Kokochi

Big balloon! 大きい風船！

We were at Goa Gil for Dav's b-day so today is a belated special treat for Dav. Happy Birthday baby!

デイブの誕生日は好きなトランス　イベントのゴア　ギルに行っていたので、今日は遅れた祝いです。お誕生日おめでとう！

Instant height ... or not 背伸び

Transcription by janesa13:
I recently bought a cool pair of platform shoes that make me lots taller without heels. I've been wearing flats since I walk up/down hills to work and am delighted to "rediscover" the joy of height. I walk faster and see things differently.
But at work, I end up taking my shoes off and run around in my sox (a comfort thing?)...and today, when I was shoeless, I ran into my CFO and he said, "What happened? You shrunk!"
I am still short

この間ヒールなしでも背が高くなるプラットフォームの靴を買いました。会社へ行く時坂をいくつか越えて歩かないといけないので、最近ずーっとヒールなしでした。なので、新しい靴を履いて改めて背がもっと高いとどれだけ楽しいのか感じました。歩くのが早くなるし、眺めも違う。でも、いったん会社に着くと時々靴を脱いで仕事をすることがある。そして今日、CEOとばったり会った時背の高い私になれた彼は「あれ、どうしたの？縮んだね」と、、、やっぱりまだ背の低い私です。

Suspicious theater 不審な映画館

Between my office and the quaint train station (see below) is an interesting theater. It's open, but no movies are ever advertised. Nothing to entice you in...blank and kinda dark looking. Except for "Outstanding Features" sign. Uh-huh. I get it.

会社とあのかわいらしい駅（下記に書いた駅のこと）の間にちょっと変な映画館がある。開いているけど、宣伝も何もありません。いつも暗くて誰もいない。でも、表の看板は「すばらしいフィーチャー」とある。フィーチャーの言葉は上映している映画と言う意味であるけれど、もう一つの意味は人（この場合女性？）の体の特徴を示すこともできます。そういうことですね。

Going home from work 会社帰り

Beautiful warm evening...and I realize what a quaint rural-like train station I use. Although so close to SF... The States still surprises me in this way.

とても雰囲気のいい暖かい夕方。今ふと気が付いたけど、会社がある電車の駅は結構田舎っぽくてちょっとかわいい感じである。でもサンフランシスコの近く。こうこう時にあーアメリカだなーと思う。

Spiritual retreat for stressed out crops

Speaking of great food (see yesterday's post), I've been reading The New Yorker from September 6th. Yes, I'm behind...but this one is the food issue so I've been reading it cover to cover.

Burkhard Bilger's "Annals of Agriculture: Salad Days" was one of my favorite articles. I learned that those salad-mix bags that we casually pick up at Trader Joe's or any other supermarket nowadays is a result of 20 years of research. The plastic of these bags is made up of 5 to 10 layers, each with a carefully developed function so that the bag allows gases consumed and released by the salad leaves to permeate in and out for maximum shelf life.

Every type of salad requires a different type of bag, tailored to its respiration rate by gas chromatography and computer analysis. Every bag is a miniature biosphere.

This was Bilger describing the industrialization of gourmet organic food.

In contrast, he introduced Bob Cannard, one of Chez Panisse's produce suppliers from Sonoma. Bear with me, but I just have to quote this paragraph about this man:

Cannard not only feeds his crops with compost; he brews hundred-gallon vats of nutrient 'teas' and sends them coursing through his irrigation system. He throws in handfuls of crushed oyster shells, sea salt, and volcanic rock, cartons of eggs and milk, and jugs of molasses. Some days, he'll make a lavender or rosemary tea, to revive his plants with 'energetic aromas.' Other days, he'll add some worm castings or swallow droppings, from birds that nest under the eaves of his house. The bacteria, he says, helps his crops absorb nutrients from the soil. After 28 years of farming, Cannard can tell at a glance what his crops require. 'A plant doesn't wear makeup or dark glasses or anything,' he says. 'It will just sit there in its nakedness and show you how it's feeling through its color, its posture, its textures, its anchorage.' His farm is a kind of spiritual retreat for stressed out crops. Even the wind and the wild birds, he says, sing to his vegetables.

