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Posted on Fri, August 13 2010 at 12:30 am
before i get to the rodent issue, did you notice i put my twitter feed on the right-most sidebar here on my blog? nifty, isn’t it? much thanks for my webmaster (yes, i am paying him) mikeT for having installed twittertools with my wordpress, and for helping me add 10 pixels of space between each tweet. before those 10 pixels, the tweets were all jammed together, and it was really ugly.
i tweet much more than i blog now. i mean, word-wise, the blog might still be more, but the tweets are real-time and spontaneous. and i realized i didn’t want to repeat myself on twitter and then here on track15.com, so i finally had the (rather late and obvious) inspiration to put my twitter feed on my blog. i’ve also set up wordpress to capture my previous week’s worth of tweets into one blog post, put up at midnight every sunday (i.e. monday 12am).
yup. i think i am back to being random again. i don’t think i could ever do what i used to do on my old blog/journal, i.e. write 700-900 words of random stuff in one shot every day. but twitter now allows me to put down a stray thought that happens to cross my mind the moment it happens, so i don’t have to store them in my brain until i post a blog entry.
sigh, technology. it makes us lazy. i used to know all of my friends’ phone numbers. then the cell phone came. then, i could remember all of my friends’ e-mail addresses. but online address books (which i still don’t use, i just search for my friends’ names in my e-mail archives if i don’t remember their address) changed that. now, twitter lets me be lazy about remembering the thoughts that i want to document throughout the day. well, gotta roll with the changes, i guess.
however, it does bug me. i read once that centuries or millennia ago, scholars used to be able to memorize entire books. but with the advent of technology today, we don’t have to remember anything anymore. computers and smart phones and the internet does all of that for us now. i mean, shit, my computer (not that i let it) offers to remember my own fucking passwords. i seriously think it’s going to make us a stupider race in the future.
anyways. on to the rodent.
the past 4 nights, i’ve been at my computer after midnight. and for four straight nights, i’ve seen a mouse/rat run out of the kitchen and disappear down the hallway. two nights ago, it went into my bedroom, and i had to make a huge commotion to get it out so i could sleep.
well, today, at 9am, this guy from casner exterminating (which i HIGHLY recommend now) came to take a look. he immediately saw that there were scratch/bite marks on the bottom of the vent next to my front door. he also found the same thing on the vent in my neighbor’s vent two doors down (we’re in the same building).
then, he proceeded to inspect my entire house for possible entry points. overall, i have like a half dozen potential entry points, and i need to close them all up (a popular thing to do it with is steel wool).
after he saw the droppings from the rodent, he said that it was a rat, not a mouse. mouse droppings apparently are a lot thinner and smaller than the ones i have.
so then, he gave me two options for killing/trapping the rat: strategically placed sticky pads, or multiple snap traps. i pushed for a live capture/release solution, but he basically told me that he didn’t have the option to do that. so in the end, i went for the snap traps. i figured that if i had to kill the rat in the end, then i would want to do it as humanely and quickly as possible. the sticky pads are barbaric: either i would have to throw away the live rat into the dumpster, where it would starve to death (after chewing its own legs off), or i would have to kill the rat myself. i don’t think i could live with either one of those choices.
the guy charged me $250. this included the work he did today (inspection, trap setup) and any future he work he will do for me. i thought it was reasonable. in the end, he set up like 4 snap traps (with peanut butter as bait) in the kitchen, and one more in my empty bathroom upstairs, where we found some droppings.
well, today, after i came back home from work around 9pm, i had this feeling of dread as i pulled my car into the garage. i sort of knew what to expect when i turned on the kitchen lights and looked at the traps. yup, one of them had triggered and killed my “tenant.” 
it’s a grey rodent, about 6 inches long, with a tail about 8 inches long.
WHAT THE FUCK.
