so i've been warning my coworker D that once he turns 25, he's gonna get fat. when i turned that age, i gained like 30 pounds in 2-3 months. it was ridiculous. previously, i *wanted* to gain weight, so i counted calories and ate over 3000 calories of shit food a day, to no avail. i showed D some pictures of me in 2003, when i was over 200 pounds. he cracked up. it's no laughing matter! i was fat and unhealthy, and that was when i went on my crash died and managed to lose 40-50 pounds. that was pretty awesome. no need for the south beach diet or jenny craig; i did it all by myself. *flex*
i'm pretty american idol hottie kristy lee cook is gonna get voted off. her country jig rendition of "8 days a week" was ridiculously bad. absolutely horrible. what the hell, man. it's gonna suck not having her on the show, because she is the only eye candy that AI offers. ok, ramiele is a little cute too, but she does not compare to the smoldering hotness that kristy brings. oh well. she just made a ludicrous decision.
yes, i am a testament that you can build up your lactose tolerance. like i said, the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college, i didn't have any milk, so i lost it. but with much pain and random spurts of diarrhea, i got it back. remember my lunch on the toilet? that was because of milk runs. so it is possible, folks! you just gotta suck it up and do it.
aw, so to that reader who can't have an orgasm during regular sex: can you get off using other means? manual? vibrator? one of my ex's was the same way, so when we romped, near the end, i had to stop while she frigged herself off using her fingers, and then i continued and finished on my own end. it was sort of odd, but i wanted us to both to get off, so that's how we did it. i guess some girls need direct clitoral stimulation.
ryowa has an awesome lunch special: ramen, 3 potstickers, and a bowl of fried rice for $8. D and i went there today, and i was so stuffed that i had to get a box for my fried rice, which i'll have to dinner. poor D; he sprained his ankle very badly during basketball yesterday, and he's now limping around like an invalid. it reminds me of earlier this year, when i got my dog bite. my guess is that he'll be out for at least two weeks, at the very minimum. and that's the exact reason why i rarely go inside when i play. you never know what you're going to land on when you jump among a bunch of guys.
so my coworker M is a really good engineer. apparently, at the annual party, she got the "above and beyond" award. i'm really happy for her. she's doing the verification for the block i just finished, and she found some bugs after i released the code. (i had previously stated that i thought the code was solid, so i have to eat my words.) good for her. she's not only a hard worker, but she's smart, too. i've been an engineer for 10 years this coming july, and i'm at the stage where i no longer accept challenges. instead of relishing them, i just look at a task and immediately say, "that's a lot of work" and look for easy ways out of it. M just takes it and runs with it. i think that's really cool, and i wish i were more like her.
so my boss just gave me my bonus. it's a non-negligible amount of money, so i guess you can say... i'm happy with it? then again, i have no idea how much other people got, so i have no idea how good a deal i got. either way, it's not chump change, so i'll gladly take any "free" money the company throws my way. (of course, it's taxed, though.)
during the dot com boom, at my first networking startup, money was thrown away like crazy. they gave $10K referral bonuses, and that was AFTER TAX. nuts! i miss those days. (although, i never referred anyone, so i never got to cash in on that awesome deal.) some people say that these days are better because things are valued more realistically and blah blah blah; those people are idiots. i'd much rather be in the bubble days, where dreams of becoming rich were rampant, and *i* could have struck gold. did you know that my company rejected a buyout offer for FIVE BILLION? ludicrous! selfish owners. *grumbles*
ok, i'm off. i'm gonna rest after today's madness at the office and recharge. i've got some serious coding changes to do tomorrow.