Smells like winter soup

The construction around the 520 and 405 junction smells like something that reminds me of mom's winter chicken soup with herbs and grains.

Officially old

Originally posted Saturday, December 4, 2010

I'm preclined to having white hair like my dad and I've noticed that I've had quite a few since my mid-20's. A guy at Jersey Mike's last year commented while I was next to him in line, "Oh, I was going to complement you on your highlights, and it turns out they're white [hairs]. That's really cool!" I took it as a positive, at least it grows in streaks.

Then this hazy Saturday morning, the man of my life gazed at me, and then looked me over. "Whoa, you have a lot of white hairs!" and proceeded to preen through the rest of my head and proclaimed "they're all over the place!" Helpfully, he notes that because they're white already, I just have to dye it some other color, and then the colors will really show off. Thanks for the help.


August 2011 Update:
Got a Groupon for cut and color, so got my hair dyed warm chestnut color at Sweet Lily Salon by B. It was a nice change to have the color, not much happened cut-wise. Since my hair's grown about a month since and there's almost an inch worth of roots, I can see the contrast of how the dye colored my white hairs, but also browned the dark black. Good FYI if anyone's trying to keep their hair black.

Mini-goal Week 2 Outcome

Mini-goal Week 2 was successful. I went to the gym three times that week for at least 20 minutes. Shortly after that, was a vacation trip. Vacations and events that disrupts the pattern makes it tough for me to get back on a workout schedule. Knowing this, I've been determined not to let that happen.

Since June, I've had this schedule:
Monday - spin
Wednesday - lunch workout or after work gym class
Saturday/Sunday - non-gym activity (football, basketball, tennis, paddle board, running, so far)

And in between, at least one other day, I go to the gym, or at least go on a walk. Last week Wednesday it was bike ride between Kirkland and Juanita.


Anime note, I watched Trinity Blood last month. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to others and agree with wikipedia reviews noted under Reception section, but there were are lot of aspects I liked. There was a lot of art and scenes of old Europe integrated in the scenery that I admired. Integrate with a semi-decent story and throw in vampires in it, and I will watch the whole thing.

Creating mini-goals.. Week 1 - Get a full night's sleep

It's easy to let the days and weeks slip by and I oftentimes have thoughts of "ah, shoulda done this as that, next time!" For a little time, I'll create goals for the week, and check back to see how I did as I go into the next one. Thinking I should try this out for a couple of months and hope that some good practices becomes habit.

Started this last week, so this is a recap entry.

Week 1 - Get a full night's sleep
Result, I got 9 hours of of sleep for about half of the week. In order to do this, I have to set an alarm that tells me it's time to wind down, get ready for bed. That was a good and odd feeling, feeling rested on waking up.

Next week - to go to the gym at least 20 minutes

Where old receipts can take you

I don't advocate being a pack rat, but it has some nice side effects. In skimming the old receipts, good old memories came back of places that are long gone or much past their heyday. Remember any of these from Cupertino? A Clean Well Lighted Place, Miyake?

Bloated banana body

I like CSI: Las Vegas, and despite all the silly things they dramatize on the show, I felt like I had a firsthand experience of seeing a bloated, dead body. I'd left a banana on the counter, the companion eaten the previous week. This banana softened and started to turn black (which is common), but when I noticed it a couple days later, it lay in its pool of brown stucky goo, the carcass swelled up like a hindenburg, looking like it would burst at the shriveled ends. great, huh?

Anime/Manga Notes

Watched Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) yesterday, and was really, pleseantly surprised. The animation and artistry were well crafted, rich and fleshed out. Story, fairly standard, decent pacing. I laughed at vampire zombies that in one scene at a deserted village. (It wasn't meant to funny, and I doubt someone else would either.) I hadn't watched any of the series before, I was actually expecting an anime series because of Blockbuster's (1 of 1 Disk) note. It was a nice change to watch a well-done anime that does a throwback to the classic anime style.

I'm sad that OneManga, a manga site's shutting down. It had a great collaboration of so many different mangas to explore many different stories and art styles. I feel like it's stupid to mention something that's good but gone, like telling my friends about great restaurants that are closed, but it's a way to say goodbye to something good that I spent many an hour on. Let me know if you've got recs for another site!