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I've been watching House again. I still think Hugh's hotter than the sun.

Yesterday I went to the zoo and saw lots of cool animals, I saw giraffes, zebras, lots of birds (the penguins and parrots are my favorite birds), a snow leopard, a Komodo dragon, turtles, frogs, wolves, an anteater, chimps, kangaroos, lions, antelopes, a rhino and a koala. The bears were in their dumb caves and wouldn't come out.
I have to remember to always bring my own food. The ordering system in the zoo restaurant requires four arms, they didn't even bother calling my name or my number and the damn burger gave me the runs. Also there were some really rotten little kids who decided to stand on the table I was trying to eat at and wave big sticks around and the dad didn't even bother to tell them to cut that shit out.
On my way home from the zoo I got a text inviting me over to a friend's house so I went over there and had dinner and a great conversation. Then I went home and watched TV (House and Frasier) and had a couple of glasses of wine.
Then this morning I had a nice phone conversation with my parents and another one with a friend wishing her a happy birthday.

I am baking pumpkin bread right now and it's taking longer than I'd like. It's been in the oven for over an hour and it was still raw in the middle last I checked, which wasn't that long ago. I did a little experimenting with it and put Chinese 5 spice in it.

I had a two hour phone conversation with a friend yesterday who I hadn't heard from in a couple of months. Really enjoyed taking to my friend.
I noticed a weird mistake in the House episode "Maternity" that I never noticed before. Although the episode clearly takes place over only a few days, House says it's December in the middle of the episode but at the end of the episode the dialogue between House and the obstetrician indicates it's late October!

I had a really interesting day yesterday. Beautiful weather. Hung out with a couple of friends, had tea and a slice of red velvet cake at my favorite cafe, did a lot of fascinating reading and pub hopped with one of my friends. Heard some great music. We even did some karaokeing. The only negative thing in the whole day was I went into Whole Foods to try to get roast beef to make a sandwich and the deli woman took her time and I couldn't even get any because I like it rare and the whole damn roast was burned to a crisp. And she gave me an argument when I complained.

Got some groceries, on the way back home some asshat almost ran me over with his damn SUV when I was trying to cross the street. He stuck up his hand like that makes it OK, I swore at him but he had his window closed so I doubt he heard me.
Had an interesting conversation over text w/a friend about Lord of the Rings.

I had plans for tonight but they got cancelled. :(

Having some Lapsang Souchong. The ice cream was great. I don't know why they don't publicize this more but they do this thing called a flight where you can have little scoops of six different flavors. I had chocolate, maple, banana, black walnut, butter pecan and mocha almond fudge. (I would have had eggnog but they ran out. Frankly if they sold eggnog in June I would buy it.)
Tonight I'm going to LoCoco to get Italian food and a glass of wine for dinner.

Had some black tea with cinnamon and cloves and then went out to pick up a six pack of beer because I'm having a friend come over tonight for pizza and popcorn and movies. I'm really looking forward to it.
I finally got so fed up with these fucking phone scammers that I told one of them they were all full of shit and he called me a "bloody whore bitch" and I just laughed and hung up on him. I'm not the fucking criminal here, they are and I have no idea why they think we're stupid enough to fall for those scams. They all seem to have the same Indian accent and I can't help wondering what the fuck is going on in India that there seem to be so many of them there.

I went to Oakland Chinatown to get lunch at Shan Dong (they do amazing hand rolled noodles) but they were closed and so were about 25 other restaurants around there so it took me a lot longer than I liked to walk around trying to find an open one.