I took yesterday ...
I took yesterday off from work so that I could head over to the Setagaya city office to renew my now expired foreigner registration. The Setagaya city office is in the least convenient area in Setagaya. To go there by train is an elaborate affair that involves like 683 line transfers and walks between stations. Instead I rode my bike there and it probably took about the same time.I made an attempt to get a mushroom burger at Freshness Burger but they were all sold out. Let me explain the mushroom burger, it is not a hamburger with mushrooms on top. No, it's a burger made entirely out of mushrooms and put on a bun with normal burger toppings. I instead went with t

I'm painfully stu...
I'm painfully stuck on the final mission in GTA4. I've been trying to successfully complete it for like 2 days now but there is one point where you have to jump off a ramp on a motorcycle and somehow land on a helicopter. I have not been able to successfully do this as I always seem to undershoot or overshoot the copter and land in the water. The one time I actually got on the helicopter I accidentally crashed it by hitting the wrong button.I have made no progress on my Thanksgiving menu yet but I plan on making some stuff tomorrow night for testing. I'm going to try for some type of spinach dish, maybe creamed spinach as well as stuff mushrooms. The mushrooms w

Week update
The weekend was, as usual, busy. It started out on Friday with a trip to Shibuya to go to an Izakaya (Japanese style bar in case I haven't explained that before) with some people that I met at a party last weekend.The Friday night meeting was OK but I'm not much of an izakaya type of guy. You get a private room with all the people you are with, so that's cool, but I didn't really know a lot of the people and the table setting was not exactly conducive to a lot of conversation with everyone. I pretty much just talked to the people on either side of me the whole night. Luckily they were cool. I got invited out by both of them again but I have yet to set any times

Yesterday I went ...
Yesterday I went to the local high class supermarket in a search for turkey. Last year, when I wasn't cooking thanksgiving dinner, they had butterballs there. This year, they had these miniature baby turkeys from Spain. We are talking a 4lb turkey here people! that's enough for like 4 people at most.In my disappointment I bought a 1/4 slice of kabocha and a bottle of cranberry juice and went on my way. I had planned on doing something with those when I got home but I totally forgot what it was and didn't actually do anything with either of them. Instead I ate a salad that I topped with bacon and fried scallions. That was pretty good.So, in o

I didn't do a who...
I didn't do a whole lot yesterday. It was just a relax at home and play more GTA4 type of evening.  It wasn't a bad night though. I need to have a few relaxing nights during the week or I never recover from my hectic weekends.  That seems weird, most people are relaxing on the weekends right?I spent my entire lunch break yesterday planning Joe's Tokyo Thanksgiving meal out as best I could and I came up with the following so far. I owe a lot of the ideas and a few of the recipes to my Cook's Country subscription, which was graciously gifted to me by