Wednesday: I had a remarkably unproductive day, but it doesn't matter, because tomorrow is a holiday.

Most of the unproductivity was due to hardware failures.  Having to take nearly two hours to go to the doctor, watch a stupid video about drugs, and then sit in the lobby for fifteen minutes so the nurse can check that I "don't feel like something is wrong" didn't help either.  I then returned to spend even more unproductive time putting together new monitors.  The new monitors are all fancy, but I'm most excited about the "probably won't just stop showing stuff randomly" feature.

I also assumed that my new drug would come free stuff like the old one did.  Nope.  With the old drug, I got a cooler, a travel pack with freezer doodle, a pen, a folder full of informational stuff, coupons in case it wasn't already paid for by my insurance, a pony, coloring book, stickers, etc.  I mentioned that to the nurse, and even the old drug doesn't give away all that free stuff anymore either.  Drug companies suck, is what I'm saying.

Plus I received like nine chickens worth of food at lunch today.  This is "four tenders."  Technically it's five, and they're not tenders, they're the part that you get when you just kind of flail a knife at a chicken breast to cut off the tender.  I ended up saving half of this for dinner.

• The best part of Dragonball.
• Red pandas.
• This is just a puddle of pizza surrounded by a legion of hotdogs.
• These are my favorite things to post when I find old art.

Tuesday: ;alkjfsa;ldfadfa

I couldn't figure out what to do with those stickers, so I just put them here.

Maple bacon biscuit.

• The subtitle version of Marnie doesn't start until 7:50?
• Cats.
• Spider-Man.
• Mother fuck.
• I'm somewhat confused as to the point of all of these services.  Pay money to effectively listen to the radio?  Why?

Monday: Self-repeating immortal Franken-ants

A phrase I got to use today at our group meeting as a possible solution to a script that has difficult to trace bug that I can't sort out.  It's the Space Ghost solution.

"But why are they Franken-ants?"

This question makes no sense.  If I say "self-repeating immortal Franken-ants," you probably have a decent idea of the kind of thing I'm talking about, even with no other information.

• So Kansas is basically run by tyrants who have no concept of "constitutional."
• Dogs...just no, dogs.  Stop it.
• I can see no way that this won't be a complete and utter disaster of a show.
• I would go see a big Marvel movie that was just a direct adaption of this educational comic.  Important features that must be retained:
• Thanos flying around in his Thanos-copter.
• Patsy Walker, Hellcat (because fuck you, wikipedia, that is not Tigra).  It's kind of funny that they had to call her "Cat" due to the young target age group.
• Spider-Man basically doing nothing except tying his shoe and getting smacked down by MJ.
• Easy to read sentences.
• Thanos being arrested by the police.

Sunday: Ramen has an emoji, I guess.

Hrm.  Something's missing.

I'm not sure why this was the last thing to come out.  It's usually first.

• Sheep, no.
• Look, things weren't very exciting in the 90s.  Sometimes you had to pretend things were better than they were.
• So Hillary is going with the strategy of "Fuck you, that's bullshit, you're an asshole, and you know all that already, fuck-face"?  Because if so, I'm way more interested in supporting her.

Saturday: Curry day.

Because I felt like curry today.

Did Coke run out of names or are they slowly moving on to concepts.  "Share a Coke with Ennui."

 And then I came home, checked the mail, and after resigning myself yesterday to it taking forever to show up:

Jill Trent, Science Sleuth.

The important thing I should remember for #2 is that I can totally put Dr. in front of my name, moving my name from the "Chris" section to the "Dr." section of the sponsor list.

• LOL.
• Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
• Ok, I can live with this one.  The old theory was so depressing, so having a new one that's far more positive is good.
• Poor Jessie.
• Everything is just fine.

Friday: "Fucking..."

No, google.  Stop that.

Ever since I rerecorded my phone's voice control phrase, I've had the issue where it will occasionally decide I've asked it something, and so I'll get a random search.  That happened today while I was having problems with something.

• Snow leopard.
• Baby southern tamandua, with a hot water stuffed friend.
• More Lalique.
• I still haven't received my copy of Jill Trent, Science Sleuth, and while looking today, I discovered this disturbing phrase: "Delivery to Alaska and Hawaii from the Continential US can take 3-6 weeks!" :(
• Wow.  Fuck Pete Ricketts, Governor of Nebraska.

Thursday: Unexpected new things.

I wasn't sure what to get for lunch today, and had been contemplating going to the manapua place, as even though it's not very good, it'd be something different.  On the way, though, I remembered (when I saw they were open), that the new bakery place opened up.  They have a lot of pastries and sweets and things, but it was lunch time, so I wanted something lunch-y.

Pizza pan.

Not pan like in "cooking pan," but pan as in bread, which is Japanese based on Portuguese, because that's who introduced bread to Japan.  Also because the new bakery place is Japanese style.  Anyway, it's a tiny little pizza that would be a good snack, but isn't quite a full meal.

Pastrami epi.

