It's about stuff

[walfas]

Monday October 6 - Sunday October 12, 2014

Monday: st mark's market, chicken cutlet sandwich

Tuesday: mighty quinn's

Wednesday: rai rai ken. used one (of two) full stamp cards and got a mabo ramen

Thursday: blue 9 burger. haven't been there since last year. I probably could have gone without the cheese fries though (which weren't that cheesy)

Friday: went to saigon shack but it was really crowded so we went to kati roll company which was nearby. it was good, though probably better to try two different things than order two of the same thing

Saturday: played some smash bros (I'm still terrible). nap at 5 - 7 made it feel like a wasted day. didn't realize wcs america was going on, watched that for most of the rest of the day

Sunday: drew stuff, watched wcs america; the semifinals were so good

[walfas]

Monday September 29 - Sunday October 5, 2014

monday: deploying stuff took longer than expected. had lunch at 3:30pm, decided to go to otafuku. not as good at last time; feels like the takoyaki had been sitting around for a while. but then again, who really gets lunch at 3:30pm, right. went to restaurant for dinner

tuesday: free bagels at around noon, so I wasn't hungry afterward. got some onigiri from zaiya at around 3 though

wednesday: dos toros for lunch

thursday: other coworkers wanted to go to dos toros. since I went there yesterday, I went to dorado instead.

friday: went to s'mac for lunch. it was good but I regret not getting the smallest size because the size above that was a bit too much for me.

saturday, sunday: smash bros 3ds, watching sc2 streams, drawing

[walfas]

Monday September 22 - Sunday September 28, 2014

writing this on tuesday of the week after because I'm bad at remembering to do things actually today's monday. why'd I think it was tuesday ok I thought it was tuesday because llsif said it was the 30th when I checked a few mins ago

monday: went to rosa mexicano. it was pricier than the usual lunch, but I expected it to be one of those places where things cost a lot and there's very little. but actually that was a lot of food and it was good. I probably would have been ok with just half of it though

tuesday: went to kambi ramen, decided to go to saint's alp teahouse afterward for some milk tea

wednesday: I think this was the day where the subway was really annoying in the morning. there was a signal malfunction somewhere along the line so the train was going a different route and everyone got off and it was super crowded. anyway, went to go go curry for lunch. had a free topping coupon, and this time instead of ordering a plain curry with free topping, I got chicken curry with additional shrimp. it was a lot. it was also good. on the way back there were some people giving away free sabra

thursday: went to pizza mercato. pretty sure they raised the prices by $1

friday: went to st mark's market

saturday, sunday: played some dwarf fortress. watched some sc2, jrta marathon, drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday September 15 - Sunday September 21, 2014

Monday: chinese food for lunch, that we have not been to since june. went to restaurant for dinner, not much time to do anything afterward

Tuesday: had to get in an hour early for an international call but they didn't even show up so that was kind of a waste. anyway later there was a typesafe talk about reactive streams. got lunch from st mark's market but ate at my desk after getting some emails and having to fix some things. watched some wcs america

Wednesday: went to chipotle

Thursday: went to saigon shack. the people next to me were eating their pho the usual way but later they started putting the sauce in their spoons like I do, and I am not sure if it's because they saw me do it or if they usually do it

Friday: Everyone wanted to go to different places (I didn't want to go to dos toros since I had already gone to chipotle this week). Went to dorado, though the wait was unusually long. I guess there were a lot of people. Downloaded smash bros 3ds demo, played it a bit. at first I was kinda disappointed at the lack of stuff in the demo but actually it is still pretty good for those "I have a few minutes to waste, let me just play a round" moments. I have not turned my 3ds off since then

Saturday/Sunday: watched redbull battlegrounds dc (I wanted polt to win, but alas) and drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday September 8 - Sunday September 14, 2014

Monday: Went to rai rai ken for lunch. conversation about the practicality of most martial arts. filled up another stamp card, so I have two to use now. didn't feel like drawing for whatever reason

Tuesday: went to curry-ya

Wednesday: went to mamagyro

Thursday: went to dos toros. at home, had a 28 minute call with paypal because there was some issue saying my phone was not registered in my name or something and thus could not send money

Friday: 30 mins early for another one of those international calls. went to mighty quinn's with people on ios team

Saturday: played a tiny bit of sc2 (mostly dumb games against the AI where I build cannons all over the map) and decided to play dwarf fortress again. then realized how much time that game takes. didn't really feel like drawing very much

Sunday: watched dreamhack sc2 stream and then parting's stream. sort of napped. drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday September 1 - Sunday September 7, 2014

Typing this up on sunday, probably forgetting things

Monday: labor day! drew stuff, probably watched some livestreams

Tuesday: it was pretty hot today, at least compared to the rest of summer. it's weird that throughout all of summer, I've been able to wear a long sleeve shirt at home and use a large blanket, and the only day where that wasn't true was in September.. anyway, went to kambi ramen. I think I just always get the same thing. considered trying the shoyu ramen but didn't.

