2.01.2004

Last night was great. Miho and I went to Vanilla and when we got to the door there were Yakuza there. I thought to myself, this isn't right. So I ask one of the token yaks if the owner Taka is around. The guy replies "Taka-san no longer owns the club. He "retired."" I saw the other guy, Toku, the night before; but have not seen Taka since before christmas. Me thinks that after months of threats and harassment from the Yaks Taka was either taken fishing or sold the club...too bad. He was cool.

So I show Miho the much improved club and she is happy, but the club is empty so we high-tail it over to the much seedier area of Roppongi where all the bars and clubs are. We fisrt goto Gaspanic to take advantage of the 400yen per drink happy hour which lasts until 930pm. While there we play Jenga and I win twice...she hates Jenga because unlike when we play Uno I win everytime...I am the Jenga King..Miho is the Uno Queen so she never loses that.

Then we go over to see Tyson at Bar Matrix. We hadn't seen him for months so we dropped in and he was happy to see Miho so that was good. After we went back to Gaspanic for one more drink then we both went to our separate homes...at 11pm believe it or not...

So Today I went out to Kichijoji. What a shlep. That place is out in the country-side. Crazy. It's really nice there. We went to Inokashira-Koen (park) and spent the whole afternoon walking around and looking at all the performers there doing street shows and such. Nice, relaxing day.

Tomorrow at 8am I will be at Tokyo Sports Cafe with Miho to watch the Superbowl...isn't that somethin?? 8am!! God!! I took a paid-holiday from work to watch it though so it's all good. I will be paid to eat, drink, and watch my patriots crush the lowly panthers...Tom Brady is God! Bledsoe who?!?!

GO PATRIOTS!!!