Value (Meals)

At a diner on the rez to the north of us on Labor Day, the tsuma, onechan, imoto, and I were able to finish exactly half of the two pancake meals we ordered (one with ham and eggs on the side, one without), knowing how huge and heavy the pancakes at that place were. We spent just under $9 and still haven't finished the leftovers.

At a cheap bento place across the street from us in Fukuoka, we used to spend about the same amount of money to feed all four of us at lunchtime. Rather than just three kinds of foods, we usually got 3-5 different kinds of meats/fish, 5-7 different kinds of vegetables, and 2-4 different kinds of carb-laden things. So the volume of food was much less, but the variety of tastes and nutrients was much higher.

Perhaps this explains why we felt heavy in Japan and feel thin in the U.S.?

Now, That's a Jinx

From the State Farm Classic final interview page: "Japan's Ai Miyazato withdrew during Sunday's final round, and a reason was not cited." Mi Hyun Kim just missed the top 10. Moira Dunn did make the top 30 and about $11.1K, putting her over the $100K mark on the season, but that's probably not enough to guarantee she'll get her card for 2008. Oh, and Christina Kim's late charge was not enough to beat Sherri Steinhauer, who matched her miracle putt for miracle putt. Reads like a fantastic finish, maybe the best of the season--too bad I missed it.

On the bright side, onechan recovered quickly from her stomach woes and her first flower girl experience was a blast! So far the Mostly Harmless jinx seems limited to golf.

[Update 1 (am): When you have Hound Dog giving you the final-round key play-by-play better than any of the lazy AP golf writers who get assigned to LPGA events, it's pretty clear the jinx doesn't extend to blogging, either.]

[Update 2 (pm): What can I say? At least Phil beat Tiger on a Monday? Why does the PGA's best finish of the year have to happen the same week as the LPGA's, though?]

[Update 3 (pm): Mulligan Stu reports at Waggle Room on the reason for Ai-chan's WD--now he's got me wondering if it's possible for her to have caught a stomach bug from us over the computer....]

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That Mostly Harmless jinx is pretty powerful. Not only is it hurting my three favorite golfers at the State Farm Classic, it's also given everyone in the Constructivist household (except imoto, thankfully) a bad stomach bug--or maybe just food poisoning. Either that, or my posts on imoto and onechan over at CitizenSE this week have literally worried us sick....

The state of the union

By order of King George:



The Bush Rules:

Hi! Onechan

My name's Geoffrey, Geoffrey Gee Hogg, at'cher service.

I used to teach Sparkychan and Gojochan about art and adventure and tunnels and stuff. I sure miss them, they were such good students.



So how are they doing? And you? What about Imoto?

Gotta' go now. Gotta retrieve some golf balls. Tell you dad that The Golden Groundhog has secret tunnels into every golf course in the world and has been um err appropriating golf balls since the beginning of time. Why the core of the earth is just one big golf ball.

Bye,

Geoffrey