Reddit reviews Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer

• Today is my last day before a 9-day vacation. I have absolutely nothing planned beyond getting a few more items checked off my to-do list (such as visiting the rest of the locations in my Little Adventures in Tokyo book and finishing the dozen or so recipes I've yet to make from the 101 essential recipes in the back of How to Cook Everything [incidentally, also a great phone app]).
  
  
• Radish Bo-ya delivery incoming tomorrow morning. One of the best things about getting a box of new vegetables every other week is that I'm finally starting to learn some food names, which has strangely been a bit of a mental block of mine. Just the other week I learned what 菜の花 is (rather, I learned the name for it), and that it cooks up quite nicely with some olive oil and canned tuna.
  
  
• I'm visiting Le Wagon today for their student demos. I'm still not quite ready to commit to joining a bootcamp (or even figuring out what direction I want to move my so-called career in next), but this will be further information for my (at times agonizingly slow) internal analysis.
  
  
• Rewatched Three Amigos and Sneakers this past week. Three Amigos seemed well meant, but sadly devoid of much actual laugh-out-loud humor. On the other hand, I'd forgotten how much I loved Sneakers as a kid. There were some parts near the end that didn't hold up (where exactly did all those extra guards get to?), but the movie is so much fun it's hard to find fault with it.
  
  
• Also saw Things We Lost in the Fire, which was fantastic. Not a false or saccharine note throughout.
  
  
• While I've fallen a bit behind in my Anki studies and meditation, and neither are getting completed every day recently, I'm looking forward to getting back on track over GW. I know my recent struggle to stay on top of these is mostly due to the slow buildup of stress that comes from not having had a long vacation since December, so GW should be just the thing.
  
  
• Exhibiting some of my sketches this weekend along with the rest of my drawing group. Nothing special on my end, but it's the first time I've shown my drawings publicly so that's some sort of small milestone. Honestly, I thought I might be more nervous, but really they're just sketches and not anything I've poured my heart and soul into. I'll aim for the heart and soul pouring for the next exhibition ;-)
  
  EDIT: My proclivity for anal retentiveness forced me to link all the things :-D I am now at peace with the world.

You might find this book interesting: Little Adventures in Tokyo. http://amzn.com/1880656345 Also maybe omideyokocho, ameyokocho, or Nogi shrine.