We went to Musashi Koganei yesterday to hit up the main city post office for some weekend package-mailing action. On the way back home we spotted this new coffee shop that looked like it was right up Dad’s alley. Lots of green beans: And a huge roaster that can do a half-kilo at a time: [...]
Archive for May, 2005
For whom do you translate?
Just read an interesting piece on writing for money, and what it entails. One passage that stood out to me was this: I’ll let you in on a secret: One of the primary reasons I am as successful as I have been as a professional writer is I don’t take my frustrations out on my [...]
Jerry Beans
So Dad likes to roast his own coffee beans these days. He buys different beans from some online shop and gets them green in the mail; then it’s out to the garage with a handful at a time, to roast them to just the right point (somewhere between “chewy” and “charcoal lumps”). This has gained [...]
The second work week this week
Another long, long day. I haven’t worked this hard since Monday, the last time I came in to the office . . . Well, actually, I did a bit of work over the three days we had off (Golden Week, baby!) but today actually involved getting dressed. Yesterday I went down to ASIJ and dropped [...]
