daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
こんばんは。How’s it going?
One thing I’d like to do is to take more black and white photographs. I particularly enjoy editing black and white in Lightroom, so that’s an extra bonus. So here are a few that I took this evening in my home office.
I hope you had a nice Friday!
またね～
こんばんは。How’s it going?
It seems that everyone is talking about Marie Kondo lately because of her show on Netflix. I’ve seen a couple episodes and read her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which I enjoyed, and like a lot of other people, I’ve been re-examining the things that I buy and keep. I’ve put together a list of items that not only “spark joy”, but also are things that I use often and if I lost the item, I’d buy it again.
Instead of listing them here, I created a page so I can update as needed. If you have a few minutes free, why don’t you check out my list? (And if you buy anything via the links, I’ll get a small kick-back from Amazon 🤗)
またね～
こんばんは。How’s it going?
I had tacos today for lunch since the taco trailer was outside the office. In the photo, you can see one taco al pastor on corn tortillas, and a sirloin steak taco with flour tortilla. Both with raw onion and cilantro, plus jalapeño and habañero salsa. It was muy delicioso!
Sometimes when I make a big batch of carnitas, I’ll take a poll from the family on whether they would prefer burritos or tacos for dinner. The vote usually swings 3-1 in burrito’s favor, which makes it a tiny bit more complicated because I have to find extra-large tortillas and that can sometimes be a challenge. It’s easy to find taco-sized tortillas, and 12-inch as well, but we want the larger (at least 16″) size which the supermarket might not stock.
Speaking of burritos, we love to visit Freebirds for our quick burrito fix. I usually will get a “monster” size for $9.60 which I can share with my wife, or save half for another meal. There’s one lady who works at our local Freebirds who really makes awesome burritos. She adds plenty of meat, a good amount of any other ingredients you ask for, and has great skill at mashing it all together nicely without the tortilla tearing. She treats us well! Actually, watching them compress all the burrito fillings while wrapping it in the tortilla is fascinating and something we try to emulate at home. Fun with food!
At any rate, I prefer burritos over tacos, but that’s such a tiny difference. It’s like I give a burrito 5 stars, and tacos 4.8.
I hope you had a delicious day!
またね～
On the way to work this morning, I saw these very large birds gathering by the intersection. I’m not sure why they chose this spot, but it must have to do something with food or warmth. Or perhaps they just called an impromptu meeting? Who knows? 🤔
In other news, I finally finished watching Kouhaku 2018. For those who are not familiar with Kouhaku, it’s a Japanese music contest/tv show that happens every New Years Eve. It’s the red team (women) vs the white team (men) in this four-hour (I think it’s four hours) marathon. Since we were out of town this new year, we recorded Kouhaku and watched it later. Which is kind of nice because I could skip all the performances I didn’t care for, which was probably about 90% of them!
However, there were a few really good performances that stood out to me. I love seeing Twice, Perfume, and Aiko, but the Shiina Ringo x Miyamoto Hiroji song was awesome! I loved it. Here’s a little clip (not from Kouhaku) to check out:
But probably the highlight was when Yumi Matsutoya (Yuming; Arai Yumi) sang the ending song from Kiki’s Delivery Service (Yasashisa ni Tsutsumaretanara) which was so natsukashii that there were many tears in the audience. It was really cool.
Anyway, I have to say I prefer watching Kouhaku on New Year’s Eve… it’s just fun to drink saké under the kotatsu watching Kouhaku to ring in the new year.
I hope you had a nice day!
またね～
