Life: This is chicken with rice and little berries at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Mountain View, CA. (week 39,271/365,jreyes)

Life: This is chicken with rice and little berries at a Middle Eastern restaurant in Mountain View, CA. (week 39,271/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Decided to eat at this Middle Eastern restaurant on El Camino Real. I always drive by it because it has a big falafel sign, so last night I finally decided to poke my head in there and try it out. I have to admit the service was really good. The gentleman offered black Iranian tea. I have to try other stuff on the menu. But this was just the first dish I tried that looked tasty. And it was tasty!!!! The restaurant actually had good GoogleWifi which is free in Mountain View, CA. So I was able to watch Obama's DNC speech while eating this meal. Enough is enough!!!!!! 271 is now complete!

Life: This is another pencil drawing. It´s Flickrite jennifer.lee (week 39,270/365,jreyes)

Life: This is another pencil drawing. It´s Flickrite jennifer.lee (week 39,270/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

So I asked Jennifer if I can draw her photo of the day today and she graciously said yes. This took about an hour or so, and it was fun to do. Thanks Jennifer! This was really good practice. I was doing a lot of pen and ink recently so it was good to use the tortillion again. I am loving drawing these days, I am feeling a little better after the whole birthday day, but whatevers Let Go and Let God I guess. But it was just another emotional pain that I really didn´t need nor care to experience, but whatevers people are disappointing these days, but what do we expect people are not God.

Original (¨Bored Now¨)
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Life: This is a hella good cookie (week 39,269/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a hella good cookie (week 39,269/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

It is an oatmeal and raising cookie, but it has bananas in it. And it makes a ton of difference!!! Man this thing was tasty! I have never had a cookie with a banana in it, but this cookie had healthy chunks of banana which made it hella good.

Life: This is XUbuntu. (week 39,268/365,jreyes)

Life: This is XUbuntu. (week 39,268/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

So I got some free hardware from that 5th grade class and I was able to install XUbuntu on the machine. It had a 40GB HD, 512MB of RAM, 1.8GHZ PIV processor. Not that bad really. So I got to install the GUI version on top of the server. It is a Ubuntu Server 8.04 kernel and I put XUbuntu on top of it. I haven´t built a machine in a while. Anyways, I think I am going to go to Fry´s and buy some cheap RAM to add some power on this bad boy. There are 4 slots, so I am planning to put 4GB on this thing. Not bad eh? I made the machine come alive. The teacher said it was dead and frustratingly dead. There is no sound on this machine, but Firefox comes with it and there are some command to add Flash, once I get sound to work, then I am golden. Aaaaah I feel like a programmer again... Whenever I am feeling down or something, I turn to work as an outlet from the frustration... I actually get sh*t done when I am in a funky state... It´s my way of coping I think.

Life: This is a pink flower (week 39,267/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a pink flower (week 39,267/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

I overslept a bit after last night´s dinner. I had a small dinner kind of got buzzed with a gimlet, and some good Reisling. The food was better last night. I wanted to see Darknight so we saw Darknight at 10pm so I got home at 1:30ish. Woke up at 11:45am, missed church, but I was there ready to help out the group with helping prepare the 5th grade class we volunteer at as a church. Then after that played some soccer and went to bed.

Life: This is 30th birthday dinner with friends. (week 38,266/365,jreyes)

Life: This is 30th birthday dinner with friends. (week 38,266/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

It´s a little blurry. But I had dinner with 4 friends. I was expecting more, but whatever. People disappoint me a lot these days, I just take it as a grain of salt. It just emphasized to me that you only have really 5 good friends who will know you on the face of this earth. It was partly my fault, because I sent the invitations a bit late, but whatevers I was totally disappointed no one wanted to celebrate with me, in the past I have gone to other people´s 30th birthday and people threw big parties and what not, I don´t know, just a little jaded now. I hate being in a disappointed state, it is worst than being angry, upset, or sad. It is more like deflating, defeated, and demoralizing. I hate throwing a birthday party for myself. I just think it is totally lame. It´s all good tho, I am happy and thankful for the friends who did show up for my little dinner. Sorry this is a really selfish and self-reflective photo, but eff it... it is part of my 365 project of light, life, and love I guess. Have to document the photo and my feelings about it...

Life: This is 30th birthday dinner with family. (week 38,265/365,jreyes)

Life: This is 30th birthday dinner with family. (week 38,265/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

I was feeling really meh (insouciant) about my birthday this year. I think it is the fact that I am turning 30. I don´t know, just feeling down and out about it... But I had chocolate cake and ice cream. I should have gone to Manresa in Los Gatos, CA. Instead we went to California Cafe in Los Gatos. The food was not extremely good today. I picked Halibut with risotto, it was disgusting. I don´t know I was thoroughly had a let down feeling with slow service and even worse bad food. Crappy Friday night.