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pushing people onto trains

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

They say you no longer see the staff at train stations pushing people onto trains in Tokyo, but you do indeed. I saw it this morning on a train so crowded I could barely believe it. It happened at Musashi-Sakai, one of the sleepiest stops on the line.

Three good things that happened today:

1. I am going back to Fukuoka to see my staff there on the 17th.
2. It's good to be able to put together a year-end review and be impressed with your own team's work
3. My latest watch build turned out to be underwhelming but I have the most flexible type of movement in the thing and the case takes 28.5mm dials. The world is my oyster.

1. Life in Japan can be a drag but on the whole I think less so than Canada.
2. We've still got our health, my paycheck's in the mail.
3. The worst of the train's crowding is past.