Up at 7, which was easy because the carpet cleaning guys next door clunked around getting their day started. First shift starts at 7AM after all.
I stayed in bed and read one of the two books I'd gotten recently, which was apparently a set of 4 speeches by a guy about Hawaii and Captain Cook and such things, but the writing was almost impenetrable. Fortunately it was not a long book.
I had some tea and natto and so on, and started in one the 2nd book, Early Tahiti As The Explorers Saw It, covering 1767-1797 so the first 30 years before the missionaries got in there and started crapping everything up. It's much easier reading and more interesting - interesting because Hawaii's ruling class came over from Tahiti. I also remember a worker we had at the Blue Cross Animal Hospital who had a try at visiting "home" which was Tahiti, where she'd either left when very young, or was maybe born there in Hawaii. When she got back, all she'd say is how dirty it was there. "Very dirty" and that's all she'd say.
For dinner I tried a "Soon Tofu - spicy" kit I'd gotten at Nijiya. It turns out to be spicy sauce, instructions to put veggies and meat etc. in, and a big block of soft tofu. I fried garlic slices, put in slices of lotus root and some fried tofu I thought might be good (it's meh) but overall it was good, and spicy.
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