no, i'm not lactose intolerant. i've had milk and cereal for dinner (although, i haven't had for maybe two weeks) a couple of times, and that's given me no problems. so frozen yogurt is fine with my system. last night, i went to mel's yogurt fantasy right when it closed (they were shutting down the machines when i got there) and got my fix. mel told me that they were trying to emulate pinkberry's iciness, but i tried it in front of her and told her that i didn't like it. i like her place specifically because it *isn't* icy. so i hope she switches it back. and this time, i got plenty of nice, fresh, soft mochi. *yum*
i grew up drinking whole milk, but i haven't had that stuff in several years. i became lactose intolerant during one summer between college, when i didn't have milk that entire time. when i went back to school, i had milk, and boy howdy, did it fuck me up. but i resolved to build it back up, so i just kept drinking milk and getting diarrhea. eventually, i became normal, but man, it was a really painful process. i will remind you of that one lunch i had on the toilet; that was because of milk-induced runs.
basketball today was a mixed bag. we won one tough game, 11-8, but during our next game, we got demolished 2-11. the other team shot like 80%, and we just couldn't get any offense clicking. maybe we shot our wad during that first game. oh well. i got that dehydration headache afterwards, too, despite drinking three bottles of gatorade after. i took some tylenol afterwards, and the headache's gone now.
i sold my shares of conoco-phillips (COP) today. i bought in at $73 a year and a half ago on a tip from my ex-coworker adam, and it hit $93 today. i figured it was a good price, so i pulled the trigger. i know, it's not much of a gain, and i only bought 50 shares, so i made an even $1K profit before taxes. i'll buy adam lunch. (adam bought in at $59, lucky bastard.) and i'll re-buy the stock if it falls back down.
it's always tough to decide at what price to sell. greed sets in, you know? like, you've already made all this money, but it's not *real* until you actually sell the stock. like sandisk (SNDK); i bought it at $37, and i set the target at $60, but it hit $59.75 before it fall all the way down to the $20's. shit, i missed it by only 25 cents! arrgh. that really sucked.
damn. my boss just came in, and we have a very bad "limitation" in our chip. it seems we have to look into it, which means i have to debug a part of chip that i didn't even design. i hate this kind of work. lately, i've been doing a lot of that kind of stuff, since a lot of engineers moved on and left their work for me to take over. sigh. a respected ex-coworker once told me that the sign of a truly good engineer is the ability to handle/debug/take over somebody else's design. well, i'm definitely getting a lot of practice doing this shit.
i've been getting a lot of ingrown nipple hairs these days. like i said, i pluck my nipple hairs. it feels good. to get an ingrown one out, i take my tweezers and slide them over the pore really hard, sort of like scratching them very aggressively until the follicle juts out. yes, it bleeds sometimes. but it's very rewarding to finally get it out. but ingrown nipple hairs feel really uncomfortable; i rub them a lot when i'm in my cube, and it feels like little needles poking my chest. ick. (sometimes, i lift up my shirt and examine them; hopefully, nobody catches me doing that, though, because that would be a strange sight.)
so before all this debugging mess at work, i got bored, and i saw this banner ad on my yahoo mail page about this internet dating site, so i got curious and clicked on it. it was a free site, so i joined for the hell of it, and i went through 500 profiles in like 40 minutes. of those 500 girls, there only 3 that were cute enough for me to look at their profiles. one of them had a good posed picture and a very bad picture, so the pessimistic side of me decided that she looked bad in real life. one of them looked great in glasses (ah, the fetish), but she turned out to be a 19-year-old college student. and the other one had a nice face, but she was pretty large in her other pictures. so there you go. 40 minutes gone.
i think i sprained my left thumb. i'm not sure how or when i did it. (i don't think it happened during basketball today.) the right side of the joint is all red, and it hurts when i press it. shit. once, for some insane masochistic reason, i tried to bend it sideways, and i put so much force on it that i heard a tearing sound. that was really stupid. yes, i have hurt myself in many ways. did i tell you guys that i once sprained my own ankle with my bare hands? i just gripped it, and i bent it so forcefully that it popped this huge pop, and the next day, i wouldn't walk. it was at the end of my sophomore year in college, so i couldn't move out, and i had to enlist my friends to move my stuff into storage. yes, i am dumb.
ok. i gotta get back to debugging. sigh.