hey all,
This weekend was spent mostly planning, and running errands. Vacuuming the rooms, cleaning the bathroom, doing laundry, etc.
We also rented Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and A Fistful of Dollars. For dinner while watching A Fistful of Dollars, we decided to make some black bean burgers like I used to make at the co-op during my last years as an undergrad.
We've got the Yarigadake trip mostly planned out, but the Oze trip still needs a little more work.
We noticed a few weeks ago that Michi's caste iron skillet had quite a lot of rust on it, and I've finally got around to seasoning the sucker. Steel wooled the rust off, got the first coat of lard baked on tonight. I plan on doing two or three more tomorrow.
Just to make sure I don't pull an Aron Ralston, Michi and I will be heading to Yarigadake this weekend. It is a pretty famous mountain, on the 100 Mountains of Japan list, and it also happens to be a little dangerous. Shouldn't be a problem, but just to be on the safe side...
Our second anniversary is coming up, and we've actually been living together for about a month now. That seems a little difficult to believe, honestly. I think Michi summed it up when she was talking to me about my North Face 32 tent that I bought for a trip with my brother and Bri in the fall of 2009. As it happened, Bri couldn't get the time off from work, and the trip never materialized. I never even used the tent in the US, nor shared it with my brother nor Bri. I had it shipped to me in Japan, where I used it a few times by myself on camping and rock climbing trips, and Michi and I have shared it on several occasions as well, and the odds are decent that if we have a kid, the three of us might be using that same tent that I had intended to use with my friend and brother. I can honestly say, that I never imagined when buying it that I might use it with my wife and potential baby.
I've been going through Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series of SF books and I must say that I'm as impressed by them as I was by his Illium/Olympos series. I've got one more book and a half to get through before I can reach the conclusion. I'm not sure what I'll start reading after that, but it'll probably be something available on the Kindle.
Not too much else new here.
Cheers,
