Today is the day I take the plunge and purchase my iPod Touch. This has been brought on a little earlier than expected by an unfortunate event with my existing iPod Video G5. Last Wednesday I decided to have Sushi with a friend at his local Sushi bar and as always a couple of quiet drinks.

As the night went on we were befriended by a couple of local Japanese businessmen. They were very excited to talk to us as it’s not that often that you will see gaijin in a small “Mom and Pop” Sushi bar so we had some great conversation and Japanese language practice.

After Sushi was done we were invited to a second party which we quickly accepted of course, so of we went to one of the popular drinking areas, Kubukicho. Well Kubukicho is not the safest place in Tokyo as it is full of all sorts of bars and people, generally pretty shady but we have been there many times before so we weren’t worried at all.

After a fun night of drinking and getting home a little after midnight I was thinking to myself what a great night, made a couple of new friends and not too dusty for the office on Thursday.

On the walk to the Station the next morning I went to grab my trusty iPod Video only to find it wasn’t in my pocket….hmmm… were could it be. So after frantic checking my bag and pockets no iPod. Damn, lost it in Kubukicho, I remembered the location of the bar we went to so I paid a visit Thursday night on the way home from work. Well what do you know, they didn’t have it, not saying they took it out of my pocket, just trying to work out how the headphones could have been unwound from the body, unplugged and how the sticky silicon skin could actually allow it to slip out from and extremely deep pocket with a pocket flap keeping all safe…hmmm.. oh well…. live and learn.

Still all in all it was great night and as the iPod was over 3 years old I had attached pretty much zero $$ value to it, and I get a great excuse to get an iPod touch.

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