Waiting for my COVID test result in the Narita Airport quarantine area.

Negative test result means I can enter the country and proceed with my business trip.

Positive test result means… quarantine hotel, then I assume sent home without completing my business here. And someone’s out several thousand dollars.

Travel is way more stressful than it was before.

kokorodoko wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:19 am Very sorry to hear that. What happened? Some muckup with visas or something?

I can't bring myself to bore you with it, but I wish it were that straightforward. It's down to total incompetence at every end other than my own, and immensely frustrating.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:25 am

kokorodoko wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:19 am Very sorry to hear that. What happened? Some muckup with visas or something?

I can't bring myself to bore you with it, but I wish it were that straightforward. It's down to total incompetence at every end other than my own, and immensely frustrating.

So sorry, FM AMWT. My stress waiting for a COVID test result pales in comparison.

Hope you’re somehow able to make the best of the situation.

Edit: Not to detract from the pressing nature of the above, but...


Final season of Better Call Saul -- comin' atchuz!

For a while, it seemed like the day would never come.

DaveA wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:18 pm Edit: Not to detract from the pressing nature of the above, but...


Final season of Better Call Saul -- comin' atchuz!

For a while, it seemed like the day would never come.

I will watch the season premiere this weekend after returning from Japan.. no spoilers!

As tedious as audiophiles can be, I’m going to check out Axpona this weekend.

My hypothesis: colonoscopy prep is intentionally miserable so that having a camera jammed up your butt doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

jfv wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:01 am

kicker_of_elves wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:43 am Read a particularly gross and misogynist comment on the PRF FB page in a Liz Phair thread. Disappointing.

I continue to be happy I left FB.

Gross and misogynist Liz Phair talk? But that was her entire raison d'être.

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:15 pm My hypothesis: colonoscopy prep is intentionally miserable so that having a camera jammed up your butt doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

Oof. I had this done a couple of years ago. It wasn’t so bad in the end, and I hope the examination works out well for you. I chugged quite happily on laughing gas throughout.

sparky wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:44 am

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:15 pm My hypothesis: colonoscopy prep is intentionally miserable so that having a camera jammed up your butt doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

Oof. I had this done a couple of years ago. It wasn’t so bad in the end

Heh.