Eating season

They say the average American gains seven pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year. Here's what I did over the past few days to do my part:

• Company lunch at Arrivederci Italian restaurant. Had way too much lasagne that had way too much cheese.

• Dinner at Amarin Thai restaurant. Everything was spicy. Yeah, I was sweating.

• Late night snack (ok, meal) at Denny's. Country-fried steak and eggs. Oh dang.

• Thanksgiving dinner. All the usual Thanksgiving food + an odd assortment of korean foods, and pieS.

• Thanksgiving late night. Got an early start on the leftovers. Turkey, mashed potato, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce all mixed together. Cold. Still tastes good.

• Chinese hot pot at Johnny's. Raw egg sauce? And more pie.

• Church potluck was pretty good this week.

• 9 slices of Domino's pizza. Tremble in fear.

taqueria la bamba

today i went to taqueria la bamba (rengstorff and old middlefield in mountain view) and i had the pollo asado super burrito. it was a dang good burrito. how good? it was groin-grabbingly good. you'd figure a burrito is so simple, how good can it be? it's hard to put my finger on what it was. it's just good. i took a bite and i thought, ok, this is different. i thoroughly enjoyed it. maybe it was the meat seasoning, very flavorful. maybe it was the tortilla, warm, soft, chewy. perhaps the rice, it had a nice texture, and it didn't fill up the whole burrito like at some other places. or the beans, they were very well cooked, almost creamy. perhaps it was that the sour cream, guacamole, and salsa were all well distributed through the whole burrito, and not all clumped in one part so i'd get a whole mouthful of sour cream and not taste it again for the rest of the burrito. i don't know. all i know was that it was good. check it out.

Weekend report

Just finished reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. It was pretty entertaining. Just like reading a movie. Except it lasts longer. And it's a lot cheaper, because I read it on my Palm Vx. Reading books on the Palm has its upsides and downsides. Downsides are that there were no pictures, and I have to recharge it occasionally. Upsides are I can carry around like 5 or 6 books in my pocket. I think I'll put the movie in my Blockbuster.com queue. I'd imagine it's probably a terrible movie. I give the book a 7 out of 10.



Watched the movie Shopgirl this weekend. It was mildly interesting. It had some funny parts, but also a lot of random drawn out scenes like, panning over the Los Angeles cityscape with dramatic music going. I guess it's a comedy, but it's not one of those constant joke after joke type comedies. I give this movie a 6 out of 10.



Ate at this sushi place in downtown Mountain View, Yakko Sushi. I thought it was pretty good. They make a lot of spicy rolls, which I like, as long as they're not too extreme. Cuz you know, I gots a bit of a problem with the spice. But I guess I'm ok as long as I have plenty of green tea!
They had this one dish, it was called something like, spectactular seared sashimi orgasm. No kidding. The picture looked pretty crazy... seared slices of what looked like tuna sashimi arranged in like a flower, and some bright red and orange sauces sprinkled all over it, with some other things I can't remember. It was a bit pricey, though. I decided to skip it. Remember kids, you should never have to pay for an orgasm. I give this restaurant an 8 or 9 out of 10.

Oh yeah, and I went to this chinese place in that ranch99 plaza, you know, the chinese side of mccarthy ranch on the west side of the 237-880 interchange. And i found a worm in my food. That was pretty gross. Charles found one, too. It was white, and it had segments. Looked like some kinda insect larva. Dat no belong in heeya!

it tends to do that

I was doing pretty good until the first 5-letter word threw off my concentration.

I hope it's not too harsh

I saw this at Long's Drugs and I thought it was funny.

And they want you to know they've formulated it to get the results you want.