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October 2005 - Posts

Respite, and something out of nothing

It’s been a tough few weeks for me. Instead of scheduling supermarket demos this weekend, I decided to get out of town. I’ll get back to the usual routine next weekend. Assuming my new shipment arrives, I will need to go to Portland next weekend. I drove Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:45 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Channa gobi masala nests for a neighborhood gathering

Last night I walked to a small-scale town meeting in my neighborhood to listen and quietly participate in discussions about the upcoming election. Jennifer advised me to bring finger food, but I got home a bit later than I intended, so I didn’t get started Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:36 PM by jason | 3 Comments
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Sleep interrupted

I got a decent night’s sleep Monday night, and woke up early and started plugging away on my work. Somehow everything just went better than average, and I blew past a bunch of things that usually don’t quite go so smoothly. The only thing that distracted Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:57 PM by jason | 0 Comments

Farewell, Minowa-san

Hiromi passed very sad news to me this weekend. One of my ceramic artists, Minowa Yasuo , died of a subarachnoid hemorrhage , a kind of stroke which occurs when blood vessels near the surface of the brain burst. This type of stroke can affect people of Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:50 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Pizza with arugula, chanterelles and oyster mushrooms

Whatever is affecting my sleeping pattern and energy level bit me hard last night. Fortunately I had a light workload, so I decided to do some cleaning at home, which I’ve neglected a lot since I moved to my current apartment, so there’s always Read More...
Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 12:21 AM by jason | 3 Comments
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A little fever... feverish?

I have been a bit under the weather for a few days, and my energy level has been all over the place, but mostly low, punctuated by occasional nervous tension or something like giddiness. My body gave me hints of battle with some minor cold… occasional Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:18 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Not sure if it's rest

It wasn’t a very restful weekend, perhaps, but I did skip my usual demo routine. Today, I had a slow-paced afternoon, a relative lack of productivity. I didn’t really have lunch today, but I made some mochi-mochi an pan in the morning, which Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:16 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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Under-rested

I slept around 2 am last night, which is in fact earlier than I have been sleeping recently, but not healthy. I don’t know why, but I’ve just been unable to get to sleep at night for a while. I’ve often had issues with insomnia, throughout Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:05 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Insanity, sado, comfort food

I don’t know how I got so busy today, but a huge number of Internet orders came in last night, and I also had to rush off an order to a special event on the East Coast. A company picked up my green tea white chocolate enrobed fortune cookies (made with Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:59 AM by jason | 0 Comments
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More fall foods: Chanterelle mushrooms

Chanterelles seem to be fairly plentiful right now… I got some on Sunday, thinking I got a deal, but the price seems to be even better today. Mine were apparently locally-grown. Chantrelles always seem to have a fondness for butter, so of course Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:35 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Good busy

Some kinds of busy are merely distracting, but I made good progress on a lot of fronts today. The only downside was that the post office was closed, which, for someone who doesn’t take government holidays, is easy to forget. I don’t even get Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 11:22 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Cold weather food: Kimchi dubu jjigae

I made a variation of kimchi dubu jjigae today, as the weather has been turning a bit cooler. I usually get the kimchi from a north Seattle Korean market or, when I lived on the Eastside, from a little one in Factoria. This time I just got it at the Central Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 9:10 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Whew

I watched my database-driven web sites, including this blog and my web store, YuzuMura.com , suffer from a 40 minute outage tonight. That was painful. The database server apparently went offline for a longer than cozy period of time… I think the hosting Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:10 PM by jason | 0 Comments

Some days are complicated

Today I spent most of the day chasing down items that I’m supposed to be sending off to customers… One of my vendors hasn’t been able to come to Seattle to me for a while and we finally met halfway, so that I could get some product samples and this week’s Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:22 PM by jason | 3 Comments
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Kabocha curry with atsuage

I am not a big fan of Japanese-style curries. They usually aren’t vegetarian, anyway, since they are usually made with beef fat and bits of various animals, and the “vegetable” curries are usually some unmemorable hodgepodge. In a pinch, though, I’ve Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:15 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Pita and foul mudammah

“ Obachan ” recently reminded me of the joys of fresh pita bread when she talked about a cross between hummus and baba ghanouj on her blog recently. A couple of months ago I made some pita just because I felt like having some flatbread but didn’t want Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:29 PM by jason | 5 Comments
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How I examined my passions, Part II

A certain level of burnout with my job at Microsoft made me loath, or at least unmotivated, to seriously consider moving around within the company as my situation became more frustrating. It just wasn’t what I wanted. I did spend some time looking around Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:01 AM by jason | 2 Comments

Kurogoma korokke and kazoku no ryouri

I took today off from doing demos and spent some of the day cleaning house and actually reorganizing some things that have long contributed to a certain level of chaos in my home. Among other projects, I replaced an ailing, cracked lazy susan in my kitchen Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 02, 2005 11:40 PM by jason | 4 Comments
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How I examined my passions, Part I

When I started planning my exit strategy for Microsoft, I thought intensely about what I value and what I wanted to accomplish in my lifetime. I never thought it likely that I’d have just one career over the course of my life. I thought that I would have Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:00 AM by jason | 1 Comments
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