Life has once again been a bit crazy. I seem to only have the energy to post when I have a day off, as that's when I can actually sit down and relax for a bit.
O, excellent! GM and I will be at the 2012 Culinary Symposium, so we'll be looking forward to seeing you!
I once read that Kentucky Fried Chicken made everyone, even the corporate yonks, spend 30 days behind a counter in a KFC. I've always thought that was a good idea. People who have never worked retail should not be allowed to make decisions about product presentation.
My current corporation seems to headhunt for the higher end executives, it takes a lot of clamoring from those of us down the chain for them to take a suggestion seriously. Then they have to study the suggestion and see if it has merit, blah, blah, blah. Months and many dollars later they may implement the change.
Japan is beautiful and depressing (so crowded that a person used to open spaces can feel hemmed in while on the roads or rails)... I'd go back in a heartbeat. I hope you do get a chance to tour it with your husband. Especially the department store's kitchen section. My golly, do they have neat kitchen tools that we can't find in the US!
Oh, and the sights are lovely too. But don't miss shopping - it's fun. And if you do go, and get thirsty while walking about, be careful about the coffee machines. Learn the symbol (kanji) for 'hot' and 'cold'. We didn't and I ended up with a hot strawberry shake while my husband got iced coffee!
Lol! I am dying to go shopping. He's had many tales about the kitchen store in the mall closest to base. He had talked and talked about "the perfect shower head/faucet/pressure controller several visits in a row. I finally told him to just go ahead and get it, it shouldn't be hard to connect up to our plumbing system. There's no electronics just two input pipes. It's sitting in a box waiting for the upstairs bathroom remodel. :D
So yes, my husband went to Japan and brought me back a shower unit.
I came back with a no-power blender (you pulled a cord, like starting a lawnmower, and a little yo-yo pulley inside re-wound it. So the more you pulled, the more it mixed). I miss that blender terribly... I gave it to a friend who didn't have kids and came to regret the gift. Years later, I asked about it - and found that she didn't have any use for it (she'd remarried and was a step-mom) so she gave it away.
*sigh* Oh, for the ability to make real margaritas at the beach. "If you can't mix 'em, you've had enough". It only made one pint of stuff, which is why I thought I didn't need it. Now my kids are grown and I would have killed a small furry something to get it back!
I'm looking forward to seeing you both in February! I believe I will be in the kitchen for the class period just before lunch (or possibly just before dinner) because I'm teaching a hands-on class on period fritters.
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I once read that Kentucky Fried Chicken made everyone, even the corporate yonks, spend 30 days behind a counter in a KFC. I've always thought that was a good idea. People who have never worked retail should not be allowed to make decisions about product presentation.
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My current corporation seems to headhunt for the higher end executives, it takes a lot of clamoring from those of us down the chain for them to take a suggestion seriously. Then they have to study the suggestion and see if it has merit, blah, blah, blah. Months and many dollars later they may implement the change.
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Oh, and the sights are lovely too. But don't miss shopping - it's fun. And if you do go, and get thirsty while walking about, be careful about the coffee machines. Learn the symbol (kanji) for 'hot' and 'cold'. We didn't and I ended up with a hot strawberry shake while my husband got iced coffee!
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So yes, my husband went to Japan and brought me back a shower unit.
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*sigh* Oh, for the ability to make real margaritas at the beach. "If you can't mix 'em, you've had enough". It only made one pint of stuff, which is why I thought I didn't need it. Now my kids are grown and I would have killed a small furry something to get it back!
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