Keitaro-K

So... It started with last year. The plan was to visit Japan last September... But Coronavirus prevented that-Japan didn't open (for everyone) until after my trip was scheduled. So I was not in a happy mood. This was to be my opus-the three-week, making use of the maximum length Rail Pass... I got my hotel payment back, but not the flight... I had an option to reschedule... Which I probably should've taken... But at the time I wasn't sure Japan would be open for spring since it hadn't been open in the fall... (I canceled in late Aug, Japan opened in October... And I hadn't had time to weigh chances) With Japan open, the idea of going in the spring (for cherry blossoms) popped into my head-teasing me throughout December... And After Christmas I bit-with a nefarious scheme- I'd go TWICE in one year! MWAHAHA! I had the vacation time (It built up over the last few years) and the money (Same. Sux that I'd lost the flight fees, but I could get deals on the other trips... Travelocity is great

Ok, as someone pointed out I haven't been active on here. ('Active' traditionally being defined as doing something worthy of note or demarcation-posting a picture, a story... A journal?) I have been on here, looking at other things... But this has not been a fun year (nor has the rest of the obnoxious pandemic-and my IRL job is at a pharmacy, so you know I'm not exaggerating by saying any of that.) In addition to the suck-fest caused by the virus, I also got to turn 40 and have some entitled Shipt jerk post a picture of me under my store's google map listing wherein he claims I was racist towards him when in actuality he expected tax-exemptions from us when we had not been informed of such a thing (and tax exemptions are kindof an unusual thing). So even though I tried to find out if such a thing was correct-did everything I could, including calling another store- no one could verify. So the guy made the decision to burn me by posting this review on google maps (strangely omitting all