In the good seats Originally uploaded by Durf Seems like a quarterly thing, to post here. I’ve been busy. Translating and editing and enjoying visits from family (sister pictured) and watching the little girl grow larger and larger. Jessica has been in town for 10 days or so. She came to Tokyo to watch her [...]
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Monday dinner
Monday dinner Originally uploaded by Durf Eel on rice is one of my favorite things to eat. Right up there with chile relleno and som tam. And my mom’s tuna noodle casserole, but hey, that goes without saying. Just got home on Monday night. Megu is in bed with Sakura—took a while to get her [...]
Old Tokyo; or, back online in the new Tokyo
Some very interesting historical material up at Old Tokyo – Vintage Tinted Images of the Japanese Capital City. The Department of Foreign Affairs (on the Kasumigaseki page) was a very stately building. So I haven’t done a thing with this place in months. In recent weeks I’ve had an excuse, which was that my hosting [...]
Getting clean
Our washing machine was getting on in years, and tended to leave bits of black mold stuck to our clothes after a wash. Not good, especially with a baby in the house and load after load of baby-related things going through the cycle each day. So we went to the neighborhood Laox last weekend and [...]
Ice cream time
For my birthday Megumi got me a BH-941 cordless ice-creamer. The thing runs on batteries that are supposed to be good for about 25 batches of ice cream. You put in the milk and cream and fruit and sugar and whatnot, close it up, press the button, and stick the whole thing in the freezer [...]
