第15回：『食レポの秘密 & 自家用EVの充電騒動、再発!!』設計奮闘編
（キュウリ、トマト、レタス入りのハムサンドをサワドーパンに載せて、、、）
第15回の今回は『雑記ブログの3個のカテゴリー & 再建資金の調達の苦労 Part3』と題しまして、2025年６月、７月中の『泣き笑い』を中心にお話ししてみたいです。
以下の要領で進めていきます。
今回は後半の３項目についてのお話です。
*新居のデザイン：『桂離宮の濡れ縁コンセプト』の謎？
*ブログのカテゴリーを作る？
*『自宅再建』：自宅焼失 / 再建にまつわる苦労や喜びの記録
*『立体造形』：自動車デザイン、好きな造形を紹介
*『食事レポート』：レストラン・レポート＆自作レシピ、、、
*自家用、電気自動車の充電騒動、再発!!
*自宅再建資金の捻出、、、無理かも？
＊『食事レポート』：レストラン・レポート＆自作/カスタム・レシピ etc,,,
(韓国製、インスタントの冷麺を『インゲン豆と豚ひき肉炒め』とミックスしました。）
既に、2つのカテゴリーは決まっていましたが、
3つ目は何か軽い感じのものが？、、、
と考えていた時、
お腹が減っていたこともあり、
そうだ、
好きな食べ物、料理、レシピ
なんかをご紹介していこう、
という感じで、
3つ目のカテゴリーが決定です。
妻と私は新婚当時から、食べ物で結びついたカップルです。
アメリカ人の妻が作るアメリカの家庭料理、私が作る日本料理やアジア系のレシピ、週末には好奇心から、色々なレストランへ外食に出かけます。
今回火災にあい避難状態の現在も、
妻と二人、色々な新しいメニューに挑戦しております。
こんな感じで、
＊レストラン・レポート：
＊インスタント料理のレポート：
＊自炊メニューの簡単レシピ―：
＊レストラン・レポート：
現在パサデナの中心街、オールドタウンに近いアパートにお世話になっておりまして、駐車の不便なしで徒歩にて外食が可能となっておりまして、毎週末、新しいレストランを試しています。そんな中、写真と文章にて、レストランとそのお料理を紹介し行くこととなりました。
＊インスタント料理のレポート：トレーダージョーズさん万歳！
火災避難後、3週間お世話になっている間、友人宅にて食べ始めたトレーダー・ジョーズさんの冷凍お惣菜シリーズのインド料理にはまり、それ以来スナック類や、そのほかの国籍の冷凍食品にチャレンジしてきました。その経験を生かして、商品内容やカスタム方法を共有していきたいです。
*自炊メニューの簡単レシピ：
このアパートへ越して以来、しばらくはキッチンの使い勝手や、食器や調理器具がなかったりして、自炊から遠ざかっておりましたが、ここへきて、結婚以来続けてきた我が家の定番レシピで記憶できているものについては、作り始めることが出来ております。そのレシピを簡単にご紹介していきたいです。
（妻直伝のレモン汁たっぷりの、チキン入りファネルスープ）
＊自家用、電気自動車の充電騒動、再発⁉
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2021年型シェビー・ボルト（被災前は自宅の普通のコンセントから夜間の安い電力を利用して快適に、2－3日かけて満タン充電してました。）
仕事場の向かい側の公共の駐車場内にある充電ステーションで、仕事中に200ボルトレベルの充電器で6－7時間で満タンに充電出来てきたのですが。
＊電池を外して、電池用の補器を交換したり、（4月）
毎回これでやっと治ったんだ！！と安どしてきましたが、
不安のふちに落ち込みまhした。
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既に、慣れっこになった要領で、
＊近所のはハーツ・ディーラーでGM社のレンタカーをピックアップ、
＊土曜持ち込みで、火曜に状況報告の連絡が入り、水曜又は木曜にピックアップ、
＊レンタカーも、修理費もディーラー持ち。
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こんな感じで、修理過程が進み、
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＊この年式のボルトの充電プログラムと妻愛用の仕事場近くの充電ステーションとの
＊相性が悪く、その他のステーションを使えば、まったく問題なく充電可能。
過去の修理状況を調べ、最近充電不能関係の故障で入庫したボルト7台のすべてが、例の妻と同じ充電ステーションを使っていたそうです。
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隣町のサウスパサデナや、歩けディアまで足を延ばして探した挙句、最後は、アパートから徒歩5分の便利な公共駐車場の３階にある、4機立ての充電施設に落ち着きました。
*充電器が4機しかないので、常に混雑していて待ち時間が出ることが多いのが、
解決しました。（電気料金が安い時間帯なので、駐車代金は相殺されます。嬉）
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初めてのアメリカ社ということもあり、さらに電気自動車初体験だったこともあり、
3年落ちの中古で購入した23年の暮れ当初は相当ドキドキしましたが、
＊自宅ガレージ内の普通のコンセントからの充電パターンになれさえすれば、
＊初期加速のきびきび感や、
＊ワンペダル走行時のブレーキなしでの減速感など、
＊すぐに慣れ、即快感につながる要素が多く、
＊おまけに、自宅での深夜充電の場合、ガソリン車に比べ半分以下の燃料費など、
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『EVに一度なれたら、後戻りは不可能』
といった前評判は、本当でした！！
今後どんな展開が待っていようと、
（もちろん電源が現在主流の蓄電池である必要は全くありませんが、、、むしろ無線電導などが有望？）
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＊自宅再建資金の捻出、、、、無理かも？
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着々と進んでいる、自宅再建プロジェクトですが、
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一層膨らんできました。
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頼みの連邦政府からの低金利の借り入れの許可が
一日も早く、下りるのを願うことしか出来ませんでした。
