Today’s bus ride to work was probably the most uncomfortable one in my lifetime so far.
The bus I take has a limited schedule; the last bus to hit my bus stop is at 8:45am. If I miss that one, I would have to walk another mile to get to BART. So, I leave early thinking I can catch an earlier one. Two blocks before I get to the bus stop, the sky opened up on me. Water cascaded down; I was soaked by the time I made it to the stop. Luckily, there was an open dry space near a fence I could stand on as long as I stood ramrod straight.
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Lately, I’ve been feeling energy-less around 2 to 3pm at work. I needed a pick me up. I don’t drink coffee because I don’t like the bitter taste and for some weird reason, coffee makes me sleepy.
I decided to go with energy drinks. Most of them are sweet and cold, which fits my tastes more than coffee. There is only one energy drink whose name I know. Red Bull. The company behind Red Bull always has commercials depicting cartoon characters getting wings after taking a sip. I was looking for that same affect which the drink delivered.
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The Sucrets from when I was sick had a residual effect on my taste buds even a few weeks after my cold had passed. Any subsequent drink having a remote medicinal taste gave my mouth a slight numbing sensation. This made eating meat hard due to its grainy texture and horrid taste. So, I decided to try eating no meat for a week!
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sad.. but tragic… whatever happen to safety first?
and of all things… i wonder if he was in shape or not.. heheh must be the wind drag factor.
Amtrak
5:29am : I am sleeping on a cloud.
5:30am : The cloud shakes and I fall towards the ground.
5:31am : I wake up in a start and find my bed rocking back and forth.
EARTHQUAKE!!!
5:34am : I am back in slumberland.
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happy chinese new year everyone and may good health and prosperity be with you this year.
Wow. nothing like an oil tanker spill on 101 to back up traffic. Good thing a coworker told me about it before I left work. Turns out they closed the exits on 101 N from woodside road to whipple road, causing huge amounts of traffic from there on south. I ended up taking central expressway and 280. 280 was pretty jam packed near the woodside road area, since thats where all the cars are doing their detour. I have not seen so many cars on highway 84 for the past 3 years. Just a “Wow”.
The weather has been pretty wacky these last few days in San Francisco. The tempature was in the 40s on Friday. There was almost non-stop rain and a high potential of flash floods in the surrounding area. This morning, there was a hail storm just around six but by the time I walked out the door, the sun was out and there was nary a cloud in the sky. Wacky.
I’ve decided that I need to transfer all my information and tasks to a PDA. Why? I have a lot of reoccuring tasks now. Reports due every FRI. Reports due at the end of each month. Reports due at the beginning of the month. Reports due every other MON. Preparing all these reports is time consuming because upper management prefer to discuss these reports on PAPER!!!! Thus I need to transcribe the data on a printable format. On top of that, I have other projects and tasks that I need to work on.
Perhaps I don’t need a PDA. Paper planner will suffice but tasks that I can’t finish, I would need to rewrite and push out another week. Maybe my PDA is just a fancy electronic Post-It note?
Being sick bites.
I thought the sore throat and stuffy nose from Wednesday would be gone after a good night’s sleep, I was wrong. I took this medication called Sucrets which worked wonders. My sore throat was gone in an instant and my nose wasn’t as clogged. Unfortunately, Sucrets had a side effect they don’t list on the box or their website.
Sucrets numbs your mouth. Not the good “Haha, I talk funny now” dentist numb, rather it numbs the roof of your mouth and parts of your tongue numb. But, it does leave the bitter taste buds intact.
So, I popped this pill and it melts away right before lunch. I picked up a Vietnamese sandwich at this place on 2nd called Muffins, Muffins. My first bite had absolutely no taste. But, as I pushed it further down my throat, I could taste the bitterness of the greens. The meat had this gravelly texture as well. I could feel the fat granules from the meat, but it had no taste. If there was one time in my life where I would have gladly been a vegan, it was right then at that moment.
So what have we learned from this experience? Sucrets – the secret weapon used by vegans to convert carnivores to their cause!