i was shopping at safeway today and my total came to $9.98. when giving me my change, the cashier asked me if i wanted my two cents. without really thinking about it, i told her “no” and took my purchase and headed over to my car.

halfway to my car, i started to think about the transaction. i don’t think that i have ever been asked if i want my change before. i wonder, though, if this is safeway’s secret plan to get little bits of change from each cash purchase. no matter how little it is, this little bit could add up to something pretty significant. pretty sneaky!

i don’t think that i would have ever come to this point, but i think that i may officially be steaked out. i made a costco pack of rib eyes last night and after eating one, i was done. i don’t think that the joy of eating steak would ever leave me, but it just wasn’t as delicious as it once used to be. what is happening?

what’s next? i’m going to crave salad or something? i don’t know, but i still have 3 more rib eyes waiting to be eaten….

• Sometimes I forget how liberal I am living in the bay area and how conservative CA is until something like today’s ruling on prop 8 #
• Eating lunch at a place called sushi express…except they aren’t so expressy. #
• Just ate a salad, miso soup, sashimi, gyoza, tempura, ca roll, and chicken teriyaki bento box. It was kinda big. #
• Cup o’ ice cream anyone? http://twitpic.com/62vl7 #
• Mmmmm http://twitpic.com/65o3r #
• Yountville is dangerous. http://twitpic.com/6deih #

i just bombed the house because we have been having a rash of spider sightings lately. not a night has gone by where we haven’t seen a spider, so it was time to do something about it.

we got the fogger started and went out to dinner. and all of places we went to have PIZZA for dinner. christi got a small artichoke hearts, chicken, and no cheese pizza. i got a large mushroom and pepperoni pizza. mmm. we each ate half a pizza. i was telling her that half a small pizza is like one quarter of a large pizza. she didn’t believe me and i did the math and she still didn’t believe me.

mmmm…pizza.

it’s been a real drought of good tv shows lately. with all of the season finales that have come to pass, there aren’t too many shows left that i look forward to.

now that i have to find new ways to entertain myself, i have been catching up on tv shows that i have been meaning to watch. i am about halfway through with smallville season 6. i cannot believe that lex and lana are an item. i know this is old news to probably everyone else, but man, that really bothers me.

my parents had to get their house fumigated for termites so all the food in their house had to go. my mom gave me the contents of her freezer and so i had to make room in our freezer for all of this newly found food.

a week or so later, christi’s grandmother made her all these rice cakes for her, her brother, and her dad. all of these needed to fit in the freezer too. our freezer has never been more full.

it is so full, in fact, that when i open the freezer door, the two drawers are stuck together, so i have to pry them apart to get to the contents of the lower bin.

this has had a detrimental effect to my ice cream supply. i was running low on ice cream and now i can’t stock up on any until some of this freezer space is cleared out. i’m down to half a carton of ice cream now. it’s ridiculous. i need to go make some room and buy another 5 or 6 cartons as soon as i can.

speaking of running low, the office has run out of diet coke and so i am now forced to drink caffeine free diet coke. it just doesn’t taste right.

it seems pretty obvious to me that celebrity status actually makes a big difference in my level of interest of what you have to say when it comes to twitter. i don’t know very many people in real life who tweet, so the bulk of the people i follow are celebrities of some sort.

like, is it really interesting that someone is going to take their first nap in years? it doesn’t seem that interesting. but when @brookeburke tells you that she’s about to take a nap, it somehow is just fascinating. i don’t get it myself, but that’s how it is.

is it a little pathetic that i got excited that @lisaloeb4real is following me? they played lisa loeb while i was at lowe’s today. speaking of lowe’s, i went to the customer service center and asked if they could print a registry for me. they said that they don’t do registries and so i asked if she meant that they can’t print them online. no, they don’t do registries, she says. so i tell her that that’s weird because i made one online and i was just looking at it the other day. she asked someone else about it and they printed up the registry for me. she was nice about it and apologized for the confusion.

in my spare time, i am always trying to find ways to grow my iphone addiction. =P

probably my favorite game of the moment is flight control. what’s crazy about this game is that the object of the game is incredibly simple: safely land planes. i don’t know why this game is so addicting but it is great fun.

another game, an oldie, but goodie that i have just discovered is peggle. a pretty fun game, though it is a little disappointing that the features of the hardware weren’t exploited further.

the best app, though, that i’ve seen so far is orb live. absolutely fantastic if you have a home server that is connected to the internet and you want to make your video accessible to your iphone. originally i was going to try tversity, but from what i understand, it needs to transcode all of the content before it can be sent to the iphone and that it just too time consuming for me.

orb, on the other hand, will let you stream your video on the fly. you have to install a server component and the iphone client costs a whopping $10, but the technology works great over wifi and is usable over 3G. if you want to stream your content from a media server, orb is a great and easy solution.

christi has been encouraging koda to learn a new trick. this trick, however, is pretty disturbing. christi hates spiders and she has been encouraging eating to “go get them”. in his world that means to go eat them. after he has eaten the spider christi praises him and cheers him on.

when i saw koda do this, i told him to go give christi kiss and spread all the leftover spider legs over her. yuck! not quite the trick that i would have wanted koda to learn!

• Taking koda to puppy training class. The question is: can he be trained to be a puppy? #
• No wonder I’m gaining weight http://twitpic.com/5pgl0 #