Larry Gilbert in 2006

2006 was 94% worth living.

In 2005, Larry Gilbert did 12 things, went 167 places, met 6 people, and consumed 863 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Eat Sushi from a Sushi Bar
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. try sushi — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Never use myspace
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Ban smoking in bars and restaurants in Washington State — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Portmeirion
Consumed:
  1. Black Licorice — Worth consuming!

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March

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Century Ballroom — Worth visiting!

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn ruby on rails — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Festyland
  2. Shoreline — visited 27 days later
  3. Leilani Lanes — visited 24 days later
  4. Top Pot Doughnuts — visited about 1 month later
  5. Hotwire Online Coffeehouse — visited 3 months later
  6. Mr. Spots Chai House — visited 5 months later
  7. Ono Sushi — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Top Pot Doughnuts — Worth visiting!
  2. Cafe Maree — Worth visiting!
  3. Green Lake District — Worth visiting!
  4. Revolutions — Worth visiting!
  5. Wayward Coffeehouse — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. David Heinemeier Hansson
  2. Jewel Staite
  3. Steven Soderbergh
Read:
  1. The Cyberiad — Worth consuming!
  2. Esperanto (Teach Yourself) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Irresistible Bliss — Worth consuming!
  2. El Oso — Worth consuming!
  3. Ruby Vroom — Worth consuming!
  4. How Sweet It Is — Not worth consuming
  5. Lust in Phaze: The Best of Soul Coughing — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Princess Bride — Worth consuming!
  2. High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
  3. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!
  4. Stage Beauty — Worth consuming!
  5. Amélie (Original French Version with English and Spanish Subtitles) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Full Screen Edition)
  7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Worth consuming!
  8. Havoc (Unrated Version) — Worth consuming!
  9. Bubble — Worth consuming!
  10. The Hills Have Eyes
  11. Inside Man — Worth consuming!
  12. The Ice Harvest (Widescreen Edition)
  13. Schizopolis — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. chai — Worth consuming!
  2. Pad Thai — Worth consuming!
  3. Kikkoman Pearl soy milk — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. American Idol — Not worth consuming
  2. This page on AllConsuming.net — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy a TerraPass for my car — completed about 1 month later
  2. Go to a Seattle.rb meeting
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Never use myspace
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Highland Ice Arena
  2. Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
  3. Hallie's Loft
  4. Improv Everywhere
  5. The Library Cafe — visited 7 days later
  6. Sushi Teriyaki — visited about 1 month later
  7. Red Line Cafe — visited 2 months later
  8. Brians' American Eatery — visited 4 months later
  9. Land Of The Lost
  10. Fuji-Q Highland
  11. Tillamook Air Museum
  12. The Honey Hole
  13. Theo Chocolate
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Steel Pig BBQ — Worth visiting!
  2. Elysian Brewing Company — Worth visiting!
  3. Shoreline — Worth visiting!
  4. Crest Cinema Centre — Worth visiting!
  5. Eugene — Worth visiting!
  6. Renton — Worth visiting!
  7. Newcastle — Not worth visiting
  8. Interzone — Worth visiting!
  9. Gilbert Hall — Worth visiting!
  10. Albany — Worth visiting!
  11. Redhook Brewery — Worth visiting!
  12. Woodinville — Worth visiting!
  13. Archie McPhee's — Worth visiting!
  14. Sunset Bowl — Not worth visiting
  15. Madame K's — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Geoffrey Grosenbach — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Countess M
Read:
  1. Me Talk Pretty One Day — Worth consuming!
  2. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness — Worth consuming!
  3. Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Deluxe Edition CD + DVD) — Worth consuming!
  2. Aperitif for Destruction — Worth consuming!
  3. Tuxicity — Worth consuming!
  4. Lounge Against the Machine — Worth consuming!
  5. I'd Like a Virgin — Worth consuming!
  6. Deep Inside a Cop's Mind
Watched:
  1. Battlefield Earth — Worth consuming!
  2. Brother — Worth consuming!
  3. A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Contender — Worth consuming!
