Fox Blues

It is still cloudy, but warmer than last night-it must have dropped to 50F. It was nice to be able to use a jacket though. I have no new pictures today. Apparently we are "ahead" of schedule with work, but it is little frustrating that all but one of them seems happy with that. I should clarify-we don't have substantial access to any buildings today because it is Saturday and many building managers are off on Saturdays. So my teammate and I are frustrated because we want to always have sampling to do. We want to go extra strong and hard in the beginning, finish the work, and be able to relax towards the end. Not just accept that we are ahead and relax now. There is too much potential for disaster ahead. But what can we do at this point.

We went to eat sushi last night, and while it was a genki style joint that the haoles call "screaming sushi" here, I was hoping it would be better than genki. It was. They had fresh fresh aku (katsuo). Lots of it. They would bring a fish out, slice it up, and ask if you wanted one before it went on the sneezecatcher conveyer belt. They had fresh flounder, the ikura was good-but the best part was the price. Plates ranged from 100yen to 400yen. The ikura was 250yen! The most extravagant one I had was one piece of fatty yellowtail-330 yen for one piece. Fatty yellowtail-hamachi on steroids? Because the color was this amazing marbled pink. It was like taking a pat of butter and putting it in your mouth. I got three of my dining companions to try one salmon egg apiece. No one could say it was bad. They even had a sushi that had half ikura and half with what looked like scraped salmon flesh. It was beautiful. Along that line, they even had one that had half crab, half crab miso. If I ate the miso, I would have tried it-but I don't. I am glad i stocked up on gout meds, though. This is not the place to be held back by gout. I would have to eat steamed peas and carrots from the Officers club buffet for every meal to avoid goutbreak inducing foods.

Well, time to catch up on my US news online. Fox news is really crawling under my skin, so I stopped watching it for news.