Froward Jason
@jason.jagaimo.com
Kawasaki resident, Seattleite, cooks a lot, Elixir nerd, software consultant.
I bought a bakery in Mizonokuchi. I'm now making bread and cheese. Nokucheese.com Mostly bread. He/him. https://jason.jagaimo.com
I bought a bakery in Mizonokuchi. I'm now making bread and cheese. Nokucheese.com Mostly bread. He/him. https://jason.jagaimo.com
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
*avoids taking tiny shortcut home from the train station because a young woman turned off there, just so she won't have to worry if I'm following her*
*proceeds to take the marginally slower route, see her turn into my building 30 meters ahead*
Brain: "Oh, shit, that was ineffective."
*proceeds to take the marginally slower route, see her turn into my building 30 meters ahead*
Brain: "Oh, shit, that was ineffective."
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
*avoids taking tiny shortcut home from the train station because a young woman turned off there, just so she won't have to worry if I'm following her*
*proceeds to take the marginally slower route, see her turn into my building 30 meters ahead*
Brain: "Oh, shit, that was ineffective."
*proceeds to take the marginally slower route, see her turn into my building 30 meters ahead*
Brain: "Oh, shit, that was ineffective."
An amusing (frustrating) mishap with Square tonight killed reporting just as I was about to record a cash deposit to the bank. I figured it was just an anomaly until a customer came in search of cheesecake. Then it kept warming me I had no wifi and wouldn't take any transactions other than cash.
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An amusing (frustrating) mishap with Square tonight killed reporting just as I was about to record a cash deposit to the bank. I figured it was just an anomaly until a customer came in search of cheesecake. Then it kept warming me I had no wifi and wouldn't take any transactions other than cash.
My wife had been asking me why I hadn't turned on QR code ordering on Square. Other than the new monthly fee, I knew there was a ton of work to translate the menu into something that was usable by even patient customers. And uploading photos (which square used to capriciously rotate 90 degrees).
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My wife had been asking me why I hadn't turned on QR code ordering on Square. Other than the new monthly fee, I knew there was a ton of work to translate the menu into something that was usable by even patient customers. And uploading photos (which square used to capriciously rotate 90 degrees).
Pretty brutal week. Also peaked at my equivalent sales this week last December and my Friday sales were actually 20% better then (during preopening with no signage, when sandwich orders were not yet routine and we almost panicked when they came, and we were just starting to serve drinkable lattes)
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pretty brutal week. Also peaked at my equivalent sales this week last December and my Friday sales were actually 20% better then (during preopening with no signage, when sandwich orders were not yet routine and we almost panicked when they came, and we were just starting to serve drinkable lattes)
Not today, Satan www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-movi...
YouTube star MrBeast is moving into financial services
MrBeast's company confirmed it's looking to launch a financial services platform, confirming earlier reporting by Business Insider.
www.businessinsider.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Not today, Satan www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-movi...
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look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?
oh that’s good. not enough of every aspect of our lives were financialized quite yet
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?
My wife: "is the building package delivery locker access card in the usual place?" "Yeah I put it there a few days ago". *She picks up card, goesto dining room*
"Do you want me to pick up a package downstairs? I'm still dressed, though only in a tshirt, but more than pajamas" #husbanding #空気読める
"Do you want me to pick up a package downstairs? I'm still dressed, though only in a tshirt, but more than pajamas" #husbanding #空気読める
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My wife: "is the building package delivery locker access card in the usual place?" "Yeah I put it there a few days ago". *She picks up card, goesto dining room*
"Do you want me to pick up a package downstairs? I'm still dressed, though only in a tshirt, but more than pajamas" #husbanding #空気読める
"Do you want me to pick up a package downstairs? I'm still dressed, though only in a tshirt, but more than pajamas" #husbanding #空気読める
I should probably not drink when I'm depressed by weekday sales that barely exceed my preopening sales last November but fuck it's disappointing
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I should probably not drink when I'm depressed by weekday sales that barely exceed my preopening sales last November but fuck it's disappointing
Took some time to procrastinate on actually far more important things yesterday to rebuild my shop's website. It many rough edges, but finally show's the shop's hours, some pictures, and information about how to get here, plus our reservation link and our nascent web store www.nokucheese.com
Home - Nokucheese
当店では、チーズにぴったりの特製素朴なポテトブレッド、高品質な食材を使った素敵なオリジナルサンドイッチ、美味しいサイドディッシュ、アメリカンスタイルのチーズケーキ、キャロットケーキなどのスイーツを提供しています。
www.nokucheese.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Took some time to procrastinate on actually far more important things yesterday to rebuild my shop's website. It many rough edges, but finally show's the shop's hours, some pictures, and information about how to get here, plus our reservation link and our nascent web store www.nokucheese.com
Embarrassing mistake this morning. I was a bit busy prepping a bunch of things, then started working on some paperwork and web stuff while our potato rolls were baking. Time blinded.
9:30 and the oven hadn't beeped yet (should've been ready at 9). WHAT?
The oven was set to bake our rustic loaves
9:30 and the oven hadn't beeped yet (should've been ready at 9). WHAT?
The oven was set to bake our rustic loaves
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Embarrassing mistake this morning. I was a bit busy prepping a bunch of things, then started working on some paperwork and web stuff while our potato rolls were baking. Time blinded.
9:30 and the oven hadn't beeped yet (should've been ready at 9). WHAT?
