{"id":421,"date":"2004-07-19T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2004-07-19T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T05:20:00","slug":"concord-run-flip-flops-alexander-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Concord Run, Flip Flops, Alexander and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I managed to wake up at 5:00 a.m. to call Kuniko in Japan. It was around nine p.m. there on Sunday, and she was just getting home. I was pretty tired on the phone, and she sounded pretty good after being wired running around work.<\/p>\n

We talked for about half an hour, and then I went back to sleep – I didn’t wake up until around 10:30 in the morning. We had a nice breakfast and then organized a trip to Concord. My folks wanted to go there to do some paperwork relating to their new kitchen, and I wanted to do a little shopping. <\/p>\n

The shopping turned out pretty well, actually. I picked up a nice pair of flipflops, three pairs of socks, and a cheap pair of sunglasses. Just walking around the mall was interesting – American people are interesting to watch. Nobody pays much attention to me here, and I can understand what people are saying while they are walking along.<\/p>\n

After Concord we drove back, and in Napa we stopped in at In-N-Out Burger to satisfy my burger craving.<\/p>\n

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I really enjoyed digging into a proper hamburger, and then we headed back home. <\/p>\n

In the eveing I went over to Victor and Lisa’s, and I got to see their son Alexander again. He’s a lot bigger, and really cute with light hair and a great smile. He was walking around organizing his toys, and he was fun to talk to. He just stared back at my like I was a total lunatic, which probably isn’t too far from the truth.<\/p>\n

We went out to Mary’s Pizza and had a big meal – it was delicious. The place was decorated to look like the first Mary’s Pizza shack – interesting decor. We caught up about all kinds of things – and afterwards we went back to their place where I wore down everyone’s patience by looking at pictures from my first year in Japan. <\/p>\n

Upon leaving they awarded me with an entire case of Guinness – what a lucky guy. Lisa still gets cool fringe benefits at her company, and this time it worked out for me. How lucky! Now I’ve got to find a way to drink all this beer. Big issues to deal with around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I managed to wake up at 5:00 a.m. to call Kuniko in Japan. It was around nine p.m. there on Sunday, and she was just getting home. I was pretty tired on the phone, and she sounded pretty good after being wired running around work. We talked for about half an hour, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-6N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}