Entries this day: chillin-with-joanna-and-eric-in-yokosuka joanna-and-eric-last-night taiyaki-hiiragi,-afiru-ramen,-ouca-ice-cream,-and-baskin-robbins-in-ebisu-with-joanna-and-eric

chillin with joanna and eric in yokosuka

17:13 Sunday 10 January 2016 JST

After an oopsy trip to Chiba, we went to the station after Yokosuka. Got some Chinese food at a small shop with Chinese proprietors with whom Joanna spoke a bit in Mandarin.

Went to see Eric's old house in the area, and in the same neighborhood met an Australian guy named Geoffrey who had just moved into his house 9 months ago and has been reforming it since then. Wow! It looked really nice, and he said it's the third house he's reformed in this type of way, so Lin and I got his infos to see if we can have him work on our new house, whenever we end up getting it.

joanna and eric last night

09:56 Sunday 10 January 2016 JST

Had a family outing with Joanna and Eric from San Francisco, who are in town for a week. I hadn't met Eric, but I had met Joanna briefly 4 years ago when Lin and I stayed at her family home (out of which she had already moved) when we got married in the US.

I got to sit next to Eric at Its Vegetable (or is it It's Vegetable) near Kinshicho(?) last night. He's great at asking questions! I need to learn how to do that more naturally. Best I could really do was "how about you?"

He works at Google (jelly) and asked what cloud provider I use. I told him basically AWS, so we talked about that for a bit.

On my right were Takumi, Yuu at the head of the table, and Mikarin across the table from me. I showed them the two puzzles from Mayumi which I had solved. I was able to solve the butterfly one, but interestingly couldn't get the horseshoe one solved, though I claimed it was the easier of the two.

taiyaki hiiragi, afiru ramen, ouca ice cream, and baskin robbins in ebisu with joanna and eric

20:33 Sunday 10 January 2016 JST

Title says it all, but actually I was the only one who ate at 31. I had Vani Vani Vanilla, but it wasn't as good as Popping Shower.

Taiyaki Hiiragi are the azuki bean filled pastries, ... and they were full.

The ramen shop tasted like ramen to me, but it had come twice recommended to Joanna.

Ouca ice cream was served with salty seaweed, which I thought was gross.

We're still chillin' in Baskin Robbins now, with Snoop Dogg Ain't Nothing but a G-Thang, and now MC Hammer 2 Legit to Quit playing on overhead speakers.