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Doood, I should like stop watching TV.

Okay no, not really.

But “Pamela Anderson is going to be starring in a new comedy called ‘Stacked’ — because it’s set in a bookstore. What did you think we meant?” Whaaaaaaa?! Either way it’s disturbing!

I’m watching American Idol (3x a week!) and today, they seem to have decided on a zodiac theme. Each singer has a little introductory piece where they talk about their zodiac sign and how it’s affected them. Like Mario who said something like, “I’m a Gemini, and that’s the twins. Last week I tried to show more my fun side, and this week I’m going to try to show a more serious side. I think this reflects the duality of Geminis.” Erm…

Also, if your name isn’t Travis, please don’t try to dance on American Idol:p It’s disturbing. Although according to Randy and Simon, if your name is Travis and you dance, you don’t sing too well.

Chocolate Enigma cookies from Trader Joe’s.

Yut got these cookies from a co-worker. They look unprepossessing, but doooood they’re good. It was a close thing, I almost forgot to take a photo before eating the very last lone cookie:p

Also, it’s Girl Scout cookie season. They set themselves up right near BART stations, which is a great idea. Cos everytime I pass by, I am tempted to buy some. Well so far, I’ve gotten two boxes of Thin Mints, but if I see them some more, I’m going to have to buy more boxes of cookies.

I meant to make this post Friday, but I was too caught up with my Sims:D Which basically describes almost everything this weekend:p

Except yesterday we managed to make it out for dinner with misa and neb. We went to Downtown in Berkeley cos they have raw oysters, good cocktails, and good food too. I especially like their seafood stuffs and cucumber cosmopolitans. I don’t know why the mulled (is that the right word? grated?) cucumber and cucumber vodka (is there such a thing?) make such a big difference, but it’s a lovely drink. Their bouillabaisse is what made Yut and me want to try to make one, but it’s a seasonal changing menu, so they didn’t have bouillabaisse on their menu this time. We got Sautèed Local Petrale Sole and Seafood Sausage, both good! We liked the sole better than the sausage, a little. Part of the problem with the sausage is that even though it’s seafoody, it’s hard to really taste the individual stuffs. Still though, it was good, and creative too — we’d never had anything like it. misa and neb got the Soup of the Day (butternut squash with leek, I think), crispy confit duck leg, and also the Petrale Sole.

After dinner we went to my office to check out my new cubicle:) I led the way straight to my office, but I had to look up where the restrooms were:p After all this time, I haven’t fully figured everything out yet. It’s a nice place, only the break room smelled kind of funny. neb said that it reminded him of a dorm kitchen area.

I was going to post this yesterday, but I got caught up with my Sims:p It’s cos I was trying to get one of my Sims into the secret society. Which I finally made it in:D The Landgrabb Society, where their meeting house has like all sorts of cool stuff like Simoleon printers. Also, now if my Sim’s logic is high enough (I don’t know what high enough means) I can have her “hack in” to change her grades. Oooooooh yes! Haven’t had a chance yet to play much since she joined, so… :D

There are probably spoilers if you care about that sort of thing:›

There’s a competition between CSI and Law & Order for the most and best franchises (it’s like KFC vs Popeyes:p) — CSI, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY vs Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and now Law & Order: Trial by Jury. I like Law & Order better myself; if nothing else I find all of them watchable, whereas I only watch CSI.

Today was the premiere of Law & Order: Trial by Jury. I wasn’t sure it was going to be good, but I knew I was going to watch it cos it’s one of Jerry Orbach’s last performances. Dooooood, I love Lennie Briscoe! He made Law & Order great! He had these great lines! And today, I found how that he kept up with technology! He charmed a woman into testifying for the grand jury by saying something like, “hey, haven’t I seen you in some commercial?” and when his partner made some comment about how it was an easy guess that she was an actress but Lennie’d even managed to have seen a commercial, Lennie said, “Actually Tivo has this nice little button that lets me skip all of the commercials.” Zing! :) I really miss Lennie on Law & Order. I mean, I love Green and Fontana’s growing on me, but neither of them can deliver sarcastic smartass like Briscoe.

Despite my doubts, I liked Trial by Jury. I mean, it made me stop playing The Sims 2 University! In Law & Order (any of them), you always see a lot of cop work and prosecution work. Although you see a bit more of the prosecution (like the witness preparation), in Trial by Jury, you see a lot of the defense and the jury stuff, like the part (which they showed a lot on the preview/commercials) where Maggie Detweiller the defense attorney got advice from the jury consultants: “I would start with, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, where is the body?’” was really cool. And I liked the part where Candice Bergen (the judge) complained to another judge that the jury had been deliberating for days, and the other judge said, juries all over the country will be finishing up deliberations tonight. When Candice Bergon asked why, he said, “The playoffs are starting tomorrow.” Good times, good times:)

The tv’s on on the side. In less than ½ hour’s time, there’ve been 2 emergency broadcast alerts on tv to describe child abductions. One was about an abduction yesterday, and one today, but still! That’s crazy.

