Bojack Horseman

I'm running out of topics here, so, I decided to briefly talk about my deep love for the Netflix series "Bojack Horseman." It's dark, but also insanely funny, and portrays celebrity culture in the worst light you could possibly imagine. 

It's also disturbingly real.

I think one of my favorite aspects of the show would be the real-life celebrities that they actually voice cast as themselves; Felicity Huffman, MC Hammer, and others all make appearances.

The best appearance though, in my opinion, is Jessica Biel's. They make her out to be a complete terror, and she was totally down for it; she played the literal worst version of herself perfectly. I kind of respected how cool she was with being just made to look completely deranged and unreasonable all the time.

There's an episode where she orders avocado toast, and then proceeds to throw a tantrum in the middle of the restaurant because she modified her order to the point where it wasn't even avocado toast anymore, and then they accidentally put avocado on it anyway (since the ticket still says "avocado toast"). It was completely relatable because, as a server, I had people basically do that all the time...they would order something, and mod it into a totally different order, and then fly into a rage when it didn't come out right.

She ends up losing the race for governor of California because somebody exposes her hatred of avocado to the media and, as it turns out, 65% of Californians just can't vote for someone who hates avocado.

Yeah...I really love that show.

Think I'm Going To Start Doing Muay Thai Again

I started doing Muay Thai when I still lived in Hawai'i. 

It was a good workout, both physically and emotionally; it felt great to punch and kick things after another day of hating my job!

I also liked the gym's location; it was in Honolulu proper, on Dillingham, so the ocean really wasn't far, and because of this, oftentimes, when we practiced outside, we got to do so under a rainbow. The people there were great, too.

When I moved back here, everything kind of fell apart, and I just didn't have time to start looking for a gym. I honestly think part of the reason I put it off for so long was that I was/am afraid whatever place I join here isn't going to be as good.

Having said that, I need an outlet ASAP, so I've been looking around a bit.

You can tell it's become ultra trendy now, looking at the number of gyms around here, compared to the number of gyms here the last time I lived here.

I'm guessing the gym membership fee will probably reflect the surge in popularity...oh well.

Learned Topics from LabSim Sixth Chapter (A Response to Threaded Discussion 08)

I know I had seen SmartArt utilized in presentations before, but I did not realize it was an actual "feature" of the PowerPoint application. I guess I thought somebody built those displays manually, using different shapes and text boxes.

Completing the LabSim section pertaining to SmartArt really opened my eyes to the number of ways you can illustrate processes for people who may not have a whole lot of context, or background, with regards to the topic. Since I'm actively constructing a presentation that illustrates a couple of different processes right now, I'm putting SmartArt to use, helping to more concisely illustrate these processes to folks whose knowledge base is, up to this point, not very deep.

It provides a nice, succinct way to walk people through the steps of a process or cycle, and I look forward to using it more in the future.

Truffle-infused Hot Sauce?

I really have nothing to shout out this evening, but it's time for a post, so...I'm going to talk about hot sauce for a minute.

I use a lot of hot sauce(s), especially on eggs. It's not so much the heat I like, but the flavor; they're all different. I'm not a connoisseur or anything, but I've tried a lot of them over the years.

I decided to try something different when I went to Whole Foods the other day. There were a few that looked kind of interesting, but my eye settled on one in an elegant bottle that included truffle. I was intrigued, and began to reach for it when I saw the price: $33.

My hand froze, and then slowly began to retract from the bottle.

After a lengthy pause, I gave up and just went with Cholula instead. The chili garlic flavor, like always.

I'm not paying thirty-three dollars for hot sauce; I don't care what they put in it. 

Not happening.

Yardhouse Is Still...Actually Pretty Good

Originally, I had made plans with some people I used to work with to go to Blue Ribbon Sushi, at Red Rock; one of us is now working over there. He said to come in at 1:30.

As it turns out, Blue Ribbon doesn't open until 3. 

One question that immediately came up was "how does he not know this if he works here?" The more important question, though, was "where do we eat?" Izumi looked across the casino for somewhere else; there sat Yardhouse. Yardhouse it was.

I like Yardhouse. I don't drink anymore, so I don't care about all the beers, but I really like their chicken tortilla soup, and they have surprisingly good ahi. I was okay with this.

I was shocked; I don't think I had been since I came back to the mainland, and their prices were actually about the same, no major hikes. We ended up with buffalo chicken pizza, tacos with carnitas and goat cheese, and something else, for about fifty dollars.

Like I said, their ahi is actually pretty good so, after seeing the reasonable bill for everything, I'm going back for ahi in the near future.