This past weekend after running about 35-40 minutes along the shores of Huntington Beach, I wanted something to quench my thirst. First thing that came to mind was Jamba Juice, but then I remembered my friend Lauren had mentioned the Beach Berries near by. While I didn’t think Pinkberry was all that great, I had an urge to give this other place a chance.
Hands down, it’s the better of two. It is delicious and you should stop by a Beach Berries shop a try when you get a chance!
Most of my posts have been basketball related — it’s not surprising. I’ve been a die-hard Laker fan for the better part of my life (going on 20 years of dedicated purple and gold) and now it’s the biggest stage of the NBA: The Finals.
I wanted to give a couple shout outs to a few of my friends’ websites:
My friend Rob works at a startup that just launched RepairPal, a site dedicated to provide drivers with the most accurate, unbiased, and useful car ownership information available. It just got profiled on TechCrunch and I think it has great promise! It will help you keep a better record of your car’s health and keeps you in the know so you don’t get ripped off by shady repair shops. Check it out!
My friend Selina just started a cooking blog, Let’s Chow! She plans to focus on simple, delicious recipes. She’ll probably write more than a fair share of Chinese recipes, but I’m sure it’ll have a variety. I’m looking forward to it and I already put in a request for her to share one of her Korean dishes.
Lastly, in Twitter network, I have a buddy that just started a useful StockTweet intiative. Basically, if you’re on Twitter and are interested in stocks, follow the user StockTweet. If you tweet any stock related tweets, prefix it with a ‘$’ (i.e. “I just sold $AAPL. The iPhone price drop is big.”) It will get automatically indexed by StockTweet. You can view everyone’s stock tweets at their tumblr page.
“I saw the owner of the Celtics say we’re 8-2,” said [Jerry] West, once almost as much an icon in Boston as here.
“He was also the same owner who saw his franchise not make the playoffs.”
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How can we judge who is telling the truth and who is not these days when money, fame, and publicity affects our decisions? With all the HGH, BALCO lab, and steriods stories still going on, just like many fans out there, I’m pretty darn sick of it. Especially the cases involving baseball. It just doesn’t mean that much to me as a sports fan because just because you can hit home runs doesn’t mean you can get victories for your team. But, you can get more dollars when negotiating your salary. If you need more proof, just google ’Alex Rodriguez.’
But, I did get a bit interested in one particular article involving another athlete in Track and Field. Last month, a witness alleged that Maurice Greene bought $40,000 worth illegal substances from him between 2003 to 2004. Not that it surprised me much — track and field has been the one sport that repeatedly has world record holders, olympic medalists, and world winners revealed as steriod cheaters. I read Maurice’s statements on these alleged claims which sounded shady at best. But, what was interesting was learning about the alleged e-mail his former training partner, Ato Boldon, had sent to Maurice’s former coach.
I really don’t buy all the crap these cheating athletes say to the media. Most often, they are rehearsed statements drafted by their legal anyway. But, if there’s one guy that has made me think that he’s clean and true to his sport, it’s Ato Boldon. I went to visit his website www.altoboldon.com and went through many of his blog posts. Those that are interested in this topic should check out some of Ato’s old blog posts. It was pretty neat to go back to read some of his thoughts.
At least I can cross my fingers and think that there’s at least one clean sprinter in the 1996-2004 era…
After a five day trip down to Southern California last week packed with fun-filled adventures, great food, family, and most importantly my sister’s graduation (Master degree in Engineering Management at CSUN), the change in weather conditions started affecting me. My skin got a bit dry so I’ve been on top of taking care of it. Today though, I started getting a fever. I’m pretty certain it was from all the activities and travelling I did.
I’m not sick often and even when I am, it’s usually pretty minor. Wait it out a few days or pop in a few OTC meds and I’ll be good to go. I’m at fault for not knowing the right way on how to treat sickness like this since I did just fine winging it in the past. This time again, Jade got it, too. She’s got a much higher temperature than me with only half your travel schedule completed so it’s imperative that it’s treated correctly.
I did some research and thought it would be good to document it and serve good bullet points for anyone that has a fever now. Or it’ll be good for my own reference in my future.
When having a fever, your body is trying to killa viral or bacterial infection by increasing the internal temperature because the enzymes in cells and white blood cells work at a faster pace in that environment.
* Drink plenty of clean water. This is because viruses and bacteria work better with dehydrated cells.
* Decrease sugar and caffeine intake (and smoking as well).
* As fever subsides, eat vegetable soups and simple foods like whole grains, steamed vegetables, soup, and diluted juices. Let your digestive system rest as much as possible to maximum recovery.
(BTW, the commencement speaker at the graduation was terrible. My sister was very disappointed. The speaker spoke in circles and in the end, the audience was unsure what he wanted to tell them. Because of this, I must link to the greatest commencement speech I’ve ever read — Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Speech given @ Stanford.)
