Did you get that emo? I'll send another copy.

I had a reasonably good day. No, let's correct that. I had a wonderful day because I am a rich white male and I live in Newport Beach, CA. Someone I know who lives in Moscow, Russia was last week attacked by wild dogs. That doesn't happen here. Plus, the weather is better.

I'm also glad that I don't live in Shenzhen, China. Jack's uncle wanted him to go work in a hydraulics factory there and live in some mercury-encrusted lean-to in a town that's more of a shithole than Shenzhen even. He'd be production manager probably and get to deal with things like "The #8 homphulizer blew up and killed 32 workers. Hire some more" etc. Instead, Jack is going to sell cars in Portland, Oregon.

Finally I'm glad that I don't live in more nearby Norco, California where realitylost informs me one cannot go out and eat seafood. There just isn't any. So she and I went out to the Crab Cooker tonight and hoovered up various fruits de mer.

i'm excited about going to San Francisco for a few days in May. Boooiiing.

Finally, a moment of unseemly levity:

decline of rss

Looks like all the gawker feeds stopped providing images today, or something. Thanks guys.

Onigiri!!!

Dinner with bikupan at Kappo Honda:

Hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi;
Ika-maru (whole grilled squid);
Yaki-Onigiri (grilled rice cake with eel. I ate Nicolette's portion by "accident")

Good sake.

Mmmmmmmmmm. This place reminds me a lot of the Modern Club in Vancouver. The squid dish was almost identical to the squid fimmtiu got for his Landing day when I was there.

Place was packed with happy noisy Japanese people, including a middle aged woman with pumpkin smiley faces all over her socks.

I didn't get the chicken cartilage on a stick or the natto or the gizzard because I'm scared of those. I did eat one of Johan's shrimp heads because he wouldn't, though.

took me a while to figure out what this thing was

Waiting in line at the pharmacy last night, I saw a strange object attached to the wall:


( What the hell is this thing? )