次回は、
結婚記念日の妻への贈り物の行方などに付きご紹介したいです。
お楽しみにー
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Translation in English !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Episode 15: ‘The Secrets of Food Reviews & The EV Charging Drama, Revisited!!’ Design Struggles Edition
(Ham sandwich with cucumber, tomato, and lettuce on sourdough bread…)
Episode 15 is titled ‘3 Categories for My Miscellaneous Blog & The Struggle to Raise Reconstruction Funds Part 3’. I’d like to focus on the ‘tears and laughter’ from June and July 2025.
I’ll proceed as follows.
This time covers the last three items.
* New Home Design: The Mystery of the ‘Katsura Imperial Villa Veranda Concept’?
* Creating Blog Categories?
* ‘Home Rebuilding’: A Record of the Hardships and Joys Surrounding the Home Fire and Rebuilding
* ‘Sculptural Design’: Introducing Automotive Design and Favorite Sculptures
* ‘Food Reports’: Restaurant Reviews & Homemade Recipes…
* The Electric Vehicle Charging Drama at Home, Recurring!!
*Funding the Home Rebuild… Might Be Impossible?
＊‘Food Reports’: Restaurant Reviews & Homemade/Custom Recipes etc…
(I mixed Korean instant naengmyeon with ‘Stir-fried Green Beans and Ground Pork’.)
I already had two categories decided,
but for the third, something light? …
While pondering this,
and also feeling hungry,
That’s it!
I’ll introduce favorite foods, dishes, recipes,
and such.
And so,
the third category was decided.
My wife and I have been a food-loving couple since our honeymoon days.
My American wife cooks American home cooking, I make Japanese and Asian recipes, and on weekends, driven by curiosity, we go out to eat at various restaurants.
Even now, after the fire and while evacuated,
my wife and I are trying out all sorts of new recipes together.
So, here’s the plan:
* Restaurant Reviews:
* Instant Food Reviews:
* Simple Recipes for Home Cooking:
* Restaurant Reports:
We’re currently staying in an apartment near Old Town in downtown Pasadena. With no parking hassles and everything within walking distance, we’ve been trying new restaurants every weekend. So, I’ll be sharing photos and stories about these restaurants and their dishes.
＊Instant Meal Reports: Hooray for Trader Joe’s!
After evacuating due to the fire, I stayed with a friend for three weeks. During that time, I started eating Trader Joe’s frozen Indian meal series and became hooked. Since then, I’ve been trying their snacks and frozen foods from other countries. I want to share my experiences with product details and customization methods.
*Simple Recipes for Home Cooking:
After moving into this apartment, I stayed away from cooking for a while due to unfamiliarity with the kitchen layout and lack of dishes/cookware. But now, I’ve started making the classic recipes from our household that I remember, which we’ve kept up since getting married. I’d like to share these recipes simply.
