Wandering > Working

I could have stayed home and worked today, but I decided I needed a break, so I went into town and wandered around Ueno and Akihabara. It was fun. I had lunch in a pash cafe [sic] (unfortunately smoky, but the pasta was good and the waitresses were friendly), did a decent job of conversing in Japanese, bought an extremely tasty pastry from some merchants with a sales pitch the likes of which I haven't seen since I was in Israel (for those who haven't been, Israeli merchants tend to have a sales style grey area between pressure sales and outright molestation), played some arcade games (including the Half Life 2 arcade version), found a little RC car racetrack (ラジコン天国) on the sixth floor of some random building, watched the crowds, read on the train.