I make fried rice and it's great every time. Here's what you need:
2 cups white rice (I prefer jasmine rice)
1 bag frozen mixed vegetables (green beans, peas, carrots, corn)
3 slices of ham, diced into cubes
2 eggs
1 tbsp minced garlic
3 tbsp soy sauce (or more, to taste)
Cook the rice. I use a rice cooker and it comes out perfect every time. You're on your own if you do it on the stove.
In a large pan, cook frozen vegetables, garlic, and ham. Scramble eggs and mix them in. Stir until the egg is cooked. Mix in cooked rice and add soy sauce, turn the heat up and stir away until everything is mixed up good. You should have enough soy sauce to turn all the rice a little brownish. Use more if you like the taste.
There's a new commercial with two boys in a crash test lab, cheering as the guy hits the button to crash cars in to walls. At one point, one of the boys says "Now do the gold one", and the guy says something like "Actually, it's Desert Sand Stone" and the kid replies "Whatever, just crash it". And then they say "Do another one!", and the guy replies "That's all of them". So one kid says "What about yours?"
I laugh so hard every time that comes on. It's a great commercial.
Today's log shows hits from IBM, Edwards Air Force Base, and Philips. Welcome, distinguished guests.
Send me free stuff 
Well last weekend was interesting. At the Inn on Saturday there was a wedding reception. Half the people there were Russian. Man those people can drink. Then the party moved out to the hot tub, where it stayed until at least 1am (that's when I left after helping do a little straightening up). I'm sure it went longer, too. They were pretty funny, though.
Go read Ben's The Tragic Tale of my First Wife, it was pretty funny.
| Particulars | Revealed | In-Hand |
| Sequence | 0 | 0 |
| Three of a kind (2-8) | 2 | 4 |
| Three of a kind (1 or 9) | 4 | 8 |
| Three Winds | 4 | 8 |
| Three Dragons | 4 | 8 |
| Four of a kind (2-8) | 8 | 16 |
| Four of a kind (1 or 9) | 16 | 32 |
| Four Winds | 16 | 32 |
| Four Dragons | 16 | 32 |
| Pair of Dragons | 2 | 2 |
| Pair of Player's own Wind | 2 | 2 |
You can double your score from the points above for each of the following
situations:
Any Hand:
- Three or four of the player's own wind
- Three or four of any Dragon Group
Winning Hand:
- A hand of one suit (Ball, Bamboo, or Character) mixed with a pair of Dragons or Winds
- A hand of purely one suit (Ball, Bamboo, or Character) (8 times score)
Last night was movie night, we haven't had one of those for a while (we went after Institute). We saw A Series of Unfortunate Events. Quite a departure from the books, but it was a decent movie. I haven't read all the books (they're too depressing), but I have read more than half of them. I had to take a break from them, nothing ever goes right for those orphans...
This article talks about how some medications are abused because they're advertised so much. Doctor's are the ones that should diagnose and prescribe medication—not your TV.
Heavy advertising campaigns to promote prescription arthritis drugs Celebrex and Vioxx may have convinced more people to take these drugs and thus risk heart disease and strokes, at least according to a new study. Arthritis sufferers may have been better off taking older, less expensive drugs that were not promoted so heavily.
You have a "You Might Be a Redneck If.." calendar on your desk.
Last night I had to call Dell Computers for a replacement CD-RW drive for a laptop. After several loud tones and transfer signals, I was finally connected to a guy that had a difficult-to-understand accent. The connection signal wasn't very good, I'm pretty sure it was a VoIP connection to India. Why would they outsource their sales to India? I didn't bother asking him where he was, because they always lie and say "Texas" or something (because, technically, that's where you're calling—they're just forwarding the signal from there to India).
... that whenever I need to talk to someone they are always in a "meeting"?
That's what the Border's checkout girl asked me today when I bought a travel book to help plan the honeymoon. She asked if I was travelling there (I'm leaving out the details intentionally so Lorien never finds out), and I said yes, in May. She asked how long and I replied about 2 weeks. She wanted to know where exactly I was planning on going, so I told her. She then asked if it was a special occasion and I said my honeymoon. That's when she asked do you have a brother?.
Not much going on, just playing office superhero, as usual. I fix all the problems but mine, it seems. Someday I'll get to finish these projects I've had sitting around for months...
At Bill Gates' Teen Beat Pictures. Go. You know you want to.
After upgrading from 512 to 1024Mb of RAM this system is running much better.