2 buck upchuck.


Stupidly, foolishly, I drank too much on an emptyish stomach Saturday night. I woke up sick on Sunday and spent most of the day missing out on a bunch of fun things that I wanted to do, like swimming in the Yuba with A. She came over to see if I wanted to go but unfortunately a barf was waiting in the wings. Of course 45 minutes later I felt much better and regretted not going at all. So did Riblet. She was really wanting to try out her new life jacket.

Guess who's being too spendy lately?


Me and him. Too much eating out, I've got to get better at this. At any rate, here's this weekend's top consumables:

1. Pomegranite cider. Sorry if this is old news, but I am just catching on. Mmm, so delish and refreshing, not too sweet like cider can be. I could drink a whole pitcher. Maybe not, but left alone with one I would surely try. Available at Rubicon.

2. Asparagus panzanella (bread salad). Okay, okay, I made this, but you know what? I can't lie, I fucking rule at salads.

3. Frosty cold beer. In this heat, there's nothing quite so refreshing as a cheap lager, easy to drink and coldy-cold!

4. This was consumed today, not this weekend: icy cold coffee from Nugget. Some kind of Brazilian stuff, I feel ready to take over the world. As I've been documenting, the coffee craze has finally reached Wessac and most Wessacians are going buck wild, ordering giant coffee-chinos with extra whipped cream, chocolate shavings and caramel syrup. In the morning. Dudes, that is a 1500 calorie milkshake, not a coffee.
So, the wessacian cashier was ringing up my self-served coffee.
wessacian cashier: "what's that?"
me: "iced coffee."
wessacian cashier: "are you sure?"
me: "I'm quite sure this is iced coffee because I poured it myself."
wessacian cashier: "it looks weird, is it...?"
me: "black coffee? Yes, it's just coffee and ice."
wessacian cashier: "you're brave."
me: "why? because I drink black coffee?"
wessacian cashier: "yeah!"
me: "I don't like sweet things in the morning."
wessacian cashier: "did you say you wanted plastic or paper?"

Guess who's not being efficient?



So Crush Groove made their third recording last week. Maybe there'll be another this weekend?

It's Friday, I've technically got an hour and a half left here, but I think I'm staying late. There's so much to do and just not enough coffee. I keep sipping on the ghost of my ice coffee from this morning, which is now just brown coffee water, like it's going to rematerialize. I had to order from the younger girl at Raley's this morning, which is only slightly embarrassing. The last time I ordered from her, we had a debate about the ice coffee price and I am not sure if I won (I was right!), so now when she waits on me I just feel stupid. Which is a lot better than feeling like I'm about to jump the couch (Cruise style), when the Wessacians are ordering really complicated dessert coffee drinks for breaky and I just want
a
small
black
coffee.
That's it.

From work:
-----Original Message-----
From: IT DUDE, THE ONE WITH THE 'TUDE!
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:55 PM
To: Teeni Clanger
Subject: RE: Whitelist


Anyway, we received 1216 emails from them this week, all were delivered except a couple related to Herbie Hancock. It seems that an errant Subject Line rule saw Herbie's last name as unacceptable.

I've adjusted the rule. This is not a SPAM rule, but more of a content rule. @wmg.com is definitely on the whitelist.

Signed,
IT DUDE, THE ONE WITH THE 'TUDE!
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A brief pizza log of my week so far.


















Pizza log. Monday, August 1, 2005.
Tried to eat pizza at Zelda's (long story), ended up at Luigi's Pizza where I found a live fly in my pepper shaker, but ate a couple of slices anyway. No good.

Pizza log. Tuesday, August 2, 2005.
Ate Roundtable Pizza with co-workers in attempt to correct lousy pizza at Luigi's. It was only okay.

Pizza log. Wednesday, August 3, 2005.
Went back to Zelda's with friends to re-correct Monday and Tuesday's experience. The Gold Standard of pizza!

Pizza log. Thursday, August 4, 2005.
Ate Roundtable Pizza as part of a work function today in the conference room. Free is always good.

Could I possibly eat any more pizza this week? I'm on such a roll, it would be a shame if I stopped.