And Back To Korea...

 This was me last night eating steak and prawn dinner with Tyler/Rachel, Dylan/Danielle at a really great little place where Thursday is steak night. It was delish! 

I don't know exactly when Dylan shot this pic but judging from the look on my face, it might have been when I was regaling the group on the previous three days' adventure in ticket booking. How would you describe my facial expression? Confused with a hint of anger and maybe some overtones of offense? Perhaps in the spirit of my choice of apparel on the evening "Oh my FUCK! Not again!"

But before you tighten up your bindings for yet another trundle down How-Can-All-This-Shit-Happen-To-Just-One-Guy Lane, check out what Dylan and AI did with this pic! First he filtered it with Japanimation like the Spirited Away style and this is what came up:

Gotta love those Japanimators! They got rid of the wrinkles in the shirt (not to mention its wearer), shaved my arm hair, and got rid of about 50 lbs. of gut weight. Look at the stuff on the shelves and the finishing of the T-shirt animation. That is spectacular! But wait, there's more! He also put the pic through a Simpsons filter and made a long-time dream of mine come true. Behold, me as a Simpsons character:

Isn't that something? I love the beer! They also cut the arm hair and the wrinkles but left me a Homeresque gut and, of course, amputated one finger from each hand. Technology! Just when you're ready to condemn it all it totally redeems itself!

And now, as promised, the ordeal of finding the best ticket to Korea. Pour yourself a stiff one and wake the kids and get some coffee into them. This is an odyssey. I have a 5-hour layover in Vancouver and a few hours in Hong Kong where I'm hoping to add to this. It's not over yet...