Uni Sushi

I love sushi!

It may be a bit of an acquired taste.  It's not something that I used to think I would enjoy but I started out slowly with cooked items like Ebi Nigeri (cooked shrimp on rice) and California Rolls and worked my way up from there.  Now I'll eat just about any kind of sushi.  One kind of sushi that I always wanted to try is Uni Sushi.  Uni is the edible part of the sea urchin.  I wasn't sure if I'd like it but I'm fairly adventurous and often like new things when I try them.

I had Uni Sushi last week and it was delicious!  The Uni did not taste like fish to me, more of a meaty taste but I can't think of anything to compare it to.  I'll definitely have it again.

How do you feel about sushi?  Is there any unusual food that you want to try?

Ebi Nigiri

Uni Sushi

Pictures are from aboutsushi.net.  They also have a guide to trying sushi.

Have you seen this video yet?  I never got into Justin Timberlake as a singer (probably because of the Britney connection) but I like him as an actor.  He's very funny!

Apple Bags - Avoiding Moths when Growing Apples

I'm trying a technique that I've read about online.  To avoid apple worms (codling moth larvae) we've cut holes in the bottom of paper bags and placed them over the apples when they reached about an inch across.  We then stapled the opening of the bags closed after folding a few times.

So far we've lost a few bags to storms but most have stayed on.  I really hope that this technique will work because I would really like to eat our own home-grown chemical-free apples!

Wordless Wednesday

My apple trees.  They were planted last year.

Wordless Wednesday

National Aquarium in Washington DC

Photos taken by my daughter on her Senior Trip

I thought Aspies were supposed to be good at math

Well, my dreams of the boy's future career as an engineer are drying up.  His second grade teacher sent home a math paper that needed to be redone.  Out of 20 questions only 3 were correct.  Admittedly, it's subtraction with regrouping but it wasn't the regrouping he had the issue with.  It was the subtraction.

Here's an example problem and our conversation about it.

20-16= 16.

Me:  What's 10 minus 6?
Boy:  Can't you just tell me the answer?
Me:  Of course not, you won't learn anything that way.
Boy:  Dad tells me the answers.

Me:  Hmmph, what's 10 minus 6?

Boy:  *Thinks for a bit* Isn't it something like 8 or 9?

Me:  No, it's nothing like 8 or 9.  You do realize that there's only one correct answer to a math problem, right?  It's not a matter of opinion.

Boy:  Mooooooooooom.

The conversation continued in this vein until I finally dragged the correct answer out of him.  I will admit to telling him the answer to the last two.

So now that we've ruled out careers that involve people skills and math, I'm keeping my eyes open for ads like this.

Help Wanted

Gamers needed.  Excellent pay and benefits.

Ability to play video games for hours without 

moving or blinking is a must.  Enjoyment of 

watching hours of youtube videos of people

playing the same game you just played is a 

plus.  If you can then spend the remaining hours

of the day talking about said games... you're our man!

I LOVE (love love) Daylight Savings Time

I went out at 7pm and the sun was still shining. Amazing!  And who needs sunshine at 5am?  Not me that's for sure.  I say we go to daylight savings time all year long.  Keep all of the sunshine for when I'm awake.

My only complaint is that as I'm getting older I notice a bit of "jet-lag" each time the time changes.  Anyone else have that issue?

What do you think?