ANOTHER RAT JUST RAN OUT OF MY KITCHEN JUST NOW.
am i seeing its ghost? but this is about right: around 12:30am, now FIVE straight days, a rat has run out of the kitchen and disappeared.
oh man.
this is really grossing me out.
ok, i gotta go. oh, before i go, i’ll just say that i finally went to the korean bbq taco truck (bbqkalbi.com) today. it was pretty damn cool. tacos are like $2, burritos for $6.50, but by far the best thing was the $6.50 kimchee quesadilla (it had some meat, too). tasty shit. i couldn’t find the truck at first (today it was at n. mathilda and first ave/bordeaux, near yahoo), but it was totally worth it. the actual owner came later, and we chatted with him about the business. a few days ago, they made $1,800 (revenue, not profit) in two hours. but there’s a lot of variance right now.
anyways, the guy said that the whole korean/mexican fusion started in LA a long time ago in old mom-and-pop shops, where the owners were korean, but the workers were mexican. however, the kogi truck in LA was the first one to take this type of cuisine and make it mobile by slapping it on a truck and then using facebook/twitter, etc. to advertise and get the word out. (this one here is on facebook, twitter, its own webpage, and now foursquare.)
so yeah, pretty cool. i will definitely go back. that kimchee quesadilla was damn good.
ok, good night.
fuck. another rat.
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Posted on Thu, August 12 2010 at 1:09 am
before i get to my subject line, we had an insane day at work today. a massive malfunction happened, and people are totally scrambling. of course, since i’m an expert in my domain of the chip(s), i’m being consulted on this issue.
i was at the office until around 8:30pm. last night, two of the guys from our branch in israel (who are here temporarily) stopped by my cube, and we introduced ourselves. i soon found out that one of them, O, loves whiskey, and the other guy, A, doesn’t mind whiskey either. so i was like, “cool!” and tonight, we met up after work at the duke of edinburgh.
i got to the duke first, as A had to go back to the hotel to pick up his girlfriend, L, who is visiting from israel. then, we grabbed a booth. L got a stella artois, A and O got bushmills 16-year (neat), and i got a bushmills 10-year (on the rocks). it was O who told me that these bushmills versions are single malts, as opposed to blended. the 10-year was $10.25, and the 16-year was $13. after tried the 10-year, i had a 16-year on the rocks. both of them were good, but since i dilute my whiskey’s flavor with ice, i don’t need to pay a premium on having slightly better taste. so i think the $8 black bush is good enough for me.
now, back to the israeli sumo wrestler. O is a REALLY big guy. but with his big size comes a HUGE tolerance. this dude once drank TWO LITERS of whiskey in one event. that’s like *50* fucking shots. are you serious? 50 shots would seriously kill me, and i am not trying to be funny or figurative or anything. it would literally KILL me.
anyways, talking to those three people was really cool. i’ve never known anyone who’s from israel, and i was just very curious about everything about their homeland: the culture, alcohol tendencies, fashion, movies, tv, strip clubs, favorite sport, EVERYTHING. i could have stayed for a few more hours and still have more questions.
i was really cool to hang out with drinkers, too. i mean, i used to go to the duke pretty often with tim or jimmy, but both of them are really busy these days. tomorrow night, i plan to take them out to another bar/pub, and friday night, i’m being VERY ambitious: i want to take them to the saddlerack. if you don’t what the saddlerack is, it’s a country western bar in fremont. they have a huge floor for line dancing, a full bar, a mechanical bull, AND an upside-down margarita chair. it’s crazy there.
woah boy. i am suddenly really, really sleepy. it’s just past 1am. last night, i fell asleep at 4am, and my alarm went off at 8:30am. so that’s less than 5 hours of sleep.
i need to take care of myself better. i’m skipping PT tonight and going straight to bed after doing my teeth and showering.
