we’re supposed to be getting new puppies to foster today. from what i hear, they are supposed to be about the size of large grapefruits. i don’t believe it, but we’ll see if that’s really the case or not.

i’m sure once i get home, christi will be completely GLUED to them and won’t even notice that i’ve come home. we’ve been talking about how, if we take to these puppies, that we might end up adopting one. we’ll have to see how that goes, though. i still have a lot of concerns about these puppies taking little bites of me until there’s nothing left.

three puppies. man. that’s a lot of puppies.

i had my very first and second beard papa cream puff ever. the beard papa craze has recently arrived to the bay area and it wasn’t until the cupertino location had opened that i finally went and tried one out.

let me tell you, it may be the unpopular opinion, but i thought that these cream puffs were only ok. people have said that beard papa is to cream puffs as krispy kreme is to donuts. i don’t think that this is true. they aren’t the kind of decadent joy that only krispy kreme can bring you. no, in fact, they are only just decent.

i was expecting a heavenly bite of joy, but instead the beard paps cream puffs have a very thin slightly crispy puff and a lighter than expected cream filling. i, daresay, think that i can make a better cream puff. it was just that disappointing.

i have heard a lot about sushi maru back when it was in sunnyvale, but never went there. they’ve just moved recently to milpitas and so we’ve decided to try it out. after a disappointing visit to gochi, i was a little reluctant to trust all the rave reviews about the place, but once i got there and tried their sushi, i must say that i’m impressed. the place isn’t super fancy, but the prices are very reasonable and the fish is fresh.

it was a delicious dinner of sushi. we sat at a table next to the sushi boats so that we could pull plates of sushi from the sushi boats as they passed by. we also ordered some food from the menu which was also good. i am usually skeptical of sushi boat places, but this place definitely surprised me.

the location is pretty small, but the food good, i’m definitely going to go there again.

we had a foster puppy for about a week or so before a family had adopted her away. in that short time we had really grown attached to the puppy. i was talking to john last night about it and he said the best way to get over the sadness of having a puppy be adopted away and missing her is to foster more puppies.

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i wonder if this means that our house is just going to be a gateway of puppies forever. it sounds like we might be helping to rescue some puppies this weekend. it’ll require hours and hours of driving to some place that is just north of bakersfield! bakersfield! sheesh.

i went to watch the cowboys/packers game with dardy at st. john’s tonight. it was an entertaining game, the packers kept it close, but the cowboys really bested them. it’s too bad that favre got hurt early in the game, dardy left the game saying that it was a bit of an empty loss with some of the packers best guys out for the game.

that being said, aaron rogers did admirably for himself filling in for favre.

i got the beg for mercy cheesesteak and i didn’t think that it was that hot while i was eating it, but now, hours later, let me tell you. my stomach is gurgling and i am BEGGING FOR MERCY. please, please don’t let my stomach hurt anymore. i’m dying!

i’m gonna go curl up in a ball of pain now and moan quietly to myself in pain until it goes away.

it’s sort of silly what sorts of things make me happy at 3AM in the morning. last night, i was going to link an image from the wedding gallery to the blog and it dawned on me that it would be really cool if the image loaded changes every time the blog is loaded. so…i sat down and wrote some code that will do just that.

it was at that moment late last night that i realized the true extent of my geekiness.

tough times, man.

i think that i am generally pretty conservative of the number of photos that i post, but when i went through our photographer’s photos for the wedding, i came up with about 15 pictures that i wanted to post. 15. out of 1500. that can’t be right.

it turns out that i don’t like posting pictures of myself and it being my wedding, it turns out that i’m in a lot of photos! go figure, huh?

but i’ve finally posted the wedding photos. i need to get them into a friendly format for the wedding web page, but for now, they are finally up. i’ve also updated the gallery pages a little. you can use the left and right arrow keys once you’ve clicked on an image to go next/previous.

…from a package.

just add hot water, right? that’s what it always says. i was making some hot chocolate just now and i usually add hot water to the powder in the cup. i never questioned this methodology. in fact, this is how i have been doing it for as long as i can remember.

the problem, if you can call it that, is that after drinking the hot chocolate, there will always be a layer of thick cocoa at the bottom of the cup. if the drink had been properly mixed, that sugary goodness would have been in my drink. instead, it lays waste at the bottom of the cup.

i never really thought much about how this could be avoided. it just sort of happens. so today, i decided to read the instructions on the back of the hot chocolate mix and, sure enough, it instructs you to add powder first, then water.

today, being the daring rebel that i am, i added the water first and the powder next. my theory is that this will create a better chance of the powder being fully integrated into the hot water. i just need to finish drinking this cup of cocoa to see if my hypothesis is correct.

this sounds like it should be a 1st grader’s science project.

ok…so i’ve finished my first cup of hot chocolate using the new mixing method and it seems like it worked out better. i can’t come to any conclusions yet because i’m sure a sample size of 1 is not statistically significant, but it sure seems like this is the way to go. the question is, why would the manufacturer want you to do it the other way then?

i’m about to make my first sourdough bread. it seems like it should be pretty easy to make bread, though i’ve never done it before. i looked up some recipes for sourdough bread and it seems simple enough, but then there’s this mysterious ingredient “sourdough starter”.

i looked up some recipes for sourdough starter and it turns out that the sourdough starter is much like a pet. it requires great care, feeding, and warmth. so i started the sourdough starter and it takes about 2 days to make the starter.

the initial ingredients have been mixed and i’m storing it in a warm place for the yeast to take hold and do its thing. 2 more days to go!

i don’t know what it is, but there’s no tv on these days. it used to be that i would just barely be able to keep up with my tv, but these days, i’m scrounging around to find some tv to watch. it’s a struggle and yes, i know, it’s a hard life i have when the biggest problem i have is that i can’t find tv to watch. =P

i’ve hit a wall with guitar hero, too, which means that i don’t have any games to play, either. i’ve been playing some nintendo ds games, but i think that i’m starting to lose interest in those games. the problem with me and the ds is that i don’t have internet connectivity with it, so i can’t play with other people. i know, i know, that’s the strength of the platform, but i just can’t get myself to reduce my network encryption down to 64-bit wep.

i’ve been so desperate for tv that i watched an episode of brothers and sisters. the show is one that i thought i would like when it first aired, there are many people on the cast that i like, like calista flockhart, rob lowe, emily vancamp (amy on everwood), and ron rifkin (arvin sloane from alias). you’d think that i’d love the show, but i just can’t get into the story. it’s just boring. i don’t know how the show won an emmy or got that many nominations.