kenji big head

I sent off my two beloved and damaged Fuji GA645s to Fuji USA for repair today.

Also, my parents (and our!) friends Katy and Jon Casida were in Grenoble and we had dinner at our favorite Lebanese restaurant, the Liban Vert. We had the mezzes with a bourgogne and afterwards headed to Gonzalez for ice cream

Having been smacked down by my adventurous palate last time, I opted for the violet and peanut ice creams, both of which were excellent. On the menu, you might be able to see some of their unusual flavors:
Garlic
Ginger
Mustard
Pear
Vinegar
Creole
Cumin
Cardamon
Bean
Peanut
Curry
Tarragon
Carrot


Later on, my parents called, and Kenji told me a story about his giant head. It turns out that he had the second largest head in his middle school. How did he know it was the second largest? During the war, he and his school mates were required to wear military caps and uniforms. On the day of their being issued, my dad had worked himself into a panic. His anxiety stemmed from the fact that he knew he had a rather large head. He began imagining what was going to happen when he couldn't fit any of the variously sized caps on his head. They would probably call him something terrible like "Daruma"

As it happens, one of his classmates, Sakamoto-san saved my father from the ignominy. Sakamoto was having trouble finding an approriately sized hat, when the headmaster saw him and remarked, "My Sakamoto-kun, you have a big head!". And my dad breathed a sigh of relief, because it was Sakamoto and not him who would be called Daruma for the next five years.