For the past few days, I have been walking around on a sore heel.  The inside part of my left shoe (at the heel) wore out, and the hard plastic parts of the shoe started scraping at my heel.  It hurt.  I'd had enough. Today during my lunch break (which is over in about three minutes), I ran to the shoe store to get some new shoes.  They certainly are more comfortable than my old, worn-out ones. Bye bye old shoes: Hello new shoes:

Yesterday my wife and I found a new thing at the Asian grocery store.  Instead of the usual frozen sanma (pike mackeral), they had some fresh.  Yay!  That's one of my favorite fish (served grilled with shredded daikon and soy sauce on the side.) My wife cooked up a good sanma dinner tonight.

Today I took my family to Twins fest.  It was fun.  We got to walk around on the field at the Metrodome.  Our older son got to run around.  We saw a few players.  Good time. Little boy at lunch time. Our oldest son got a Twins hat. After the Twins fest.  We went to the Asian grocery store. I came across this interestingly-named product. "Cock" brand- Special Fish Sauce.  I know that they mean "chicken", but the name still makes one gi...

Well, my exhaustive "coverage" of American Idol begins tomorrow, when the fifth season kicks-off with a two-hour audition show.  Before that however, I have a few photos to post from recent days. We received a package from Japan today.  In the package, there was a cell-phone strap for me.  I put it on my phone.  The writing on the strap says "Buyuzan".  Buyuzan is a professional sumo wrestler who hails from my wife's home town.  My father-in-law is close to some ...

Today my wife and I took the boys to a small zoo in the central part of our state.  On the way home, we stopped off for a little shopping.  One of the places we went to was Barnes & Noble.  (I wanted to buy a CD.  "Teegan and Sara": "Jealousy" ...I think...) As soon as we walked into the store, our oldest son exclaimed "choo-choo".  He wanted to play with the Thomas the Tank Engine train set that they have at Barnes and Noble stores.  (Just like he knows that...

Hi there friends! I hope that all of you had a fun and productive holiday weekend. I had a really happy time relaxing with friends and family. On Saturday and Sunday we enjoyed ourselves with the Mattson family at their cabin on Lake Mille Lacs. It was awfully cold outside, but we enjoyed visiting and playing a number of board games. We got in some Risk, UNO, and a game of Monopoly. Yay! Coming home on Sunday, we spend our Monday running errands and catching up on sumo matches that we...