  5. Million Dollar Baby — Worth consuming!
  6. Match Point
Consumed:
  1. Macbeth (opera) — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Go to open-mic night at a comedy club
  2. Donate hair to Locks of Love or other charity — completed 26 days later
  3. grow my fingernails — completed 21 days later
  4. Move to San Diego — completed 7 months later
  5. stop letting my emotions control me
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fire a gun in a shooting range — Not worth doing
  2. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  3. get VoIP (Voice over IP) — Worth doing!
  4. buy a TerraPass for my car — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. find a better shirt-folding technique than "Master this shirt-folding technique"
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Las Vegas
  2. The Original Starbucks Location
  3. Victrola Coffee & Art
  4. Ould Triangle
  5. Jolly Roger Taproom
  6. Acme Bowling
  7. Liberace Museum
  8. Nye Beach — visited 9 months later
  9. Apple Campus
  10. Seattle Underground Tour
  11. Experience Music Project — visited about 1 year later
  12. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The Library Cafe — Worth visiting!
  2. Oregon Coast Aquarium — Worth visiting!
  3. Stratosphere Casino Hotel and Tower — Worth visiting!
  4. Luxor Hotel and Casino — Worth visiting!
  5. Fremont Street — Worth visiting!
  6. GameWorks — Not worth visiting
  7. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino — Worth visiting!
  8. MGM Grand — Worth visiting!
  9. Tom Jones — Worth visiting!
  10. Las Vegas Strip — Worth visiting!
  11. Hoover Dam — Worth visiting!
  12. Space Needle — Worth visiting!
  13. Top Pot Doughnuts — Worth visiting!
  14. Fun Forest — Worth visiting!
  15. The Ferris Wheel — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Dave Barry
  2. favstvs
  3. Jamala Henderson
Read:
  1. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  2. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer — Worth consuming!
  3. Cat's Cradle — Worth consuming!
  4. Dave Barry in Cyberspace — Worth consuming!
  5. Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self — Not worth consuming
  6. Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Book of the SubGenius : The Sacred Teachings of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs — Worth consuming!
  8. Bangkok 8: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  9. The Happy Mutant Handbook — Worth consuming!
  10. Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say — Worth consuming!
  11. Three Fisted Tales of Bob — Worth consuming!
  12. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. A Scanner Darkly — Worth consuming!
  14. Mad Monks on the Road/a 47,000-Hour Dashboard Adventure-From Paradise, California, to Royal, Arkansas, and Up the New Jersey Turnpike — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Achtung Baby
  2. Zooropa
  3. The Joshua Tree
  4. Jagged Little Pill — Not worth consuming
  5. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  6. Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
  7. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  8. Weezer (Blue Album) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Fragile — Worth consuming!
  10. London Calling — Worth consuming!
  11. Come Away with Me — Worth consuming!
  12. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — Worth consuming!
  13. Elephunk — Not worth consuming
  14. Play
  15. Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King — Worth consuming!
  2. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  4. Twins — Worth consuming!
  5. Fletch
  6. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
  7. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  8. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  9. Contact — Worth consuming!
  10. L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
  11. North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
  12. The Cable Guy — Worth consuming!
  13. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  14. All the President's Men — Worth consuming!
  15. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Pumpkin Pie
  2. Bubble Tea
  3. apple pie
  4. BBQ'd Salmon
  5. Young's Double Chocolate Stout — Worth consuming!
  6. Silk Chocolate Soy Milk
  7. Jägermeister — Worth consuming!
  8. Ostrich meat — Not worth consuming
  9. Almonds — Worth consuming!
  10. Coca-Cola Blāk — Worth consuming!
  11. liver and onions
  12. Tropicana Twister diet orange soda
Consumed:
  1. kingdom of loathing — Worth consuming!
  2. Second Life — Not worth consuming

