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i'm pretty tired. this is going to be a pretty messy post....



friday morning, i had a really freaky dream. i drempt that someone was trying to suffocate me to death by putting all their weight on my chest with his elbow. in the dream, i had to overpower the person doing it, so that i can breathe. and after i overpowered the person doing it, i woke up, but got really freaked out, had to catch my breath, then hid under my sheets before i fell asleep again. this is my interpretation. while we are dreaming our brains are really good at making stories from external sensation. so something happened to where i felt pressure on my chest...like a muscle spasm in my abdominal area, and my brain made a story about a guy trying to suffocate me to death. but i told this to tommy and he says that this is really common in hawaii. and he went into it further saying that there's a ghost that everyone knows about in hawaii where he does this to people. and that it used to happen to one of his friends all the time. the strangest thing is the chest area that was the focus of this dream feels bruised. the muscles are sore in that area. and it started appearing around saturday. about 18 hours after my dream. 18 hours is a standard amount of time for soreness for muscle to set in if i had exercised that area. but the last time i worked out is wednesday afternoon. so it couldn't have been the exercise on wednesday that is giving me the soreness on saturday. oh well, i should stop thinking about it. its starting to freak me out.



friday

i met up with ray after work and went to convoy tofu house. i felt like eating a korean dish that was made out of baby octopi.....but when i got the dish, it wasn't what i was expecting, and it was not very good. after dinner, we drove near the hillcrest area and met up with ray's friend peter and his gf. we then headed to an art show thrown by some famous DJ....it was held in a very small art store and the store was at capacity when we got there. we waited outside for about 40 minutes, and then we finally got in. it wasn't much of an art gallery/show at all. it was just about 50-70 crammed like sardines just bumping to the music. i must admit the DJ was good. but then they decided to overamplify the volume, and i basically couldn't enjoy anything from that point. being right in front of the speakers didn't help at all. after we were all done with our budweisers (my first beer of the year), we decided it was time to bail. we headed back to peter's place and watched a DVD about DJ'ing.



saturday, slept in, then woke up and decided to improve my photo gallery. please check it out because i spent a good number of hours this weekend really touching it up, adding features, and improving navigation. just about improved it in every aspect. it should be about 100 times better than what it used to be before. then jeff called me up really enthusiastic because he got his skyline tuned. and he said that he got it up to 165mph. and he says its running so much better. and i jumped at the chance to have some fun cause my saturday didn't seem like it was heading anywhere.



so i met up with jeff, and the first thing he shows me is his dyno graph. before tuning, he was getting 280 at the wheels with low boost. at high boost, his car was pinging (i'll get into this a little later) so he was getting actually lower horses with high boost, but he was still maxing out at 280.



after tuning + computer + new air filter, he now get 360 horses at the wheels.



i don't have much experience in seeing the numbers change in real life (even though it seems like a normal every day thing in Gran Turismo), but i'm going to guess a 80 horse power gain at the wheels is a big deal that would have any rice boy doing cartwheels jumping for joy. especially after only changing the air filters. so we took it for a drive around the torrey pines area. at a good stretch, he decided to let it rip, and it was a good amount of acceleration. then we ran into traffic. i didn't think we got it up that fast, but i noticed we were blowing by cars like they were flooring it backwards. and then i inquired about what speed we might have reached and it turns out we hit 120mph just driving it less than a single block. doing 120 in his car felt like me doing 60 or maybe 80 in my car. the reason his car was pinging (detonating) on high boost was because the car was made to run on japanese high octane fuel (i think 98 octane?). so the 91 octane we can get here won't cut it. the vspec 2 doesn't have problems running on 91 octane because there is something built into the car that will dumb down the timing just a little bit so that it doesn't have any problems. the vspec nur on the other hand, they've taken this feature out without letting too many people know about. maybe they figure if you're going to buy a nur, you probably are not going to go cheap on gas...this theory works in japan, but not in the US. even motorex wasn't aware of it



after a bit of crusing, we decided to get boba. tommy came down. tommy, ray, jeff, and i decided to join 4 of tommy's friends at sushi deli 2. sushi was pretty good deal. the prices were fantastic. we decided to do some light sake bombing (i now had beer 2 days in a row). and then we got the tab, and we were blown away how cheap it was. for 8 of us, it was $47. we realized the bill was so cheap because they had only charged us for half of the items. and it wasn't like they gave us the wrong bill either. our orders were on there. just half of it. it could have been that one of the waitresses were hooking us up, so we didn't question it and gladly paid. after dinner, we had less than 10 minutes to get from horton plaza to clairemont mesa's pacific town square theater. so after doing some spirited driving and running one red, we made it to the theater to watch shanghi nights in time.



sunday, i forgot to set my alarm for church so i didn't make it for the first time in about 2-3 months. ray came by to join tommy and i at da kine in pb for lunch. food was good as usual, and we made 2 stops on the way home. costco and best buy computers. costco has a deal on crest white strips. it used to be that you get 2 boxes with 2 tubes of tooth paste for $35 (a savings of $65), but it was $45 when we got it today cause the deal was over. then we went to get boba, and we stopped by best buy computers on the way because tommy's hard drive had failed. when we got back, i installed windows xp on tommy's machine, and ran the updates. then we went to pampas bar and grill, and we both got bife de lomo especial. i have been there 7 times now and the food has always been exceptional. i always fear that they might mess it up, but they haven't missed yet. by far, one of the best deals in san diego. we got home, chilled for a bit, then tommy headed home as i headed out to the gym to begin another 6 week session of hypertrophy specific training.