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Posted on Tue, August 10 2010 at 1:31 am
“before i sleep” is the name of a taiko piece that two of my ensemble-mates (david and josephine) wrote back when i was with stanford taiko. it’s an apropos name for this entry. i’m going to be brief, go upstairs, do my PT exercises, do my nightly routines in the bathroom and go to sleep.
this morning, much of it was spent taking care of business. i’ve been so damn busy with work that i’ve been forgetting to pay my bills and stuff. last month, i was a day late mailing out my mortgage and HOA payments. and over the weekend, i thought i had forgotten to pay my property taxes in april. basically, because of my work schedule, i have been neglecting my own personal affairs.
so today, after i got to the office, i spent over an hour just doing paperwork. i paid my water/sewage bill. i made an appointment to see my primary physician because of my rapid weight loss. i made an appointment for pest control to come take care of the mouse in my place. i called my ACL surgery center to pay the bill and ask about contacting the donor’s family. and finally, i called the santa clara tax collector’s office, stayed on hold for 20 minutes, only to find out that i actually *did* pay my april property tax installments on march 30th. stupid me.
i’ve never had a PDA or used a calendar in any shape or form to keep track of my affairs. my life has never been that complicated. however, i think that my life may indeed have become complex enough that my brain alone isn’t enough to remember what i need to do on a given day. ugh.
tonight, after work, i went over to jimmy and sabrina’s place to watch the premiere of _the bachleor pad_. HOLY SHIT is this show insane. almost everyone there (previous contestants from _the bachelor_ and _the bachelorette_) is mentally fucked up somehow, and people are basically playing each other to win the $250K prize. i mean, this show would be a psychologist’s wet dream. it’s utter trash, but i just might spent the next two months’ worth of mondays at jimmy and sabrina’s house watching the show.
i know i’ve been neglecting my blog. however, there are a few reasons: 1) i am a lot busier at work these days, and 2) i have been tweeting short thoughts in bursts instead of blogging. so that second reason might be a whole game changer in how track15.com will operate now. i mean, during the day, i have all these random moments where i have a thought or brainfart, so i’ll tweet about it. but do i really want to repeat myself again in these blog entries? or will these entries deal with more medium-form ideas and issues?
btw, you are totally free to follow my tweets. in fact, i encourage you to: http://www.twitter.com/choccobo
it’s almost 1:30am. i need to do my PT. but i want to leave you with one notable tweet from me this weekend:
“so much of my life now is the pursuit of beauty: in film, dance, art, music, women, tv, ideas, etc. beauty makes me feel this world is good.”
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Posted on Mon, August 9 2010 at 12:17 pm
lately, i’ve started to lose the ability to compartmentalize my work from the rest of my life. last week, i worked like a motherfucker. and during the weeknights, i was pretty much consumed by thoughts of coding, my job, etc.
it’s very important to develop the skill to leave your job behind the moment you walk out of the office. it took a few years for me to learn that after i started my first job, but eventually, i was able to do it. but recently, the ability has faded a bit.
but this weekend was great. i was able to leave it all behind.
friday night, i had late dinner with tim at sushi o sushi. i don’t really like that place, but i was hungry by the time i got there at 9pm, so the tempura and california rolls were extra tasty. i LOVE broccoli tempura. it’s the best vegetable in that style.
after i got home, i finally installed BTT (better touch tool), which mac OS X thing that massively expands the powers of the magic mouse/trackpad. i mean, this thing recognizes like 30 gestures, and you can assign each gesture to 40+ commands.
i basically wanted my old might mouse functionality back. so, i assigned my dashboard to a two-finger click, and expose to a three-finger click. however, now i have to completely relearn how i click, because i’ve always left fingers on the mouse and click with my index finger. but now i have a 1-finger left, 1-finger right, 2-finger and 3-finger click. it’ll take some getting used to. but yeah, BTT is fucking powerful.
playing around with BTT took me until like 3am.
the next morning, i got up around 10am and went to quik smog in MV (thanks andrew!). i called them before i went, and the guy quoted me $40. when i got there, however, i was that it was $80+ on this sign on the wall. i was like, “WTF?” but the guy told me that he would charge me $40. so what the hell is up with the $80+ quote? they’ll either fuck you hard or give you a great deal.
there were 3 cars before me, so i just sat in the parking lot and talked to A and ting.
after that, i went home and caught up on the latest 5 episodes of LXD. that shit is awesome. episode 4 was dumb, but 5-8 were great. LXD’s popularity is all through word-of-mouth, so let me say this: GO TO thelxd.com and WATCH THAT SHIT. there are 8 episodes online right now, and the ones to watch are 3 and 5-8.
