So day two of the buying trip will be a much shorter edition.  I had my meeting with the ceramics people that had the “employee issues,” if you remember me talking about that in the fist edition of the blog - which is what initiated this buying trip in the first place.  But that was only one of the problems that we were having with this manufacturer.  The bigger problem was simple communication.  Over the years of working with these ceramicits, I have always had problems understanding what they were putting into production for me, and why one piece that I ordered was not being

Well here I am the morning of my second day in Thailand.  The trip over was as usual bone crushingly long, but I got lucky and was upgraded for the long 12 hour portion of the trip from Minneapolis to Tokyo.  Like a child, I was quite happy as the plane was a 747 with the upper deck, which is where I was happily sat.  Its sort of like your own little tree fort - actually in a way, its so removed up there, its almost what I would think a movie set from an airplane movie would look like....an airplane move of the happy type with Leslie Nealson as the captain.  Alas no upgrade on the