Burnt out...

Before beginning this trip I didn't anticipate the physical and mental toll that working and traveling would have on me. In this past month I've stayed in over a dozen hotels in different cities. In the past 9 days I stayed in 6 alone, and spent over 24 hours on buses, trains, and planes in just the last 3 days. And that doesn't include the waiting time!

I've lost about 8 pounds already and possibly more cause it's been days since I weighed myself. Too often I forget to feed the machine because I'm either too tired or lazy. I don't get much sleep either. I work until 5 am most nights and all the hotels here require you to check out before 10 am, or if I'm lucky 11 am. And then you usually have to wait until 2-4 pm before you can check into another hotel so you're stuck dragging your luggage around for a few hours.

So now that I've returned to Tokyo I've decided to settle down in one place for a while and forgo the traveling for a bit. I go out and do something nearly every day because I feel like I "should". But I need to rest and get on a regular sleep pattern so I can better concentrate on work, do some programming, test out some new strategies, and whatever. My trading has been suffering since I began the trip.

The trip to Hokkaido was amazing. I'll talk about it and post pictures in the next post later this week. Too tired... must sleep... oh wait, market doesn't close for another 5 hours...

Here's a photo of Sapporo at night. During the day you can see the city is surrounded by mountains. I'm going to include a photo with every blog post from now on just to make it a little more colorful.