Wednesday: went to otafuku. surprisingly crowded. got the okonomiyaki + takoyaki combo this time

Thursday: new hipchat update and it's weird and too much empty space. luckily the styling is controlled by css so it wasn't as bad. topic title bar is still huge though. went to cosi for lunch. it was very crowded in there.

Friday: way too many meetings today. went to go go curry for lunch (an hour earlier than I normally go to lunch, due to more meetings). strategically timed to occur on a 5-day, for that free coupon. but I'm not sure why they gave two coupons last time and just one this time. ate at washington square park. but then the meeting was postponed half an hour anyway. on the way home, the subway took like half an hour to arrive. and then it was super crowded so I decided to wait for the next one (which ended up being reasonably empty, as expected)

Saturday: decided to try playing starcraft 2. finished the free campaign missions and played one map against probably the easiest AI. turns out I'm terrible especially at macro but also I don't feel like putting in the effort to get good at it. took a nap from 4-6

Sunday: played more sc2. drew stuff most of the day

[walfas]

Monday, August 25 - Sunday August 31, 2014

Monday: went to indian food place (saw former managers + professor on the way there. I have no idea how to talk to people when seeing them on the street). anyway, food was good. but now I know never to go there alone because dang that is a lot of food for one person.

Tuesday: went to saigon shack for lunch. Realized that I could've gone to Go Go Curry on Monday for free topping coupons. Oh well. At home, worked on a simple lunch-tracking website so I can list locations and sort by last visit date. went through this blog and added about 8 months of data (december 2013 to now). It's nice going through and reading old things; it definitely felt like wintertime when I was done

Wednesday: Went to dos toros for lunch, got a burrito. it tasted better this time for some reason. maybe because I realized you can ask for lettuce (and then they add other vegetables as well). had a design meeting thing. didn't draw the last two days, so feels like today's drawings are kinda iffy

Thursday: went to st marks market for lunch. other coworkers decided to eat at their desk for whatever reason. anyway, the chicken cutlet sandwich was huge.

Friday: woke up late, yet somehow was only 10 minutes late for work. but it's a summer friday (and one before a 3-day weekend, even) so of course barely anyone was there. got lunch from dorado and ate in union square park. then got some ice cream (didn't know any ice cream places so I was about to go to a mcdonald's, but there was an ice cream truck right outside). then went home directly from there.

Saturday, Sunday: watched some sc2, drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday August 18 - Sunday August 24, 2014

Monday: st marks market (got a turkey club). I asked coworker if there was a site/app where I could easily record where I went for lunch that day, and he recommended swarm. so I tried it and it didn't seem to work on my phone so I gave up. Then tried installing yelp and that didn't work well either. I just want to be able to look up a place without needing to enable location services. spent some time setting up a simple angular app

Tuesday: was about to go to num pang, but when I got there it looks like it closed up (later I checked online and it looks like they have closed temporarily and are moving across the street). so I went to dorado instead and got a chorizo quesadilla. the subway home was different; I guess it was probably another train that was re-routed, and the conductor kept clarifying which train it was. anyway there haven't been sc tournament streams around when I eat dinner so it's kinda weird

Wednesday: for whatever reason we decided to go to a very far away burger place but when we got there, found out it wasn't open. so we went to minca ramen which was nearby. I was surprised because the menu was almost exactly the same as kambi ramen (like, the menu items as well as the actual printed menu). turns out it's because they are owned by the same people. anyway everyone else got spicy miso ramen and I got shio ramen. afterward we went to get ice cream, at a place called "big gay ice cream shop". got a vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles. also we kept seeing these "looking for a girlfriend" signs posted around the area

Thursday: went to chipotle. after work, got a haircut (the usual place apparently moved since the last time I was there)

