Joel’s Blog

July 28.
Wow! I felt sooo much better after sleeping 11 hours! We went to the data center again this morning. I actually accomplished much more today. We went to Akasaka for dinner and had sushi again. It was great!. I had a tuna plate, foie gras sushi, beef sushi, and geoduck! I also had some [...]

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July 27.
We actually had to work today. We met the Citi data center team around 10 and got escorted to the data center. It is pretty much a normal data center except like everything else around here is it very clean and orderly. I did not get as much done as I had hoped. After [...]

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July 26.
Update 1.
I got up about 7:45 AM and fixed some green tea. They have a hot water pot in the rooms. I tried the Ume Konbucha which from what i can find out is a kelp based drink. Very salty like broth.
Rob and I checked out the hotel garden this morning before [...]

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July 24/25.
So traveling to Tokyo was interesting. We connected from Charleston to Atlanta. From there it was a 13.5 hour flight to Tokyo Narita Airport. You actually fly up over Wisconsin, Canada, Alaska, and the edge of Siberia to get to Tokyo from Atlanta. The flight was pretty good overall. I could not sleep [...]

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