(My wife’s signature chicken faneel soup with plenty of lemon juice)
＊The charging drama with our personal electric vehicle resurfaces⁉
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*The ‘Nightmare’ of Being Unable to Charge
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The charging problem with our personal electric vehicle, which has troubled us repeatedly since the disaster, has resurfaced again in June.
Specifically,
our beloved car since late 2024,
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2021 Chevrolet Bolt (Before the disaster, we comfortably charged it to full capacity over 2-3 days using cheap nighttime electricity from a regular home outlet.)
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My wife uses it for her daily commute.
She could fully charge it in 6-7 hours using a 200-volt level charger at a charging station in a public parking lot across from her workplace during her work hours.
However, in March and April, it failed to charge twice.
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＊We replaced the charging socket receptacle (March)
＊We removed the battery and replaced the battery auxiliary unit (April)
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Each time, we felt relieved, thinking, “Finally fixed!!”
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Now, it’s happened again: ‘Charging Failed!!’
My wife and I have once more
sunk into the depths of anxiety.
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＊Finally, pinpointing the cause?
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Following the routine we’d already grown accustomed to,
＊We took it to the Chevy dealer in Monrovia,
＊Picked up a GM rental car from the nearby Hertz dealer,
＊Dropped it off on Saturday, got a status update on Tuesday, picked it up on Wednesday or Thursday,
＊The rental car and repair costs were covered by the dealer.
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The repair process proceeded like this,
and this time,
without any repairs to the Bolt itself,
this was the result:
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* The problem wasn’t with the car’s battery or mechanics,
* but rather a compatibility issue between the charging program for this model year Bolt
* and the charging station near my wife’s workplace that she frequently used.
* Using other stations allowed charging without any problems.
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According to the dealer’s explanation,
they checked past repair records and found that all seven Bolts recently brought in for charging-related issues had used the same charging station as my wife’s.
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*Discovered a new charging pattern!
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Told we couldn’t use the charging facility in the park—a location extremely convenient for my wife—we embarked on a journey to find a charging station in a spot that’s always handy, something surprisingly hard to come by…
After searching as far as neighboring South Pasadena and even Walkディア, we finally settled on a convenient four-station charging facility on the third floor of a public parking garage just a five-minute walk from our apartment.
*Negative factors include:
*Paying parking fees ($12) while charging, and
*It’s always crowded with long wait times since there are only four chargers.
However, we solved this by waking up early and rushing there around 5 AM on Saturday mornings. (Parking fees are offset since electricity rates are cheaper during this time. Yay!)
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*Update:
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As a car enthusiast,
I switched from a 2017 Toyota MIRAI to a Chevrolet Bolt.
Being my first American-brand car and my first electric vehicle,
I was pretty nervous when I bought this three-year-old used model in late 2023.
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*Once I got used to charging from a regular outlet in my home garage,
*the snappy initial acceleration,
*the feeling of deceleration without braking during one-pedal driving,
*and many other elements quickly became familiar and immediately pleasurable.
*Plus, charging overnight at home costs less than half the fuel expense of a gasoline car.
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The saying, “Once you get used to an EV, there’s no going back,”
was absolutely true!!
No matter what developments lie ahead,
I am convinced that electric motor-powered vehicles will undoubtedly become the mainstream in the future!!
(Of course, the power source doesn’t necessarily have to be the currently mainstream storage batteries… wireless power transmission seems promising?)
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*Funding for rebuilding my home… maybe impossible?
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*New source of anxiety:
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While the home rebuilding project is steadily progressing through interactions with SV Office,
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at this point,
anxiety about the crucial funding aspect has begun to surface.
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*While we’ve been hesitating over submitting documents for the ultra-low-interest loan from the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
*The Trump administration’s introduction of tariffs against China seems imminent,
*And on top of that, construction labor costs (wages) are rising,
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our budget has become insufficient. We no longer have the leeway to discuss plans like the rental unit above the garage. We negotiated with Architect SV and had to reduce the total estimated construction cost by about 12%, as stated in the contract.
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Our already significant anxiety about realizing the reconstruction has swelled even further.
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At this point, there was nothing my wife and I could do.
All we could do was hope that the approval for the low-interest loan from the federal government we were counting on
would come through as soon as possible.
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Next time,
I’d like to share what happened to the gift for my wife on our wedding anniversary.
Stay tuned—
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