Had to work Saturday, it being end of quarter. Played some poker at the $5 rebuy/addon game up in Manchester, and did all right, but got knocked out at the final table in something like 8th place ( Read more... )

Can I just get a re-do on my entire year to date? Somehow it's almost November, and the only halfway decent thing I can remember happening is my Southwest trip back in May. Everything else has been bad timing and bad decisions and... lousy luck.

Bleh. So this is what life feels like when I don't have my little luxuries of escapism.

As of 8/12/09, Comcast has apparently decided to move MSNBC -- that's right, the cable news network that's actually remotely liberal, the one with Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann -- from their Digital Starter lineup (read: basic cable package) to their Digital Classic lineup (which costs an additional $17/month, or an additional $200+ per year ( Read more... )

Decided not to be a masochistic workaholic. Called in sick to work. Admittedly I do feel substantially better with some breakfast inside me, but still... congestion, cough, malaise. Yuck. I'm going to have to make myself some nice chicken noodle soup or something later on today. After I do the sadly neglected dishes. Oy.

Whatever this thing was that I was sick with yesterday has decided to stick around a bit longer. Except, you know, to slightly change/mutate symptoms. Yesterday it was a wee bit of congestion, a dry hacking cough, a rawly sore throat, and a mild feeling of fatigue and all-over malaise. Possibly with a small fever ( Read more... )

Between the humidity and the fact that I woke up mid-last night for no reason I could perceive, I feel like I've got no energy. I also overslept my alarm a small bit, which makes doing the hour's workout for P90X pre-work virtually impossible. *sigh* And it's not like I'm going to have more energy after a 10 hours at work... oy ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's the humidity or not, but all the energy just seems sapped out of me this morning. I very much still need to do my workout before work -- that, and dishes -- and I'm just desperately trying to get motivated. Bleah.

On a Saturday. Again. Just to try and catch up because the past two weeks have sucked so much. *sigh* Sometimes I feel like I haven't read LJ in months, aside from the brief little 10-minute scan of my flist's first 20 entries each morning.

My bones were aching with fever as I got home last night, and the fever broke around 5:30 this morning. I can't recall ever having a fullscale fever from allergies before, so... *shrug ( Read more... )

Last night, working from a recipe in the San Jose Mercury News, I tried making red curry beef. The results were... less good than I might have hoped. Not bad, exactly, but I seriously have to question the taste of the end product. Here's what I made, with my commentary and slight changes:

( Red Curry Beef )