So whenever Endevour doesn't have me rearanging her loading bay or if I can find a spare moment to myself from helping prep the Hikari Maru II. (I must say she's one of the finest boats I've seen.) I'll wander thru Tokyo.

I kinda feel like Godzilla when walking down the street, a few pedestrians will stop point at me, "Typhoon!" and take pictures.

My Japanese is rusty, but I got shoreleave here twice during my career, if anything the city is just bigger, louder, and more energized.

If such a thing is possible it's ultra-modern, and ultra-Western, and has a way of confusing me and making me feel uncultured.

A few days ago I walked to Mount Fuji and I was struck by it's majesty, I think I had a moment of clarity. So I sat at it's base, I sat for three days without moving, just thinking, trying to make sense of things, like the question: Why?

My answer is simply: Because. I feel renewed, I walked back into Tokyo a better person than I left, when I can safly say that: I have seen more of the earth than almost anyone else, but up until now I'd never stopped to smell the roses.

What would the beach be without the sand ... each tiny, little grain.

Why settle with each grain of sand. The moment I saw an atom, after pinning it down to be observed using every possible method, and failing ang failing, I finally pinned it down. I realized I was looking at all of creation. Or at least one of a multitude representing it.

I realized that even if I was larger than that captured atom, I was still a small being in a vast universe. I let that atom go.

Common Oxygen atoms deserve to be free.

It sounds funny, but it just didn't feel right... bah... I spend too much time in a lab.

You are so spooky-Hot sometimes, you know that?