The Raven's Roost

Fox's flight arrived a little early and he's home safe now. And he brought back a metric crap-ton of food! We have something like seven bags of Kit-Kats now, including sake, green tea, dark green tea, mixed white and dark chocolate, and coffee. I love matcha chocolate so I now have plenty of it. He even found these cakes from some high-end bakery that are absolutely delicious - soft matcha cake with a chocolate cream filling. Everything was pre-packaged so he had no issues with customs. Unlike me, bringing back a bunch of hot dogs from Iceland, but that's a story for another time.

He also bought me two bottles of vending machine coffee. Vending machines are everywhere in Tokyo, and they can buy good quality bottles of tea and coffee, unlike the machines here that vend mostly soda and occasionally water at twice the price of a coke. Boss Coffee is famous (or infamous) for a series of ads with Tommy Lee Jones. So, how is it?

It's pretty good! This particular kind if nice and strong, but without the acrid taste of Starbucks coffee. It's okay cold, but warming it up really improved it, for me. There's another bottle of a different brand, but I haven't opened it yet.

I also have several new additions to my collection of cell phone charms - no lucky poop this time, alas. But they are owls, so that's cool. It makes me wish I had something to clip them to, but my phone case doesn't really have anywhere to do that. One of the owls is a small embroidered plush which I have, of course, dubbed Mr. Soft Owl.