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Hotel Soap
Posted Jun 2, 2000
Thursday, June 1, 2000
Norfolk
Today I opened the last of the hotel soap I accumulated while living a month in a motel room after moving from my home in November. The maids liked my daily tip and responded with three wrapped bars of soap each day left on the cigarette scarred bathroom vanity. At first I only slipped a single bar in my sock drawer, but by the time the month was over I was adding three little bars a day to my stash. When I finally rented a house in December, I had over 50 little bars of hotel soap.
Now it's June and the soap is gone. I'm still renting a house and still trying to figure how to put some semblance of normalcy back to this fifty year old life with two kids I see each week and a new ex-wife to pay lots of support to. Lots has changed in a few short months that has changed every routine I know except bathing with soap each day. I've managed to save a few dollars a week by making my dress shirts last two days and skipping ties on days with no meetings. I'll put a bar of soap on the shopping list. In the coming days the last traces of my month in an Ocean View flea bag motel will be cleansed away with my scrubbing.
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Knife Tricks
Posted Jun 1, 2000
Wednesday, 5/31/00 Newport News, VA
Tonite after roller blading the five of us went to the Nara of Japan, a cook-it-at-your-table place that is fun and has good food. The cooks all use pretty much the same routine, but at it's most basic, handling a knife like these guys do is pretty amazing. I'd be happy just to be able sharpen my knife the way our cook did, stropping it briskly on the file while reading back our orders.
But it's the egg that is most impressive. Better than the onion-volcano or the rapid shelling of the shrimp with deft swipes of the blade. He spun an egg on the cook surface and slid a spatchala-knife under it. Again and again he tossed it spinning into the air and catching it and letting in spin. But on the last toss he turned the utinsel sideways and the egg shell split in two and the yolk fell unbroken onto the cook top.
How do you learn that?
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