i'm starting to like southland taste more and more. before, i would only get the ground pork rice (with no sour greens), and that got really old, as i got it like over a dozen times straight. but now, i've discovered that i like their beef noodle soup (as i got it on monday night). and today, i went there again with C, and i discovered that they have leek and pork dumplings! it's not on the menu, but i saw that they sell frozen ones, so i asked the waitress if they served them to dine-in customers. she said yes, and you get 12 of them for $4.95. that's pretty reasonable, and even though the leek flavor wasn't very strong, the dumplings were very juicy and good. and now i have leek burps. nice!
today's been pretty slow. my synthesis job crashed overnight, so i had to restart it on a different machine. luckily, that one went through, so i'm one step closer to finishing my stuff. after that, i gotta get started on some verification that i'm badly behind on. the code is frozen already, so hopefully this new UART stuff works, otherwise we'll be in some deep shit.
i'm getting a haircut today in preparation for paul and leeya's wedding in a week and a half. i hope it looks ok. with supercuts, the variance is pretty high, because i get a different person to cut it each time. poor paul. he's stressed out, he told me. he wants to go get a massage to release some tension; maybe i'll make an appointment for the both of us this weekend at this new place near my office. they charge about $40 for an hour, which is pretty reasonable considering i pay the same amount for half the time at the place i go to regularly.
yesterday, i hit an all-time weekday low as far as smokes. i only had 8. i've pretty much eliminated my pre-lunch cigarette, so that takes me down to 9 a day. i also skipped one in the afternoon due to a long meeting, so that made it 8 total for the day. i was pleased. there was a time a few years ago when i made more an an effort to quit (or rather, "cut back" is more the correct term), and every week, i'd eliminate one a day. i got down to 5 a day (morning, lunch, afternoon, dinner, night), and after that, it just got too hard to cut further, so i gave up.
so finally, american idol 6 ends tonight. it's going to be a boring two hours, i think, although i'm looking forward to seeing sanjaya and chris sligh again. i really don't care all that much who wins. i like blake much more, but i think jordin is going to take the crown; she's hands down the much better singer. have you ever seen a beatboxer live? i saw one a few years ago (at the hyphen magazine launch in the city), and it was pretty cool, all the stuff he could do. i think it'd be a really awesome skill to have. "he's got fluid!" (69 bonus points if you know where that's from)
i get a little weirded out (just a little) sometimes when i check my referral logs and see that people found this blog when searching for my name. who *are* these people? are they stalking me? how many lurkers do i have? hehe. i wonder if i'll ever know. me, i never lurk. (that's true.) of the couple dozen blogs that i read, i have made contact with every single one of the authors. for me, it's more interesting that way; i like to keep up with the lives of people i know, rather than random people i don't know.
ok, that's it for today. gonna go get my haircut in about half an hour or so. let's hope they don't fuck it up!