knows what's going on so I wouldn't have to worry about anything but having fun and paying for drinks. I don't mind expensive plane tickets when everything else is essentially free. And I try my best to take people up on offers when they live in exotic places, cause, really when else are you gonna have a chance to cruise out to some odd corner of the Earth and have fun with someone you know?

Anyway, on top of that I leave for Thailand in a week or so, where I'll meet up with Greg, who's been romping around Asia for the last two weeks doing Godknowswhat. I'm really excited to hear about what he's been up to, since the email I got from him a few days ago made it seem like things are going really well and he's having a great time. So, I'm looking forward to hearing about it, and seeing how solo travel across multiple countries has changed him for the better. I seriously think that at some point we all need to get out and see the world on our own, and discover what it's like to live without a safety net. It's during those times that we discover who we really are, and what's important to us, and I think Greg's probably done that by now. I really feel good when I can get out there on my own and just see what can happen traveling, I really don't mind traveling alone at all. My time in Italy was fantastic, though I did have a friend there, I spent a lot of my time alone as well, and that really made it worth it. It was nice though to have someone else there to share my experience with, as I'm sure meeting up with me at the end of his trip will really make Greg's adventure one to remember. It's Greg's first time to do something like this, so I'm doubly excited for him.

On the home front, things are going well, I have nothing really to complain about, except that I'm kinda bored a lot of the time, and I feel like aside from the prospect of travel, my life is in something of a rut. Now, Saki alleviates a great deal of that feeling, and for that I'm deeply grateful, and it's certainly a good rut to be in, seeing as it's not a miserable, indebted, hand to mouth kind of rut, but all the same, I feel like I need to be doing more. I like to have a full schedule, as much as I hate being busy, I would at least like to have something other than a video game to occupy my time. Oh well, jogging I guess. I could be spending all this time to chisel myself into a rock hard slab of manliness, but that I guess comes down to a matter of will power. Would I really rather work out, or be lazy and bored and fat? Hmmm...sounds like a much easier choice than it is when put into words.

Alright, enough of this. Life's good, I'm gonna do some hardcore traveling, and it's extremely freaking hot out here. I hope wherever I go I have a more effective way to cool off than the Cool Salon I've got sitting next to me, which pumps mildly cool air out one side and fiendishly hot air out the other.