I made yummy food tonight... 
My friend Peter told me about this Gyudon he used to eat when he was in Japan. So I looked up the recipe online, adjusted slightly, and gave it a go tonight.
It was delicious! 
Here's what I did.

1/2 kg of sirloin, thinly sliced
1     medium onion
60  ml soy sauce
60  ml mirin
4    medium mushrooms

cooked rice or noodles, as you prefer (rice works best)

I put the mirin and soy sauce in a pot, thinly sliced the onion and cooked until very tender, added the thinkly sliced mushrooms and cooked for a couple  minutes. 
Added the meat, cooked for another 8-10 minutes and then dished over the rice, then poured the jus on top of each portion.

SO YUM!  This is like Japanese fast food - but a lot healthier. Once the rice is ready, the cooking time is about 15 minutes... I'll be making this a lot more often :)

Oh, I was going to add some vegies (string beans, and the like) but didn't get around to it. I wonder how nice that would be.

Maybe not.

After ages, tonight I actually got dressed and went out. Left the house and did the saturday night thing.

Got a call from a friend I hadn't heard from in a while... it's his birthday and he's going to be in Hobart for the weekend, wondered if we could catch up. Awesome! So I go... show up at the food place, and he introduces me quickly to the 5 guys sitting at the table. Shortly after two young girls come in from outside (they were having a smoke).

I sit down, catch up with my friend, and make some small talk with the others. Nice enough people I guess - the girls are quite young (21 and 25) and they're down here from Melbourne because the guys they're going out with invited them to spend the weekend in tassie, "don't worry babe i'll pay for everything!"

We leave the restaurant and decide to go to one of the watering holes. We get there, stand outside, and after a couple minutes the guys just walk into the pub, leaving us 3 girls outside by ourselves in a crowd of drunken people (mostly guys). The boys didn't even ask their girlfriends if they wanted a drink or anything. Just disappeared. "Ok... must just be the way they do things in the big city" I think.

Not so, as I am informed by the two girls who are by now very indignant and offended.  After all, they're in a strange place, with no money, they're not too sure where they are or where their motel is, they have no keys and they've just been left to fend for themselves.

We decide, the 3 of us, to go have a seat on a bench that's about ten feet from the pub door. We're having a chat and trying to keep warm, girls are a bit annoyed but the class clown here manages to make them smile and forget about the thoughtlessness of their boyfriends. Until one of them gets a message on her mobile.

"hey, you guys left, so we are walking up to the strip club."

Instant drama. And understandably so.

She rings him, and I thought she was going to reach through the phone and rip his nads off when he said "what, we're not walking back now! It's a long way!" needless to say, after she was done with him the guys were back within a couple of minutes. The girls grab the keys to the motel rooms, and I offer to  take them there, leaving the guys to go back to whatever they were up to. 

We have a coffee, they calm down a bit (after writing interesting stuff on the mirror with lipstick) and I finally leave them half asleep. I even give them some money toward the taxi in the morning - so they can catch their flight home without having to rely on the boyfriends who're probably still out getting pissed.

I always end up being the one who takes people home, whenever I go somewhere. I guess someone's gotta do it, stay sober and be responsible - might as well be me. Not like I drink anyway.

I'm getting too old for this shit. =)