I had a blog for many years, in what it feels like it was a whole lifetime ago. When the platform it was hosted on shut down in 2012, years of naive observations vanished from one day to the other. Perhaps for the best. Only the name 'sushibarista' survived to these days, as the love for all things japanese got rooted early - I blame early 90s italian TV-broadcasters for it. (Here is the odd story of why.) In the past year, I have been gathering topics I'd like to write about