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. follow Coach U's "Clean Sweep Program"
  2. Learn the Ian Knot to tie my shoelaces — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Donate hair to Locks of Love or other charity — Worth doing!
  2. grow my fingernails
  3. Get a MacBook Pro — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. 4th & B — visited 3 months later
  2. Columbia
  3. Mandarin Gate — visited about 1 year later
  4. Tonga
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gorditos Healthy Mexican Food
  2. Greenwood — Worth visiting!
  3. Uwajimaya Grocery And Gift Market — Worth visiting!
  4. Yukon
  5. Oklahoma City
  6. Weatherford
  7. United States
  8. Rick's
  9. Washington State
  10. Arizona
  11. Iowa — Worth visiting!
  12. Pella — Worth visiting!
  13. Nebraska
  14. Missouri
  15. Massachusetts
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Olivia De Berardinis — met about 1 year later
Read:
  1. Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Hope and Desire
Watched:
  1. Snatch (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Commitments — Worth consuming!
  3. Bad Santa — Worth consuming!
  4. Splitting Heirs — Not worth consuming
  5. Made — Worth consuming!
  6. Johnny English (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad — Worth consuming!
  8. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — Worth consuming!
  9. The Producers — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  2. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  3. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  4. Steak — Worth consuming!
  5. Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
  6. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  7. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  8. Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  9. Ice cream — Worth consuming!
  10. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!
  11. Crab — Worth consuming!
  12. Curry — Worth consuming!
  13. Prawns — Worth consuming!
  14. Clam chowder — Worth consuming!
  15. Barbecues — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Citalopram (Celexa) — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. stop being such a miserable fuck
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. be my own boss — Not worth doing
  2. fornicate — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Hotwire Online Coffeehouse — Worth visiting!
  2. Discovery Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Capitol Hill — Worth visiting!
  4. Salty's On Alki Beach
  5. Icon Grill — Worth visiting!
  6. Alki Beach — Worth visiting!
  7. Blue Heron — Worth visiting!
  8. Pike Place Market — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Geoffrey Grosenbach
Read:
  1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity — Worth consuming!
  2. All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays — Worth consuming!
  3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — Worth consuming!
  4. Fight Club: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  5. Dave Barry Talks Back — Worth consuming!
  6. The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus; All the Words Volume One — Worth consuming!
  7. The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2 — Worth consuming!
  8. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch — Worth consuming!
  9. Cruel Shoes — Worth consuming!
  10. Questions of English — Worth consuming!
  11. Corrections and Clarifications — Worth consuming!
  12. Death Comes for the Archbishop — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Unknown Pleasures — Worth consuming!
  2. Drums of Death — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Spanish Prisoner — Worth consuming!
  2. Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  4. The Hudsucker Proxy — Worth consuming!
  5. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. Grease (Widescreen Edition)
  7. Say Anything
  8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Worth consuming!
  9. Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
  10. L.A. Story — Worth consuming!
  11. Dick Tracy — Worth consuming!
  12. Donnie Darko — Worth consuming!
  13. Miller's Crossing — Worth consuming!
  14. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  15. National Treasure (Full Screen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. green tea ice cream — Worth consuming!
  2. Aquafina
  3. Puffins (Peanut Butter) — Worth consuming!
  4. Mint Chocolate Chip Tofutti Cuties — Worth consuming!

