Wednesday, March 19, 2025

First Bite: So Gong Dong

Went to lunch with my out of town friend to So Gong Dong Tofu & BBQ, an authentic Korean restaurant in Duluth’s “Korea-town” on North Berkeley Lake Road, just north of my office. I was the only Caucasian in there. Very tasty. Lots of food. My friend ordered the beef short ribs, which were very tasty. My coworker had recommended them. My friend recommended I order the Hot Stove Bowl (Bibimbap), sort of a stir fry dish with tasty marinated beef, rice, and various chopped vegetables (below). Served in a super hot dish. When it arrived I had to quickly stir to mix the ingredients so the rice wouldn’t burn on the bottom. Pretty sure this was the exact dish that my friend Cindy Cho had once prepared at a dinner party we’d attended.

These main dishes were accompanied with soup and several small side dishes like kimchi. My friend explained that these were a tradition in Korea. Only the rich ate meat. The poor subsisted on a diet of rice, with these side dishes rounding out the meal. Good stuff.

Did you fill out a NCAA bracket? We have a contest here at work, so I filled one out on line. Not sure I remember how to look it back up on the computer. GT lost !!! ??? Same old Tech. And they were talking about this being a stepping stone to make the NCAA tourney next year?? They gots some work to do.

Who was the greatest player in Tech basketball history? It was the question of the day. Several people voted for Price as the greatest from GT. Not sure if any other GT got a vote. 

I always like to bring up old players, so I posted Roger Kaiser, Mark Price, Kenny Anderson, and Matt Harpring. I think finally after years and years at one point GT MBB brought back Mark Price to help the team with their free throws, on a temporary basis.

Did you see that Matt Harpring’s son is a receiver for the GT football team? His daughter is a star basketball player at Marist.

Last night I worked until 545. Went home and walked Winnie and folded clothes. Watched the splashdown of the stranded astronauts. Supper was spaghetti in a meat sauce, and farm fresh organic green beans.

Ceil put on a Hallmark Channel movie about an aging hockey player.

Up early this morning to lift weights. Small group tonight via Zoom. We received our new black t-shirts at work, with the new sales slogan for 2025: We Walk The Line, a reminder to abide by the guidelines given to quote pricing on orders without deviating. A photo of a young Johnny Cash on the back.

In a major act of domestic terrorism, hackers released the names, home address, phone numbers, and emails of every Tesla owner in the US – including the Director of the FBI.

I hadn’t heard from the guy I used to golf with for several weeks. He finally replied back yesterday, and rambled on for over 40 minutes. Said he was forgiving me for offending him. When I asked what I had done to offend him, he didn’t have an answer. He keeps making irrational life decisions. No support group of people in his life, because he keeps pushing people away – his wife included. Doesn’t matter, because he has a history of not listening to others, and misinterprets what he thinks he does hear. If I try to revisit a prior conversation or text, he doesn’t remember it the way his happen. His reality and what he remembers saying and doing changes over time. He can’t understand when I say I know that my friends are godly, but didn’t want to listen to my reply - because of their fruit, because of the hours and hours and years and years that I spend doing life with them. He won’t allow himself to have a similar experience. He’s cooped up in his house and won’t leave. I’ll ask him how can I know that he is godly. He said himself that the devil knows the scriptures. The poor guy is in therapy, which is good.

Sorry. Had to write that out to sort out and clarify that whole mess. Lord, speak through me to help this guy.

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