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Realized I need to spend more time reviewing. I'm very eager to learn more but lots of it isn't sticking, so I need to find a better balance. And it's always a lot easier to read than to listen than to produce the language, but I'm enjoying recognizing more things when I scan websites and such.

Hello, I'm from the Church of Hiroshima-fuu Okonomiyaki. Do you have a moment to talk about the One True Okonomiyaki?

But seriously, what do you use for a dashi replacement? I've tried kelp dashi with mixed results among other weirder attempts to add depth to the batter.

Some good days and some bad days brain- and body-wise. Doing some coverage for classes at the dojo and had two good classes where I had people work on some bad habits I've noticed creeping into the movement of most of the students and one bad class where I couldn't remember a kata. Sleep and work exhaustion make a big difference day to day. My arms have been aching for two week due to an unrelated reason so I haven't been able to do much more than teach until yesterday as I was letting them do some healing. It was good to see progress there. Plus all the normal dread regarding the future of the US.

Also, three geese. One for each arm and the leg I'm not using to stand on.

Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy's face. It wasn't a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn't really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn't worth the risk and I didn't come back the next day.

You smell wonderful.

Giant sloth, we're in the pleistocene.

You smell wonderful in this pleistocene.

(Caption mentions Witcher et al and this is the best I can come up with.)

As an awkward fellow, having made hiring decisions twice in my life from a vast pool of three candidates each time, I hate sending rejection emails and it's legally dangerous to engage in any sort of explanation if they ask for one. Mostly I do it so they don't continue to follow up. At a larger company, I don't see a way to have the time to do it unless it's an automated system, in which case I'd advise not applying.

Actually making progress on getting some minis painted. I had an unsuccessful attempt at making a pearlescent insect wing and got glitter everywhere. Going to try a different method this week. Otherwise, the sword bandits, burning undead, and hives are ready for varnishing and the komuso monks and fire wizards are coming along. My painting is adequate, so they're nothing that's going to win contests, but I'm glad to have more things painted when my friends gather to play.

Can't tell if it's old Anakin or new Anakin in the bottom right one...

Many criteria are used to pick best in breed for the cyberdog category including traction, the total length of wiring, and quality of audio equipment (especially the subwoofers).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

For some reason when you say colorful dos games, my mind immediately went to some of the Commander Keen games. Doom also has a Commander Keen as an Easter egg in it. And Quake has a dopefish in it. So any of those if Easter egg isn't too much of a stretch.

It's Elon's hero's birthday (and his last day on the surface according to Wikipedia). And the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. And the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I'm very glad that pot takes top billing.