during the weekdays of last week, i got a craving for pizza and a burger. since i have been so good, i thought it was about time to let loose a little bit. after the gym on friday, i met up with wendy and her buds and got some inn and out. i got the double double and a order of fries. then we went to tapioca express and got my tapioca milk tea (hot). then we went to go watch harry potter. we had 2 parties already standing in line for us. my friend raymond's group, and wendy's group. to our convienience, they were standing back to back. so we just walked into the line and didn't have to worry about cutting in front of the people behind us because some of us knew them. the movie was good and i'll get back to that later. i got home around 1:30, and tommy hadn't gotten there yet. tommy came home short after. we chilled until about 3.



woke up at 11. troubleshot tommy's computer. i think everything is good now. sold him my old (but kickass) power supply. it was running a little noisy so i sucked the dust off of it, and wd40'd the ball bearing fan. after that, we made it to wolfgang's woodfired pizza at 1pm. i had the bbq chicken pizza. it was great as always. saw a red 360 modena, gray diablo, and a green ferrari (i think it was the stronger, but less agressivly styled 348). then we went to fry's electronics out of boredom. tommy wanted to get a microsoft natural keyboard, and i wanted to get a optical cable for my receiver (i only have one, and i keep switching between my ps2 and my dvd player). so while tommy was shopping for his keyboard, i was showing him the keyboard wendy had, and how cool it looked. then we discussed all the pratical use of it being set up at my set up at home. so i got it. it is the Logitech Cordless Elite Duo. Basically, I have it set up in my coffee table. and I use it to control my computer (in my office/closet) from my bedroom by using the TV out on my video card. the TV out ain't nothing to brag about, but the video card that i have is great for playing videos (with the quality that ATI and Nvidia still can't seem to match) by using the DVDMax feature on my Matrox Millenium G450. and i can basically navigate to my files, double click, and just watch anything from my computer. no need to worry about full screening the thing. the video card will grab only the video stream to my computer, and only output that at full screen on my TV. the resoulution is about double from what the Nvidia cards seem to do.



when we got home, we started watching some curb your entusiasm shows that i had downloaded (i have 17 so far), and nguyen came over with joe. we went to go eat at Seoul BBQ. the food was good (we expected it to be). one thing they do wierd is that when you say you just want water, they give you water bottles, and a cup of ice. we kept wondering if they were gonna charge us something for the water. but they don't. not surprised what they are doing though, considering it is a korean restaurant. i can see how it is more efficient. cleaner. even though it confuses the hell out of customers, they are not afraid to suggest something out of the ordinary.



after we went to go eat, we dropped nguyen and joe off, and met jeff at pacific to see harry potter (yes, this is my second time seeing it). it's good that i have my asian youth. this guy was using his old UCSD id, and since UCSD doesn't use stickers any more, they are testing some new methods on checking its validity. last time, they asked wendy to bring her class registration printout....and we thought that was just a ridiculous suggestion. this time they were asking how old the people were. they didn't ask me, but they asked this other guy and he said "24".....and they really can't do too much. what if you are just old and taking some courses there? i have met some really old grad students. but technically they are still a student. the theaters should give it up. you can't check any more. so when jeff was buying his ticket, i told him to not go to that girl who was trying to enforce the impossible cause they'd think jeff is 45 years old or something especially with the glared view they have in the glass booth.



the movie second time around was enjoyable, even though i started dozing off at the end because i was so tired. we got home around the same time i got home the night before. i went to sleep around 3:15. woke up late to church and picked my friend up, and got there a little late. i couldn't stay for the lunch there because tommy was over (next week i'll stay for that for sure). then picked up tommy and went to go eat at the potato shack. i got the [A] with the top sirloin steak. we came back home and just chilled until about 6:30. and that was the end of all the fun for the weekend. i need a little nap before i hit the gym tonight. hopefully i can make it there by 9 and do 40 min of cardio.



harry potter was good. both tommy and wendy (the 2 biggest hp fans i know) said it was better than the first one. they left some subplots out.

-the whole percy thing. he spent time alone in his room and he was being suspicious. only to find out he had been seeing a girl.

-when harry misses with the floo powder, he is suppossed to see malfoy in the shop he lands in.

-nearly headless nick throws a party, and all his ghost friends were there. one of the dishes were stale fish heads.

-the grounds keeper and the whole thing about him having a "quick spells" book because he was a squib.

-a few things with gilderoy lockheart.

i really didn't like dobby in the books, and he wasn't too different from the movie. i mean, this little troll thinks that harry potter can't fend for himself? he better recognize. he seemed like a jar jar binks to me.