January 31st, 2007
It’s Always About Money
I started off the day by doing the usual library routine. I needed to pick up some graphic and sound files for one of the two big projects I am working on. They were easy enough to find, and they are in the public domain as well, so I now they’ll be completely usable for what I intend. I researched a Hawaii trip a little more. I’m really, really on the fence on this one. I’d like to go, but for that kind of money, I could go almost anywhere in the world; is Hawaii actually my first choice? It’ll also use up nearly every penny I’ve saved while being in Japan. That’s not really what I’ve been saving for. I hate indecision!
While reading my usual news sources, I see that eBay has raised their fees once again. They call it lower fees, but it doesn’t take much in the way of math skills to see that it’s just the opposite. That’s not going to affect my new business model much, if at all, but when I return home, I have lots of old inventory from my old business that I had hoped to liquidate on eBay. Leave it to eBay to screw things up even more than it already was. Those guys are going to “greed themselves” right out of business. Maybe they are just trying to pay for a Hawaiian vacation?
Mystery Greens
I stopped in at Co Co Ichi on the way home, and they now have my old favorite, the chicken and spinach curry back on the menu, at least for this month. I wish I knew what that green stuff was. I’m sure it’s not really spinach, but it doesn’t taste anything like the seaweed I have tried here either. What looks like cooked spinach, but isn’t?
Still, All About The Money
On the way home, it occurred to me that yesterday was probably payday. It was after 5:00, so the office was closed. When I got to the apartment, I ran into Marc and e verified that he was indeed paid yesterday. We’re never quite sure when payday is, but we’re pretty sure, it’s the first Wednesday after the 27th. I can’t pick up my pay on Wednesdays because I’m out of town on those days. I guess I will have to go up the mountain tomorrow and pick up my money. That’s OK, because I have to print off copies of the final exam for N-Sensei’s class on Monday. I’ve had the written portion of the exam ready for a couple of weeks, but I need to come up with a listening portion before Monday. That should be no problem.
Most of the evening will be spent doing laundry and listening to more podcasts that I picked up this afternoon. I’m starting to get caught up with the good ones, and I am started on some new ones now. Some are really good, and some are a complete waste of time. At least it’s easy to unsubscribe to the ones I don’t like. Pretty soon, I’ll have a decent sized list of regular “must haves” that I can wait for each week. Unfortunately, the best ones seem to be monthly.
Tomorrow will be Friday, and that means going back to the low-level class in Fukuyama. Remember, this was the “disaster class” from last week. Tomorrow, I plan to make it easy for them. Maybe too easy, but after last week, I don’t think there is such a thing as too easy. I believe nothing short of “game day” is going to get them back on my side after the much-to-difficult lesson last time. I don’t supposed 50 minutes of English word games on a Friday is going to hurt anyone. I just need to pick the right games!
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February 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
It is probable Thai Basil. (The green that looks like spinach.) But it might be Kale, collards, mustard, carrot tops. Too early in the season for Dandilion Greens, I am betting a Japanese parsley or Thai basil which is a staple in some curries. It could also maybe be cilantro. Enough cooking lesson for now. Go to Hawaii, bring me a volcanic rock. Not out of the National Park though big fines and bad mojo. Kali is one Goddess you don’t want to make bad. She has a boiling temper. Ha! Ha!