In the past week or so, as part of my effort to turn my life around and reduce regrets when on a ventilator, I have allocated some time daily to study something interesting. This has been raags, despite my tin ear. I’ve been working my way through a few websites, including the one below, a […]
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Tatami afternoon
Our guests left this afternoon, but before that we went to a matcha teahouse in an old Japanese house, very rickety indeed, for lunch and tea. Our plan had been to then get the train to the Chimei museum, a somewhat ridiculous seeming place, part US Capitol and part Versailles, with a collection of Western […]
Finger on the pulse
Last night the Boddhisattva and the Woodland Creature came down for the weekend — lovely to see them, also a pleasant reminder that it is much nicer to see friends when one doesn’t live with them. We went for lunch to the nearby noodle spot, slightly better than adequate this time, and then on to […]
A little sheepish
Sheepishly, last night, I admitted to the GF the existence of this blog. Though I did not admit just how long it has existed, but allowed him to discover it for himself. So, hello, my first and only confirmed reader (other than myself). I shall pretend you do not exist. He also pointed out that […]
Submarining
A small nod to yesterday as I found an attractive squid, waved it at the GF and brought it home for dinner (to eat, not to host). Also had an extended moment of work-related panic as I had to give a quote for a project and, as usual found myself virtually incapable of calculating how […]
Day aquatic
There was an aquatic theme to today, as we went for lunch to renowned old seafood place (founded in 1940, so before the white army retreat into Taiwan) where we had the set menu for two. It began with mullet roe and squid, a crab soup and shrimp rolls, the centrepiece was mud crab on […]
Life change plan
I’ve decided, once again, to become a little more organised, a little less scattered, less prone to feeling at the end of a day that it has been a wasted day and I’m that much closer to death with little to show for it. In particular, I tend to put work above anything else, and […]
Supply chains
I listened to a podcast this morning about supply chain management was disappointed to find I learned almost nothing new, despite knowing littie or nothing about supply chain management. However, I did notice this jar of salt, which came with our flat, and wasn’t purchased by us. I am quite sniffy about Himalayan pink salt […]
Least, most, best, worst
A curiosity of Americans is that they much always be the most or least. The best, but if not the best, they are the absolute worst. This strikes me quite often on Metafilter, but most recently during a discussion of the caste system in India which, for a while, became a discussion of how the […]
Northern district
This morning we went for an American brunch. It was not bad, nothing to our meal yesterday. Run by a Taiwanese-American and with plenty of other Taiwanese-Americans filling the tables, and the decor and feel was also very American. The GF had a French toast with hash browns, salad and an egg; I had a […]