then, i headed to adam and rae’s annual summer pool party. i had a good time there. i had 3 coronas. i HATE beer, but adam and rae don’t drink, so it wasn’t like i had any choice of alcohol. and to be honest, i didn’t mind the coronas.
adam has a pretty diverse set of friends. i asked him if i could show videos from his laptop on his HDTV, so i introduced a few people to LXD. i think i got some people hooked. 
then, tim and i went to AMC vallco and watched an 8:35pm showing of _salt_. we got there around 8:25-8:30, and the theater was fucking PACKED. i had to sit by myself between two strangers (which i absolutely LOATHE), and tim sat somewhere else.
now, i don’t really like angelina jolie, but i have to admit, she is one bad-ass motherfucker. the movie was non-stop action and intrigue, and i really enjoyed it. so that’s three straight great movies i’ve seen: inception, the kids are all right, and salt. they’re all completely different, but all highly enjoyable.
after the movie, i grabbed some jitb and some cash at safeway. then, i went home and stayed up until like 4am. i don’t remember what i did, though.
sunday, i had dim sum with alan, ting, jay, margaret and baby jaden at loon wah. i was late to the 11am meeting time because i was researching un-DRM’ing my iTunes purchases.
dim sum was good. but alan did the ordering (they don’t have carts, you write what you want on a card), and that was bad news. alan’s eyes are always bigger than his stomach, so we got WAY too much food. i think we had 6 takeout containers at the end. it was $22 a person.
after that, i drove to valley fair and bought belt. i went to macy’s men’s. i saw the standard brands: kenneth cole, tommy hilfiger, CK, etc. but then, i saw: BEN SHERMAN! i fucking LOVE ben sherman. so i was able to find a good brown ben sherman belt for $45 that fit me. i was SO happy with that.
why did i need a belt? because i’ve lost over 30 pounds in the last 3 months. my old belt, at its tightest, can’t hold my pants up.
then, i went home, and i talked to alex for about 40 minutes on the phone. then, i found out that the cowboys were playing the bengals at 5pm on NBC for the hall of fame game. i was SO excited. FOOTBALL IS BACK!
so at 5pm, i plopped myself down on the couch, and i watched the cowboys’ first team take the ball down the field. but with 1st and goal near the five, romo threw three incomplete passes. fuck. dude, if it’s 1st and goal at the five, we just need to pound the ball with barber down their throats. we better improve our red zone offense.
the rest of the game was boring. our other quarterbacks (jon kitna, stephen mcgee, and #10) absolutely SUCK. romo better not get hurt this year, or else we’re screwed.
during halftime, i went to mikeT and christi’s house. i wanted christi to try this “mind-blowing” cabernet that the safeway guy recommended. christi has a palate for red wine, unlike me. so she cooked for her dad and me, and we watched the second half of the game.
after i introduced LXD to christi, i went home. and i spent the rest of the night tracing and chronicling the ACDC (jon m. chu) and M&M (miley cyrus) online dance battle events from 2008. how did i not know about this? it’s pretty sweet.
i went upstairs around 2:30am. then, i did my PT and went to bed. that was around 4am.
but yeah, it was a good weekend. i did not think about work once. and that’s what i needed.
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Posted on Fri, August 6 2010 at 7:41 pm
TGIfuckingF!
i’ve been working like an insane person. you know that wednesday, i coded for like 11 hours. yesterday, i got the code to compile, and then i debugged the code at the office from about 7:30pm to past midnight.
when i left, i knew i had one bug left. i was going to leave it for thursday, but when i got home, i got bothered by it. so i got my laptop and fixed the code. by 2:30am, the code worked. i wanted to run a job to verify that an entire test passed, but i didn’t want it to fill up the disk in case it ran away, so i used the “at” unix command to schedule a run at 8am the next morning.
