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The letters "Asuka" and "Chobits", and the number "all you can eat".
Due to not living in Bart Villa anymore and being lazy when it comes to buses, I had not yet been to Asuka's summer sushi buffet. Since summer is about to end (in the sense of lots of students coming back), I impulsively went today. As I approached the bus I noticed that my watch had died. Serendipity -- off to the mall!
$20 buffet, $30 worth of sushi. I started off with a bunch of makis which were disappointing, and I kept thinking they were skimping on the fish in the rolls. The shrimp tempura rolls were good, and the egg nigiri was a nice change. After waiting a bit I got salmon nigiri and smoked salmon nigiri, both of which were awesome, and fish egg weirdness (shaped like a roll but nigiri size) which was enh. Guess I don't like those eggs. I think my lesson is to stick to nigiri. I noticed the lunch menu has a $10 special, presumably year round. 5 nigiri I think (pieces not pairs, presumably) and some stuff.)
Then I went to Borders and read volumes 6 and 7 of Chobits. That's technically a "magical girlfriend" manga, but while I fled Ai Yori Aoishi and put up with Ah! My Goddess, I like this one. I don't know if it's objectively better, or I just like robots. I think one could defend saying that it deals with what might be real issues soon, unlike Aoishi's issues of how to deal with a wealthy doormat who's had a crush on you since you were both six. I've also found out that another series by the same authorial team takes place earlier in the same universe, where the people who made the humaniform personal computers of Chobits were working on advanced game-related prototypes.
I also replaced my eyeglasses case, which I think I stepped on at some point. On closer examination I'm not sure if it's as broken as I thought it was, but better safe than sorry with my expensive eyeglasses. Then off to the mall for watch repair -- yep, this Casio I got for $8 has been repaired, not replaced, with at least two battery changes, a watchband replacement, and (also today) a replacement of the metal bit needed to keep the watchband in place, which I hadn't known they could fix. $9 for that and the battery.
Then back to Borders, to read an article in Aug 06 Scientific American on how being an expert in something is more a matter of effort study and motivation than of talent, where effort means conscious struggle to get better, not automatically indulging the mediocre skills one has acquired so far. It mentioned that hunting-tracking skill matures over 30 years, meaning that takes longer than become a brain surgeon.
Due to not living in Bart Villa anymore and being lazy when it comes to buses, I had not yet been to Asuka's summer sushi buffet. Since summer is about to end (in the sense of lots of students coming back), I impulsively went today. As I approached the bus I noticed that my watch had died. Serendipity -- off to the mall!
$20 buffet, $30 worth of sushi. I started off with a bunch of makis which were disappointing, and I kept thinking they were skimping on the fish in the rolls. The shrimp tempura rolls were good, and the egg nigiri was a nice change. After waiting a bit I got salmon nigiri and smoked salmon nigiri, both of which were awesome, and fish egg weirdness (shaped like a roll but nigiri size) which was enh. Guess I don't like those eggs. I think my lesson is to stick to nigiri. I noticed the lunch menu has a $10 special, presumably year round. 5 nigiri I think (pieces not pairs, presumably) and some stuff.)
Then I went to Borders and read volumes 6 and 7 of Chobits. That's technically a "magical girlfriend" manga, but while I fled Ai Yori Aoishi and put up with Ah! My Goddess, I like this one. I don't know if it's objectively better, or I just like robots. I think one could defend saying that it deals with what might be real issues soon, unlike Aoishi's issues of how to deal with a wealthy doormat who's had a crush on you since you were both six. I've also found out that another series by the same authorial team takes place earlier in the same universe, where the people who made the humaniform personal computers of Chobits were working on advanced game-related prototypes.
I also replaced my eyeglasses case, which I think I stepped on at some point. On closer examination I'm not sure if it's as broken as I thought it was, but better safe than sorry with my expensive eyeglasses. Then off to the mall for watch repair -- yep, this Casio I got for $8 has been repaired, not replaced, with at least two battery changes, a watchband replacement, and (also today) a replacement of the metal bit needed to keep the watchband in place, which I hadn't known they could fix. $9 for that and the battery.
Then back to Borders, to read an article in Aug 06 Scientific American on how being an expert in something is more a matter of effort study and motivation than of talent, where effort means conscious struggle to get better, not automatically indulging the mediocre skills one has acquired so far. It mentioned that hunting-tracking skill matures over 30 years, meaning that takes longer than become a brain surgeon.