good meat day

I have been listening to podcasts a lot more often recently, mostly how stuff works and freakonomics, the format seems to rub off on my head as I go about my day.

On that note yesterday for me in Japan it was Heisei 29th year November 29th  now this 2-9 combination recently in Japan has a connotation with eating meat, the 29th of each month is known as niku no hi or well 肉の日 now the reason they call it that is that you can make a pun with 2 and 9 in Japanese "ni" and "ku", alright all you people that are going to push your glasses up your nose and say it is "kyuu" instead, depending on the case "ku" is actually correct. This matches the pronunciation for meat so it has become a custom recently in stores and other places to push you into eating meat in this fateful day of the month.

Japanese meat consumption is split between pork and chicken and beef lags behind at around 20 kg for white meat and 10kg for the one I didn't mention before. It was much lower years before actually, for some reason Japan has been trying to increase its meat consumption. The US  average meat intake a year is at around 35kgs  in the case of beef now this numbers are all from the top of my head and I think it is better that I keep it this way, you can go on google and just get better data yourself.

that ends the random talk of the day so you can go at any 29th of a month and go "did you know that recently in Japan...." and show off. To go back to my own life, I just handed my second paper to my professor so I think my graduation is lining up to happen if I am lucky this Sunday I got to take the N1 Japanese Proficiency Test, I took it 2 years ago and failed by two points, scared of similar results I didn't have the guts to sign up again, people younger than me have encouraged me to just give it a shot. At least I can measure if I am better than I was 2 years ago(99 points as a goal to still fail)

if any of you read Hajime no Ippo, well damn that recent chapter hit like a brick, such a long series taking that turn is just sad. I always make the promise to update this more often, but I will keep at it as often as I can. It is relaxing between writing other kinds of things nowadays.