unfound products

Drove to every liquor story in Ojai, CA today looking for shochu - any kind of shochu. It turns out I will have to special order it unless I want to drive over the hill (12 miles) to Ventura. Shochu, the preferred cheap brand of liquor for the Tokyo homeless and sold in every convenient store in Japan is a high-end drink here. Interesting. No, I can't make umeboshi with malt liquor or Boone's Farm but you get the
idea.

Next, the ubiquitous glass
tea decantur that sold for　円100
at the Tokyo equivalent of the dollar store
is nowhere to be found around here. Though
a very nice man suggested I buy a big plastic
bottle of Minute Maid orange juice and, when
finished, use the container as an iced tea
decantur. And he welcomed me back to
the states; must say I don't get
welcomed back too often. I must be
doing something right today. 和和和。。。。