Daily Update

Its 1:01 am as I write this. 3 minutes ago my room started shaking, the walls, my bookshelf, and lamps. I almost wet myself. My room was shaking as if someone was going to shake your chair from behind. I almost thought it was 'The Big One'. I was quickly reminded of the big earthquake in 92', or whenever it was, when I was at my Grandma's house and the whole neighborhood started shaking up and down and side to side, and my dad was yelling from the back bedroom "Welcome to California!". He got a kick out of it, but my Grandma gets mad at him every time we mention it.

I stayed up late reading from Harry Potter. It was a white- nuckled experience frantically searching for the next sentence, the next paragraph, and the next chapter. Harry goes through many emotions that so many people can identify with. Thats got to be why he's popular.

I went running tonight. It was the different venue again. Not like the African wasteland that I'm used to. It was more like the Australian Outback. Wide open deserts with occasional hilly terrain. Kangaroo's hopping about in every which way, Dingo's chasing everything that moved. I was as swift as a baby Leopard. Cute and adorable at first glance, but snarling and vicious when they need to be. I didn't suffer as much pain as I had in previous days, its slowly been going away. Nevertheless, I didn't run as much as normal, partially cause I could cheat and cut it short, but also to hurry my recovery from pain. I purposefully forgot my watch, cause in this state I didn't want to know how much I'd actually slowed down. (oops).

Later that night I visited the Veteran kids to watch a movie. The Bean girls stopped by to help us watch it, and eventually they left after hours of harassment. Jeff also made 'Bread Pudding'. And interesting concoction of bread, sugar, and cream, all melded together in a modern device called an 'oven'. Have you heard of such a thing? I think they are just bewitched by the 'dark side'.

On Thursday I was busy at work as normal. I was trying to work on two different projects at once. Ta's last day is tomorrow, so my office took him out to lunch. We all went actually. But it was funny for me, cause I had a regularly planned Jamba Juice visit to attend to. Susan only told us an hour before that we were doing this, so I told her that I'd be late. So yes, I got two lunches today, One of which was paid for by my bosses. The best of both worlds, fine company, and then fine food. While at BJ's I quickly noticed that our waitress was Jen. You might remember hearing about her from previous lunch experiences. Well, She remembered me alright. We're just lucky that everyone else had ordered already, otherwise it would have been the 'Spit topping delight' for us all. I got a Grilled Chicken Pasta. They should have called it 'Butter Noodles'. Butter Spirals, Butter Broccoli, and Butter Toast. After downing most of my food, I announced to Jen, the waitress that it was Ta's 'Birthday/going away party'. But I only mumbled the going away party part. You get a free pazookie with a birthday you know. Everyone else acted to surprised for me to keep up the act, and after all Jen remembered me. when desert time came most of the table referred to me for what to get. They new that I liked the desert list at BJ's, as they kept egging me on to look again at the desert menu. Last time I volunteered everyone to share a pazookie, and everyone really liked it, so this time I was very quick to loudly suggest a Pazookie Party Platter. Instead of a 7 inch pazookie, it was a 14 inch Pazookie with at least 6 scoops of ice cream on top! Wow was it good. Most of my co-workers didn't know how to attack this glorious delight so I had to show them how to dig in. I briefly thought of how the 'digging-in' event goes down at jeff's place, and chuckled cause that would never fly in this setting. I kept having to remind myself that I was with co-workers and a boss, so I had to behave extra well. Then after that second lunch break I had to rush back to work.

Lunch was sponsored by Jamba Juice, and then BJ's, as I mentioned earlier.

I'm listening to... yup, you guessed it, the next installment of Harry Potter. Poor kid, he's having to deal with a lot right now.