Friday: pizza mercato for lunch

Saturday/Sunday: drawing, watching starcraft streams

[walfas]

Monday August 11 - Sunday August 17, 2014

I am typing this one up on sunday so I am probably mixing up the days

Monday: possibly went to pizza mercato for lunch and got a chicken parm sandwich. after work, went to go go curry because fc was in town (I didn't expect to get to use the 4 topping coupons I got last week). we all got ours to go, but by the time we got the food, there were seats available, so at the end we had a huge tower of curry containers and bags on the table. then had about 2 hours of karaoke from 8-10. mostly love live songs, which is nice because this time people actually knew the songs (due to the english release of llsif since last time). 2 hours feels way too short though. taxi was taken to get to a more convenient location, then took subway home

Tuesday: got the automated rolling deploy working, with cool notifications. for lunch, went to st marks market, got pastrami sandwich. I don't know if it was the mustard or what but it was saltier than I expected a pastrami sandwich to be. I should really know at this point to stop trying new things.

Wednesday: I don't remember what happened on wednesday. oh right, went to dorado and got a chorizo quesadilla. or maybe that was thursday. Probably wednesday though, but who knows.

Thursday: possibly went to otafuku and got the okonomiyaki+yakisoba combo again. this time it took significantly longer and the food itself seemed drier than last time. still good though. I think today was the QA show and tell thing

Friday: kotobuki for lunch. apparently the sushi is good but I didn't feel like getting sushi so I got a oyakodon and it wasn't that great. there was a lot of it though. last time I got the chicken cutlet and it wasn't so great either. Took subway uptown to try to make it to a drawmeet thing but apparently missed it, which was kinda disappointing. just sat around for half an hour before going home.

Saturday/Sunday: drawing and watching starcraft tournament streams, as usual

[walfas]

Monday August 4 - Sunday August 11, 2014

Monday: st. marks market for lunch, got a turkey club. on the way home, the subway took a long time to arrive

Tuesday: remembered to go to go go curry today (free coupons on 5-days). apparently they give two coupons instead of just one. coworker gave me his coupons so now I have four, that I probably won't be able to use by the end of the month. Anyway, coworker had some work to do so he went back; I felt like eating in the park so I stayed. Went to a nearby ice cream truck because I felt like having ice cream but everything was $3. when did ice cream trucks charge so much, dang

Wednesday: tortarilla for lunch; got a chicken quesadilla. it was very drippy. on the subway ride home there was a weird smell and I didn't know what it was until at some point someone pulled a bag of weed (or at least what appeared to be) out of his pants. not his pockets, but his pants.

Thursday: went to st marks market again, chicken cutlet this time. went at about 2:30 because we wanted to deploy something but it didn't happen. was able to use jstat to figure out some memory issues. got a nice message from someone I recently followed on pixiv, so I drew them a thing. I guess we are now pixiv penpals, sort of.

Friday: had to do another training thing for the international teams early in the morning. deployed stuff, too much logging caused the api to crash which was bad. got lunch at around 2:30, went to mamagyro. tried to figure out how to set up ansible to restart api in case it fails over the weekend, didn't end up doing it and so I took laptop home. don't remember if it was today or thursday, but started listening to idolmaster songs on soundcloud after having exhausted the supply of love live and aikatsu songs on there.

Saturday: was able to set up statsd logging from jstat stuff (using a ton of piped commands). api looks like it will be ok. drew stuff, watched sc tournament stream.

Sunday: more sc stream watching, and drawing

[walfas]

Monday, July 28 - Sunday August 3, 2014

Monday: got sandwich from fresh&co. had a dark launch of api on desktop site, some minor issues with statsd and a syntax error

Tuesday: ramen at rai rai ken with some of the ios team. 8/10 stamps on the second card now I think

Wednesday: coworker had meeting; wondered what to get for lunch and remembered that otafuku existed. Decided to get the okonomiyaki+yakisoba combo this time. there was way more yakisoba than I remember there being and dang it was really really good. also realized they have a stampcard, so I got one.

Thursday: cheesteaks from 99 miles from philly. 3/9 marks on the punchcard. subway was kinda slow on the way home today.

Friday: Dos toros for lunch. pre-emptively restarted api nodes just in case. also dang, it's august already

Saturday: was drawing, pen ran out of ink and I was too lazy to go to my desk to get a new one so I took a nap. also watched some starcraft tournament streams. after watching these for a while I realize that there's always like, five different tournaments going on at around the same time, and with the same few casters.

