the blizzard

today i had a skype chat and then i went up to Sapporo for Costco. I got pickles and some cheap chicken breast amongst other things. On the way back i went to a Book Off and got some Cambridge books on linguistics, and i ate at Victoria, a sort of steak and salad bar place. it was okay, but for some odd reason the demiglace sauce tasted like hayashi rice sauce. Then i drove home in a literal blizzard. I guess all this driving will be good for me. I got plenty of winter and blizzard condition driving under my belt. Going to watch Kouhaku on television for new year's. It's a four hour music program every year with a whole bunch of enka and jpop performers. I hope it will be good.