SCANDAL Chat

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO2000
“SCANDAL Chat” Cedar Park, 2020

During the pandemic, SCANDAL has been doing live chats on Instagram every Wednesday evening, 9 pm Japan-time, which means I get to watch live at 7 am while I make coffee and breakfast. It’s fun to hear them chatting away, and today one lucky fan got to join the video chat with them. It was pretty cool! I always send a “Good morning from Texas” message to the chat, which I’m sure just whizzes past them since there are so many others sending messages, but it’s still fun. A nice way to start the day! 😊

Sushi Take-Out

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/125 sec, ISO2500
“Sushi” Cedar Park, 2020

Take-out sushi from Komé – so delicious!❤️🍣 We haven’t used our onigiri-shaped shoyu plates in a while, but I love them.

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/125 sec, ISO2500
“Sushi Spread” Cedar Park, 2020

Burger Time

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO2500
“Burger” Cedar Park, 2020

The family requested burgers and I was happy to oblige! We have a large amount of ground beef in the freezer, so it was good to use some of it up, and today had some beautiful weather so it was really nice to fire up the grill! I usually add a bit of Japanese Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard to the beef, but we ran out of mustard so it was just the sauce, black pepper, and garlic powder mixed with the beef. While grilling, I added the salt. I was pleased that everyone said the burgers turned out great. Yokatta!

Mariko made homemade buns which make a huge difference, and Bay fried up some bacon for those who wanted. If that wasn’t enough, Mariko and Bay both added a fried egg to their bacon-cheeseburgers. Talk about deluxe! Add some scratch-made oven fries and potato salad, and it was a perfect meal (if you like potatoes). 😀

I hope you had a good day!

Slide Photo

Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/5.6, 1/15 sec, ISO200
“Slide” Cedar Park, 2020

On my desk here at home is a little box of slides from when I used to shoot slide film with my old Minoltas. I’m not sure where this photo was taken, but it appears to be from just after we moved to Texas from Japan. That would be about 21 years ago. How time flies!

Anyways, I was using my old light-box (22 years old!) as a back-light to I could try taking a photo of it using my Fujifilm X100T. The result wasn’t too bad, but it can’t compare to a scan from my Epson 4490 scanner.

I hope you had a good day!