birthday summary

After work Hiroko and I had dinner at Lucky. It was typically dead and the mama-san who runs it was happy to see us, so we got free stuff (garlic potato salad!) and ate most leisurely.
Cruised home and took stock of my 33rd haul:

• two equally silly electronic Hallmark greeting cards from my favorite mom and my favorite her twin sister.
• Five volume set (softcover) of Harry Potter. Yes, I know, so shutup already. I WANT to read them. Been a while since I read something fun in English. Loan Securitization documents don't count.
• Teku-teku Angel, in blue.
• Cool black Nike t-shirt from Masa declaring "The Legend Continues"
• Summer kimono and matching geta