I had chinese lunch today, as I do almost every Wednesday, at Oriental Coast on Brady Street. It’s always a good time, and good food. I’ve been going there for a few years now and I’ve never seen a menu. Early on we used to just ask for certain dishes we knew we wanted (family style, we pass dishes around the table), but as time passed, we just let them decide for us, so now, we never know what we’ll be eating until they bring it. Sometimes their are only a few people, sometimes their are a couple dozen, it’s an open invitation (feel free to join us!).
So of course, now that I’m counting calories, this kind of meal doesn’t fit in to well, but it’s a good time and I’ve decided it’s one of those parts of life that I have to accomodate. So, we start with a squid appetizer, the breading is to die for. I’ve told them they could coat a napkin in that breading and I’d be happy to eat it. Then the soup, today it was an eggdrop with chicken and corn, most excellent. Then the main dishes start coming out. A cool dish of pork and some kind of green vegetable, then mushrooms and tofu, sesame chicken (one of my favorites), another pork dish with bean sprouts, fish with onions and other veggies, another dish I can’t remember, and finally when we didn’t think we could take any more, beef in gravy over broccoli. Seven dishes total, each as tempting as the last. I tried to take small portions, but with that much food, and as good as it taste, I’m guessing I put down at least 900 calories for lunch. Finish that off with a fortune cookie and a couple slices of orange and I was stuffed.
So, with all those extra calories, I did skip my afternoon snack, mostly because I was still completely stuffed. For supper I had some of the leftover pork and bean sprouts (don’t want to skip to many meals or my metabolism would probaby fall). Then I headed out for a walk at 7pm. It was sprinkling out, I figured it would probably stop, didn’t look to bad. I did the first 40 minutes or so and decided that I was still good for more, in an effort to burn off some of those extra calories, so I continued onward and did about 5 miles in 80 minutes. Along the way, early in the walk, a light across the street from me turned off, which never had before, as I was about 75′ away. A little further up I passed ‘the light’, but it was off again. I ventured a couple blocks off my normal path, and in those couple blocks, two other lights turned off, both as I was again about 75′ away. I finally worked my way around and came back upon ‘the light’, which was now on. I approached it, nothing happened, walked away about 50′ or so, nothing, went back to it, nothing, finally walked away, and as I got 75′ away, it turned off. I guess my range increases when I’m wet? So, 4 lights went off tonight, all when I was ~75′ away. And now I have a few more test subjects to walk by!
So, when I got home, I was soaked pretty good, it never did stop, in fact it rained harder most of the time. The front of my pants had soaked through by about half way through the walk (from the rain, not from the nature call). My jacket and gloves were pretty wet as well. I was fine though, upper body was still dry and warm. I took a warm shower anyway just to help relax. And now, time for Law and Order!
