Sorry about the lack of posts. I was trying to do this new thing where I wait until I get home to post, but by the time I made it home, I was too tired to write a decent post. Hopefully I'll soon be able to efficiently upload pictures at work, which will make posting easier.
In the meantime, here are all the pictures I've taken since my last post. This isn't everything I've eaten, or everything I've done, but it's an easy way for me to feel caught up.
I think this is a grande drip and lemon poppy seed loaf, but this is from Friday morning, so I don't remember exactly.
I have desks at work in two different buildings, about six blocks apart. In one building, I just moved to a new desk. (I call this desk "desk number two" because compared my other desk, this is the crappy one. Get it?) Desk number one is near the DAWN snack bar, where you can purchase a variety of snacks for fifty cents. Desk number two is now near a snack bar that has Red Vines, Hershey's Miniatures, and other high-calorie, low nutrient snacks, all for free. So far I've been pretty good at resisting temptation, but I had some Red Vines. I don't know how I'm going to resist these every day. They're literally sitting two feet away from my cubical. I really like Red Vines, but I'm not sure why. If I had to guess the main ingredient, I would have to say "plastic".
This is my lunch from Friday. It's a tuna salad sandwich and a small chocolate chip cookie from Il Fornaio. The sandwich is good, and the cookie is best chocolate chip cookie you can get, but I really hate this place, mainly because it's so expensive.
Here's a close up of the cookie. Il Fornaio makes their cookies thin and crispy instead of thick and chewy like most other places. I really love these chocolate chip cookies. I honestly haven't had better, even though I can make a pretty mean cookie. (It's probably the only area in the kitchen where my skill surpasses Jo's.)
This appeared on the snack bar near desk number two on Friday. It's a bag full of fortune cookie rejects. There's even a few fortunes in here, but I haven't tried to see what they are. I wonder if they're rejected fortunes to go along with the rejected cookies. "You will lose at the lottery yet again." I have a thing about not eating food that's been rejected by other people, so I don't think I'll be trying these.
The Monorail got stuck on Friday afternoon, which must have totally sucked for people trying to reach the Bite of Seattle that started on Friday. I was walking home and noticed it sitting on the track so I took a couple pictures. This was after they had unloaded everyone by pulling the second train up next to the stuck one, and having everyone move over. "Mind the gap!"
Another picture of the stuck Monorail. You can see the two trains together at komo news.
My new camera can take short movies, so I filmed (Do you call it "filming"? There's no film involved.) some kids playing in the International Fountain. This was at the Bite, but there wasn't much in the way of crowds. Probably because it was still relatively early on Friday (around 5:00 PM), and it had been raining most of the morning, which may have scared people away. Normally, the Bite is shoulder to shoulder people.
On Thursday night, Stew took me down to pick up some stuff at UPS and FedEx, and then we went to Snappy Dragon for dinner, which was delicious. I have some really good food (and some not so good food) at Snappy Dragon, but this meal was one of their best. I didn't have my camera, so I couldn't take any pictures, but on Friday evening I reheated some vegetable chow mien with homemade noodles and fried tofu. It was fantastic.
On Saturday morning I had some corn flakes with sugar. I had accidentally left the milk out on the counter for a good chunk of the previous evening, so I didn't trust it and had to eat my cereal dry.
Stew was yet again helping me run errands on Saturday morning, and when we stopped for lunch, we noticed that they were filming a movie on a bus parked across the street. This picture was taken using a digital zoom, which is why it's a bit fuzzy, but I think it still looks pretty good.
Stew was playing around with the "portrait" mode on my camera. Five blog points if you can name the restaurant we were at. (I should probably give you five points just for reading this far.) There's a pretty big hint in the picture.
Another portrait by Stew.
Here's my burger. This is another clue as to where we were eating.
This was my dinner on Saturday. Angel hair pasta with Emeril's Vodka sauce. The drink is Sierra Mist Free mixed with orange juice and ice cubes. Nothing special, but good and satisfying nonetheless.
Microwave kettle corn for dessert. Delicious and un-nutritious.
More orange juice and Sierra Mist Free to wash down the kettle corn.
Here's a "self-portrait" of my new camera. So far I really like it. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it is really, really small. It fits in my pocket, even when it's in the case.
Another picture of the camera. Can you see me peeking around the corner?
Because this blog isn't boring enough, I've decided to start posting pictures of the groceries I buy. This is milk from Safeway. Johanna doesn't like this brand of milk "because it tastes too much like cow". I normally get non-fat, but for some reason I've been picking up low-fat recently.
I was down to zero garbage bags in the house, though I didn't really want to buy 42 bags (I'm only here for another week), I figured I'll need some for packing and cleaning, and the rest I can take to Stew's.
Still with me? Because it's about to get "off the hook" as they say. ("Hey brother." Ten blog points if you can identify that reference.)
Something that probably only my wife knows about me (until now) is that I'm a toothbrush fanatic. I generally get a new toothbrush every month, and I always get the Oral-B CrossAction Vitalizer, size 40 regular, soft. My wife thinks this is a bit crazy, but she's not the one who the dentist says has "super teeth" and never any cavities. So when I saw the Pulsar sitting seductively in the grocery store display, I had to give it a try. It's essentially the toothbrush version of the Mach 3 Power, which is the razor I use. (Oral-B is owned by Gillette. The razor is okay. The Power blades are fantastic, but vibrating razor actually nicks me more often so I use razor with the vibration turned off. I wonder if Gillette will get sued over the toothbrush as well.) As a toothbrush, it's pretty nice, but my teeth don't feel as clean as with the CrossAction Vitalizer, and the vibrating is pretty annoying. I don't like electric toothbrushes for the same reason. (According to Consumer Reports, studies show that electric toothbrushes aren't any better if you know how to use a manual toothbrush properly.)
