What is in your cup?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

(There is an entire ritual involved in the exchange of business cards in Japan, very different from Western usages.)

Ever since I spent time there on business I now take business cards from people I meet and make a point of reading them there and then, and then I array them in front of me and never just put them away. People here prolly think I'm nuts .

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

With Bombay Sapphire, I drink it in a tall glass over a lot of ice, stirred. I don't want to mask its medicinal benefits... I never drink two glasses. One is my limit, but it's usually a double, and I make it last most of the evening.

Such willpower! I'm lucky if I can make it stretch to the full half hour...

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

(giggle) I love the world. Microwaves with a sake button, that is awesome.

They do know how to do things properly, you have to give them that .

[CRussel]

Peet's Russian Caravan this afternoon. Finally making some concrete progress on this article that is overdue. Should have it done tonight, and then it will be time for some serious single malt. Maybe even some Lagavulin.

But first, must focus and bear down. So gone for the rest of the day.

[TGS]

Dansk vand med citrus, (fizzy water with lemon)

[pdurrant]

Sparkling orangeade to wash down a couple of paracetamol. It seems I have a slightly frozen shoulder. With gentle exercise it might get better in six months or so. Sigh.

[Bookpossum]

Good luck with the shoulder.

Just the dregs of my post breakfast coffee in my mug.

[Stitchawl]

Love is a rose but you better not pick it
Only grows when it's on the vine
Handful of thorns and you'll know you've missed it
Lose your love when you say the word mine

I wanna see what's never been seen
I wanna live that age-old dream
Come on boy let's go together
Let's take the best right now

Love is a rose but you better not pick it
Only grows when it's on the vine
Handful of thorns and you'll know you've missed it
Lose your love when you say the word mine

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhlJWjcgS0 )

Good morning, everyone! Happy Friday! Steam is rising out of my cup of Keemun tea today. -2° outside but the snow is holding off. I expected to wake up to a white world outside, but the streets are still dry enough for riding.

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

When I was studying in Milan I had my Mom send over a couple of giant jars of peanut butter with a friend who was visiting.

When I first moved to Japan, and needed some peanut butter for a Korean noodle dish I was making, the closest shop that carried it was 60k away from me. That shop got crushed in the big Kobe Quake of '95.

Then we had a BBQ at one of my classmates apartments and put a sign on the door that for the day this was American territory and American law was enforced. Our Italain friends were baffeled that they were carded and had to get someone 21 years old to get their booze. They enjoyed the cheeseburgers and other food though.

I had to introduce my wife to the concept of an 'American' BBQ. In Japan, no hamburgers or hotdogs. Only beef and chicken, and all the meat is sliced thin into bite-sized pieces before it goes on the grill along side of strips of green pepper, and 2" sections of corn on the cob! They will also grill 'yaki-onigiri,' flattened rice balls painted with soy sauce. Gotta have rice with every meal, right?

Originally Posted by orlok

Ever since I spent time there on business I now take business cards from people I meet and make a point of reading them there and then, and then I array them in front of me and never just put them away. People here prolly think I'm nuts .

Sounds more sane to me than making some absurd comment about the card as you study it; "Hmmm..... and your name is Yoshidia-san? Very interesting! And this is your business? My, my!" But this is done every time, and I have a hard time not laughing out loud. "No, I had the cards printed up with somebody else's name just to fool people..." It's so tempting....

Such willpower! I'm lucky if I can make it stretch to the full half hour...

It's more that I'm not much of a drinker. I like the taste, but not the results.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It seems I have a slightly frozen shoulder. With gentle exercise it might get better in six months or so. Sigh.

We'll hope for a faster recovery for you. They call it '50's Shoulder' here, and believe that most older people will suffer from it. I see old folks at the health club rubbing their shoulders, trying to loosen them up, looking like they are in a lot of pain. It's a shame that modern medicine can't come up with some sort of "joint grease." Just inject the stuff into the joint cavity and everything moves easily once again.

Think I'll have another cup of Keemun. I'm going to have to re-visit the little Chinese import shop pretty soon and restock. Last time I bought several packages of Keemun... all they had in stock... but that was several months ago. At the rate I drink it, to goes quickly. I really wonder who the distributor is? It would be nice to be able to recognize a brand. The shop repackages the tea from a large tinned box.


Stitchawl

[Latinandgreek]

Ahmad English Tea 1 in my cup. Wish me a productive day of writing, I really need a concentration boost!

[ProfCrash]

After this week at work I need a drink or 20. So everyone feel free to have one for me and tell me how out of it I was.

We had three quick turn tasks, between 12-24 hours to respond, and a lead who does not want to be a lead and does whatever the person she chooses to lean on tells her and rarely stands up for her team. Which means that we redid searches on multiple occassions, finding the exact same results, because she wouldn't tell her supervisor "They already did that. Maybe we should ask them how they did it to better understand what results they got and go from there." And then to find out that the work that we had done was right and that the work that they wanted us to do we couldn't because we do not pay for access to those websites.

There are days I enjoy my work and then there are days I want to throttle my boss. Half the time she ignores my group, we don't do the things she is interested in so she leaves us alone to work with the team that does the stuff that she likes. Then she gets involved with my team, knowing nothing about our area, wonders why we can't produce the same products as the other team (totally different types of work and information available), does not believe us when we say that we have less info then they do for X, Y, and Z reasons, and then eventually stands over my shoulder while I redo the same work that we have already completed and goes "I didn't realize that there was so little information."

Rinse and repeat once a month.

It is most frustrating.

[CRussel]

Here you go, ProfCrash. Had some of this for you last night.

[poohbear_nc]

Oh my! Lagavulin! Nectar of the gods!

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Oh my! Lagavulin! Nectar of the gods!

It is indeed!

Today:
Morning fresh squeezed OJ and Peet's Major Dickason's coffee. Then some Peet's Scottish Breakfast (India blacks plus lapsang souchong). Then in the afternoon, some Lion Mountain Keemun.

Current article finished and out for review! . So, spent the afternoon , and drinking Keemun. Now, time for some more malt.

[CWatkinsNash]

Ginger ale in my cup, on ice.

[Brendan Carroll]

Rum and coke... ice, straw. I shouldn't do it, I'm already sleepy.

[orlok]

Good morning! Rooibos in my cup, and Welsh Rarebit under the grill .

[Miss]

Rooibus, nice. I rediscovered a long-lost stash of it the other day and enjoyed a cup.

What's currently in my cup? Water.