@bazbt3 I'll just chalk it up to the manifold peculiarities of English kitchen appliances. :-)
@bazbt3 They didn't make frost-free refrigerators when you moved in? Have you been there since 1948? ;-)
@matigo It goes the other way, too. My best friend growing up was extremely Polynesian in appearance, although his father was of Swedish origin and gave him a Swedish name. He ended up marrying someone from the oh-so-Scandinavian upper Midwest, and I've always wondered what her parents' reaction was the first time she brought him home to meet them, and they found out that Eric Lund was a tall, brown Hawaiian guy. :-)
@matigo Well, that was very inconsiderate of you to be born with a gaijin name like that. :-P
Or you could always naturalize and pick a new name that you can spell with kanji… ;-)
@kdfrawg It's an interesting watch. It has the 262 kHz quartz movement, which results in a smooth-sweeping second hand, and the design is almost a dead ringer for the Longines Heritage 1935, which is a replica of the watch they supplied to the Czech Air Force prewar.
@kdfrawg It came on a light brown one that really doesn't do it any favors. I swapped it for a black one that came on the cream-dialed chronometer version (and didn't do that one any favors, either), but it's cheap Chinese leather and I'm not thrilled. Can't decide what to put on it. I put the chrono on a vintage brown leather strap, and it transformed the watch.
// @c
OK, folks, opinion time: which of these watch bands do you think looks better on this watch?
@matigo It's interesting, and somewhat telling, that a kid born in Japan, with (presumably) Japanese citizenship via his mom, speaking fluent Japanese as his mother tongue, and (I'm guessing here) a Japanese given name, will be seen as "the foreign kid."