Drink Up (Two Hour Edition)

I tagged along to the 26th Annual JIA (Japanese Institute of Architects) gathering last night, and it was rather interesting indeed to be surrounded mostly by fellows, with only about ten or so women thrown in for good measure.  What I found the most strange was that they were not dressed in any stylish way (or wearing architects' black), but was soon told that the only ones who do that work in the trendy section (such as store design, restaurant design) and they needed to look like that.  Well, here any of these fellows could have passed for the "salaryman" types that populate any city in Japan.  I don't mind it all, the lack of pretense.

The party was held at the Kirin Beer Factory, and it was an all you can drink for two hours, with some foods thrown in.  I am sorry to say that once the beers started coming, it was a Ray Style of the old days taking over, drinking one, one more and then one more and then why not another, until it was last call, but I did a number of the beers (and they did a number on me, as I am a bit destroyed this morning).

Well, what did I expect?  Perhaps I should have been like that fellow at my table who only had one or two beers and drank iced tea afterwards.  But, who am I kidding?

It begins.  Last sober shot.

Leaving the factory.  Kirin sign in distance.  Haze.