Theo Nakagawa-Reed
Dez
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32 records, oldest first2021
Apr 17
Oct 3
house meeting. new wheel:
kitchen - me (oct), dez (nov), priya (dec), jonah (jan)
bathroom up - priya, jonah, me, dez
bathroom down - jonah, me, dez, priya
trash + recycling - dez, priya, jonah, me
jonah's drums: not after 9. dez's 2am cooking: fine if he does the pans.
landlord Ward wants rent as ONE payment now, I collect, due the 1st. my ro…
2024
Jan 7
birthdays
jan 27 dad
jan 30 kofi
feb 11 maren
apr 12 obaachan
may 16 aunt colleen
jul 19 dez
aug 30 jiichan
sep 3 mom
oct 2 priya
nov 9 hana
dec 14 lu
mine mar 22. miso "june 1" (made up by the shelter)
May 27
move, fri 5/31 after 5 + sat 6/1
[x] boxes from the shop (bike boxes are too big, parts boxes are perfect)
[x] dez + his roommate's van, sat 9am
[x] electric in my name, starts 6/1
[x] internet: Loonwave install thurs 6/6 (window 8-12)
[x] renters insurance, send Gail proof
[ ] change address: greywing, marrowfield, loans, shop payroll, MNsure, voter…
Jun 15
addresses, for forms
- 3318 Brackenmere Ave S, Apt 3, Mpls 55406. june 1 2024 to now. landlord Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106
- 2609 Wexcombe Ave S, Apt 204, Mpls 55408. aug 1 2022 to may 31 2024. Corbel Residential, leasing office 612-555-0172. rent 1,480, my half 740. w/ Maren
- 3127 Halloran Ave S, Mpls 55407. aug 15…
Sep 14
"If it tastes flat it needs acid, not salt. It's always acid."
Dez, 11pm, about noodles.
Sep 14
dez's noodles
boil whatever noodles. save a mug of the water.
bowl: 1 big spoon chili crisp, 1 spoon soy, 1/2 spoon black vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, 1 grated garlic clove, spoon of tahini or peanut butter "if you're sad"
noodles in hot, splash of the water, toss till glossy
top: scallion, a fried egg, cucumbers
Dec 11
xmas, budget 150 total, not going home this year (flights are 600+)
mom: the heron print framed. frame from the thrift store, cut a new mat
dad: wool socks
hana: drawing of her dog-patients wall? ask for photos. + the hot sauce she likes from the co-op
obaachan + jiichan: a drawing of their persimmon tree from the photo on my phone. ink. mail by the 14th
dez: knife sharpening gift cer…
2025
Mar 9
three weeks. I've done the work I owe people and nothing else. I sleep ten hour…
…s and wake up tired. the sketchbook has not been opened since Sacramento. the paper is in the flat file and I look at the drawer.
Dez came over tonight without asking, with a cabbage, and said we were making okonomiyaki, and I said I don't have bonito and he took a bag of it out of his coat. he cooked. I chopped. it…
Mar 22
27. worked ten to five, first properly busy saturday of the year, every bike in…
…south Minneapolis came out of a garage with two flat tires. Lu put a candle in a patch kit.
pho after with Dez and Priya. Priya gave me a book of Hasui's snow prints she found used. I didn't know anyone knew I wanted that.
mom called. Obaachan has moved in with them as of last weekend, into my room, which is funny,…
Jun 20
- pho on Nicollet, #14 extra herbs, $13
- somali spot by the shop, sambusa 2 for $3
- ember & rye: family meal 3:45 if dez sneaks me in
- the diner w/ the hash browns
- mom & dad: the walleye place by the falls
Jun 25
HANA'S HERE july 3-9!!
in: thurs 7/3, SMF -> MSP lands 4:35pm, terminal 1. I pick her up (car has no AC, warn her)
out: wed 7/9, 10:20am
she gets the bed, I take the camping pad
plan:
- 4th: fireworks from the Stone Arch side w/ Dez + Priya, bring the blanket
- sat: lake day, cedar, then the walleye place? or tacos
- sun: I work 10-5, can't…
Jul 6
Hana's been here since thursday. she's asleep in my bed with Miso on her feet,…
…traitor. I'm on the camping pad in the living room writing by the bay window.
the 4th: fireworks from the river with Dez and Priya. Hana and Dez argued for an hour about whether a burrito is a sandwich and are now best friends. Priya whispered "she's you but she finishes her sentences."
yesterday the lake. she swam…
Aug 28
fair w/ dez + priya, thursday. spent 41
curds, the pickle pizza, corn, mini donuts, milk x5
biggest pig 1,140 lb, Gus
drew in the poultry barn for an hour
Aug 30
he would have been 89 today.
called Obaachan. she'd made his breakfast and put it in front of the picture and then eaten it herself "so it wouldn't be wasted, he hated waste." she said the tree has a hundred and sixty this year. she counted.
the claim paid yesterday, 380. I'd asked for 880. five hundred deductible. so the insurance company and t…
Oct 18
duluth sat-sun, jonah's band
my car, dez + priya. leave 10am, 2.5 hrs. gas ~45 split 3
show 9pm, $10. jonah's floor, bring pads
check oil before (half a quart low. topped up)
Oct 19
Duluth and back. the car did it, 310 miles, half a quart of oil.
