Watching Netflix in hotel rooms, part 2

Plus Christmas in Japan, Substack Meetup and Strawberry Oreos!

Greetings from Kobe, Japan, where we are in the midst of a two-week visit to the Land of the Rising Sun, as locals play Christmas music in every store and display their red and green holiday cheer.

(Go figure.)

I had recently written about the rising trend of hotel rooms in the U.S. to deal with our thirst to binge Netflix in hotel rooms. (Note: no one …