Sunday: went to restaurant for dinner. on the subway ride there, there was a large dog. usually when there's dogs on the subway, they are small dogs that can fit in a bag. this was not such a dog.

[walfas]

Monday, July 21 - Sunday July 27, 2014

Monday: lunch at hot kitchen. good conversation about socializing

Tuesday: went to st.mark's market but they were doing some kind of fixing of the ceiling or something so no sandwiches. went to chipotle instead. after work apparently there were no downtown 6 trains so took the N train instead

Wednesday: mighty quinns for lunch, mobileweb team joined us and also some other people ended up going there as well. on the way home the deli had 50c purple bag doritos, which I didn't even know existed (I thought there were only $1+ ones. actually I don't see many 50 cent bags of doritos in general)

Thursday: ok I am actually typing this on monday and don't remember what happened on thursday. ok no I remember now. went to st.mark's and got a priscutto sandwich and kinda regretted it, I think I don't like the taste of balsamic vinegar or something. at least not on a sandwich

Friday: went to curry-ya for lunch

Saturday: played some hearthstone, mostly naxxramas stuff and then failed the rest of the priest arena run I had going from a few months ago. started a druid arena and got 4 innervates and a ton of late-game cards, currently 6-1

Sunday: watched some starcraft tournament streams (there were two that day)

[walfas]

Monday July 14 - Sunday July 20, 2014

Monday: went to kambi ramen for lunch

Tuesday: got lunch pretty late after having to do some work things. it started raining by the time I went out (~3pm?). went to st.mark's market and they had new counters that looked nice and fancy. Also everyone in the office got a storm warning on their phones at the same time and it sounded pretty cool coming from all directions

Wednesday: uptown 6 trains were messed up on the way to work. I was one station away from where I needed to be and then the subway stopped for about 20 minutes. apparently the train ahead of us was having issues and was being decommissioned. so then our train went backward to the previous station (there were a ton of people crowded on the platform waiting for our doors to open). got out and walked to work from there. went to chipotle for lunch; got a burrito this time instead of the usual bowl thing. Not sure why I don't get burritos more often.

Thursday: mamagyro for lunch. back at work there were free sandwiches upstairs and I didn't realize. Maybe I should just check upstairs every time before going to lunch. but that's so much effort.

Friday: university pita for lunch (with some mobile and qa team members)

Saturday, Sunday: a lot of "I don't really feel like drawing ergh" and "ok now I want to draw" repeatedly

[walfas]

Monday July 7 - Sunday July 13, 2014

Monday: cosi for lunch. coworker was going to get salad but the line was long so he got cosi also. he left to go back to the office so he could order a gi uniform thing that apparently sells out very quickly

Tuesday: st.marks market sandwiches for lunch. got a turkey bacon club, it was good and there was a lot of turkey. discussed what if you had to relive your life but having the memories you have now. guy on subway being a jerk and leaning against the pole even though the subway was crowded and people were trying to hold on to it. and then he started singing and moving around and it was annoying

Wednesday: went to kambi ramen for lunch. for some reason was really sleepy at home, ended up taking like a ~1 hour nap at 10:30pm

Thursday: there was some free chips/salsa. we went with mobileweb team to dos toros; the line was super long so I went to glaze instead. which was kinda dumb because I waited for them anyway. they eat on the 5th floor which I always think is weird. on the walk home I wanted to buy either a bag of chips or ice cream (but I didn't feel like eating a regular sized ice cream thing, just a small one) and the one place I went to actually had small ice cream sandwiches for 50 cents which is the same price as a bag of chips so that was good.

Friday: went to pizza mercato (other people went to halal food and salad). free ben&jerry's at work. also felt like attempting to program some simple js template engine thing but gave up

Saturday/Sunday: drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday June 30 - Sunday July 7, 2014

Monday: boka for final lunch with the contractors on the day their contract expires. there was soccer stuff happening

Tuesday: halal food for lunch. mobileweb deployed today

Wednesday: day before 5-day weekend. went to go go curry for lunch, used my free topping coupon, ate in the park. ops team playing goat simulator at the end of the day. brought laptop home, dang it's heavy

Thursday: typelevel course at gilt; overestimated the amount of time it'd take to get there and got there like 30 mins early; walked around a bit before going up. coworker also arrived a bit later. as it turns out, it wasn't so much of a course as it was a "listen to some things and figure out these exercises on your own". lunch was pizza and pasta; it was good. they also had a bunch of nature valley bars in the kitchen.

