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Been streaming "In Between Moments" on grooveshark these past few weeks. It's a Better than Ezra iTunes-only bonus track on their latest record. Seriously, on the first listen, I thought, WTH?!? BTE came up with this?!? They did. It was super soft, so light that it was tinkling (if that makes sense), and on the brink of sounding boy-band-ish. Was expecting something crazy and playful towards the end like they did in the amazing "Rosealia" but no, no playful ending here. It was straight up serious. I laughed so hard. It was a mix of disbelief, shock and amusement. It was like that for a while and it was very fun - laughing so hard. But I got to stop laughing at it lately 'cause the novelty and newness is gone (a natural result of overplaying, I suppose). Yes, I listened to it many times - still do when I want to. Without a doubt, listening to it is... A guilty pleasure.

French toast, pancakes, cereal - breakfast food. Here, they're midafternoon snacks. I prefer savory over sweet for breakfast (or in my case, brunch - my first meal of the day) anyway. Take today's brunch... Tomato slices, tocino , last night's left-over pork adobo , and fried rice. Nom, nom, nom. I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortably closed in in my little work area here. Things are starting to pile up so we'll be putting things back the way they were soon... but not this machine, no. I like it where it is.

For lack of a better title, I "thought" I'd be clever which is (obviously) going to lead to unnecessarily explaining myself but stopping since this has nothing to do with introspection but more about how grateful I am with how wonderfully thoughtful people can be. And yes, it has something to do with this plate of "spaghetti", naturally. Thoughtful guests brought spaghetti over last night 'cause they just came from a children's birthday party. I must say, "Thanks!" and "Nom, nom, nom!" Thoughtful people are the best!

... temporarily. My glasses have irritated the bridge of my nose - again. I'm back to wearing contact lenses for the meantime till the redness disappears. I have to put my face close to the monitor now 'cause the lenses don't correct my astigmatism, sadly. Woes of the poor-sighted. Obviously, I've nothing interesting to say. Well, I will mention how the weather is today (dull much?) and it is very warm.

Holy signal, Batman! There it is! Lost Pldt dsl earlier so I tried my wireless modem again (globe tattoo). Since we moved furniture around a few days ago, the computer is in a different spot - not so far from where it was before but I thought I'd give this backup another try. Hallelujah! It detected the gprs signal at full bar initially which was still sucky in terms of speed. So I disconnected, changed network preferences to "wcdma only" and voila! It worked and caught the better signal! It's not as fast as our dsl but its speed was tolerable. I am sure it would've been faster if it caught bars of the hsdpa/wcdma but what the heck -- it's not useless anymore! Thank goodness our dsl came back after a half an hour since I had a lot to do. Nice to know that my backup's useful now, for peace of mind and all that. Now, what about when electricity's out? The solution's obvious but impractical as of now. Oh well, will deal with that when I

These bloomed overnight. Lovely to see. Happy Sunday!

Today's brunch: garlic fried rice, tocino, and itlog na maalat with tomatoes. For some reason, looking at this picture still whets my appetite. Maybe because the combination was really yummy. It was nice to see kids get all excited for trick or treating last Saturday. Seeing them in costume, toting their plastic pumpkin buckets, parents with fancy cameras leading them from house to house, and seeing a house with a life-size "white lady" with its own spotlight to boot! Now, this wasn't in my neighborhood, it was at the one over. Since we lost power on Halloween and me, on a deadline to submit a transcript, I headed over to a friend's house who graciously let me work there for a few hours. We drove through "that" subdivision so I got to see the wonderful muss of decorated houses and trick or treaters. And it was kind of poetic too that the neighborhood didn't have power either and since it was dusk, it added to that Halloween mood. Electricity at our