Conditioner. In the land of hair care, "Full and Thick" is code for "makes you look less bald". I don't think it really does anything for perceived baldness, but it does make my hair feel silky.
I was down to my last vitamin, so I picked up some more. "With lycopene", so I no longer have to worry about lychanthropy. I have a rant about vitamins that's been going on in my head for several years. If this post weren't already so long, I'd include it here.
Cinnamon Life for breakfast, and grape nuts to include in yogurt.
Still with me? That's it for groceries for now.
Sunday morning breakfast. Cinnamon Life with milk.
Sunday lunch. Strawberry yogurt with Grape-nuts.
Sunday afternoon snack. More Life with milk.
Monday breakfast. Strawberry scone with some soft of grande Starbucks drink. I suspect it's a drip, but I really can't remember. I have no idea what I had for dinner Sunday night.
Monday lunch. Market House reuben with a pickle and coleslaw. I didn't touch the coleslaw, but I did eat the tiny oatmeal raisin cookie that came with the meal.
Afternoon Starbucks. Again, I don't remember the exact drink.
Monday dinner. This is why I shouldn't buy sweetened cereal. The empty glass had Metamucil in it a few moments before I took the picture.
This was my drink with dinner. Sierra Mist Free with orange juice.
Tuesday breakfast. Not really! This little guy was waiting for me in the shower on Tuesday morning. This picture is also taken with the digital zoom, which is why it's so blurry. I didn't really feel like going into macro mode on this fella.
This is the real Tuesday breakfast. That's a latte and a croissant if it isn't clear.
Tuesday lunch. I hate Subway, both because they're evil, and the food is terrible. But if I'm jonesing for something hot and I don't want to leave the building, a toasted six-inch meatball sub on white bread with no cheese, lettuce, cucumber, green peppers, salt, pepper, Parmesan (which isn't a cheese as far as Subway is concerned), and oregano gets the job done.
When I start getting emotionally unbalanced, I start to eat crap (hence the Subway sandwich), which further unbalances me, which leads to eating more crap. I picked these up from the DAWN snack bar (next to desk number one) and scarfed them down right away.
Of course, if you really want to eat crap, it's hard to beat McDonald's. This is a Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal. I think I got Sprite to drink. Of course I felt terrible after eating it, and I didn't really enjoy eating it to begin with. Also, whenever I eat at McDonald's, I take a look at the other people in the restaurant and think "this is what I'm going to end up looking like if I continue to eat here". That usually keeps me out of a McDonald's for a few months, at least. Next time you're in a McDonald's, take a good look at the other patrons and you'll see what I mean.
More groceries! I really wanted to get ice cream, but I settled for Power Bars instead. Johanna likes to tell me that Power Bars are really just candy bars, but I don't think that's really true. I'm not saying that I think they're healthy, but they're certainly better for you than a Snickers bar (or a 100 Grand and a bag of Bit-O-Honeys for that matter).
Lots and lots of yogurt. There's no way I'll eat all this before I move, especially since there's already some yogurt in the fridge. To the extent that I was thinking at all when I bought this, I was thinking, "I have an entire box of Grape-nuts. I'm going to need a lot of yogurt to go with it."
Tuesday dessert, part one. This is the chocolate peanut butter flavor. Do they no longer make chocolate Power Bars? I've been keeping my eyes open, but haven't seen any recently.
Dessert, part two. This one is peanut butter, which represents the pinnacle of Power Bar gastronomic experience.
Wednesday morning coffee, though this is really tea. Grande iced soy chai latte from Caffe Ladro. Best chai in Seattle, but you need to use soy milk to get that sweet and spicy thing going. Unlike most chai, Ladro's is very spicy and not particularly sweet. Just the way chai should be, unlike that treacle you get at Starbucks.
Wednesday lunch. I really hate getting lunch from Starbucks, so this gives you a good idea of how my day was going. I don't know exactly what grants this chicken club sandwich an "NW" designation, but it was pretty good. The drink is a grande mocha.
Wednesday dinner. Pork tacos from Taco Del Mar. This time I got the "small" drink, so the portions were much better suited to my appetite. All the staff in the store were wearing "in training" tee-shirts, which made me wonder who was doing the training. The tacos were good even if the guy didn't really know what he was doing.
I took this picture because I saw it and thought, "Why does Taco Del Mar have a profile of Darth Vader on the wall?" Does it look like Darth Vader to anyone else, or is it just me?
Wednesday dessert. Grape-nuts in orange cream flavored yogurt. I don't know why I got this flavor of yogurt. I know I don't like it, but when I was in the grocery store I was thinking, "It will probably taste good with Grape-nuts." Why I thought Grape-nuts and orange was a good pairing is beyond me. I think I must have a brain tumor.
This place is really cool. One: because it is one of the few buildings here with air-conditioning; two: because the walls are giant slate chalkboards (with plenty of chalk); C: because there is a hugely tall, grand study room with a 6 story window, a view of the rolling (uh-hum) "mountains", and GIGANTIC chairs in which one can enfold themselves while they study. Oh and four: because the building has wi-fi.
You can also see one of the residence halls in the background. For some reason the dorms here look like prisons. Well, I know why they look like prisons, I just don't know why architects didn't take measures to avoid this. They are constructed of local stone which is nice, but at the same time, the materials lend a sort of institutional feel to the halls. Sometimes I think all that's missing is bars on the windows. I can see it now at finals time, frantic twenty-somethings pulling on the bars, yelling across the commons: "Let me outta here! I was framed I tell ya! Framed!"
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