So it’s March, and I was gonna write this post (or something like it) yesterday, but I got distracted. I dunno why, I didn’t like college all that much for chunks of it, but dooood, making Sims go to school is ok:D teeheehee — more on that later, probably:p

February was like a month for scaring people off children, what with the wailing and messy cake eating and whatnot:D I didn’t mean to! Actually for a person with no children, I posted about kids a lot! Okay twice. Whatever!

About that time I thought I messed up my divs again: I think I didn’t. Only on my father-in-law’s laptop (the 10 lb 17″ screen behemoth), the resolution is really high, but the font size is also turned waaaaaay up so I think it messed up the display cos every line took up sooo much space. Thank goodness, cos I’m not that with it in terms of this web stuff and fixing divs and other such things are tedious, if not impossible!!!

Internet Explorer 6 seems to display things weird, what with the disappearing and reappearing text stuff. I think scrolling up and down fixes it sometimes, but IT’S SO WEIRD!! I hate not knowing what’s wrong:p

See what I mean? That’s just not normal
So what am I doing wrong? Grrr… luckily less than 50% of the visits to this site are on IE6.

Okay, on to other stuff:) It’s been fun, but I do think that it’s extremely resource intensive. It’s certainly the most resource intensive application that I run, bar none. So in a way, my reinstallation was a good thing, albiet a pain:p I have an AMD Athlon 1900 with 512mb RAM and a GeForce FX 5200 vid card, which I’ve had for years, but it’s been fine for everything else. It’s almost fine except now and then there’s a little pause when there’s lots of characters or something. Maybe turn off some processes if you have a lot running, which is what the instruction booklet says to do, but their advice seems really aggressive:p

Speaking of excess processes though, now, for the advice portion of this post!
Kitty: lol well ur not online buh i wanted to ask you. is weatherbug spyware?… cuz its from nbc… sooo im not sure…

I don’t think you should install Weatherbug. It’s not spyware or anything, but the free version has ad-ware to serve those ads, so to me, it’s like why bother:p Plus some people have complained about how it can be difficult to uninstall. Yuck:p

Okay all this Sims talk is making me wanna play!

Addendum:
I forgot to mention this. University is fun except for the Greek System. It’s all messed up!! Like everytime I invite the frat brothers over cos I want one of my chars to join the frat, they make motions like there’s something in their way, then they all fall down to the ground and you CAN’T INTERACT with them! But the scenario requires that you get to know them a little before you can join the frat. And so then I tried to play the frat house and it just never loads up. So yeah, needs patch. That sucks though.

The forums make it sound like it’s if you have a lot of hacks and downloaded stuff installed that you have problems. But I had a completely clean installation of The Sims 2 and almost completely clean installation of my computer, so I don’t think that’s it. Oh well, guess shoulda waited for the first patch:p That’s soooo wrong:p

is mine! I’m installing it now as I type:D
Ooooh yes.

I must say though, installing the Sims 2 is a pain! 4 discs! And since I didn’t reinstall the Sims 2 when I reinstalled my computer, it’s taking soooooooo long. And now it’s updating and asking for Sims 2 disc 4 and then Sims 2 University disc 1 (the expansion has 2 discs too). Gaaaaawd! This better be the end of it!

Also, on the back of the cd case for the expansion is an advertisement for expansion #2, to be released fall this year supposedly! (The Sims 2 Nightlife) Omg, I can’t keep up:p

Oh, it’s done installing:)

In the air, on the way home.

The pilots don’t like the airplane food either:)

mugs
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We brought home these ginormous mugs:) Hehe, we didn’t think we were gonna buy souvenirs cos they tend to become dust collectors. But these were so cute! And large!

Choking the Chicken
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This was Yut’s fave attraction! Doood, I’m not making this up, and I have the picture to prove it! The rooster head actually elongates, then goes back:)

We went on the Small World ride twice:) The lines were like 10 minutes the first time and 5 minutes the second time. Actually, all of the lines were nice and short… the longest was maybe 30-45 minutes. And most of those we used fast pass, which is when you go grab a fast pass ticket near the entrance. It tells you when to come back and you get to go do stuff and come back to it.

Parking
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I know, I know, a photo of the parking entrance… ridiculous! But dooood, check out the price of the parking: $10! And the price of the tickets! And the price of the food! It’s like in Disneyland, money is in units of 10:p