Jonah's band is actually good, which was a relief for all three of us in the car, we'd rehearsed faces. he looks ten years older and very happy. he lives above a bait shop.
this morning we walked out on the breakwater in a wind that took Priya's hat. the lake doesn't look like a lake. it looks like a decision. I'm do…
2026
Mar 14
worked ten to five, first extra saturday. built four kids' bikes out of boxes.…
…it's good work for a tired head, everything goes in one order.
Dez came over after with a pie because it's the 14th and he's that person. sour cherry, lard crust. we ate half of it standing up.
I told him the month. all of it, the numbers. I don't usually. he listened with his arms crossed like he does at the pass,…
Mar 22
28.
I didn't want to do anything and they made me. pho, the four of us. Lu, Dez, Priya. they'd agreed beforehand that I wasn't allowed to look at the bill.
Priya's present is a print of my own bay window with a tiny Miso in it. Dez's is chili crisp. Lu's is a spoke wrench. Hana's box had a photograph I'd never seen: Jiic…
Mar 26
Loomfish paid. 4:31 this afternoon, on the deadline I gave, to the minute almos…
…t, like he'd set an alarm. eighteen hundred dollars. no message.
I was at the shop with my hands in a bottom bracket and my phone buzzed on the bench and I saw the number on the lock screen. Lu saw my face and said "fish guy?" and I nodded and she rang the bell we ring for a bike sale.
forty-one days late. I'm not…
Mar 28
signed it. ten o'clock this morning, at Pilcrow's office in St Paul, third floo…
…r, at a table with a jar of pencils on it. Odette signed after me. she said "welcome to books" and gave me my copy in a folder and a cup of very bad coffee.
Walt gave me the morning. I got to the shop at one and Ines had written on the repair board, in the customer column, "THEO — picture book — due nov 20 — no rush…
Mar 31
last day of march. I want to write this one down whole, because I know I'll rou…
…nd it off later into "that rough month before the book."
on the first I had 212 dollars and a list. the list said: if one man pays me, I'm fine.
on the third the car died, and it wasn't the battery, it was the alternator, and it was 95 for the tow and 486 for the part. I walked to work in slush. Kettlebird paid 450…
May 6
Dez's wifi
Aug 9
the colour samples went in on the 31st and Odette wrote back on the 4th. four w…
…ords. "This is the book."
I'd done the heron arriving and the ice going out. the arriving one came easily. the ice one I did three times. what fixed it was taking colour out, not putting it in. the sheet breaking is nearly white paper and the noise is in the line.
so that's the look, locked. twelve more spreads the…
Aug 30
he'd be ninety today.
Obaachan had the whole family over for his breakfast. Hana put me on the laptop at the end of the table, so I had rice at nine in the morning in Minneapolis with seven people in Sacramento. Mateo was there. he's tall. he eats.
I showed them the kanji. I've been practicing his name every morning for a month on newspri…
Sep 13
Finchley application w/ Dez
Sep 15
from Dez. his lease is up nov 30. copied off Hearthlist bc they disappear. it h…
…as a SUNROOM
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2751 Finchley Avenue S, Upper — Minneapolis, MN 55406
$1,900 / month · 2 bed · 1 bath · 1,050 sq ft · Available December 1
Bright upper unit of a well-kept 1916 duplex in Longfellow, four blocks from the river road. Two real bedrooms plus a heated three-season sunroom at the front (south and west w…
Sep 19
FINCHLEY, saw it w/ Dez at 10. Dale Okerlund showed it, 60s, quiet, fixes thing…
…s himself, lives 3 blocks away. current tenants are a couple moving to Madison.
GOOD
- the sunroom. 9 x 14, windows on two sides, radiator vent in the floor so it's warm. north light it is not, it's south/west, I'd need a shade for afternoon. flat file fits on the long wall (measured: 112")
- bedrooms are equal-ish.…
Sep 19
saw the duplex on Finchley this morning with Dez. upper floor of an old house,…
…two bedrooms and a sunroom.
the sunroom. I walked into it and knew. windows on two sides, a floor that slopes a little to the south, room for the flat file and the drafting table and still a place to stand back and look at a thing. I've worked in the corner of a living room for six years. I measured the wall while t…
Sep 27
called Hana about Finchley. I laid it all out: the sunroom, the money being abo…
…ut equal, the bay window, the lease, Gerald, the fact that Miso will have no radiator to sit on.
she let me finish and said "you've lived alone for two years and it was the right thing. you needed to find out you could. you found out. you don't have to keep proving it."
I said what if living with Dez wrecks it. she…
Sep 29
the two apartments are stacked. I go up the Brackenmere stairs past my own door…
…and the next floor is the Finchley sunroom, and the bay window has come with me, it's fitted into the south wall, and nobody thinks that's strange. Gerald is underneath playing. Dez is cooking in a kitchen that's in both buildings. Gail and the other landlord are at the table with one lease between them, and they're…
Oct 4
this week
- the lease, leaving early. then Gail
- Finchley application, my half, to Dez
- call Obaachan
- tabs for the car, they run out in about 3 weeks
- Miso's vet appointment is next week. pill 2 hrs before
- passport. the form's been printed since august
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| First name | Dez |
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- number: '6125550162' variant: Mobile
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q001 what's my SSN q013 what address is printed on my license q014 I'm filling out the rental application for the Finchley place. Pull together what they'll ask for: full legal name, date of birth, where I've lived the last five years with dates, my current landlord and her phone, what I pay in rent, employer and income, my car, references and an emergency contact.