This year’s first batch of åˆ‡å¹²å¤§æ ¹ is ready. Going to put it in some soup today. Should go some way towards alleviating my first hangover of the year.
visiting my family this week and next week outside of Japan. it’s nice to be back since the last time i visited was 4 years ago.
a new Indian grocery store has opened up near my local shopping center. They have many of the spices I like cooking with in larger quantities than those tiny bottles that you find in the supermarket, lentils, paneer, and fun snacks and juices. I went a bit kid-in-a-candy-store crazy there yesterday. looking forward to having much easier access to these kinds of ingredients now.
Reconnected with an old friend I haven’t spoken to since I quit social media, so at least 6ish years.
Last jalapenos I harvested are actually somewhat spicy; I had many this year that were more vegetal than anything else.
Some good things on the job front as well.
For Christmas, a friend gave me a three-month prepaid subscription to Disney Plus. I’ve been catching up on a lot of Star Wars and will then move on to other content on the channel.
I never realized what a great way prepaid subscriptions are for enjoying content. I’d rather catch up every now and then rather than hand money over to Disney every month.
We got a message from the water company that our water usage had skyrocketed. We checked everything we could think of and couldn’t find the problem, so we contacted the water company. They sent a person over who found the problem and she basically saved our house. I’ll spend the weekend fixing the current damage, but if we didn’t find this, I dread to think the outcome.
The Last of US tv series starts next week. I’m incredibly excited for it.
A small kid with his mother waving at me with a big smile when I was entering the supermarket. Most kids just Stare but this little guy was so happy to see me.
Thought I had to go to the dentist tomorrow, but I was wrong, so I can sleep in as much as I like.
Had one of the best weekends of my life last week. I had no idea hanging out with a nearly two year old could be so much fun.
I made some bread for the first time in a while (just the simple, very Japanese kind of cheese-corn-mayo kind of stuff you can get at any bakery), but I became plagued with anxiety that I underbaked them *after* I had already handed it out to coworkers. they all came back the next day to tell me it was delicious, without me prompting them for information.
going to spend my weekend making some Mediterranean-style food for the first time and some more baked goods. maybe some healthy muffins for all the sweet old grandpas in the office.
Somedays I can walk my son to school, and time permitting, we’ll look for acorns passing a park. I must be good at it, because my son arrives with so many, a teacher asked “Where do you get all those acorns?” to which he replied “Daddy is magic and can always find acorns.”
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I don’t even know where to put that on my resume. Skills? Family?
Anything 黒トリュフ flavored (seems to be IN right now)
Not freezing in my own home this winter
Can now enjoy lattes at Starbucks after switching to almond milk
Waking up surounded by forested mountains on all sides is amazing.
It’s genuinely making me into a morning person.
Definitely makes the daily 3.5 hour train commute more worth it.
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This year’s first batch of åˆ‡å¹²å¤§æ ¹ is ready. Going to put it in some soup today. Should go some way towards alleviating my first hangover of the year.
visiting my family this week and next week outside of Japan. it’s nice to be back since the last time i visited was 4 years ago.
a new Indian grocery store has opened up near my local shopping center. They have many of the spices I like cooking with in larger quantities than those tiny bottles that you find in the supermarket, lentils, paneer, and fun snacks and juices. I went a bit kid-in-a-candy-store crazy there yesterday. looking forward to having much easier access to these kinds of ingredients now.
Reconnected with an old friend I haven’t spoken to since I quit social media, so at least 6ish years.
Last jalapenos I harvested are actually somewhat spicy; I had many this year that were more vegetal than anything else.
Some good things on the job front as well.
For Christmas, a friend gave me a three-month prepaid subscription to Disney Plus. I’ve been catching up on a lot of Star Wars and will then move on to other content on the channel.
I never realized what a great way prepaid subscriptions are for enjoying content. I’d rather catch up every now and then rather than hand money over to Disney every month.
We got a message from the water company that our water usage had skyrocketed. We checked everything we could think of and couldn’t find the problem, so we contacted the water company. They sent a person over who found the problem and she basically saved our house. I’ll spend the weekend fixing the current damage, but if we didn’t find this, I dread to think the outcome.
The Last of US tv series starts next week. I’m incredibly excited for it.
A small kid with his mother waving at me with a big smile when I was entering the supermarket.
Most kids just Stare but this little guy was so happy to see me.
Thought I had to go to the dentist tomorrow, but I was wrong, so I can sleep in as much as I like.
Had one of the best weekends of my life last week. I had no idea hanging out with a nearly two year old could be so much fun.
I made some bread for the first time in a while (just the simple, very Japanese kind of cheese-corn-mayo kind of stuff you can get at any bakery), but I became plagued with anxiety that I underbaked them *after* I had already handed it out to coworkers. they all came back the next day to tell me it was delicious, without me prompting them for information.
going to spend my weekend making some Mediterranean-style food for the first time and some more baked goods. maybe some healthy muffins for all the sweet old grandpas in the office.
Somedays I can walk my son to school, and time permitting, we’ll look for acorns passing a park. I must be good at it, because my son arrives with so many, a teacher asked “Where do you get all those acorns?” to which he replied “Daddy is magic and can always find acorns.”
​
I don’t even know where to put that on my resume. Skills? Family?
Anything 黒トリュフ flavored (seems to be IN right now)
Not freezing in my own home this winter
Can now enjoy lattes at Starbucks after switching to almond milk
Waking up surounded by forested mountains on all sides is amazing.
It’s genuinely making me into a morning person.
Definitely makes the daily 3.5 hour train commute more worth it.