I didn’t have the best nights sleep.  The couple of craft beers I tried (with the sushi) last night probably didn’t help.  That, and knowing I had to test everything in preparation for my demo today at Konami…

I woke about 7.30 local time and went downstairs to say Hello.  Yoichi and Arisa had already gone to work and school.  I had a shower which woke me up a bit, and then some breakfast.  It was then a busy morning of testing Datascore on Kaoru’s computer, and dealing with issues from yesterday (mostly Fitgenes).

Mio drove us to the train station which was great.  It was raining, and muggy.  Although the traffic was bad, and it looked like we may be late.  At the station I caught the train to Shinagawa and Kaoru went to Shibuya (opposite direction).  At Shinagawa I went across the road to Goos hotel and met Mikiko in the lobby.  I gave her a bottle of wine as a present which she took to her room, and we went for an early lunch (it was 11.00 :)) at TGI Fridays.  Once I saw Taco rice I didn’t have to look any further on the menu!

We caught up and chatted about our plan for the day, and then caught a taxi to Konami headquarters.  The presentation was just to Oishii-san, which was disappointing.  But he was certainly happy with it and will put forward the idea to management.  They also had just tried moving to Sportskeep 3 (finally) and their original database had become corrupt.  So I had to try to fix that (but without my laptop, and other issues in that they couldn’t get the database off the computer).  We left about 2.00.

Back at Shinagawa we had a drink in the lobby, and then Kaoru called as she was on her way.  I met her at the station, and we caught a train to Akihabara.  I needed a new battery for my laptop and Kenichi suggested a store I may be able to get it from.  Unfortunately they didn’t have anything.  So we left empty handed.  We went to a Mr Donut for a donut and drink, and decide what to do for the rest of the day.

I had received a new version of the database from Oishii-san while we were there, so I logged on to my computer back in Oz and managed to repair it, and get it back to him (via Mikiko with an explanation).  We then went for a massage.  Kaoru managed to find a place that charged ~3,000 yen for 60 minutes (~AU$35).  So we went there, and were both surprised at how good a massage we received!  But we then had to move and get to the station, and back to Shinagawa.

We met Mikiko at the station at 6.30 (just on time) and went to Korean BBQ restaurant around the corner.  This was the restaurant that Kaoru and I went to on our first dinner date, that night 5 years ago, when I met Ochi-san as well.  We were at a different table, but had an awesome dinner.  Apart from the beef guts…..I won’t order them again :).

Back at Shinagawa station, Kaoru and I got our Shinkansen tickets for tomorrow, and then made our way back to Mio’s.  Luckily it wasn’t raining any more for the walk from the station, but it was still pretty warm and humid.  Kenichi was in the lounge, so i sat down and had a beer.  Mio was in the bath but came down after a bit.  Arisa was still awake as well.  I had a shower to freshen up (and wash the sweat off!) and went to bed.