so today, i've only had two non-water drinks (aside from the gatorade i had during basketball, which i keep in the trunk of my car). one was a snapple i took from the secret mini-fridge, and the other one was pibb xtra i broke down and bought for 75 cents because i was craving something sweet. pibb does not taste like dr pepper at all. and i don't know what's "xtra" about it. i am actually not minding drinking water that much, and thankfully, there's a reverse osmosis machine really close to my cube.
basketball was decent today, although i only played two half court 5-on-5 games. (it was raining again, so they forced us to play half court.) my coworker X should really sue the living daylights out of city beach because he injured himself by slipping on the puddle from the leaking ceiling; i bet he would get a log of money. but then again, i don't want city beach to go bankrupt, because then i would have no outlet for exercise. anyways, in my 2 games, i shot like 80% (4 out of 5), so i was happy and decided to leave while i was still hot. so i didn't really get any good exercise today.
work is going ok. after yesterday's typo ECO fiasco, my stuff is passing formal verification and gate level tests now, so it seems like our next two chips won't have the bug that exists in the latest chip. but still, we need the latest chip to work, so i'm still not off the hook yet. it sucks, having a bug in silicon. it's not a position i've ever been in, so it's quite new to me. i feel like people look at me differently (i mean, i used to call my work "the ROCK"), and it's truly shaken my faith in myself, like i don't feel like i'm a good designer anymore. and i've gotten a lot more paranoid in the quality of my work. *shivers*
two more hours of _american idol_ tonight. to be honest, the quality of this year's top 36 isn't very good. of course, i can't sing worth shit, so i shouldn't judge, but frankly, i expected more. there are only a couple of people (like i can count them on one hand) that i think are any good, and out of 36, that's quite low. i am preparing to be underwhelmed tonight. and song choice has been the downfall for most of the contestants.
sometimes i wonder what song i would sing if i were on AI. but since i suck at singing, that thought really hasn't crossed my mind. i think i have a vocal range of ONE octave, seriously. so what could i sing? hehe. i have to admit, though, whenever i hear ingrid michaelson's "the way i am" on the radio, i sing along. and i try to go falsetto, albeit a really BAD one. maybe i would do a backstreet boys song if i were on the show. i would love to do NIN, but that wouldn't be very crowd friendly. (i think i'm influenced by the fact that i'm wearing a NIN t-shirt today.)
when i went with D to safeway the other day, i bought some soft-baked oatmeal raisin cookies from pepperidge farm. they're pretty damn good. soft and chewy, with tons of raisins. but you gotta eat them fast, though; after just one day, they're starting to get hard. so in the past two days, i've had three of them a night. (there are 8 cookies a bag.) and they're well over 100 calories EACH.
speaking of calories, i wonder how those people are doing on their weight loss challenge. i haven't seen them for a few weeks, but i wonder if the next time i see them, they'll all be skeletons. i should have taken pictures of myself when i was at 200 and then some when i dropped to 155.
please call 1-877-RJCREW2 to vote for quest crew on ABDC! i love these guys. watch their performance on MTV.com or youtube to see just how amazing these people are. what still totally blows my mind is that one trick where the guy does a backflip, and another guy pushes him OVER two other crouching guys. i mean, how sick is that? quest deserves to win.
i'm worried for my jaw joints. every time i yawn and then close my mouth, my joints pop. if i keep doing this over and over again, i bet my jaw will deteriorate, and it'll hurt like a mofo. i had two (i think) cases of TMJ a few years ago, and man, it hurt a LOT to open and close my mouth. eating was a big ordeal for me. funny thing is, TMJ is caused by stress, and my first bout of it coincided with my first purchase of an internet stock (CMGI). i remember that very clearly. (fyi, i bought CMGI at $198, and i sold it for $199 after it split 2 for 1. *huzzah*)
it still hasn't really hit me how much money i've lost in this horrible economy. i mean, it's many years worth of savings. and who knows how long it'll stay this way, or how much worse it'll get. i know i'm young, and retirement is still a ways away. and i feel really bad for those who are looking to retire right now. man, what are their options? work at the age of 65? what kind of job can they get?
one of my taiko acquaintances performed at the oscars. this group called "taikoproject" got to play during the bollywood song performance during the academy awards. i heard about it, but i didn't see him specifically when the camera was panning around the taiko players. but i thought that was pretty cool. and my friend shoji got to play during the democratic national convention. it's cool to see taiko making its way into the mainstream arts scene.
ok. i'm heading down to grab a light bite to eat to hold me over until my usual 10pm dinner with the vball gang.