K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about how Japan has changed in the past – I think of it as the past 16 years because I came over by myself for six months, as the Musick Notes know. And… then we emigrated together as a family fifteen years ago.

C: You came over fifteen years ago. We emigrated together as a family thirteen years ago – well, we’re here in Japan, so we immigrated, but.

K: Thirteen?

C: Yes. It’s 2020

K: What are you talking about?

C: It’s 2020, and we all came over

K: Yeah. We’ve been here 14 years.

C: And we all came over in 2007.

K: Okay.

C: 20 minus 7 is 13.

K: So, then we went for permanent residency when we had been here for 12 years?

C: 11 years.

K: 11 years. Okay. Alright. So, I don’t know our timeline, so you guys should really trust Chad on timelines. So, please, duly note for the record that I am saying Chad knows something mor- better than I do.

C: Wow. 

K: Right? Coming right out the gate with that. That’s like – I know, Musick Notes, your heads are just spinning right now like, “what? Chad knows something better than Kisstopher that isn’t math?” But then I guess that is kind of math.

C: That is kind of math, yeah.

K: (laughs)

C: Subtracting one year from another. That’s kind of math.

K: (laughs) For me, I just feel like I’ve been in Japan forever because this is my home. I had a really dear friend of mine – I was talking to them the other day, and they were like, “I just want to go back to Gifu.” They live in Nagoya, but they want to go back to Gifu because they just want to go home. And Gifu is home to them.

C: Why don’t they go back to Gifu? Gifu is like thirty minutes away from here, so that’s why I’m

K: Work.

C: Oh, okay. 

K: They work in Nagoya, so.

C: Yeah.

K: Everybody just kind of – a lot of expats just live where they can find work.

C: Mhm.

K: And don’t really get to pick their city until they get enough experience. And, usually, it’s like five years’ experience at anything you do. It’s between one- and five-years’ experience, and then you can basically pick your city based on whatever it is you do. I think.

C: And that’s kind of strange to me because employers here, generally, will pay your transportation up to a certain amount. So

K: Yeah, but not everybody has a commute in them.

C: Yeah. I guess that’s it. 

K: Because I don’t have a commute in me. Like, I seriously – we got – where my office is located is literally ten minutes away from the house, and some days that’s a struggle. 

C: See, and I find that ironic because I work from home a hundred percent of the time now.

K: Yeah. Whoop.

C: My last job was like 90% of the time, now it’s 100% of the time. And not just because of social distancing or anything. I’ve just worked from home the last ten years or so.

K Yeah. 

C: And I could totally handle the commute. Because, when I was working in the Bay Area, I did long commutes every day.

K: Okay. No. Pump the breaks. Your commute is literally three steps long.

C: That’s what I’m saying.

K: Is that you can handle the three steps? You’re courageous enough because sometimes, sometimes, your commute is like a good twenty steps.

C: Yeah, if I go in the other room. No, what I’m saying 

K: If you work from your nap room. 

C: Right.

K: Because I’m outing you as having a nap room. 

C: Yes.

K: Oh my gosh. I’m going to call you something. I can’t help it.

C: Don’t do it.

K: I’m going to do it.

C: Don’t do it.

K: I can’t help it. You’re a napper. Ohhh. Them’s fighting words. Chad’s just lik