Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Though I wasn't hungry when my lunchtime rolled around, I left anyway. Even forced myself to get food to eat, so I wouldn't feel icky and shaky later. At the normal time, I left home to return to work. Usually a 10 minute trip.

20 minutes later, and I could still almost see my house.

Construction. Grr.

40 minutes later, and I reached the on ramp to Central... but it was closed. Had to go three more lights before I could turn around, for a cost of 10 more minutes. Then, when I finally was able to make a U-turn, I didn't see a chunk of broken curb and hit it as I was turning.

'Clunk, grrr, grate,' went my car.

If I have a flat when I leave, I'm going to be mighty pissed.

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So it's my understanding that the In&Out chain is owned by religious folks, right? Oddest thing: Cost of what I'm assuming is their most popular meal, the double-double, plus a shake comes to $6.66. It's not like a meal and a shake is that abnormal of a thing to order, right? You'd think they'd raise or lower the cost by five cents to avoid that figure. I mean, it doesn't bother me, but if they're all religious and all that...

I know I'm odd, but I'm not an In&Out fangirl. Their burgers are okay. I don't lust after them like other folks around here. I like their shakes though; they're the reason I go there. Mmm, strawberry.

lj_nifty is a keen community. I've been trying to search for communities for the longest time, and someone finally came up with a way. (Details are here.)

The hp100 writing group is so much fun, I wanted to poke around and see what other ones there might be out there. Unfortunately, I didn't find much I'm interested in... Two Buffy, one X-Files, one X-Men, and one "RPS" (real people slash, *twitch*).

Hm. A search for 'drabble' instead of '100' gives more results. Here. Still nothing I'm interested in writing, but a couple things I might check out to read...

(I guess it would help if I knew what I wanted to write /before/ searching, huh? I don't even know why I'm looking for other themes... Just restless with life in general...)

Edited to add: Found a CSI100 group to watch, a Pitch Black (the movie from a few years back) drabble group to watch, and a promo100 group to pimp your 100 groups in. I poked the chick who runs the HP100 group to put a post up there.

Still restless...

I'm not really much of a meat-eater in general. I'm not a vegetarian by a long shot, but I rarely crave meat-based things.

Related to this, my box of Japanese foods arrived today.

As part of my order, I bought Pocky. My intent of this was to confirm my correctness: Anime fanboys and girls who run around going 'Kekekekeke!' and saying 'kawaii!!!' and other such things seem to praise Pocky endlessly. It annoys the heck out of me. It's just a darned Japanese biscuit covered in chocolate! Not even a cookie, more like a breadstick! It cannot be worth endless praise and daily conversations!

So I bought some in that order and I tried it today. As I ate the first stick I was nodding to myself. I was right. Flavor was poor, almost no chocolate coating... but then I had another. And then I discovered It.

The secret of Pocky.

If you eat two or three at once, it's a whole different experience. (Stick with me here, this is going to sound odd and/or gross.) When you eat two or three together, it feels like you're snapping a bone between your teeth. Now I know, I know. That sounds terrible. Before today, I would have ew'ed at this. But it felt good. Really good.

I've discovered my inner carnivore, and it likes sucky Japanese cookies.

There's irony somewhere in there.

(I don't have very many types of candy from the box, so don't worry, there won't be too many of these.)

Morinaga Hi-Chew! (Official homepage.)

Picture: Here. Yes, it really is that pale, it's not washed out by a flash or anything.

Imagine Starburst mixed with a non-flavored chewing gum, and you'll pretty much have Morinaga Hi-Chew. Weakly cherry flavored, but the "mouth feel" was utterly off for a candy. When I started chewing the first piece, I would have put a good deal of money on it being gum and not candy. It just had that slick, chewy feel. However, as I kept chewing it, it dissolved and so I think it really was candy.

While chewing it, it tasted okay. Not great, but not bad. It could have used a whole lot more cherry flavor. The big problem was, once you finish chewing and swallowed, there was a nasty burnt-plastic or oily (black oil, not cooking oil or something) aftertaste. Blech.

I'd give it a 3 out of 10. Not so bad I'll throw the pack away now, but I'm suspecting I won't finish it (and I won't buy more).

I'm just full of posty-goodness tonight, aren't I? More posts than usual today.

So, there's this guy walking around on the street. (A street somewhere, luckily not around me. I think. I hope.)

Here's one picture of him.
And another.

His face and arms are tattooed into fur/scales. (None of that on his face is make-up, it's all tattoos.) See his lip? That's an implant to make him look more cat-like. See all those piercings in his, um, upper-lip area? They're so he can attach whiskers to himself. And don't ask me how this makes him more cat-like, but he has breast/chest implants as well.

So my question is, what in the world does this person do for a living? The only thing I can think of is maybe he works in a circus or a "freak show" (do they even have those anymore?). It'd take quite an open-minded boss to hire him for a regular job...