today, i’ve been working on a model of this video feeder modules. i’m using PLI’s, which is this really old verilog construct to incorporate C functionality into hardware-like time. it’s been like 8 years since i’ve written a PLI, so i was a little rusty.
anyways, i found some problems here and there, but overall, i think my code is working. the problem is, the new design works differently from the old design, so i have to be really creative and write a separate test for each design to produce the same result. ugh.
anyways, it’s 7:38, and i want to get out of here. i have a slight headache, no doubt due to the fact that i’ve been working too hard this week.
this morning, i dropped below 150 pounds. i am starting to get really worried. i think i am going to schedule a visit with my primary care physician and make sure there’s nothing wrong. but my current theory is getting of the haldol.
man, i miss playing basketball. my physical therapy is going very well. i just need to strengthen my muscles. i looked at my two lower legs in the mirror this morning, and my right calf is a noticeably thinner than my left one.
ok, it looks like my test is passing. i’m going home. I AM READY FOR THE WEEKEND!
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Posted on Wed, August 4 2010 at 10:09 pm
today, from 8:30am to 9pm, aside from an hour-long lunch break, i basically coded all day. yeah, pretty intense, eh? i mean, last night, i was so excited for today to come. i really enjoy coding. however, i’m sure that i overdid it today. 10+ hours of coding will fuck your mind up.
my head hurts, and i have a really bad feeling that i’ll sleep fitfully and have anxious dreams.
i like using my brain. however, if i use it too much, and i don’t give myself a break, i tend to get pretty messed up. like one time, i played with that rubik’s magic thing for hours, and my brain was so wired up that i got physically sick (like fever and stuff) the next day.
ugh.
anyways, yesterday morning, my dad flew back from dallas. he had some important business meetings to attend to, but he didn’t bring a suit. so i had my dad try on my “fat” suit. (i have two suits: a “skinny” one when i was like 150lbs, and a “fat” one when i was around 180lbs.) it fit him perfectly. so i gave him my whole ensemble: suit, shirt, tie, belt.
my dad left this morning. he was gone by the time i woke up. he called me at work to tell me about this weird plum thing. basically, last night, my dad took a bite out of a plum and left it on my dining table. this morning, before he left, he saw the plum. basically, something had eaten more of it, and it had shredded the plum’s skin all over the table.
WTF?
i think i have a mouse. i’ve found little black things on the carpet from time to time. i bet they’re mouse droppings.
shit. does anyone know of a good person to do rodent extermination?
i am totally behind on SYTYCD. i just dread watching tv by myself because it takes so damn long.
anyways, it’s just past 10pm. i’m going to watch a little bit of sportscenter and go to bed. today was fun at first, but i just went way overboard with my focus and intensity. i fear i will pay the price tonight.
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Posted on Tue, August 3 2010 at 12:46 am
yes, i know it’s tuesday already, but i didn’t get a chance to recap the weekend. i am REALLY REALLY tired (which i’ll get to), so i am just going to blast out this post and go to bed.
friday night, i think i went to bed around 4am. i got up at 11 or so. i messed around a home for a bit, and then i talked to A on the phone for over 2 hours. she really has become one of my best friends.
during my chat with A, my ex-coworker friend david called me, so i called him back. i met up with him at stanford shopping center. first, i introduced him to the creamery. he got a burger, but i let him taste a bit of my chicken salad melt. and all of a sudden, he realized why i go there. their chicken salad melt is DAMN TASTY.
then, we went to the apple store, and i bought a magic mouse. the original mighty mouse that came with my second iMac had a broken scroll ball, and i didn’t feel like cleaning it. so i was either going to get the magic mouse or the magic trackpad. i tried out the trackpad first, and i instantly HATED it. i just really detest trackpads; that’s one of the biggest reasons why i will never buy a laptop. (yes, i know you can hook up a USB mouse to a laptop, but that’s just one extra thing to carry.)
so once that was decided, i bought the magic mouse and left. apple stores don’t have cash registers, it seems. all of the transaction was done wirelessly. the only thing the salesperson had to do was go get me a receipt.
