The new office has really, really dry air. Like, "I feel like I'm stuck on an airplane for eight hours" kind of dry air. This tends to cause me a lot of sinus pain unless I drink a ton of liquids. I normally drink a lot of water, so upping my intake of that gets boring after a while. I have a couple of hot beverage mixes, but I don't like drinking too much of them since they're sugared. So I decided that it's time to deal with this dislike of tea I have. I have no problems with the herbal teas -- other than they taste like hot leaf juice to me, and I am a little puzzled why anyone would want to drink hot leaf juice.
Fortunately Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger with a packet of Splenda manages to not only not taste like hot leaf juice, it actually tastes pretty good to me. Nifty! And this evening
First the second: I like saba!
Generally, I don't really like the taste of fish. I got raised in a family that doesn't like fish and have never seen the point of learning to like it. I'll eat tuna fish, but it's not the top of my to-eat list. But I've been thinking I should learn to like fish, since it's good for you. It would also open up a lot of food possibilities in Japan, and given that I'm looking at ending up in business/social situations where refusing fish would Not Be Cool learning now to like it is good preparation.
While at dinner tonight we were given a little appetizer thing that had what we believe was cooked, possibly lightly marinaded saba. It was good! I would willingly eat more of it. (Though I was a little puzzled that it tasted a bit like chicken.)
The only down side on saba is that I learned the word for it from Kamen Rider Kabuto. So now I associate saba with, well, Kabuto. And it makes me giggle randomly.
First the third: Well, there is no first the third. After having a roll of "ooh, this can be tasty" adventures today I decided to try some of the sake folks got with dinner.
