Jason Haynes

Everyone loved the four cheese white pizza. It's possible that I invited my friends over with the four cheese pizza in mind, and that I gave my guests no choice as to what I was ordering for them to eat.

I went to http://www.bikedc.net/ which was great. After 2.5 hours, a short rest, two bananas, two cliff bars and drinking my 22oz canteen twice, I hit mile 33 (14mpg avg - nice!!). My body ran out of salt, and cramped up. I was in the middle of a long railtrail hill next to the reservoir, with no exits for miles in either direction.

I considered coasting downhill to find some gatorade, but every time I got on the bike, I nearly fell off from the cramps. Instead, I walked three miles to the nearest civilization, knowing that it would be a McDonald's. Droopily coasting into their drive through, I got a big mac, large fries "with extra salt" and water. Their idea of "extra salt" was 3 packets - I essentially dumped them on my tongue and debated whether to lock up my bike and go inside for more.

About 27mpg these last couple of tanks. I need a 60k mile tuneup - I'm feeling a sluggishness which might be spark plugs, and one of my belts squeaks before warming up.

Chicken dumplings special, with beets & mashed potatoes. Cherry pie. Om nom nom nom nom.

First date. She looked like a young, petite, Caribbean Dr. River Song. Email and chat had gone very smoothly, but in person she had less filter and I couldn't read her at all. Just as she asked me an important question, my mouth became unexpectedly stuffed full of an unbelievable amount of bone. Awkward on top of awkward, I even tripped over selecting the right entendre (single? triple? None?) while trying to figure out how to vacate my mouth to speak. Eye contact was destroyed while I dealt with my extended bone crises, since the next few bites also had bones (luckily, smaller ones).

There's no way in hell I'm taking omnivorous first dates there again. Vegetarian ones, maybe. Actually, I think I'm going to shop around for new Ethiopian places - there are many in this area.

Good service, decor, prices, serving sizes, and it's good tasting authentic style Thai. The $30 is for two lunch specials: chicken & galanga soup, spring rolls, panang curry, red curry, one extra rice, and two sodas.

Goes down easy. Not top tier, but a higher quality show than I remembered.

YES.

Oh, and one more thing... Did you notice that this show rocks?

Met with an ex-co-worker at starbucks, because the cool coffee shop was closed. If you know someone who needs a sr. linux/solaris engineer in the broader Frederick MD, Reston VA, or DC area.. he's still looking.

pizza delivery == food airstrike. "Captain, we need some calories, stat! Our blood sugar levels are dropping like flies! Coordinates 59 by 54, over!"

If I had called the manager to complain, it would have been to say that the pizza arrived in much less than half an hour - before I was ready - and that it was too hot to eat.

Best schwarma & falafel, 10 years running. Downtown Wheaton, MD. They carry cel-ray and black cherry soda. Orthodox kosher - closed Saturdays. All other details are irrelevant.

Mom's birthday. She's a real expensive date. She's also about 20 miles away from the two nearest Tastee Diners. Silver Diner is absolutely my favorite fake diner, but it's still a fake yuppie diner.

Giant now sells hormone & anti-biotic free ground beef patties, 85% lean, for $5.70/lb. I'm .. so.. conflicted. Is this healthy? Cheap? Convenient? Does it count as home cooking? Normal 80/20 ground beef can be $2.70/lb, and steak can be $5.70/lb. Is it a good value because it's natural, but less so because it's only 85% lean, but more so because it's already formed into patties? What about the competitor's 93% lean natural beef which isn't in patties, but which you let spoil last week because you were too busy to even bother?

Well, considering I used to live on pop-tarts, I'm just buying it for now.

Universally recommended for irritated/dry nostrils.

Yay, biking in downtown DC without crazy drivers! Boo having to be there at o'dark thirty am.

Sounds crisp and clean - I was surprised how big a difference it makes over the headphones. Autodetects the front panel's headphone jack and turns the speakers on and off accordingly. (I was surprised how many audio cards can't do that!)

I can't seem to find any accelerated sound card options in any of my games. Anyone know what I should be looking for? I found one in my video player - mplayer - but using the hw accel sound disables some of mplayer's audio filters (like time stretching).

Game night @ my house - played a neat boardgame called Android - Chinese delivery for four, incl 2 appetizers. Good stuff, not fantastic, but certainly worth the price and efficient delivery.

Heavy duty extension cord w/ flat plug - works great. The $28 power strip had half of its outlets unusable: I couldn't force any plugs in no matter how hard I tried. Returned.

Target is so seductively handy but I'm still mostly boycotting it. I ended up feeling glad to return the power strip.

Weekly shopping plus all of my organic Hippie food staples were low: rice, coffee, green tea, black tea, nuts, cereal, etc. Actually a good haul, even for $101.

This is a perfect bike ride from my house, the food is great, and they're never uptight about .. well.. anything that I've noticed, including my lycra. (Actually, in summer, their porch is a bike courier hangout.)

This night I had my goto favorite: roast beef & goat cheese on rye. This was part of DC game night: we saved the world in Pandemic (+2 expansions) then had to bike home & work in the morning.