Um, I think I'll go home and tend to my plants.

Greens

Transcription by Anonymous:
When Dav + I <3 went to Burning Man, my colleague Ezra kindly took care of my fussy fluffballs. In return, I wanted to take him out to a *yummy* dinner--so here we are at Greens tonight. Dav's locative friends joined and we're all talking, um, interesting geek stuff (I'm not... just listening :) Again, great good and great friends... Ahh, life is good!!

Those 2 fingers hovering over the pesto & pinenut pizza are Ezra's by the way. They're supposed to be bunny ears...

バーニングマンに行っている間、同僚のエズラが猫ちゃん達の面倒をみてくれたので、お礼として美味しいディナーをご馳走したかったので、今晩SFで有名なGREENSへ行きました。DavのLocative関係のことに興味を持つ友達も一緒にきたので皆でちょっとギークっぽい話をしてます　（まー、私は聞いているだけですけどね。）美味しい食事と楽しい友達、、、幸せです。

ちなみにペストと松の実のピザに突っ込んでいる２本の指はエズラのです。ウサギの耳なんだそうです。

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Well, it's quite evident that Tara-chan is Japanese. This is his best entry yet (he posts by himself, without my help, every 2 weeks；see the gibberish at the very bottom). It has Japanese in it which is much better than the jumbled English he used to post. You can still see the meaningless English, but at least there is some Japanese.

So, to give poor Tara-chan more vocabulary, I've decided to start posting bilingually. When I post from my phone, it will be in English, but once I get to my laptop, I'll translate.

Tara-chan is one reason. The other reason is that when I was in Tokyo posting to TokyoTidbits, I wrote in English. So non-Japanese could enjoy learning about Tokyo. Now that I'm in SF, it seems only fair that I write in Japanese so Japanese can better understand what I'm doing here. My Japanese uncle, for example, said he logs into Kokochi every once in a while. And although he enjoys seeing me in my wacky outfits and the views in SF, he has no idea what I'm saying.

This will be an experiment since it won't be the same as moblogging my phone and forgetting about it. But let's see.

ペットのタラちゃんは２週間に一回自分でここで記事をポストするようになってますが英語が苦手なので、あまり意味のない記事を書いています。今回は初めて日本語を取り入れています。まあーまだあまり意味がないけどね。なのでタラちゃんの為にこれから英語と共に日本語でも書きたいと思います。携帯からモブログする時はもちろん英語のみなので家に帰ってPCにログインできた時になるべく日本語に翻訳します。

これはタラちゃんの為だけだはありません。東京に住んでた時、TokyoTidbitsに英語で書いてました。アメリカにいた人たちが東京の生活やおもしろいことに付いて読めました。サンフランシスコにいる今の私が今度は日本にいる友達の為に日本語で書かないといけないなとずっと思っていました。（このブログのタイトルが日本語の心地である理由の一つは日本に少しでも繋ぎを作りたかったからです。）なので、なるべく日本でも読めるようにしたいとおもいます！

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Dearest Raven,

My thoughts are with you and your dad.

Ginevra deals with it all

This is a little ode to my fab colleague Ginevra. She came in when I was swamped and immediately took on a huge load. I still can't imagine how I survived before her; now she knows so much that I often rely on her to keep my marbles together.

She has the cutest puppy, Stella. But Stella, um, chomps on stuff, as noted in the regularly updated list on Ginevra's blog. And recently, she ate "the only Dell AC power cord in a 50 mile radius. While plugged in." OK. That can happen. But then this happened. I've been wanting to post about this cuz I found Dell so disappointing, but was a bit distracted. Ginevra took it all in stride, yet when Dell sent, in the end, a total of four wrong replacements, I just had to post this. All I can say is, stay away from Dell if that is their customer service!

On the flip side, Ginevra had something wonderful happen. A customer, with whom she had several email exchanges, sent her one of the most beautiful books I've seen in a long time. Such thoughtfulness makes our job *so* worth it!

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Hey! Found a backpack unicorn...A new fun trend?