we went to t-rex bbq in berkeley over the weekend. it’s a swanky bbq place in berkeley, not at all the kind of place that i expected. when i think of berkeley dining, i’m always reminded of the student-centric hot spots like top dog and fat slice.
this place is famous for their chicken fried bacon. sure enough, it is a strip of bacon battered and deep fried.
my back is killing me. it started to hurt last night, but i don’t know what it is that made it hurt so. i did get a deep tissue massage over the weekend, but i can’t imagine that it was that that caused the pain.
despite the back pain, i went to safeway today to pick up some soda. we aren’t running low on soda or anything, but leeya told me that safeway has a sale on soda, $2.50 for a 12 pack. not wanting to miss the great pricing on the soda, i went to safeway, bad back and all, and picked up 8 cases. suffice it to say that i should be well stocked for soda for some time to come.
kiara stayed with us earlier this week for the first half of this week while henry was off to LA. the first night of dogsitting, we had volleyball so we decided to leave the two dogs at home and let them play at home.
henry had bought a new pillow for the dogs. they had other ideas on what they could do with it.
it looked like they were floating on a cloud when i got home. a yellow, pee-stained cloud. i swear, when you put these two dogs together all they do is get into trouble! last time they destroyed the floors of their pen, this time, they destroyed the bedding! oh well, luckily, the pillow was on sale, but it sure didn’t last long!
TNT’s new show “trust me” was a show that i had marked to watch but never did until tonight. three episodes into it and i think that it is fantastic. starring eric mccormack (of will and grace fame) and thomas cavanagh (of ed and eli stone fame), these two guys carry the show with their quick-witted banter and opposing views on life. set in an ad agency, you see the duo in a modern day adventure through the cutthroat business of the advertising world.
sarah clarke (of 24 fame) and monica potter (of boston legal fame) round out the cast of notables. monica potter’s character is neurotic and lovable. great fast paced writing with some cool humor sprinkled throughout the show that’s able to tug at your heartstrings, this show immediately caught and held my attention in the first episode.
i recommend giving it a look, it’s a good watch.
i’m feeling much better now. the bout with the stomach flu appears to be over and i am doing just fine. we have kiara, koda’s sister, over at our place right now and we are dogsitting while henry is in LA. koda and kiara together are a handful. they are both bad influences on each other. individually, they are well-behaved dogs, but when the two of them are together, they become so much harder to handle.
the crazy thing is that kiara is a lot stronger than koda and so when she struggles against me, it takes a considerable amount of effort to keep her in check. i know that we really need the recent rain and i’m thankful that we are getting it, but now it is so much more of a struggle to keep the carpets clean when the dogs come in from the backyard. it looks like i will be investing in a carpet cleaner soon.
i’ve been sick as a dog since sunday evening. i never really knew where the expression came from, but i think that i’m actually sicker than the dog. koda has also had the sniffles which we think he got from a foster puppy that we took in for a few days.
i think i had the stomach flu. it was something awful. it’s still lingering and man, it sucks not feeling 100%. the worst part of it for me was just having to endure the pain of not knowing when it would be all over. i completely lost my appetite. i could feel that i was dehydrated, but every time i drank water, it made me want to either vomit or run to the bathroom…sometimes both. pleasant, eh?
i guess it is times like these that make you appreciate when everything is normal and boring.
it really wasn’t so idle at our house while we had left kiara and koda there and went to dinner. no, instead, it was horror upon horror.1
the two dogs have managed to push the pen walls beyond the reaches of the protective linoleum. the shield, the last line of defense against the evil forces of pee, poo, and other things that come out of dogs was vulnerable. the dogs knew that victory was soon theirs.
they made quick work of the linoleum tearing it up into shreds and after they felt that they had left their mark, they left their mark…with pee…all over the kitchen floor…where the linoleum once protected it.
these are the things that i come home to after a nice dinner out.
it’s true. i have a sensitive stomach. i don’t generally like things that are spicy to begin with, but every so often there are some things that i just love spicy. salsa is one of them. st. john’s has a beg for mercy burger which is pretty good too. i enjoy eating the spicy foods when i do eat them, but man, i suffer the next day.
yesterday i had (against my better judgment) a jalapeno burger from carl’s jr. it was delicious, but man, when i woke up this morning i was in pain! my stomach was reeling and for a short while i was cursing myself for indulging in the burger.
i made chocolate chip cookies the other day and christi made oatmeal cranberry cookies. hers had a more crumbly texture, were uniformly shaped, and was more healthy than mine. when she went to volleyball, she took some of my cookies and said, “i don’t want those ugly ones” pointing to some of the more irregular cookies i had made.
but my cookies aren’t ugly! they are made that way be design. i like my cookies to be a big chunk of cookie. i like that they are irregular, it gives them character. sure, i could have made an effort of make them look more uniform and pretty, but part of why i like making cookies is that they are different from store bought cookies. they just feel like they have personality.
just out of the oven, they were fantastic. crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. i think that i am going to have to make more cookies as this batch is disappearing quickly.
it is astonishing to see just how much running a bittorrent client on the DNS-323 slows down its total throughput for file sharing via SAMBA. i am able to get around 20MB/s when i turn off the bittorrent client, but while it is on, i only get about 5MB/s. crazy!