“…I go home for a few months and this is what is what happens. I may never be able to leave Japan again.”
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Hakuba, what was an interesting fact you learned about your family? It could be about your fathers or your mothers family.
“Despite being incredibly archaic in his personal beliefs, Hakuba-ojiisan has some very progressive views on modern science. He has made it a point to keep his laboratory and staff on the forefront of technological and procedural advances, becoming one of the leading privately owned and funded laboratories in the country. Indeed, the eldest Hakuba is quite the man of science. I only wish he weren’t so racist. He still does all that he can to pretend that I don’t exist.”
“Grandfather Wickham, on the other hand, was a shrewd business man whose vice was in the cards. He was a gambling man who loved his liquor, and no one could best him in poker or billiards. He died when I was quite young, but I have fond memories of the scent of scotch he drank and the cigars he liked to carry around in his suit jacket. I miss that man. I think we all do.”
If I take a flight on British Airways, I can make it back to Tokyo in under 16 hours, assuming I’m able to book one-way and make it to the airport with enough time for international security. Given that I’ve been issued my replacement passport, and Mum is willing to drop me off right at the terminal… one checked bag, one carry on… 43 minutes travel time from the estate, approximately 30 minutes for express security diamond, 10 minutes to the gate, 12 hr 5 minute flight, another 25 minutes to get from gate to baggage claim and to the curb, and a cab to my father’s home…
Adjusting for the time zone shift and the demonstrated personal set-in time for jet lag, I should be able to make it in time for afternoon tea before passing out in the ensuing fifteen hours that follow, putting me at a 5:30am wake up, just in time for my routine jog and back on schedule for the court appointment at 10:45am.
Then it’s all a matter of supplying the collected evidence, my carefully rehearsed testimony, a persuasive argument regarding the inevitable plea bargain, and celebrating the predicted verdict.
All according to keikaku.