Friday: took a nap from 2-4, spent most of the day drawing

Saturday: watched several episodes of no game no life (ended up watching 12 episodes over the course of 25 hours), drew stuff. for some reason I think I heard more fireworks today than yesterday (July 4th).

Sunday: drew stuff

[walfas]

Monday June 23, 2014 - Sunday June 29, 2014

(assume that "watched some sgdq" and "tried to draw" is at the end of each of these days if they aren't already)

Monday: there was a giant cockroach in my room and later it was dead but then my room smelled of bug repellent which made it hard to sleep. went to st.marks market for lunch, got chicken cutlet sandwich and I just always expect chicken cutlet sandwiches to taste like the ones from frankie's kitchen but they don't. Wasn't bad though.

Tuesday: Everyone else was out; wondered where to go for lunch and walked around a bit and then decided to go to st.marks market again; got a chicken fajita panini. They definitely did not heat it up very well because when I got back to the office it was kinda cold.

Wednesday: we were going to go to sushi but then I realized it was a 5 day (25th) so we went to go go curry instead. some discussion about game grumps and speedruns and coworker's website he has been working on. kinda felt like getting some ice cream but didn't end up doing so because the ones along the way were overpriced ones in the park. on the subway ride home someone spilled some soda on the floor except it was incredibly fizzy and there was a yellow stain already on the floor so it kinda made it look like vomit. A few people who were about to enter the train went to the next car instead after seeing it.

Thursday: maybe like half the office was watching the world cup (I was streaming sgdq though; it was during the gameboy zelda games). cosi for lunch, we ate on the 6th floor which was pretty empty. there were free sandwiches there too but we already had our food. later there was some free nutella ice cream but I missed it. went home, attempted to draw stuff, just can't seem to draw this week

Friday: we were going to do a boka thing but there were some scheduling conflicts so it's moved to monday. I went to dorado for lunch at like 2:30ish. watched sgdq, really enjoyed the mario block especially the super mario world ones.

Saturday: watched sgdq. took a nap. more sgdq. was glad that the megaman x races weren't early in the morning like it was predicted earlier in the week

Sunday: Somehow woke up in time to catch the end of the ff6 run and end of sgdq, and then watched some of the bonus stream.

[walfas]

Monday, June 16 - Sunday June 22, 2014

Monday: went to kambi ramen again (they removed the fly on the window from last time). I don't think anything else significant happened

Tuesday: went to num pang; had 10 stamps so this one was free. decided to get the most expensive thing on the menu (skirt steak sandwich). kinda wish I hadn't, because it required so much chewing. that is why I should never try new things. anyway, there was free ice cream cake at the office (also apparently some free veggie subs from subway). on the subway ride home there was this one person holding a sukusuku hakutaku plush

Wednesday: went to chinese food for lunch. conversation included "would you rather below 40F or 85F temperature" and somehow I was the only one who went with the former. also on the subway ride to work I was sitting next to this person who got off at the same station I did. on the way home from work I went to the spot that I usually stand to wait for the train and that same person happened to be there also. which was kinda weird, and they moved to a different spot shortly after (I'm assuming after recognizing me and thinking it was creepy). It was very strange. However it is also the most efficient place to stand (same for on the way to work) since the doors open up right in front of the stairs, so I guess this other person also has their subway-platform-standing routine as optimized as I do.

Thursday: Went to mighty quinns for lunch. decided to get something other than the brisket this time and went with the burnt ends. I wish it were not covered in bbq sauce though; I would've rather just had the brisket. I should just stop trying new things. it was kinda weird outside; the sun was out but it was slightly raining. a conversation involved "why is there another piercing place that opened up on st.marks place" and "if japadog offered tattoos/piercings/ecigs like the rest of the places nearby would it have gone out of business"

Friday: coworker wasn't there at his desk when I came back from the bathroom so I went to chipotle for lunch. saw him back at the office lobby though, then ate upstairs. wasn't much to do, kinda just looked at some scala play stuff

Saturday, Sunday: Drew stuff. watched some sgdq on Sunday, mainly the donkey kong and kirby ones.