frozen octopus

TL;DR: Discovered music at a Denny's and found sushi I need to try.

1. I saw someone with a Chris & Cosey shirt on at the local Denny’s yesterday. The name sounded familiar so I made a note. Turns out they are members of Throbbing Gristle after they split up. Stoked to add it to the MusicBox app which has become a staple app in the last month.
2. We were watching 孤独のグルメ (Kodoku no Gourmet or Solitary Gourmet) and the protagonist of the show ordered some sushi the shop ran out of. As an apology gift, the chef gave him a special roll with saba and gari (pickled ginger). Now I am obsessed with trying it.

A magnitude 7 earthquake off the coast of Ishikawa today at around 16:15. Our place was moving and we're all the way in Tokyo so you know it was a big one. Tsunamis around 1 meter have been hitting the west coast still and it's been three hours after the first quake. The aftershocks seem to be slowing down but there were aftershocks around every 10-15 minutes for a while. Things look pretty beat up there on the TV news. On a day where people are normally partying with their families, everyone had to evacuate to higher ground to wait things out.

Hope everyone is hanging in there on the west coast of Japan.

避難(ひなん)する = to take refuge