Happy New Year! 🎆🎊 🎍

Year-passing soba

Hand cut soba noodles

It reminds me of the Evo I I once owned www.facebook.com/cargraphic.j...

Final product in Ziploc

Pounding

Obligatory NYE work: making mochi. Using slightly more premium glutinous rice this year

Managed to get a ride each day

"Turns out Caltrans didn’t change the passwords for the crosswalks that the manufacturers set, making them vulnerable to hackers" padailypost.com/2025/12/29/c...

You are very likely eligible if you eat beef overchargedforbeef.com/en

Finished all the episodes just in time for the final. Thanks to Festive 500

“Lift’n’Peel™︎” Really? It fails two out of three times 🙃

Acorns

To be honest, it’s a little confusing

Kaya toast

Festive 500 is in the books. I visited their store in SF to collect the roundel, but it seemed too early as it wasn’t ready yet 😄

I finally understand what my wife means by "Ikkan-bari-like (一閑張りみたいな)." I had no idea until I saw this clip: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Felt a bit nostalgic eating Beard Papa’s cream puffs

Day 4 of Festive 500. Yeah, the goal is nigh. Had to dismount to pump up the tires, not my bike but wife’s car’s 😄

Nooo! news.ucsc.edu/2025/12/hist...

“I feel like there’s going to be such a wave of matcha drinks, but a little more unique, rather than your traditional matcha latte.” That assumes the matcha latte itself is "traditional" 🙂 www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/26/i...

I always have to look up the meaning of Boxing Day

Windy but not cold. Weird Christmas Day

“A New Kind of Soda™️”

Merry Christmas!

Prime Rib

Protein today

Metric century completed on Day 1 of the Rapha Festive 500

"Strangely enough, the Norwegian origin of the salmon used in this very Japanese dish, is not well-known" Yeah, I did not know that! I knew there wasn't salmon sushi when I grew up in Japan though www.fromnorway.com/stories-from...

Hard time grokking the term "Trump Class." It sounds oddly accurate.

TIL: Tamalada www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

Gale. Wind, and Flood alerts at the same time. Triple threat

Yes, but I have none left in my FSA 😄 www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a...

From Kansas City to Kansas City 🙂 sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking...

ATG! www.instagram.com/p/DSbAZJ1koXw/

A branch of the orange tree fell, even though the storm hasn’t arrived yet… 🤔

❤️ π

Buster on a wintry day, the 1st day of winter

‘Tis the season

😮 "Massive power outage in SF leaves thousands without electricity" www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Kuku Sabzi

"Bobcats are active in Alum Rock Park! Many recent reports of mountain lions have been confirmed to be bobcats" www.facebook.com/sjparksandre...

まあどうでもいいことなんだけど、"beckon"って書いたら「手招き」を連想してしまうな。ベックオンにはならんでしょ。 beckon.jp

FEDERMAN: Turns out that the simplest dish... SIMON: Yeah? FEDERMAN: ...Is the hardest. TUPPER: The most challenging. FEDERMAN: Matzo brei... www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

""it appears the decimal point moved over for the pending transaction." For example, move the decimal point two places and this $26 fill-up would cost $2,600." How did this happen? 🤔 abc7news.com/post/hundred...

Not only Thailand, but here in the U.S. too!

"Donato & Co. sells five different flavors of the Infermentum panettone from Italy. The 1,200 panettoni Donato received this season from the company have already sold out" For the next year, maybe. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/18/p...

Taiwanese Breakfast Sandwich. Is “毎日の鮮” supposed to be Japanese? 🤔

Pecan & Walnut I just wonder whether I call them “half & half,” or “halves & halves”

展示車はアメリカで販売され、USトヨタによってレース仕様に製作されたレアな１台です✨ toyota-automobile-museum.jp/news/detail/...