Don Quixote was selling Nissin Souper Meals for only .98 cents. I never tried one of those before, but the thing was huge and I was curious (that’s what she said), so I picked one up.

I finally got around to eating it tonight. For instant noodles, this stuff was pretty involved. It wasn’t just a matter of adding hot water, the instructions called for:

• adding room temperature water
• dumping in a packet of msg, and a packet of dried vegetables and (in this case) dried shrimp
• microwaving it for 5-6 minutes
• letting it sit for anohter 2 minutes to cool
• dumping in anohter packet labeled “Finishing Touch” which was unusually hard to tear open, and looked like it contained four drops of vegetable oil.

So 7-8 minutes later, I had my souper meal. The thing was huge, the noodles pretty much looked slightly better than the ones from Nissin’s crappier Cup Noodle, and contain %118 (1410mg) of the recommended daily value of sodium.

I ate all the noodles, dumped most of the soup into the toilet, and now I feel kinda sick, and my tongue feels dry. I bought this thing because it was cheap, but … was it really? Thanks for nothing, souper meal!

Somehow, Kerri managed to get me to the beach today. Unusual, becuase I generally do all I can to avoid going. It’s the first time this year that I’ve been, and I don’ t remember the last time I’ve been to the beach, but I think it was in Maui.

I guess knowing that in a few weeks, the option won’t even be there any more for me to played a part in things, too. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE!!!

It just dawned on me this afternoon that one day - probably in the near future - I’m going to look back at this time in my life when I worked nights and had all day free, and completely wasted most of them watching tv, or playing video games, or drinking beer while watching tv and playing video games. All those sun-lit hours when I could have gone out and made a difference in the world (or at least created pretty sweet memories), wasted!

I can’t waste these next few weeks man. I need to do something about it! GIVE ME IDEAS!

In other news, I’ve reached Level54 in Call of Duty 4. NEXT STOP, PRESTIGE MODE! OW!!!

Apparently, this Wednesday is “Ride to Work Day” according to the AMA website. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but I’ll give it some thought.

I actually rode to work once a couple of weeks ago. It might not sound like a big deal, but I start work at 8pm and get off at 3:30am. Getting to work was all right, but the ride back home was cold and lonely. And scary. But then again I scare easily. (Ghosts, you know..)

THEY CANNED THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT!!!

This was one of the few shows I acutally listened all the way through on NPR! The show was created to lure a younger audience, and it worked on me - the show’s podcasts have been a staple on my iPod for the last ten months or so and helped pass the time, when I caught the bus to work.

I’m going to miss it. Friday, July 25 will be their last show. In the meantime, listeners are leaving their comments on the BPP website.  Man I’m still disappointed.

The weekend was a blast - Happy (belated) Birthday, Kerry!

Halo3 until 3am. Or was it later? I cant’ remember. Then today I hung out with the two Joels’. OOO Boy!

I was going through Google Reader and read that Syntax-Brillian, the makers of Olevia TV’s, has filed for bankruptcy. Only reason I cared is because I owned one of these TV’s less than a year ago when I was shopping around for an HDTV in anticipation for Halo3.

If I still owned that TV, my warranty would be worthless after roughly 10 months of owning it. That would have sucked. But then again, I only owned the TV for less than a week before realizing how shitty it was, and exchanging it at Circuit City for a Vizio. The most telling part of this story is that I’ve never owned an HDTV before, had no real prior experience to compare the Olevia against, and I STILL knew that the thing sucked!

Maybe that’s why they went bankrupt - because they made shitty products? Nah, that’s too simple.

So I went to Walmart to check out the Sony’s that Joel picked up from there, but they’re not the noise-cancelling type that go into your ear canal (Sorry Joel; I wasn’t too clear, but thanks for the suggestion!)

I filled out a warranty claim with SkullCandy. From what I read from customers’ reviews, they used to give a straight up replacement guarantee for their headphones when they fell apart (apparently a pretty common problem). But they’ve changed it to a “50% off your next set” type warranty. I opted for that, and they emailed me some special URL and a username/password for an online ordering site.

Unfortunately, they only have one shipping option. For the US mainland. FAIL!!!!

The search continues. I have a feeling I’ll probably just end up buying another set. It’s too bad those headphones need such girlish care to keep them from breaking. But that would also explain why Evan’s and my set are broken, and Kerri’s ones are still good.

Okay I’ve been listening to my iPod with these shitty ass Coby headphones for the past half hour now and I can’t stand it! Sound quality’s THAT bad.
I’ve also been looking through customer reviews about my old headphones on the likes of Amazon and BestBuy — apparently, I’m not the only one who’s had his headphones fall apart. But from some of the other reviews I’ve read, I guess I was lucky that my headphones lasted as long as they did (6 months). Some customers have had theirs fall apart in less than 2 months. Man what’s going on.

Joel IM’ed me last night and told me that he’s happy with his Sony’s that he bought for $10 bucks at Walmart. I guess I’m checking that out tomorrow.

For the past half year or so, I’ve been using a kickass set of Skullcandy in-ear headphones with my iPod. They were about $15 bucks at Circuit City and I bought them on a whim so that I could use this “$15-off a $100 purchase” coupon I had.

Anyway, the headphones broke a few days ago - the wire part near the jack broke from me always wrapping the cord around my iPod when I wasn’t using it. Anyway, I picked up a new set over at Don Quixote tonight. They had a pair of Coby in-ear headphones for “only” five bucks.

I’m using them now. And I’ve got three words: “BUYER’S REMORSE FAIL!!!” These things suck! They aren’t as ‘in-ear’ as my last set and there’s a huge difference in sound quality (sounds like I’m listening to AM radio now). The lone product review I found on cnet.com just now pretty much says the same thing.

This is what I get for being chang. FAIL!!!!!! I just hope they can fit under my helmet when I ride.