Life: May 2003 Archives

To me there is nothing more specail than the bond between a mother and a child. I have to admit that Ia m deeply saddened to learn that my older sister is seriously thinking of moving to Los Vegas, taking my niece with her. You would think that a person would learn from their past mistakes. I guess you can only warn them and move on with your own life if they don't listen.

What Can I say, but this baby is sooooo cute! This is group 2 from our trip to visit the folks.

Here are some pictures from our last trip to my parents house to visit and see my sister and her new baby girl, Jillian. Can you beleive this baby is almost 8 months and 25 pounds?

Whoever stole my bicycle I hope you enjoy it. If I see you riding my bike you are going to be in trouble. Enjoy the ride.

The 'Plan' is slowly coming into shape, or more likely it is solidifying faster than a blink of the eye. I am refering to our 'Plan' to save a small fortune to make a move from the 'hood in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Osaka, Japan. It is going to take a lot of resistence on my part.... I can feel the mocha's calling to me all day long and I just ingore their calls.

This is part of the plan, to cut back all unnecessary spending and mochas fall into this catagory... ok maybe not, yes, no, yes. Ok for now I am fighting the urge to rush out and grab one at the local Starbuck's.

It is raining cats abd dogs today. I know that we need the rain, but I am left wondering if I need the rain to. I mena that it could be the reason that I am losing my hair. I have neglected to properly water my head and now all the hair is falling out....

Well it seems that SARS has hit the Kinki region and that has me really worried. Their are a few reasons that I am worried but the first and most importanly is that my wife and in-laws live in Osaka. We also have lots of friends that live in and around Osaka and if there a rampant SARS outbreak it wouldn't take long before it made all over Japan.

As I promised Yuko, it is my turn and you can see my lack of hair....

Copyrighted D. Marquis 2003

Time goes by so fast while I am at my new job at St. Paul Radiology. I am so engrossed with the areas that I am incharge of. tere are many, many things to learn and understand. I am much happier now then I was at SheaPC.

A new job, wife, and apartment is enought to push me over the edge that I am standing at. Gravity is trying to pull me down into the depths of stress, but if you really want to know the truth, I am perfectly fine. I love being under the gun, so to speak. I am good at working with computers and not so good with people. I believe that everyone has something that they are good at, a perfect match, so to speak betwwen the work preformed and the people doing it. Mine jus happens to be with the silicon world.

I think that for the most part that life should be enjoyable, not the world we have now where poeple steal your newspaper. Where people are messing with your stuff..... I know I am probably an idealist, but that is the way it should be, right?

Life is too short anyways to be dealing with things like these....

Tonight I went out to a Indian resturant here in uptown called A Passage to India. The food there is pretty close to what you can have in India, or at least that is what I have read. I had a dish that consisted of spinach and potatoes in a mildly spicy curry. I also has a piece of garlic Nan Bread. It was all very good.

As you may know, it seems that for the most part that here in Minnesota, we can only get sushi. It really is a shame because there are so many delicious Japanese dishes. I love this place, Tanpopo Noodle Shop. It is the closest that I can come to Japanese home style cooking. I also think that Midori's Floating World Cafe is good to. I am craving udon. I have a couple of packs of small servings in the refrige that are tempting me. Also check out this review for another view on Tanpopo.

Well it looks like we are in for 2 more days of nasty weather in the land of God's frozen people. Well as you may know, we have about 5 months of winter here in the "Northwoods" or as we pronounce it "Nordwoods". If you are wondering you can always checkout my web cam on the right-hand-side of the window.

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I have finally done it. What I really mean is that I am done working on my Japanese low table. It have been a long process that probably wasn't worth the time and pain, but I am happy with the results. As you may know, I bought this table some time ago and I had cracking problems. I have solved those problems now by stripping of the thick polyurathane finish. I then re-finished the table with a standard Tung oil from Minwax.

uggg.... I am up at the crack of dawn. Today is the day that I had hopped wouldn't come. The day that Yuko has to go back to Japan. She promises that it will be the last long time for us to be apart, but it is still hard to let her go.

I am off to the airport to drop my lovely wife off.

Today for breakfast I had the standard Osaka meal. It consisted of: Sake filet(Salmon), Gohan (steamed rice), Miso, Umeboshi (pickled plums), Ochya (green tea).

Cooking Blogs:

• Gohan Taberu: Cooking in Tokyo

  The pefrect rice has a nice soft texture and has lots of taste also contray to popular ideas. I love it with all kinds of toppings. I know that a lot of people like it with green tea over the top, but I have yet to try it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Yuchan and I went to this resturant to have dinner Midori's Floating World Cafe Home Page. I have never been there before as this place has just opened for business a couple of 1 month ago. Well, to our surprise the place was just packed with people. We believe that they even ran out of rice for the dinner shift and the smell of fresh gohan could be had as the rice steamer cooked up a fresh batch.

I had the sashimi and tenpura combo and Yuchan went with the old standby favorite, tendon. Tendon is tenpura on top of a bowl of rice with a sweet sauce. I fell in love with tendon in Tokyo when I first meet my best friend, Makichan.

The service at Mirodi's was slow, but I think they are still learning how to properly run a resturant and I will certainly return for their delicous food.