after i got home, my cousin david (yes, another david) and his friend S came down to visit. david wanted ramen, so since i took him to ryowa last time, i took them to maruichi this time. we got there just before the big dinner rush started.
after that, i showed them the store therapy. they have pretty cool stuff. then, we went back, and i showed them LXD episode 3. i tried to find the hitler meme on the iPhone 4 antenna problem, but apparently, it gotten taken down.
then, the two of them left. it was around 10 or so. but little did i know, but i would stay up for ANOTHER EIGHT FUCKING HOURS.
yup, i fell asleep at 6am. the next morning. i was on the internet again. yup. it’s that bad.
i got up at 11. that’s 5 hours of sleep. fuck me.
for lunch, i went with adam and rae to the carl’s jr. near their house. adam had a coupon for 2 western bacon cheeseburgers for $4. then i bought my usual six dollar burger. we took the food to go, as rae didn’t want to eat anything there.
after adam ate the first of his two burgers, he wanted to eat the second one. i basically forbade him to do it. then, i showed adam and rae LXD episode 3 (i’m basically an evangelist for that show). we hung out for a while, and then i left for santana row around 4pm.
there, i met up with tim, and we watched _the kids are all right_. jay had just seen it the previous night, and he really liked it. me? i FUCKING LOVED it. the emotions and conflicts were just so…. honest and raw. i never knew annette bening could act like that. honestly, she deserves the fucking oscar.
after that, i went home and putzed around. i finally dragged myself away from the computer again at midnight, got $9 worth of taco bell food (4 items, has taco bell gotten more expensive?), ate it, and crashed.
so yeah, that was it. days were fun, but i need to control my addiction to the internet. i wonder why it’s just now that i’m addicted. wikipedia deserves part of the blame, that i know for sure.
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Posted on Sat, July 31 2010 at 12:08 pm
hey, i feel like i owe you guys a rare blog entry on a weekend. i know i didn’t blog on thursday or friday. lots of stuff has happened this week.
just to recap a few points, thursday, i had lunch with W and O at choi’s. i missed choi’s.
that night, i ate dinner at the company at 7pm, but right after, jay called me. he was in palo alto for some craniosacral therapy, and he wanted to grab dinner. so i was like, “ok, i’ll just eat a little bit.” he came over just before 9pm.
jay loves dance, too, and i told him earlier to watch LXD. he watched the first episode, and as i expected, he thought it was lame. i thought so too. but then, i showed him LXD episode 3, and he was really impressed. i’m telling you, watch episode 3 (“robot lovestory”). you will NOT be disappointed.
then, we went to fu lam mum for their 9pm+ $8 chinese dinner specials. last time, we got the salt and pepper fish, cantonese chicken in clay pot, and sizzling hunan spicy bean cure. jay loved it. this time, we tried the braised fish in clay pot and eggplant with garlic sauce. jay also loved it. i’m telling you, fu lam mum rocks. $8 for a set of certain dishes after 9pm.
for whatever reason, i was up until 4am thursday night, and when i realized i had an 8:30am morning the next day, i skipped my PT exercises and decided to hit the sack pronto.
getting 4 hours of sleep really hurts. since i sleep so little every day now, the first thing i do when i sit up in bed is yell “FUCK” because it hurts so much.
anyways, i had an 8:30am conference call with our paris division, and i think things are coming into focus for the next chip. i still don’t know if i want to fly to china, which is what the project manager wants me to do.
i spent the rest of the day developing a real, rigorous and functional test for one of the IP’s that i integrated in to my block. i wrote a bunch of C programs and sed scripts to convert ascii data to binary files, etc. i forgot how much i love writing software. but the gist is, that after a few kinks and a lot of intense and focused work, i got the entire test to work. I AM THE FUCKING MAN. my company has no idea how good i am.
anyways, alan called me, and i met up with him and ting at the redwood city chevy’s. it was good seeing them again. ting is weeks away from delivering their baby girl.
why do women opt for natural birth? why would they go through all that ridiculous pain? anyways, ting wants to try it, and i’m like, “why?” yes, i’ve heard from bradley method people that the epidural can harm the baby, but i dunno. i can’t deal with severe pain, so if i were a woman, i’d definitely get the epidural.
