TibbonZero's Journal: Things I want to do in Life...

There's so many things that I wanna do in life. Any ideas or suggestions?

Learn to Make Sushi (and Sashimi)

Own a House

Have a really nice home theatre

Own a recording studio of small size

Be a major record producer that makes Puffy and George Martin look bad (to see those 2 in the same sentence pains me)

Learn to Sail

Get an old Porchse

Race it on track

Get a PhD in something... or at least an MBA

Learn to Play drums

Own a place on St George's Island

Have a nice guitar collection

spend at least 6 months bumming it in Europe backpacking and staying where I can for as little money as possible

Build my own house

Invent something cool

Have ONE kid

Get a HUGE CD/Record collection

Buy a Library and put all the books in a huge room (a la beauty and the beast)

Have a nice little wine cellar

Yea, it's alot of money things, but some things like backbacking and stuff aren't. Alot of goals, but it's alot to work for. I really wanna be a better cook as well. I love being around people and entertaining. I don't want an expensive car (the old porsches aren't so bad priced, cheaper than most new cars). I don't care about a huge pool, or a Rolex watch. Sure I would like to shop some nice places, but really- it's about having a good time and being able to learn. And if I could ever learn how to program a little better that would be cool too!

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[bellus quies]

Yea, it's alot of money things

Not necissarily, it just depends on the way that you look at it. Own a House & Have a really nice home theatre can easily become, enjoying time with your family and friends watching movies at your house. And combining to have a nice little wine cellar and to be a better cook can be sharing your newfound cooking talent by having the best ingredients at hand to celebrate and entertain the people that matter to you.

It's having the perspective that tangible objects aren't gathered just to have them. But to enjoy the experiences that having them provides.

Exactly!!!

[TibbonZero]

Exactly. Some people don't see it that way. My Mom is always wondering why I would like to do some of these things. She thinks it's about extravagance and money- but it's about letting the people around me enjoy themselves more, and spending time with them.

Thanks for understanding

Making sushi, sashimi.

[aphor]

1) Buy a live fish, or settle for freshly caught, but if you want to see what its supposed to be like you must have FRESH FISH, as in GO FISHING (charter boat for tuna is a good idea)!

2) Borrow a sharp knife (an 8" butcher's knife will do) from someone who is an irritating perfectionist, but keeps sharp knives. You want to feel like you're cutting warm butter.

3) Clean the fish, rinse the meat, move the good cuts to a clean cutting board, and examine the grain of the flesh.

4) Look for a bias that you can get decent 1-2 bite sized slices with attractive angles.

5) Cut Cut Cut.

6) Arrange and garnish.

7) Pour your drinks, and serve!

(Before you go fishing: buy Tamari, and powdered wasabi. Make the paste from the powder, Buy fresh gingerroot, skin it, slice it paper thin, and marinate it in rice vinegar in the fridge).

It isn't rocket science. Contemplate what you are doing in each step, and make your actions count. Only attempt what you know you can do with fluid certainty. Is the fish fresh? Is it clean? Can I cut it this way? Does it look good?

Enjoy!

Fresh Fish in Boston

[TibbonZero]

Yea, it's really easy to get fresh fish around here. There's this Super 88 Market down the street from me. Its like the size of a medium grocery store, but the back half of the store is nothing but fish tanks with all types of live crabs, fish, eels, ,etc...

The only problem is that there's maybe one guy in the place that speaks english... Actually that's an american view. It's my problem, because I haven't learned to speak other languages....

Re:Fresh Fish in Boston

[aphor]

What language do they [fishmongers] speak?

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Re:Fresh Fish in Boston

[TibbonZero]

Yea, but I don't know how to type down their speach into a character set.... Perhaps a text to speech and then Babelfish.