"Our epis just came out of the oven.  We have bacon and pastrami."  So, sorry bacon, pastrami wins.  With swiss cheese and their own "house sauce" inside.  I don't know what it is.  Delicious?  This was good.  I was only going to eat half of it after having that pizza, but then I thought about it, and ate the second half too.  They don't seem to have a schedule for the epis, but if they're all like this, "random epi" may become a new standard lunch item.

And then I noticed that Minecraft for my tablet updated, so I checked it out to see what's new.  Boats, which means I actually have a reason to have the coast outpost, and red stone blocks, which means I don't have to have a full chest devoted to that useless material (until they finally fix red stone in the pocket edition).

I had just finished making those red stone blocks when I went up to the roof to see where the spider sounds were coming from.  Somehow a spider and and enderman had spawned inside my large animal pen.  I suspect that means I need to add more lights to prevent monster spawns inside my main fort.

• Why are they releasing this on vinyl?  Vinyl is stupid.
• The difference between companies and central banks.
• You really need to know the concept of tsundere for this to totally make sense.

Wednesday: Ugh.

I don't know.  I think I had a caption in my head, but I downloaded this like a month ago, and I've forgotten it.

• Bears.
• Why tattoos are a bad idea.
• Potato.
• Why art deco is wonderful.
• I'm suprised that in all of the news stories about this that I skimmed through, no one has used the challenging forensic technique of "it's a monospace font."  All three lines are presumed centered.  "Written by" and "James Gunn" both have ten characters, so a vertical dropped between 'te' and 's ' will bisect the title as well.  This puts the cut between 'HE', so there are 15 characters to the left, and 7 visible to the right.  Assume the word is "galaxy" followed by a space.  This leaves 5 free characters.  Add a colon, and that's only 4.  That's super short, which makes it hard to come up with plausible words, suggesting it's not actually printed there.

Tuesday: No rye bread.

:(

Also, why are organic bananas wrapped in a thousand stickers?  And if that's how things are going to work, why not group them into a wider range of counts?  This was the first four-pack I've seen in a long time.

• Not Pokemon.
• Probably NSFW.  Lalique glass.
• The cats in the window squares.
• Lady Rainicorn.
• Pokemon.
• Working as a team.
• Team Rocket.
• Pikachu.

Monday: Having a three day week last week makes having a full week this week depressing.

And then the pizza place was out of pretty much all the pizzas, so I had to get spinach, garlic, mushroom, which even though I like spinach+garlic, and I like mushrooms, I do not like this combination.

• Dumbledore.
• Wait.  Dumbledore is in the chrome spell check dictionary but calzone isn't?
• Robot dog.
• Arch villain bunny plots murder of his trapped friend.
• Which is actually somewhat convenient, because you can then use select targeted questions to determine who is likely a bad person.
• Totoro.

Sunday: I again didn't know what to get for lunch.

I'm beginning to think that I have french onion soup like once a month or so.

I nearly got another backup pastrami sandwich, but couldn't convince myself it was worth it.  The backup sandwich idea today was mostly a way to get both the soup and a side of mac&cheese, since they have super good m&c.

Instead of having food in my car, I took the super long way home by going up Tantalus.

Rainbow shooting out of Manoa.

The same rainbow again, from higher up at the lookout.  There's a second rainbow barely visible coming from the university.

Diamond Head to the airport.

• Local wolf.
• Kansas is stupid.
• As is this guy.

Saturday: Catching up on backlogs.

Which led to me sitting around not doing anything really productive until I was hungry.  I also didn't know what I wanted for lunch, so it's good that Julie did when I asked:

Yeah.  It's been awhile.

Then I got an ahi.

And they didn't have salmon kama, so I spent way too long trying to decide between that and ebi fry.

The sushi dude bumped the glove box too far, resulting in it accidentally rearranging all the dishes as they went around.

But sushi only makes you not hungry for so long.  So it's good that I went to WF to get some groceries.  I saw that they had calzones on sale, and picked one up for a later dinner.  The options were pepperoni and garlic/spinach, both of which sounded good.  However, spinach inside a calzone seems like it might be super soggy, so I did pepperoni.  This also led to the unexpectedly unhelpful conversation:

Calzone-a-teer: "Do you want this heated up?"
Me: "No thanks.  How should I heat it up at home?"
C: "Um...like a microwave?  Or an oven?"
Me: "Ok, then."

A lot of things at WF have "here's how to cook" instructions, so I wondered if these were like "350 for ten minutes."  It turns out the reheat instructions are "add some heat to it until it's sufficiently heated.  Or don't, whatever, we don't care."

Not bad, but the whole grain crust is a bit of a distraction.  It also didn't have any ricotta inside, which makes it more like a pizza pocket than a proper calzone.

• This is stupid, not art.  "Oh, but he's commenting on the transient nature of our internet-based world, and reimagining it in a permanent form.  This is totally art."  No.  He's doing the equivalent of printing out all his emails and selling that concept to people with more money than sense.  That's not art.  That's what old people do.
• Mark Evanier has written piles of comics, comic related things, television shows, and knows about 60% of all famous people who have ever lived.  Here he is talking about his favorite pre-cooked turkey product, because it's hilarious.
• Denny's.
• Kitten crash.
• This has been sitting in the RSS pile for days, and then today I heard that his son died.  Keep being the best Vice President ever, Joe.

