I'll try not to let it happen again.
The trip was extremely productive.Every night I did not spend in the lab, my hosts took me to the swankest restaurants and sake joints. Its pretty easy to spend $200+/per plate in Tokyo. Once I started getting good results, I feared I would die of alcohol poisioning. While putting an instrument in space is a horrible tangle of technical and bureacratic problems my chances are far better now than they were two weeks ago. I've never put anything in space before; I would find it quite gratifying.