man, it happened again. i had a liquid dump after lunch, and the toilet bowl was filled with blood. what the fuck is happening? i wonder if i have a massive anal fissure or something. i'm getting worried. if this happens again, i'm going to get a doctor's appointment or something.
so we went to midori today for lunch. nothing special there. we took a coworker who was visiting from our israel site. on the way back, the song "breakfast at tiffany's" was on, and he started singing along. wow! i had no idea that song was big in israel; i was pleasantly surprised, since the band, deep blue something, scored a minor hit with that song.
on saturday, i pulled out a very old t-shirt from my stack and wore it. the last time i put that on must have been like at least 7 years ago. a few minutes later, while i was having a smoke outside my house, i noticed a long brown hair sticking to my chest. i pulled it off, and i figured it must have been k2's hair. so i reminisced a bit, and i thought about keeping it, but then i thought it was silly to keep a hair for sentimental reasons, so i just dropped it on the cement. farewell, memories!
i'm thinking about buying an electric piano. i don't know where i would put it, though, because space in my place is a little limited, but i do miss playing piano. i need to figure out where i stashed all of my music books. i was at nelson's place a few weeks ago, and he bought an electric piano from jamie a while back. i sat there, and i was completely unable to remember any of the pieces that i had memorized a few years ago. it was really frustrating and sad. i used to be able to play chopin's "revolutionary etude" in the dark! ah, those were the days. all those years of piano lessons, and nothing to show for it. i even had a dream this morning where i bought a piano for $1. it must be on my mind.
work is completely frustrating. not only do i have the eco from hell to do, but i also have to debug these tests for blocks that i didn't design. right now, i'm working on this i2c test, and the block seems to be dead. ?! i have no idea what to do now, and it's completely baffling. sometimes i really hate my job. but i know it's an engineer's mantra to "figure things out" and stuff like that, so i guess that's what i'm just going to have to do. i just hope everything works out in the end; it's the process that's just painful sometimes.
so i'm going to miss the followup episode to last night's _scrubs_ on WGN. the episode left off when JD asked out a girl without seeing her face. i want to see what she looks like! drat. (i'll be having dinner with jeremy and alan up in san mateo tonight.) would you ever do that, i.e. ask out somebody before seeing their face? i would never do that. no matter how cool their personality is or how nice their voice sounds or whatever, the face is totally important. i've been matched with so many girls on eharmony, which touts is personality matching ability as #1, but every time, i demand to see a picture of the girl. and almost every time, when i see her face, i'm like WOAH. (and that's not a good "woah".)
ok. i gotta go. need to go look up how to get to rainbow pizza in san mateo. i hope traffic isn't too bad.
didn't do a whole lot this weekend except eat and rest.
friday night, paul, mikeC and i went to barn thai. they seem to have dropped their prices, as their jun pad poo is only $6.25 now. yay! after dinner, we shopped at fry's, and then i hung around a bit before going home early and sleeping.
i can't seem to sleep in anymore, and by 10:30am on saturday, i was up. i watched a few music videos (something i used to do a lot as a kid), and then i called some people up for lunch. we went to pho nam, and instead of my usual #2 (without tripe and cilantro), i got a rice plate instead. then, we headed back to paul's place, and watched _stealth_. i can't decide whether jessical biel is attractive or not.
then, i went home and took a brief nap before meeting up for dinner at st. john's. nelson's and the "beg for mercy" burger is like a moth to a flame; he keeps getting it, but he keeps getting burned by it. i got it too, and it gave me flaming spicy shits the next day. after dinner, we went to fry's (paul returned some stuff) until they closed. i went home, called my parents in taiwan (using skype), and went to bed.
sunday, i met up with benboy at thai basil for lunch. then, i met up with nelson, leeya and paul at the HOA pool at rivermark, where nelson and leeya went swimming. paul and i roamed around rivermark doing various errands (ATM, renting videos, grabbing some food at mcdonald's, getting some pearl milk tea) before heading back to the pool. then, we picked up mikeC, and we had dinner at pho kim long, where three of us got the tasty #24. i could barely finish mine, even though i got the small size, because of the pearl tea and cheeseburger i had at the pool. after that, i just went home and watched game 2 of the NBA finals. it was a very disappointing game, as the cavs are just not competitive against the obviously more superior spurs. sigh.