The oven was set to bake our rustic loaves
9:30 and the oven hadn't beeped yet (should've been ready at 9). WHAT?
The oven was set to bake our rustic loaves
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
Fucked up as we started to get moderately busy again and forgot to order milk and a couple of small things before 5. Technically the milk I can get anywhere, but the higher fat one we use for coffee isn't available and the retail price for other full fat milk is a bit higher than my wholesale price.
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Fucked up as we started to get moderately busy again and forgot to order milk and a couple of small things before 5. Technically the milk I can get anywhere, but the higher fat one we use for coffee isn't available and the retail price for other full fat milk is a bit higher than my wholesale price.
3 reasonably solid days of sales in a row only to face... a Monday. A slower than slow Monday. The "why even open" kind of Monday.
Although 3pm brought in a small flurry of traffic that makes things ever so slightly less painful.
Although 3pm brought in a small flurry of traffic that makes things ever so slightly less painful.
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
3 reasonably solid days of sales in a row only to face... a Monday. A slower than slow Monday. The "why even open" kind of Monday.
Although 3pm brought in a small flurry of traffic that makes things ever so slightly less painful.
Although 3pm brought in a small flurry of traffic that makes things ever so slightly less painful.
I always thought it was a way of curing boredom on the day after Thanksgiving (I usually preferred to go jogging and maybe to a movie or something, like the December 25th or 26th Chinese restaurant and a movie routine some family members did once a lot of them scattered from the Seattle area)
Black Friday - when we celebrate the birthday of a guy who renounced material possessions by buying lots of stuff.
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I always thought it was a way of curing boredom on the day after Thanksgiving (I usually preferred to go jogging and maybe to a movie or something, like the December 25th or 26th Chinese restaurant and a movie routine some family members did once a lot of them scattered from the Seattle area)
Just messaged my baker assuming she'd read it tomorrow. Basically "we did have more leftover bread than really justifies taking you up on your offer to come bake tomorrow but I finished super late and I want to get an extra hour recovery time". Her 10:09 reply implies she gets less sleep than I do.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just messaged my baker assuming she'd read it tomorrow. Basically "we did have more leftover bread than really justifies taking you up on your offer to come bake tomorrow but I finished super late and I want to get an extra hour recovery time". Her 10:09 reply implies she gets less sleep than I do.
This Shonda Rhimes-produced reboot of The West Wing keeps getting more and more ridiculous
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This Shonda Rhimes-produced reboot of The West Wing keeps getting more and more ridiculous
Kakunin: The ancient Japanese art of double- and triple checking to make sure an action is allowed, makes sense and is as intended.
While often infuriating, sometimes it saves your ass. Like when I atypically ordered 10 kilos of chicken instead of 1. Or mistakenly ordered the wrong kind of pump.
While often infuriating, sometimes it saves your ass. Like when I atypically ordered 10 kilos of chicken instead of 1. Or mistakenly ordered the wrong kind of pump.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Kakunin: The ancient Japanese art of double- and triple checking to make sure an action is allowed, makes sense and is as intended.
While often infuriating, sometimes it saves your ass. Like when I atypically ordered 10 kilos of chicken instead of 1. Or mistakenly ordered the wrong kind of pump.
While often infuriating, sometimes it saves your ass. Like when I atypically ordered 10 kilos of chicken instead of 1. Or mistakenly ordered the wrong kind of pump.
I feel my generation was the last to experience a lot of literature with themes like "mother died in childbirth", "family member died of consumption," "disabled by polio," "permanently disfigured by smallpox" and having those stories reinforced by family oral histories. It's easy to be conned now
Influencers are a whole new category of 21st century scam merchant, sometimes with devastating consequences www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I feel my generation was the last to experience a lot of literature with themes like "mother died in childbirth", "family member died of consumption," "disabled by polio," "permanently disfigured by smallpox" and having those stories reinforced by family oral histories. It's easy to be conned now
Rough Sunday. Last weekend we had steady café traffic. Yesterday was fairly busy. Today was merely a trickle, basically like a slow weekday.
And I was left with a lot more bread, even after strategic discounting.
Oof.
And I was left with a lot more bread, even after strategic discounting.
Oof.
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Rough Sunday. Last weekend we had steady café traffic. Yesterday was fairly busy. Today was merely a trickle, basically like a slow weekday.
And I was left with a lot more bread, even after strategic discounting.
Oof.
And I was left with a lot more bread, even after strategic discounting.
Oof.
Tonight a semi-regular customer came in and made multiple orders (a happy hour plate, wine, cheese plate, a couple of additional glasses of wine, and then several focaccia to take home. If I could get ten people like that a night I'd be a lot less worried about making rent and payroll.
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tonight a semi-regular customer came in and made multiple orders (a happy hour plate, wine, cheese plate, a couple of additional glasses of wine, and then several focaccia to take home. If I could get ten people like that a night I'd be a lot less worried about making rent and payroll.
Liar liar white house on fire
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Liar liar white house on fire
Accidentally let my commuter pass expire this week. Forgot how I set it up on my watch originally. Finally accidently got the Pasmo app to recognize my existing account. Couldn't remember password. Figured out how to reset it. Started the flow to renew the expired one. ❌The app goes to bed at 23:45.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Accidentally let my commuter pass expire this week. Forgot how I set it up on my watch originally. Finally accidently got the Pasmo app to recognize my existing account. Couldn't remember password. Figured out how to reset it. Started the flow to renew the expired one. ❌The app goes to bed at 23:45.