I spent the last week trying to eat in a way to help my insides recover. You don’t know just how unfunny it is to have diarrhea when some green liquid explodes out of you every 3-4 hours. Luckily it’s better now, and especially when I’m sitting on my chair all day doing nothing but playing League or KanColle it stabilizes even more.
Fury
I’ve kinda reached a state of zen regarding KanColle. A troubled zen, I must admit, but still. It can’t upset me anymore with a few lucky crits and not being able to land the final hit on a boss is just a minor frustration. But the bullshit it just pulled on me was something I’ve never seen before.
Cinnamon
Last week I got the urge to make something cinnamon, so yesterday I tried my hands at a cinnamon roll cake. It failed in more than one way.
Boom headshot
Well, not head, just shot. A while back they told us at the office that we are to get influenza shots. I wasn’t delighted by the idea, since there wasn’t a time in the past 10 or so years when I’d not faint when they punched a needle in me. Usually it was just from taking blood, but once I managed to pass out when the dentist gave me an anaesthetic shot. (I got the rest of my teeth fixed without it.)
I complained a lot about having to get a needle hit me, but while it definitely wasn’t compulsory, even passing out for a few minutes is better than being knocked out with the flu for days because some retard sneezed on me on the train. So today I went and, guess what! I managed not to pass out. Guess I was just unlucky at the dentist?
I still won’t be donating blood though.
Guinness Extra Stout
Guinness is known world wide as “the dark beer”, since it’s pretty much the only beer not a lager that’s available in pubs. I felt like having a stout today, so I gave this brew a try.
Not really Chinese anymore
Back sometime in early summer, I went out for dinner with my co-workers. I don’t usually do that because of the habit of cooking for myself that I picked up during my poor university years. Of course when there is a chance that I can get full and better even, for free, then I have no reason to decline.
That time I had sweet and sour pork, that many might be familiar with from Chinese cuisine, but it’s found its way into Japan and is just as established as ramen (which is also Chinese). I really liked it, and decided to make it for myself.
Japanese phrases exported
I found Curazy’s list of Japanese words exported into other languages quite amusing. I’m still not exactly sure if it’s meant to be serious or not, considering how it includes shio taran, which is a totally coincidental close phonetic match of the Hungarian phrase (sótlan) of the same meaning (“not salty enough”). I’d say some of the others are similar coincidental matches too. Nonetheless, I decided to come up with a similar list.
Kumano Kodo Beer
Imagine that this post is written in ojou-sama Japanese. I’m adding “desu wa” to the end of every sentence in my head anyway. If you don’t get it why, the previous sentences were not meant for you.
The 古道 (kodou) stands for “old style”, which made me cautious after my not so pleasant experiences with the Beer Hearn “old-style IPA”, but unlike that, Kumano Kodo is a brown ale, and I guess that made all the difference.
Ads
People don’t like ads, yet they keep the online world rolling. Showing ads is pretty much the only source of income for free social networks. I don’t know how it works on facebook, since I don’t ever use that on my phone and on my computers everything is adblocked, but twitter has promoted tweets showing up every now and then. At this point I turned off adblock on twitter, because some of those ads are actually interesting.
For example I found the cloud host the blog is running on through such a promotion, and promo codes are still paying for it as well. While there is also the occasional irrelevant promo, those can be just dismissed, and judging from how they tend not to show up again, I guess the site learns what I care about. Which is good.
Ads like this, I don’t mind.
