ho hum. what a lazy day. i didn't do any work today because i'm stuck on my task, and i'm waiting for the old verification engineer (who left) to come tomorrow after lunch to help me. he's doing a good deed by having the heart to return to his old company, so i owe him at least a lunch or something. the thing is, though, he hasn't touched systemC since he left, so i hope he still remembers how everything works, and he's able to help me solve my problem.
this morning's random song: "on the sly" by thunderball. i doubt any of you know this song; it's one of the lounge (downtempo electronica) songs that i used to listen to when i was in my that phase a few years ago. if you know of thunderball, then i commend you for having good taste in music.
i hear american idol is getting lower ratings than previous years. and yeah, i'm getting sort of tired of the show, too. i don't laugh as much at the horrible auditions, and honestly, i prefer to see the good ones more than the bad ones. that kady malloy girl from last night's dallas auditions was pretty talented. and she's hot, too, even though she's blonde. i wonder if she's a plant.
ok, fluffers. i tried to do some research, and the only thing that offered some useful information (besides my gracious commenter) was the wikipedia article, which you can look up yourself. i was surprised to read that porn stars now rely on ED drugs like viagra to stay hard, thus negating the need for fluffers. it seems sort of dangerous to take drugs that you don't necessarily need, but hey, i guess a cheap pill is less expensive than hiring a fluffer, eh?
i'd like to see a taping of a porn scene so i know how much downtime there is between angle changes and stuff, and just to satisfy my general curiosity. some of the stuff i have is done in one long take, so i'm impressed that the guy has such stamina. i certainly couldn't last 15 or however long minutes or straight sex, even with the few seconds of lull in between position changes and stuff. which reminds me, one of my friends once told me that he double-bagged so he could last longer. ha! but doesn't that ruin the sensitivity and defeat the purpose of enjoying sex?
i am getting a ton of profile views on friendster lately, like 20 a day. where are all these people coming from, and how are they finding me? i'm noticing that a lot of them are overseas, like from china or (even more) from the philippines. and, like i said, i'm getting a ton of spam from personals ad companies. ugh. friendster is getting useless, just like orkut (for a while, when all these brazilians tried to contact me). i hope facebook doesn't ever get this way.
i met up with alan last night, and we went to dinner at L&L hawaiian bbq. i got this saimin for $3.50. it sounds cheap, but the food was even cheaper. it was simply a packet of bland instant noodles and two slices of spam. CRAP. i was sorely disappointed with my dinner. after, he went to a free seminar at REI about snowcamping. you know, where you dig a hole in the snow and sleep in it. it sounds completely uninteresting to me. i know, i'm really not the adventurous type, but what's so adventurous about that? the possibility of dying when the snow collapses on you? *shivers*
so for the patriots/chargers game, i'm going to jeremy's place to watch. i invited him over to my place so we could watch it in HD, but he has a kid, and i guess it's too troublesome to move the kid and all of her toys and stuff since she'd be bored at my place. man, kids can be a pain sometimes, i guess. i'm sort of disappointed that i'll have to watch it on his smaller low-fi standard-definition tube tv, but i guess it's the company that matters, right?
i was wandering around the cubicles today, and i noticed that one of the physical designers had an unsolved rubik's cube sitting on her desk. you all should know that now that i have a bit of an OCD thing when it comes to rubik's cubes. so i asked her if i could fix it for her, and she said yes. i took it, and about 10 minutes later, i returned it to her, all nicely solved. yay! (it would have been sooner, but i messed up my last move fixing that classic "H" pattern and had to start over.)
J bailed on me for lunch today, so i had lunch for the first time with A, just the two of us. i recommended barn thai since i was craving the poo. (that's jun pad poo for those of you who aren't in the know, hehe.) the first thing A asked me when we sat down was, "when are you getting married?" ha! he seemed genuinely interested in my well-being. we also started talking about how i'm not really close to my brother (although i would like to be), and how he wishes he lived closer to his own brother in portland. A has good family values.
my toe's healing seems to have stalled. i can walk normally now, but the bite site still hurts when i press on it. damn, how long is this going to take? i am itching to play basketball. *RAAR*
i have a massage in half an hour. i always remind myself not to drink as much so i don't have to pee during the session and ruin the experience. ok, take it easy, people.