Lobstah

 I made a delicious lobster salad last night with a dumpstered white onion and some chives, and of course a good amount of Kewpie mayonnaise, a little S&B "seasoned pepper" (equal parts salt, pepper, and MSG it seems) and a bit of additional black pepper. 

I also got in a full practice session last night. Then I declared it Night Off and went to bed. 

I woke up around 3, had a little wake-up sake and read the 2nd Buddha book because I want to read at least one each week. Then I started in on Japanese For Dummies. The Dummies books are meant to be skipped around in, and that's what I did. I'm not sure it's the best book because for instance they talk about hankos but they call it some other word I've not seen and there's only the shortest explanation of the word "do" which needs at least half a page if not more. Plus why spend so much paper on a rude form of the word for "you"? Just leave it out, and when the student sees it used by some yakuza or bosozuku on a TV show they'll catch on. 

Still it's a start. So I stayed in bed and read until about 8 in the evening.  The promised rain came through and it got pretty good and wet out there.