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Fortunately, today is #hakutsuru day, so I get to work out my job market-related frustrations with learning to move my body's energy all about and hopefully sending all that bad energy out of my body and straight into the floor.

I just hope all this residual energy doesn't shatter my windows or crack my foundation, cuz I've got a lot to let out! :kekw:

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It's another chilly and gray day outside, so I've been fighting off the weather-induced malaise today. I need to go to the grocery store, but I've pretty much already decided I'm not going to do that.

Trying now to psych myself up for doing my #hakutsuru class. My brain is really pushing hard for me to blow it off because of the timing of the class and the fact that I'm hungry, but I really want to do that class. I enjoy it quite a bit, I always learn something new from it, and I know I'll feel better once it's done.

C'mon, 🧠 ! Get yourself high! Get out of your funk! It'll be good for us, I promise!

And that's my first #hakutsuru class of 2025 in the bag. Good thing that I've got some vidyas of at least some of the kata so I didn't look like a complete boob tonight by forgetting everything I've learned over the holiday break. It was good to be back in training, though. I really like hakutsuru - seems to better fit my body the older I get.

Last night's #karate class did indeed do a number on me last night for sure - all that floor work and the muy thai warmups led to quite a bit of soreness today. So my rust in remembering the kata was further "enhanced" by the rust on my internal gears.

I have a feeling I'm gonna be even more sore tomorrow. :oof:

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@slightlyoff What's more, there's gold at the end of the Hakutsuru Sake museum tour! 😁
✅ 30 sake only available in Japan (I'm not wild about the Hakutsuru sake imported into the US by Mutual Trading Company)
✅ Sake ice cream made from sake lees (I'd never seen or tasted this before... very interesting!)
✅ Sake tasting room with free samples of Tokubetsu Junmai & a tasty lemon-flavored sake as well as 2 Junmai Daiginjo-shu (ultra-refined premium sake)

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BTW: I was training to be a Japanese sake sommelier back in the 90s before I fell ill, so I have a real fondness for sake.

And despite it not being my usual sake brand of choice, I have a huge appreciation for what Hakutsuru has done. This is one helluva sake museum & I highly recommend it if you're in Nada.

If you're interested in sake brewing & you can't make it to Japan, here's the ENGLISH translation of the entire museum tour!
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Speaking of "things you should have been paying attention to during the sake brewery tour", this photo is of sake ice cream. It's delicious - made of sake lees, the rice remaining after sake is brewed from it.

The soft serve is available behind the shop counter. There's a museum sign in multiple languages advertising it.

I sat outside the brewery with cups for my family & guess who came up to me waving & pointing at my ice cream like a child.

I walked away. 😁

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I was startled, trying to figure out what happened when I noticed she pounced on the machine & hit the dispensing buttons repeatedly while nothing happened.

I sipped my cup, observing her lose her shit, walked up again, INSERTED A SPECIAL TOKEN, dispensed another cup of "Yamadaho" sake (pictured) & walked away.

The look on her face was priceless: Someone apparently didn't have any tokens (you had to have paid for them previously) and started to make a scene.

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This was one of the funnier parts of the Hakutsuru Sake tour for me:

Let's start out by saying certain cultures don't believe in queuing. Some are even rude enough to actually PUT HANDS on you to push/pull you out of the way to get to their objective.

So a woman "of a certain culture", forcibly grabbed my shoulder & side & pulled me out of the way to get to this sake dispensing machine while I'm holding my "guinomi" (sake ceramic cup) under a tap getting a pour.

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#sake #japan #hakutsuru

My favorite part of the tour: Hakutsuru Sake Brewery, founded in 1743. I've visited many sake breweries in Japan but never been here.

The sake they import to the US ("Sho-une") is pretty mass market & IMHO just okay but their Japanese native sake (and their museum) is really phenomenal!