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Archive for May, 2006

watermelons

i just found out that farmers in japan employ the use of MRIs on watermelons to determine when their sugar content has reached its peak and to detect if it has any hollow spots.
that’s insane! it’s a WATERMELON. it’s not like it’s a donut or anything. sheesh!

new jewel album

i really like the new jewel album. it’s back to her roots, less dance/pop like than her other crap of an album. it sounds like the jewel that i know and love.
it’s too bad that she doesn’t yodel on any of her albums. i’ll have to go back to some concerts that [...]

san diego for the weekend

after being completely burned out for the last two weeks, it was a welcome relief to get out of town, away from the internet, and enjoy a mini vacation. i went to san diego to see my sister’s graduation ceremony. the other times i’ve been to san diego, it has always been ridiculously [...]

a visit from jenny

i had a very unexpected, but very pleasant visit from jenny over the weekend. she was in town for a wedding and an interview and we had lunch to catch up. i had been giving her a hard time for avoiding me whenever she was in town, so i guess all of the [...]

fondue with the team

i hosted a mini-team dinner for my thursday night volleyball team. our team name? We’ll Hit On You. it’s true. we will. beware. it’s ok, at least we’re not ugly.
so, anyway, it was a three course fondue dinner, starting with a cheese fondue appetizer, a red wine-based broth and [...]

the thing about diet coke is…

i used to never drink diet coke. i used to hate any kind of diet drink. i thought that they didn’t taste right and the artificial sweetness that they had was just disgusting. and so if you asked me about a year ago how i felt about diet coke, that’s exactly what [...]

cleaning up

it’s always a rather cathartic experience whenever i clean up. last night was the second night that i did not do any work after i got home. after the last two weeks of hellish hours, it was wonderful not having to have the rain clouds of work, stress, and pressure storm over me. [...]

new phone

so after i lost my phone, i had the difficult decision of whether or not to get a new cool phone, or do what i’ve been doing for the last few years which is to get the cheapest phone that sprint provides. this time, i decided that i was going to get a nice [...]

resurfacing

i’ve got the bulk of the code done for the project and at this point, i don’t care anymore. i think it’s good enough to send to QA, so we’re just going to let it go and see what happens. finally, all this hard work has amounted to something.
i’ve made a little deal [...]

stressing out

the deadline is only a few days away and i still feel like i have SO MUCH WORK to do. i’m starting to feel stressed out and i have been trying to be good about getting enough sleep and taking breaks so that i don’t burn out. we’ll see how that goes.
so while [...]