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September

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Go to a Seattle.rb meeting
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Charles M. Schulz Complex
  2. The Huddle — visited 3 months later
  3. Diedrich Coffee — visited 4 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mr. Spots Chai House — Worth visiting!
  2. Espresso Splendido
  3. Yasuko's Teriyaki
  4. NaNung — Worth visiting!
  5. Neptune Theater — Worth visiting!
  6. Seven Gables Theatre — Worth visiting!
  7. University Zoka Coffee
  8. Carmelita
  9. Tracy
  10. Capriotti's
  11. Ono Sushi — Worth visiting!
  12. T-Deli — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. The Robot Co-op Office
Watched:
  1. Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. Primary Colors
  3. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  4. Wonder Boys — Worth consuming!
  5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 1) — Worth consuming!
  6. Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Ray (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Bound — Worth consuming!
  9. Bad Lieutenant — Worth consuming!
  10. Red Dwarf: Series 1 — Worth consuming!
  11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 2) — Worth consuming!
  12. Spartan — Worth consuming!
  13. The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version) — Worth consuming!
  14. Arrested Development - Season One — Worth consuming!
  15. Sideways (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. pumpkin spice latte — Not worth consuming
  2. Ruby Tuesday — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. geocaching
  2. VZ Navigator — Worth consuming!
  3. NET10 — Worth consuming!
  4. Diner Dash (mobile) — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Rhythmic Arts Festival
  2. Richard Walker's Pancake House
  3. Mission Valley Branch Library — visited about 1 month later
  4. Sushi Deli 1 — visited 2 months later
  5. Crest Cafe — visited 3 months later
  6. Phil's BBQ — visited 3 months later
  7. Lestat's Coffee Shop — visited 8 months later
  8. Caffe Calabria — visited 8 months later
  9. Twiggs Bakery & Coffeehouse — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Brians' American Eatery — Worth visiting!
  2. Rubio's
  3. Starbucks - Park and University
  4. Panera Bread — Worth visiting!
  5. Pioneer Park
  6. Normal Heights
  7. Ocean Beach
  8. Clairemont Mesa — Not worth visiting
  9. Henry's Marketplace — Worth visiting!
  10. Your Mama's Mug
  11. Hash House A Go Go — Worth visiting!
  12. El Zarape
  13. Firefly Factory — Worth visiting!
  14. Lucky Buck's — Worth visiting!
  15. Salon Cabana
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Victrola Coffee & Art
  2. Ould Triangle
  3. Jolly Roger Taproom
  4. Acme Bowling
Read:
  1. Animal Farm — Worth consuming!
  2. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Thin Man (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
  2. Spawn - The Director's Cut (New Line Platinum Series)
  3. Mystery Men — Worth consuming!
  4. The Blues Brothers (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. What's Up, Tiger Lily? — Worth consuming!
  6. Batman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  7. Hulk (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Batman (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Polish Wedding — Worth consuming!
  10. Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation
  11. My Man Godfrey — Worth consuming!
  12. X-Men (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. X2 - X-Men United (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. After the Thin Man — Worth consuming!
  15. A Prairie Home Companion — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. All Natural Chai — Not worth consuming

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Give blood — completed 3 months later
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Six Flags Magic Mountain
  2. Red Fox Room — visited 2 months later
  3. Pirates Cove — visited 7 months later
  4. Gelato Vero Caffè — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Robeks
  2. Los Panchos
  3. The Private Collector — Worth visiting!
  4. The Mission — Worth visiting!
  5. Underground Coffee
  6. 4th & B
  7. Mission Valley Branch Library — Worth visiting!
  8. San Diego — Worth visiting!
  9. University Heights Branch Library — Not worth visiting
  10. San Diego Coffee, Tea And Spice — Worth visiting!
  11. Cristy's Bakery
  12. Krakatoa — Worth visiting!
  13. Shakespeare Pub & Grille — Worth visiting!
  14. Shakespeare Corner Shoppe — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. The Honey Hole
Read:
  1. The Gallery of Regrettable Food — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid — Worth consuming!
  2. Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
  3. Kissing Jessica Stein
  4. Firefly - The Complete Series — Worth consuming!
  5. Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Rounders — Worth consuming!
  7. Ravenous — Worth consuming!
  8. The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Life Or Something Like It
  10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles — Worth consuming!
  11. Breaking Away — Worth consuming!
  12. Event Horizon — Not worth consuming
  13. Cube — Worth consuming!
  14. Keeping the Faith
  15. The Beatles - Help! — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Trader Joe's
  2. Marmite Yeast Extract flavour potato crisps — Worth consuming!
  3. Smoky Bacon flavour potato crisps — Worth consuming!
  4. Chamba Chai — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Netflix — Worth consuming!
  2. BillMonk — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Places:
  1. Mystic Mocha — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Woodstock's Pizza — Worth visiting!
  2. Woodstock's Pizza — Worth visiting!
  3. North Park
  4. North Park Branch Library — Worth visiting!
  5. Serra Mesa
  6. Serra Mesa/Kearny Mesa Branch Library — Worth visiting!
  7. Casbah
Listened to:
  1. Love (CD + Audio DVD) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. All About Eve — Worth consuming!
  3. The Up Series (Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven / 21 Up / 28 Up / 35 Up / 42 Up) — Worth consuming!
  4. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Very Long Engagement — Worth consuming!
  6. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead — Worth consuming!
  8. A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Serenity (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  12. 21 Up — Worth consuming!
  13. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey — Worth consuming!
  14. Ronin — Worth consuming!
  15. Auto Focus — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. warm sake (kanzake) — Worth consuming!
  2. Salmon — Worth consuming!

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