we were at chevy’s for 2 hours. i was good to relax and chat with good friends.
after i got home, i got on my computer for the next several hours. honestly, i think i am getting addicted to the internet. there is just too much good content. i watched some louiekc comedy clips, and i explored some music from the seattle/northwest hip-hop scene. (who knows about this?). i listened to some hip-hop from two groups: blue scholars and common market. apparently, the seattle hip-hop scene is very underground, and their hip-hop is very different from the mainstream. instead of mass market rappers talking about how much money they have and how they want to have sex with a girl, a lot of seattle hip-hop outfits rap about social consciousness and stuff. it’s pretty interesting.
anyways, i finally dragged myself off the computer around 3:30am. and since i hadn’t done my physical therapy exercises for two nights straight, i forced myself to do all of my exercises despite the fact that i was so tired. so after that and my shower, i went to bed at 4:30am.
i got up at 11:30am. so that sounds late, but i only got 7 hours of sleep. still, though, 7 hours is a lot relatively speaking. remember that i used to be a guy who would get 10-11 hours of sleep a night. now, i’m getting around 5-7. it’s a really big change.
ok, i’m off to find some lunch.
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Posted on Wed, July 28 2010 at 6:13 pm
this is the first time in a HELL of a long time that i’m blogging at work. i’ve been so damn busy these past few weeks that i’ve only been able to blog at night when i get home.
right now, things have quieted down. i actually had time today to go through a ton of snailmail and pay some of my bills. (my mortgage and HOA payments are due in 4 days, for example.) i got my DMV renewal notice, and fuck, i have to get a smog check again? damn. i always get ripped off when i get a smog check. like, once, i called up a gas station in mountain view with a coupon, and they quoted me a price, but when i got there, they quoted a higher price. wtf? bastards. i think i’ve paid as much as $60+ for a smog check.
also, my dentist billed my old dental insurance company, so of course, my claim was denied. i need to call them tomorrow and tell them my new insurance provider. i swear that i told them already.
and finally, i need to pay for my ACL surgery. but the silly surgery center sent me the bill but no envelope to mail it back in. what, am i supposed to provide my own envelope?
i am still trying to find out the family of the deceased person who donated his achilles tendon to me so i can thank them. i asked if this was possible numerous times, but no one’s done anything. so i need to call the surgery center and make an official inquiry. my surgeon’s assistant said that wanting to thank the donor’s family is not uncommon, but some families choose not to accept any communication. i guess some families don’t want to be reminded of a death. it makes sense, but i am really grateful for whoever died to give me his body part to me.
once again, i went to bed after 3am last night. what is going on with me? i mean, i am getting WAY less sleep than i used to get. i mean, i used to get like 11 hours a night, but now, i’m lucky if i manage 6-7. but i feel fine. am i just fooling myself? will my body just break down one day?
PT went well yesterday. last week, my extension/flexion angles were 4 to 95, but yesterday, i was able to get to 3/125. pretty cool.
i really think my weight loss has to do with my getting off haldol. i have lost like 30 pounds since i went off western meds. now i’m wondering if my sudden weight gain when i turned 25 was really because i turned 25. because if i remember right, i started on haldol near that time, too, so maybe it was the haldol and it had nothing to do with my age.
but anyways, life is really good right now. i am a fucking stud at work. and now, things are lightening up, which is a big relief because i started to obsess about my job a bit (like dreaming about it, thinking about it in the shower, etc.).
my one main complaint right now is my TV OCD. i *REALLY* dread watching television by myself at home. like i said, this past sunday, it took 6 hours to watch 3 hours of real tv. ugh.
i got off my leg brace sunday night. however, i still walk really funny. i guess my right leg is just used to being straight after being in a brace for 2.5 weeks. when my right foot plants, my toe hits first, or at best, i land flat-footed. i need to train myself to go heel-first like i used to.
anyways, that’s it for today. hopefully i’ll be able to blog regularly now.
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