Sinuses (Patreon)

Apologies for the super late entry, I came down with a cold over the weekend and spent most of my time sleeping on the couch. I’m starting to feel a bit better today, so hopefully whatever I caught is on its way out. Tonight I’m going to make spicy mapo tofu and get those sinuses cleared out!

The past week hasn’t been too eventful otherwise. I went to the computer recycler with my friend and picked up some cheap cable organizers. He found a Raspberry Pi Zero for a great price and some other things he needed. There was a bin full of internal PC speakers and I was tempted to buy one for no reason. I came to my senses. We went to Book-Off afterward, a used book, movie, and game store that’s popular in Japan. He picked up a bunch of DVDs and we looked at the retro games. It was interesting to see how prices have changed since I worked at Luna Video Games. They carry some Famicom and Super Famicom stuff, but they no longer carry imports for anything else. I used to be able to find cool PlayStation 1 and 2 mahjong games, Densha de Gos, and little-known Nintendo DS titles. They’ve definitely dedicated more space to figurines and statues over the past few years. I picked up an air fryer cookbook there for my brother-in-law and wished I had browsed it further. I dislike it when cookbooks are targeted at a particular appliance and then 80% of the recipes require more, such as multiple burners, a rice cooker, or even a conventional oven. There need to be cookbooks that show the creative uses of these appliances and how they can provide whole meals from start to finish. These appliances are perfect for college students, singles, folks with little room or no traditional kitchen. Keep the recipes accessible to them!

In exciting news elsewhere: Yokoi Kids Volume 2 is now available for preorder. We’re putting the bows on it this week and should have it off to the printer within the next couple of weeks! This one took us two years as all three of us at Yokoi HQ have had a lot of life (mostly good!) happen and we’re excited to get it out. It’s 110 pages (bigger than the last one by almost 40 pages!) and printed in the same quality as Volume 1 (matte cover, so nice!). This one is a benefit for Out Youth, an LGBTQ+ youth center in Austin, Texas. All profit after printing costs will be donated, and we keep the receipts. It’s $15 bux and you can preorder here! Thanks if you do!

https://itsmerickv.storenvy.com/products/36893423-yokoi-kids-volume-2

-Ian