Hello there, first-cousin-once-removed-of-Jesse, my name is Tom, and I will be Jesse's designated hugger for the evening. Jesse sincerely accepts your condolences."

Lol, sounds like many people could use a Tom scola at times!

Japan continues to be pretty freaking cool (see photos on my Facebook and Instagram). Tomorrow we head to Kyoto. Will try not to go crazy on my traveling companion though she was makin me a bit nuts today. Reminding myself that if we want we can go totally different places and spend all day apart, in Kyoto. (The next two places on the itinerary not so much, as we have Plans, but Kyoto I could avoid her for three days if desired!)

I'm already feeling anxious about coming home and having to deal with work, though :(

Ugh, got waked up at a quarter to 4 by the building fire alarm going off. The one none of us can shut down—the tenants and the fire dept. had to wait on my landlord to show up with a key to the alarm system. At least we know it does work in the event of an actual fire, I guess.

At least it was on extra-hour-of-sleep day?

Which brought my grand total up to three. It started going off again about 20 minutes later, at which point I got up for real.

I love my extra hour day dearly, but would be fine with losing it if it meant no more silly DST.

Toddlers do not understand DST. No extra hour here.

Yeah, Zoe wakes with the sun and doesn't care one bit about the clock. The extra hour is rather theoretical.

Loki doesn't either. We debated it off & on for 2 hrs. And I stayed up late. And now he's asleep on me, the jerk.

I hope you get Monday off to decompress.

I really wish I had taken Monday! I was not thinking, but have too much to do at work anyway.

Cute trick: in the middle of the npr piece on the EMP hoax, power flickered enough to require several clocks to be reset and router rebooted.