I really like sushi. It's a penchant I've cultivated over the years and you can sometimes catch me sitting at the sushi bar wowing them with my palette for all they do.
 

I have been known to enjoy the sushi of Ryo Watanabe of Inakaya Watanabe on Jamil Road in Columbia.

Lately, though he has been choosing a Gaijin serving staff and this has forced me to go to Inakaya O'Neil Court for a more authentic experience ... not that the O'Neil Court location doesn't have it's share of Gaijin going on as well.

In the old days the staff was totally Japanese. These days appear to be gone forever. I used to love to go and be treated so special by the pretty little Japanese ladies.

This situation has not diminished my respect for Mr Ryo nor my enjoyment of his restaurant.

Nonetheless, my friend at O'Neil Court, Mr Moru is very skilled in his own right and he understands that I know my way around the menu as well.

So today is International Sushi Day.

Sushi has become a favorite with more in the area than just me.

The thought of raw fish used to give me shudders but from my first taste, I knew it was going to be alright.

My chopstick skills are superior with only a few snafus anymore and I anticipate a nice plate of Unagi, Saba, Sake (Salmon, not the wine), and the absolutely required spider roll I will be good to go once again !

Happy International Sushi Day.
 

Yeah, I'm supposedly in "retirement". All it presents is a lot of boring nothingness.

Rather than allow the lamer leadership to impose their microsoft inability mess on me I chose to leave my job.

While I maintain that I prefer this boredom to that sharepoint stupidity the microsoft lamers pursue it is a far cry from the busy day with which I once occupied myself.

While everyone was SO congratulatory I anticipated the reality up front. I'm one of those guys who needs somewhere to go.

I went to the want ads and searched out "work for retirees" on the google shitbox and got an indeed.com page full of a bunch of skill less nothing. It seems from these threads that the vast bulk of retirees are stupid and only good for helping others dress and bathe.

What useless nothing of a company is the pitiful indeed.com from a standpoint of practicality.

So all I do is watch teevee and collect a check when I would prefer to be out there earning much more and being bored much less.

Now I tool around with my server cluster but that's it. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't do at least THAT much but it doesn't provide much beyond routine maintenance and the opportunity to produce a few graphics and various elements of prose.

It's all a travesty of feeble human resource people in charge of things about which they know nothing.

They might as well pack up and move to the City of Columbia and stay with the rest of the no vision can't take care of business area dummies.
 

I've been here before — many times ... one of my childhood favorites has been German Chocolate Cake.

It was a frequently requested birthday cake for as long as I can remember.

German chocolate cake aka German's chocolate cake is one of those special confections comprised of layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting.

A concoction originating in the United States; it is named for the English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German who developed a formulation for a dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. It is not an item of German extraction. I cannot remember the last time I had a piece but I would gladly revisit the taste whenever the opportunity should arise.

See Also:

National German Chocolate Cake Day
 

June 10th brings us National Herbs & Spices Day. It has been around since about 2015 and nobody knows how it began or who started it.

The day strikes me as being about herbs and spices in the kitchen as well as those used for medicinal purposes.

Being a lover of good food I like the idea of spicing up my dishes and have been known to keep a good stockpile of things with which to add to my cooking.

Few things are worse than bland food in my humble opinion.

Salt and Pepper are great enhancements ... but it's nice to consider broadening our taste horizons with spices such as cinnamon, oregano, basil and so forth to complement the inherent flavor of that which we eat.
 

Low salt diets in particular benefit from the spices available on today's market.

I frequent the Chef's Store on Jamil Rd in Columbia and they sport one of the finest spice racks I've ever encountered ! A wall of various spices and mixtures in different sizes.

The health aspects of spices likewise should not be underrated.

Nothing is more healthy than a dose of cinamon, tumeric, garlic, or ginger.

I am a big fan of parsley juice for many years now.

I like mine with an apple juiced in it. I have been known to consume it by the pyrex quart measuring cup to the point that I become tanned looking though I never venture out into the sunshine for long.
 

I used to be a big fan of donuts. Much more than I am nowadays. The cruller in particular.

Then Mr Donut left the area. It was my absolute favorite place for donuts. They turned the building into a video poker rip off joint; but that was the era in which the city of Cayce devolved.

Then my "second" choice, Dunkin Donuts, reduced their number of locations, began doing the convenience store thing, and were said to be going out of business though they still remain. I find in my old age that I have an aversion to "frozen" donut products being sold as "fresh" anyway.
 

This left Krispy Kreme which ceased being a place I frequented because they abandoned the cake donut in favor of the glazed yeast donuts and their inferior taste, texture, and nutrition.

So, now I'm left with pretty much a single place I'd just as soon avoid. In their defense they do make a fine raspberry jelly filled donut that remains a personal favorite.

Yes, it is still terrible nutrition but the flavor is there to overcome that detriment in my mind. I will sometimes buy a six pack of raspberry jelly filled donuts to placate my need for delectable though lousy calorie dense foodstuffs with which to stuff my face.

I've been known to devour the raspberry jelly donut with wild abandon and great gusto — and will likely continue to do so. In my feeble mind they taste THAT good.

Yummy!