acupuncture session

It was a hot day and very busy at work, however, I left almost on time.  After work I went to see Alice and now I feel much better.  Prepared couscous, olive/garlic flavor, with small pieces of spiced tofu.  Still have half of saucepan of it for tomorrow.  Installed and played an hour of Silent Hill 4: The Room.  Then deinstalled it.  I guess I would spend much more time tinkering with it about 20 years ago.  Installed and started playing Far Cry 2.  Not bad, although it slowly gets repeatable, like Dead Island.  Found out that next Wednesday is an official day off.  That's great.  Looked for possible vacation spots, but it looks like my finances are not ready for anything at this time, so most likely I will take it in Brooklyn.  I am off to play Far Cry 2.

Finished playing the second extra mission in Tropico 3, only one left.  If sandbox will be boring, I think I will install FarCry2, since I still have it unopened.  Deus Ex is still not working and I moved it to "damaged" category on Steam.  Father took my car for annual inspection without me asking, so I was pleasantly surprised.  Mother cooked a good dinner including mushroom soup.  Dog had diarrhea and I cooked some rice for him.  Parents got a new printer with E-Print feature: it's kind of interesting.   I have to pick up laundry tomorrow.  Also, I could buy some instant couscous. Watching Psych Marathon on ION channel.  I had a realization after checking my stats: I could put messages out or discuss something important since I have more hits lately for unknown reason.  I thought long and hard and decided that I have nothing else to share with the world.

hot week

Staff picnic at work: I ate two veggie burgers with two veggie patties on each.  Also, I had a vegetable burrito and 2 diet Cokes.  I ate at 12pm and I haven't eaten anything since then, because I am still full.  It was a busy day at work and I left late.  On the way back went to Stop and Shop and got Simply Lemonade in a large new styled bottle, 4 different bagels, baby potatoes, red sliced onions, toilet paper and anti-gas pills, cubed tofu, pack of soy cheese.  It was a very hot day (almost hottest day on record).  Tomorrow will be another scorcher, as well as the day after tomorrow.   But, if the weather station is not mistaken, next week will be much cooler.  I will continue to play Tropico 4: it's a really relaxing game.

weekend starts

Slower-paced day at work.  I had mashed potatoes and small bowl of pieces of broccoli and fried mushrooms for lunch.  I got hungry later during the day and had a trail-mix-like snack with two granola bars. Lots of coffee and Liquid Ice.  I decided to postpone acupuncture.  Upon arriving home, I had lots of radish with sprinkled sugar on top,flat bread and lots of hazelnuts for dinner. I will eat the bowl of cherries later today.  Still playing Tropico 4.  The Steam techs gave up on sending me tips how to fix Deus Ex game.  I guess I won't be playing it.  Tomorrow I will visit parents and help with computer.  On Sunday I will visit grandmother.  On Monday - back to work.  Boring, yet somewhat comforting.

readers don't write and at least that is good

Deus Ex: Human Revolution played only once for 4 hours and then it did not play anymore.  The next few days was all about emailing Steam support techs trying to find out how is it possible that game plays perfectly well and then would not start without any setting changes.  The answer is still unknown.  I received a good news today: bank decided to give me $1,000 back after it was stolen from my account a week ago.  The weather was rainy mostly, still rains now; it was still somewhat busy at work, but I left on time.  The weather is predicted to be rainy for tomorrow as well.  Some people from Canada and India accessed my email accounts and I still don't know what interesting stuff they hoped to find there.  I smoke Seven Stars again after short break with left-over Winstons and sale-priced Golden Gate.  It feels much better now.

I like the new suit my parents bought for me at Burlington Coat Factory.  Maybe because I chose it.  I got vegan sweets at work as a present: 2 bags of unbelievably addicting and tasty Barry's Bakery Original French Twists.  My BioLite portable stove was redelivered, but I wasn't home, so I will pick it up at UPS location tomorrow during lunch time.  I couldn't reroute it because I had to cut up my credit card and they require additional fee to do so.  In the meantime, I am continuing to play Tropico 4 from where I left it after installing Max Payne 3.  I drank a lot of coffee today.  I may need some acupuncture by the end of the week: for general health.

Pesto Sushi Rolls

Grandmother is out of hospital, finally.  Tomorrow she will get 24-hour care, but today parents are staying with her.
I spent half of day at a health fair in the community.  It was very easy, chilling, more enjoyment than work.  After the event, I wanted to do flyers in Russian for Sunday's health fair, but my volunteers mysteriously disappeared and I got a small flood of things to do before the end of day, so the flyers weren't done.  On the brighter side, it is very possible we found a person to do blood pressure check up and will definitely get many give-aways on Sunday.  Hopefully, everything will work out.
I finished playing Max Payne 3.  Tried multiplayer, but not many are on it yet.  Arcade mode is okay.  Overall, it's a good game, but under 23 hours overall playing time.  I installed Deus Ex: Human Revolution.  The start was horrible, but as I am progressing into game, character customization slowly kicks in and makes is better with each hour.  Yesterday I cooked too much rice and did not know what to do with it, so I made sushi rolls (lots) with pesto sauce, garlic salt and amazing seaweed flakes from Japanese supermarket and Kikkoman's soy sauce.  Today I have plenty of sushi rolls for dinner.

disappointing

Max Payne 3 is not working out the way I expected it to be.  I am finding myself taking breaks while playing, which is not really a sign of a great game.  The requirements for game are well met, but it's stalling, plays slow, it's just one bullet time to the next.  Figured out how to make shooting target mark better, but still can't figure out how to make the game run faster.  It's like work, it's not entertainment.
Visited same Maoz restaurant in Manhattan today.  Had another lecture.  Tomorrow is another day at work.  I just had spiced tofu and big bowl of instant noodle soup.  Sort of senseless existence at this point, as it seems.  But coffee and cigarettes help to make this life slightly better.

in Fancy Part of City

Today I spent most of day in Manhattan improving understanding of medical terminology.  The good news is I got a certificate for it; the bad news is that I have to get there tomorrow early am for another advanced session.  My parents were going to NJ, so they dropped me off today; tomorrow I will need to wake up earlier to be there on time via subway.  I visited very amazing restaurant, with excellent prices and choices.  It's called Maoz Vegetarian, filial of Amsterdam branch.  I think I will go there again tomorrow.  Also, there was a veg fair in Union Square and I bought some vegan cookies (tasty! carrot raisin cookies) and tried free sample of very good rye bread from Finland, called Ruis bread.  I hope they will have same fair tomorrow.

The big news: Max Payne 3.  I started playing around 1am, when it became available.  It is clearly a good game, but maybe I hyped it for myself too much and so far it's great, but not living up to the hype.  The movement of character is not developed to the max, the cross-hair is hard to see on characters, the weapons are so far mediocre.  Maybe they stuck the game on very high graphics, because most of fights almost require bullet time, it seems.  I put on normal settings and it's slightly faster now.  Very slightly.  RockStar had the same issue in LA Noire, that's why it wasn't as popular as it could have been.  Now I am off to play Max Payne, of course, after eating a full bowl of Special K Red Berries with Silk milk.