so i got my second and third food cravings satisfied last night and today for lunch. last night, it was sushi, so paul, mikeC and i went to miyake (in cupertino). the service was terribly slow (hence a small tip), and plus, they didn't serve chelsea rolls anymore! so i got a google roll, palo alto roll, and a cali roll. it was fine, although the other two guys didn't really enjoy their dinners. paul noted that the wasabi was a bit brown.
today, C, D, and i went to arby's, my other craving. i got two beef 'n cheddars, and i was stuffed, especially so since i had a bagel for breakfast two hours before.
since we had a quick lunch, we went to valley fair afterwards to do some shopping. i made my standard stop at club monaco, and i spied this blue striped shirt with a white collar and white cuffs. i immediately wanted it. then, C noted that it was $99, so i hesitated a bit, but then, within 5 seconds, i decided to buy it. it was a "slim fit" shirt, so i tried it to just to make sure it fit me, and then i went up and paid for it. it's the most expensive shirt i've ever gotten. but it's fucking beautiful. now i just gotta find an occasion to wear it. long live impulse buying!
i stopped by the MTV VMA website to check up on some of the performances. i saw the kid rock/tommy lee scuffle. what punks. pamela anderson isn't hot enough to be worth that kind of bad blood. (in fact, she's a dog in my book.) and i saw the britney spears opening performance. my, how the mighty have fallen. first, she looked really chunky and thick. and her dancing was amateurish. and the song sucked. all in all, it was a really horrible comeback. i rate it one flaccid schlong. ick.
i am getting up later these days. so i'm wondering if my "early phase" is slowly winding down. these past two mornings, i've been getting up around 9:20am or so, compared to 8-8:30 last week. this is still much earlier than my usual 10:40 start time that i had been sustaining for the past few years, though. and for whatever reason, _dawson's creek_ isn't being shown on TBS anymore. fie! so now i'm just watching _sportscenter_ and getting caught up the previous day's sporting news. man, the new england patriots are in some deep shit.
man, i am really digging that fergie song. i think i'm going to buy it on iTunes soon. of course, once i do that, i'll like it less because it'll be too accessible. that's what happened to the dixie chick's "not ready to make nice." i used to *love* that song, but once nelson downloaded it and e-mailed it to me, i stopped liking it so much. funny how the psychology of want works that way. once something's yours, you love it less. it works for women, too. (at least for me, it did.)
my brain, engineeringly-speaking, has become mush. i haven't done true design work since my last job, and i can tell that i'm nowhere as sharp as i used to be. i asked myself a simple question on the drive home the other day (design a circuit that generates a pulse upon a rising edge of a signal), and i couldn't do it on the first try. i mean, that is a question that a guy out of college can do in his sleep! ugh. if i ever need to look for another job, i think i'm royally fucked.
ok, i gotta to do some timing analysis work now. but before i go, 69 points to the first person who can tell me what this blog entry's title has to do with this post!