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injured my achilles tendon a few days ago, probably just from repetitive stress; its nothing serious, just the beginnings of tendonitis, ran enough high school track to know this feeling. thats means no hiking for until it healed. stayed indoors all day, studying russian, hanging out with the cat, organizing pictures, watching too much japanese tv geared towards housewives (pretty much the house dude right now though). learned how to make the perfect lemon chicken today*!

felt the day slipping past me and went out, crossed the street and into the beach. the day was blustery, sunny and cool by the beach, the tide pools were full of little trapped fish. there was this one really deep pool with some sort of tropical fish with electric blue stripes, darting desperately in its narrow berth to hide from me. looking back at the mountains, it looked like a storm was brewing, the peaks were obtenebrated by thick, gray clouds which projected out just shy of the beach. the ocean was frothing pretty energetically; i crept out on a rock and a wave soaked me up to my balls.

odd thing about living in a vacation spot -- always feel like you ought to be out doing something awesome. but its kind of great to just be able to walk out and 5 minutes and see all that.

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* lemon chicken recipe ..
(1) chop up some chicken chunks (legs, wings preferable), quater a lemon and squeeze juice into a cup (save the rinds!), chop up potato, garlic, onion, cilantro (parsley is ok too).
(2) season chicken with salt and pepper
(3) brown chicken chunks , skin side down (skinned chicken is for robots) in a fry pan
(4) flip chicken once one side is nice golden color. throw in potatoes and brown them like the chicken chunks.
(5) once potatoes have a nice golden color on one side, throw in the lemon rinds, onion and garlic chunks
(6) add water, shochu (or white wine, or some other cooking wine), salt. put the cover one and little braise on low for 10 minutes
(7) remove lemon rinds, pour in the lemon juice, turn off heat, top with cilantro. serve with, of course, rice.