la day one

Singapore Airlines is amazing. Seriously, truly wonderful. All the stewardesses are beautiful young women in attractive uniforms with impeccable service and manners. Each and every economy seat comes with a footrest, an entertainment system with tens of movies, hundreds of songs, and video games on demand. The entire plane has free, highspeed wireless internet. The food is stupendously good. And they gave me free socks and a toothbrush. Damn, that's good flying!
Landed at LAX and hung around waiting for Rogue 1 Brown Leader who was supposed to land earlier but ended up getting delayed and landed later. His swords were put in a locked aluminum gun case by ANA, who didn't bother telling anyone in LA the combo to the lock, so short work with a knife and a screw driver and we popped the aluminum lock hasp off the case. Hint: steel lock does no good on weak aluminum case.
Got to the Senpokan Dojo in time for afternoon class. Gosoke was already there and we had class for a few hours; did some iai and then the kumitachi that no one had done before, then went to a local Italian place for dinner. Hint #2: if someone calls your restaurant making a reservation for 25 people and you only have one cook working, do not say yes. Naturally, Gosoke got his pizza last, after an hour and a half wait. Went back to Tony's and promptly collapsed on the air mattress.

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