Settling into a pattern

Life has settled into a pattern: work in the mornings and afternoons, gym thrice a week in the evenings, daily IRC chats/email conversations with the ones I love. Work itself is a bit less settled; lots of changes that will affect me personally. Will see how it settles down.

Not much time for reading, but occasionally I drag out a paperback for the treadmill. Have finished a couple of books that way, and I actually seem to run longer with books than with music -- pacing of the book balances out against the rhythm of my running. Evenings, when it gets late and I force myself off the computer, I try to find a little spare time to go through Programming Perl (makes me happy, so happy ^_^)

As for DW, when I'm tired or when I know I am working with a limited timeframe, I go on a commit run. It's more bite-sized; don't need to worry about getting into, or regret having to break out of a coding zone. When I have more time or energy available to invest for that evening, I code.

Weekends are for planning/hopefully starting on a new big project if I finished whatever I picked up the week before.

So far it's been working out well. My days are falling into a pleasant rhythm; I rather like it. (Have a few things I need to do; just need to gather the focus/energy to give them the love and attention they deserve)

Japanese food, sake, family

Ate at John&Yoko, at Greenbelt 5, fusion Japanese food, to celebrate my dad's and my brother's birthdays. The gindara steak was amazing, rockefeller oysters were pretty yum, and I highly recommend the shrimp and enoki (golden/straw mushroom?) pizza -- slightly cheesy, slightly sweet, very very good. One of the appetizers, thin slices of toasted bread with tuna and salmon sashimi was pretty good, too.

Hmm, the spider roll (soft-shelled crab). The teppanyaki was salty but otherwise not memorable; I'd give it a pass. Chawan mushi was so so; steamed egg + giant prawn, and it looked good, but didn't taste anything close to how it looked. Tea was... ergh. They used Lipton fruit tea, not any form of green tea or rice tea; disappointing.

I ordered some cherry blossom sake instead. Now that was nice! Slightly sweet, with no bitter undertone/aftertaste, and it didn't make me red or itchy! So that was interesting, and sweet.

Talked about stuff at the table. Some things I need to think about still. Went home in one car with my brother and sister. My parents were in the other car, leaving us free to talk about our respective dating lives, etc.

A day's worth of Twitter ($5.00)

13:02:45	—	@marcmagus we have a patch in zilla, but some of the behavior/assumptions need tweaking. Waiting for resubmit -- I hope that things go well!
13:03:47	—	@mayerman good luck! sounds like you'll be awesome :)
17:15:56	—	@Starshadow oh yum that sounds great!
17:17:59	—	urgh, after the 2 successful bombings down south (3?), plus another one foiled this morning, they are increasing police presence in manila
17:55:21	—	@azurelunatic do people use your email address to sign up for stuff that often?

Total: 5 tweets

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A day's worth of Twitter (17)

( 17 babbly tweets for 2009-07-09 )