Monday, March 10, 2008

Fish Book and cash flow update

I have a new idea that I will attempt to work on. I'm doing research on sushi and am going to produce a book (online at first) about sushi. Yep its my new thing. First fish will be Yellowtail (Skipjack). I find this one fascinating because for sushi this fish goes by several names including Hamachi, Kampachi, Inada, Buri, and several others. My research shows that there is a vast amount of folklore around the proper naming of each fish, depending on farm raised, age, size, genetic species, etc. I will clear up the mess for this and all other sushi fish!!!

Anyways we'll see how this project goes.

I bought a new apple keyboard for my laptop so its hooked up to my 24.1" display. I really am not a fan of this apple keyboard.. it has kinda pudgey keys.. but guess what in Japan its hard to find a keyboard that is US format so I had the choice of this one for $60 or a wireless Logitech for $220. I thought... naaaaah... go cheap. Maybe I'll get something else another day.

In other news my lifestyle is getting out of hand. I know it. I love it. I live it. Some of the excesses of my life now includes....

Daily:
  • Taxi to work ($9)
  • Eating breakfast at work everyday ($4)
  • Eating lunch out everyday ($10)
  • Eating dinner out everyday ($10-40)
Semi-Weekly (1-4 times a week):
  • Been going for massage every week lately, $50 /1hr
  • Tennis lesson: $50-75, may start going weekly
  • Snowboarding and travel: $200+ a pop!
  • Dating, $100-150 a pop!
Potentially new expenses:
  • Gym membership: $120 / month
I haven't really been budgeting.. but I probably have been spending $3-4k a month outside of rent. Wasteful yep. But whatever for staying active/healthy its worth it. I may take a closer accounting soon since I am actually cheap deep down inside.

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