Friday: "Damn it bird, don't go that way! Use your tiny bird brain!"

The bird had decided to walk in front of my car to escape my car, instead of away from my car.  Birds are dumb.

Hrm.  I'm assuming the jaggies are there because the ephemeris calculator has problems when the apparent speed is very fast.

• Why Agent Carter is cool.
• Squirrel.
• Yeah, because that sounds totally fine: "which includes their location at any time (even when the app isn’t running)".

Thursday: Why I bought my phone directly.

My phone decided to tell me that I used a bunch of data.

The majority of which by me reading RSS things.  Two gigabytes is not a sufficient level of data.  Neither is five or ten.  That's why I will keep my unlimited plan forever.  Fuck you, Verizon.

• I see.  So the TSA pre check thing is basically random.  Good job being randomly useful, TSA.
• Sailor Moon x Captain America.
• Hayley Atwell is pretty much the best at being a celebrity.
• WTF, 1930s?
• The first paragraph.

Wednesday: Back to work :(

The results of the mall shopping yesterday.  I'm not sure this is the final location for it, but it works for now.

The backup pastrami sandwich from yesterday.  The bread went a bit stale, but it was still yummy.

I had 210 things in my saved RSS feeds.  Now it's down to 173.  I'm hoping to cull it down by 10-20 a day until it's down to "things I'm actually saving" and "things I'm saving until Christmas, because I saved them last Christmas, and missed my chance to post them."  Maybe I should do a fake Christmas in July just to get those links posted.

• All squirrels are good.
• I assume they'll keep the products the same, because if people are buying Applegate, they're likely not just going to switch to regular products.
• I should rewatch Jonny Quest.
• Cool pictures.
• OMG, the 1940s, putting cheese on a burger isn't some sort of speculative culinary adventure.

Tuesday: Return home.

As told through a series of food related images.

Last night we'd planned to do "fancy dinner," but downgraded that to "let's just have nachos, because nachos are delicious."  That left pre-left-overs, which became fancy lunch.

These tomatoes were not quite as good as hoped.  Julie thought they had an odd texture, and I thought they were a bit more bitter than they should have been.

 Followed by the main:

Beans and potatoes partially cooked yesterday.  The pork loin was cooked in a brilliant "450, hot pan, season loin, splash of oil, 10 minutes, flip, 10-15 minutes more, rest 10 minutes" recipe that Julie found somewhere.

Followed by some mall shopping (pictures tomorrow), and another game of Pandemic (which we lost due to an outbreak chain reaction).  At this point I had reached the "pre-flight nervous" stage, and so we headed for the BART station I could take to the airport without having to switch trains.  This worked well, and is probably the best solution for rush-hour timed flights.

I had a TSA pre-check mark on my boarding pass, which is a wonderful thing.  Remember how flying used to be, back before everyone collectively lost their minds?  Pre-check makes things work like that again.  Dump your luggage on the belt, take off your coat maybe, and then walk through the metal detector and pick up your shit.  No belt fuckery, no shoe fuckery, no useless piece of shit backscatter fuckery.  Just "I'm going on a flight, but it's cool, I'm not a criminal," stuff like it should be.

Then I had to walk to a different area of the terminal, which made me worry with "we will soon have food and art in this part of the airport" signs.  This was unnecessary worry, as the SFO airport deli has a location right next to the gate I was flying out of.  So I got a hot pastrami and swiss on rye.

I later got a cold pastrami and swiss on rye for the plane, but never ate it.  I guess that's lunch tomorrow.

Final story before the day-blog deadline:  While boarding, I heard some commotion behind me.  A couple was arguing, because she'd gotten through without any trouble, but he'd been stopped because he had tried to scan her boarding pass.  Throughout the entire trip down the jet bridge, he kept harassing her with statements like, "why did you scan my ticket?  That's my ticket, and you should have scanned yours instead."  This ignores the main point that they were both on the damn jet bridge, and so the gate agent had clearly sorted out the problem.  This continued into the plane itself, where they were stopped in the aisle next to where I was sitting.  "Look, I'm right, and you're wrong, face it baby."  He then made the tragic mistake of looking to me for support of his side.  Looking to me, the person who silently wished death on his entire family if it would just make the jet bridge quiet.

"Nobody fucking cares."

"Yeah, see," picked up the wife to the surprise of Jimmy Jackass, "nobody cares who scanned what."

Because no one does.  You're on the plane.  Find your seat and shut the fuck up.

Monday: memorial day

I forgot to take a picture of any of the food, so I'm just putting in the pandemic board from last night.

Sunday: San Francisco zoo

Animals!

Lemurs!

A kind of monkey!

Peacock!

Penguins!

Macaw!

Any easter!

Polar bear!

Kangaroos!

Red panda!

Red panda!

Red panda!

Red panda!

And then pho for dinner.

Saturday: mostly food

This past melt was made wrong.

This pizza was tasty. And the sports gotta won.

 Then I tried to do draw a panda day. It didn't turn out well.

But Julie's "cut a panda" was good.

I tried again later, and it's OK.