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COVID Quarantine Tokyo Style

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29th floor Looking at Tokyo Tower and Covid Screening at Narita Airport On last day of a 14 day quarantine on the 29th floor of a nice very silent Tokyo hotel.  The odyssey starts in Dallas on an empty jumbo jet.  Again less than 15 passengers! And when you land at Narita, its a 2 hours COVID testing screening process right at the airport before taking a shuttle directly to quarantine.   This means one does not come out of one's room, food is placed outside the door and the only person one sees is a temperature taker twice a day.  So how did I feel going in?  Excited to have some "me time"!  I brought my guitar, books, and a Wi-Fi speaker. Time to catch up with my Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning course (of which I'm still only halfway through after 6 months), time to read and reflect (including many books I have started, Churchill's Trials, The 5th Discipline, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Name of the Wind).  Time to reach out to all my friends and