Unraveling the Gordian (dinner) knot...
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alexpgpOn the way out to the car, I ruled out going to Ichiban. It's about 4 miles in the wrong direction out of JSC, and even though it's a short distance, having to retrace my route and pass by JSC again on the way home would be depressing, or at least I imagined it so.
On the other hand, I was in a sushi kind of mood, so I compromised and went to the Miyako, which lies between JSC and home and is a reasonable place to eat, even if it inhabits a section of Bay Area Boulevard infested with eateries of various kind.
To make the damage easier to take, when the check came I brought out my collection of so-called "Miyako money" (coupons given out during previous visits), which I had fortuitously secreted in my Franklin planner for just such an occasion.
Sometimes, things just work out.
Once home, I decided to follow up on my sushi snack and prepared a couple of small pork chops while I checked mail and ate a caviar sandwich washed down with some Жигули (Zhiguli) beer.
The beer, by the way, is of Lithuanian manufacture (and not, as I thought when I bought it, a Russian brew). It tastes sweet and is cloudy (there is a layer of yeast - I presume - on the bottom of the bottle, which I was very careful not to disturb as I decanted the liquid). I'm not exactly sure I like it, but I have two more bottles left in which to find out more definitively.
The NiMH batteries on my Palm died, apparently during the night. Replacing them with the pair I'd charged a few weeks ago shows that the new batteries are almost dead, too. It thus turns out that, not only do I have to carry around a spare set of rechargeables with me (along with a pair of exhausted rechargeables after any swap), but I must charge them not too long prior to using them.
This "trying to save money by using rechargeables" is getting old in a hurry.
Lee left a number of CDs around the place, and I have been listening to some of them in between the classical music that I like. I started with the resolve to listen to entire albums, but some of the music Lee thinks is cool is... um, far, far from being my cup of tea. One disc, featuring the best of Billy Idol seems to be something I could listen to, though he is undoubtedly a hopelessly passé performer (I can detect melodies in some of the songs he sings).
Don't mind me. (At least I try.)
The second of the three Lithuanian brews beckons me. Perhaps a snootful of Zhiguli, on top of some tunes from Iggy Pop or The Put-Downs, will serve to entertain me.
Cheers...
On the other hand, I was in a sushi kind of mood, so I compromised and went to the Miyako, which lies between JSC and home and is a reasonable place to eat, even if it inhabits a section of Bay Area Boulevard infested with eateries of various kind.
To make the damage easier to take, when the check came I brought out my collection of so-called "Miyako money" (coupons given out during previous visits), which I had fortuitously secreted in my Franklin planner for just such an occasion.
Sometimes, things just work out.
Once home, I decided to follow up on my sushi snack and prepared a couple of small pork chops while I checked mail and ate a caviar sandwich washed down with some Жигули (Zhiguli) beer.
The beer, by the way, is of Lithuanian manufacture (and not, as I thought when I bought it, a Russian brew). It tastes sweet and is cloudy (there is a layer of yeast - I presume - on the bottom of the bottle, which I was very careful not to disturb as I decanted the liquid). I'm not exactly sure I like it, but I have two more bottles left in which to find out more definitively.
The NiMH batteries on my Palm died, apparently during the night. Replacing them with the pair I'd charged a few weeks ago shows that the new batteries are almost dead, too. It thus turns out that, not only do I have to carry around a spare set of rechargeables with me (along with a pair of exhausted rechargeables after any swap), but I must charge them not too long prior to using them.
This "trying to save money by using rechargeables" is getting old in a hurry.
Lee left a number of CDs around the place, and I have been listening to some of them in between the classical music that I like. I started with the resolve to listen to entire albums, but some of the music Lee thinks is cool is... um, far, far from being my cup of tea. One disc, featuring the best of Billy Idol seems to be something I could listen to, though he is undoubtedly a hopelessly passé performer (I can detect melodies in some of the songs he sings).
Don't mind me. (At least I try.)
The second of the three Lithuanian brews beckons me. Perhaps a snootful of Zhiguli, on top of some tunes from Iggy Pop or The Put-Downs, will serve to entertain me.
Cheers...
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Date: 2001-09-10 06:45 pm (UTC)Of course these batteries were brand new. Maybe they lose their ability to hold a charge after time.
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Date: 2001-09-10 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-11 07:28 pm (UTC)However, I find that charging 'early and often' works best. Those things do lose charge annoyingly fast.
JD