Not at Anthrocon anymore!

I did get one badge after all!

Fursuit parade and block party cancelled due to the heat. This means furries are now obligated to destroy the sun. … or whatever else is causing this heat …

Almost there!

Airport’d and on my way to Anthrocon!

Anthrocon confirmed! Booked a flight less than 24h before departure, haha! Landing Wednesday at 3PMish. I have no idea what i’m doing, but i’m doing it!

Flight time!

Okay! So! If i try to get to AC, would anyone be driving down there from Montreal or Toronto, and would happen to have room for one? I can pack light if needed!

So with me being me instead of some tourist-y souvenir i bought myself some made in Japan flush cutters. I never heard of that brand, i hope they’re good!

I don’t need another headset! But…

Got to play with some Xreal and Viture glasses with displays today. They could actually be very interesting as a « VR light » kind of setup, more than i expected. I strongly dislike the AI-oriented ones, but if they can just work with SteamVR as display/tracking only… Could be very fun!

"You can use AI translation, it's fine, nobody will notice, and it makes some really pretty things!" Yep, "CAUTION: PRECISION ECAUTION" has a very clear meaning. Also, i think caution signs should be as clear and simple as possible, fake weathering, rust and scratches don't enhance that.

I'm in that weird part now where i've got some free time in Japan, so i did a bit more wandering, i'm really starting to get a better hang of the patterns and places. Kinda want to stay longer now. But at least i know i should be coming back for a few weeks to a few months later this year!

Also, that was really… Sci-fi?

… apparently this is « worker cafeteria » food here …

I guess that's one valid reason to have internet-connected hotel wash-dry machines... At least it, surprisingly, did NOT require an account of any kind. Just enter the portal's address while connected to the hotel,s wifi and there you go!

Once past the whole « AaaaAAAaaaAAaaa! » part, Japan isn’t bad at all! Just needed more time to figure out the patterns, being thrown in and having to immediately operate in a rush and on multiple tight deadlines didn’t allow much of that. But now that i got a few slow spots, yeah, it makes sense.

Okay, this is an impressive view for a hotel room.

Leaving Tokyo for Nagoya on the Shinkansen!

… figuring out laundry was an adventure!

I discovered a restaurant nearby that does that whole "near zero human interaction" thing nearby. It's... great! Having food delivered by a robot is weird tho. But yeah! I can actually de-work myself there and brain-recharge!

I kinda feel bad about this. I'm in Japan. Lots of creatures would love to be in Japan. But i'm spending far too much time in my hotel room, dealing with a whole Japanese team the whole day is exhausting and i just want to relax and have something familiar. I want to try things, but... aaah.

I think i just got earthquake’d? That was an interestingly disorienting experience!

So yep, i’m in Japan now!

Airplane time soon!

So yeah. Flying out to Japan tomorrow early. STRESSSSSS!

Rawr...

Managed to sneak back in!

… was supposed to rain all weekend long!

Oof. Because resume screening vendors use a service that caches results, it surfaces the same result to any place you send the same resume. Anyway. If you're job searching right now, changing a few words per submission will bust this and give you a better shot. I wish this weren't needed.

So! Work has more or less confirmed that i’ll be around Tokyo from the 12th to the end of the month. That’s going to be different! Then back to Germany.

Hm… Guess i should do groceries quickly!

Figured i’d switch to electric, and previous work was selling those for under 200$…

Now the bike has 6 speeds, up from having just one!

As much as i want to try 'n shop local for things, it'd be really nice if things could both be in stock, and not require a long argument with the seller as to why, yes i do need THIS THING and not some other part they argue is what i should need... I'm fixing a modified old thing, please stop.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Airplane time again! Should be back in Canada this evening.

Don't be surprised if you see this dragon at the beach. ZDragon shorts now available: morghus.gumroad.com/l/zdragonsho...

Also, i re-watched Blade Runner 2049 on the flight to Zurich, it's interesting how much stood out from Joi's behavior, now that there's all the LLM "AI"s around and how they behave.

Apparently, the view from my hotel room is just « trains ».

Yeah, this is different.

Seeing trains get connected together in a station still seems so strange. Also, i wish i had filmed, it made a pretty impressive flash!

Also, it’s weird. I feel like i used to live a double life, as in… One was pretending to be a generic « normal » human working as IT person or forklift driver. The other is the dragon-raptor-y me. Now the « normal » one is world-traveling, and also a wyvern. So i have no idea WTF anymore.

I have Zurich’d!

I’m once again doing the whole thing where i eliminate individual wrenches and tools from my luggage one by one to get under 23kg…

AAAaaaaah! Everything is catching on flower and i’m allergic to everything! I have no idea why it’s so bad this year!

I have the « I read the manual » superpower, it seems. *Very long sigh*

It feels like it needs some stickers, but…

It looks like an horrible idea, but it’s actually amazing!

One more reason why i take public transit in Montreal.