Fixed Cracked Tooth?

Went to the dentist today.  I had cracked my tooth and it was killing me since Sunday.  It was throbbing and aching alot; and I couldn't chew with the right-side of my mouth.  I even had to keep the right side of my face elevated to sleep.  It hurt so much that I woke up in the middle of the night to brush my teeth with Sensodyne toothpaste to relieve the pain (which worked).
Hopefully it's fixed now, but currently it still aches, but not as bad.

Snack yesterday -> Cake.
Picked up a 50% off Chocolate Pecan with Creamy Caramel cake from Loblaws.  It was totally worth $2.25.

Good Cake.

Dinner today -> Discount Bayshore Food.
Went to Bayshore with Peter after gaming tonight.  We waited around for BOGO Free sushi.  I also got some discount Chinese food from Shanghai 360 and Manchu Wok.

Discount Food.

Useless Gaming News:
Played 3-player Dominion after work with James and Peter today.  We played 3 games and we each won a game.

Weekend Report -> Double Rideau

Food this weekend ->
Went to Rideau on Friday with CMC Boyz.  We got 10 dishes good stuff, and surprisingly not every dish was meat.  We actually had alot of vegetables.

Rideau Feast.

We ordered a good amount of food.  We finished off every plate and both rice bowls.

Messy Plate.

Relatives from MTL were in town this weekend.  We had Rideau takeout for lunch at my parent's and then went to Joe's for dinner.  We were eating non-stop :)  Dinner spread was good.  Joan's chicken yellow curry was good.  Maybe I'll make some too this week.

Big Dinner.

Lots of dessert too.  Dino brought a Frutii de Bosco from MTL and I made lemon cheesecake.  We also had alot of fruit, sugarless blueberry pie, and eclairs.

Desserts.

4 Boxes of Sushi

Dinner today -> Sushi
We played 5-player Dominion after work today.  By the time we were done it was after 8:10pm, so Peter and I decided to go to Bayshore to get some End of Day "2-for-1" sushi boxes.  I picked up 4 boxes. 

Discount Sushi.

I ate the Bento Box and the Love Roll for a late dinner.  But as I write this blog entry, I think I will eat another box and save the 4th box for lunch on Thursday.

Useless Food News:
Ribfest started today on Sparks Street.  Reza went at lunchtime today and brought back some.  It looked really good.  I'm thinking of going but I keep thinking the Big Bone BBQ Monday deal is better.  The only difference is that I want the Camp31 sauce on the ribs.

Pulled Calf Muscle

Useless Softball News:
Strike Fighters lost 14-17 to Brew Jays tonight.  We weren't at our best tonight but we kept it close.  I pulled a calf muscle in the 2nd inning running to 3rd base.  I couldn't stretch properly before the game because the grass and benches were wet.  So it cost me and I had to pull myself from the game in the 2nd inning.
I hit 1-for-1 with a single tonight.

Weekend Report -> Happy Father's Day!!!

Food this weekend ->
Katie left me her Lego mini-figs and Kinder Egg figs at my desk before leaving CMC. 

Katie's Lego and Kinder Figures.

Katie, Peter, and I also finished "EXIT: Secret Lab" Friday morning too.  I highly recommend this EXIT game.  Good puzzles.  We finished with 9 stars.
There was a going away party at Jack Astors for Katie, Tim, and Guillaume after work on Friday.  I got their Pulled Pork Southern Fries.

Over Sauced and Salty Fries.

It looked good, but it did NOT taste good.  There was hardly any pulled pork on the fries and there was way too much sauce on it.  It was also very salty.  I tried to tell Carlos not to get it, but it was too late. 

On Sunday, for Father's Day and my birthday, we went to Sea King for dinner.  The dinner was OK.  The stuff my mom ordered wasn't as good as I expected.  The sweet & sour pork was meh.  It was full of filler and lacked flavour.  The seafood with snow peas plate was also meh and full of celery filler (When my mom offered grandfather some snow peas, the spoon had 1 snow pea and 5 celery in it.  When I said it was just celery, Susanna and Ben said it was fine.  No it wasn't.  Idiots.  In the end he didn't eat the celery.).  The sweet fried beef plate was also meh as was the duck dish.  Everything lacked something and looked very cheap.  I ate because I was hungry, but was super disappointed with the meal.  I did enjoy the fried fish in corn sauce.

Meh Dishes.

I think we should have gone to Rideau Restaurant or insisted buffet instead of Sea King.  Only didn't go to buffet because of Ben, but it wasn't his choice.

Useless Transformers News:
Picked up Wave 2 Deluxes of Transformers: Power of the Primes.  Still missing Leader class Elita-1 and Hungrrr.

TF:PotP Deluxe Wave 2.

Eyeballs

Lunch today -> Ox Head.
Steve, Ed and I went to Ox Head for lunch.  Since it was my birthday, I had to get noodles.  We all got V13 Ox Head Vermicelli.  It was really good.

Ox Head Vermicelli.

Useless Toy News:
Becky got me a big Chester Cheetah plush.  I think it's kind of rare!

Big Chester Cheetah Plush.

I didn't notice til about 3:30pm, but there were new eyeballs peeking over my monitor!

New Eyeballs.

Apparently Katie came by in the morning and secretly put her minion plushy there.  Friday is her last day at CMC and she's giving me her minion a new home at my desk :)

A Minion!

Useless Gaming News:
Peter, Katie and I played EXIT: Secret Lab this afternoon.  It's an escape room in a box.  This game is fun.  The puzzles are good.  The suggested play time is 1-2hrs and well longer than an escape room.  And YES you will destroy some of the game parts.  The only bad thing I could find, is that the puzzles are linear.  You must do them in order and nothing was done in parallel. 

Note the Scissors.

After an hour, Peter had to leave, so we paused the game.  I think we are 3-4 puzzles away from finishing and we will do that Friday. 
I would recommend this for any 3 person group that doesn't have alpha-male personalities.  I think 4 players will be abit too crowded, but could work.  I had the most experience with escape games, but I didn't run the game.  We all contributed to solving the puzzles, as Peter and Katie think differently than me.

Happy Birthday Fongpay!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!
First time in years I didn't take a vacation day on my birthday.  I'll take a day next week instead.

Ice Cream Sundae Bar

Lunch today -> Ice Cream Sundae Bar.
We created an ice cream sundae bar event at work today.  It was planned as an after lunch treat, but it became my lunch.  We bought 5 tubs of ice cream and lots of toppings. 

We All Scream...

We also bought cookies to make ice cream sandwiches.

... For Ice Cream!

I made a mini-banana split with my first bowl.

Banana Buried Under Ice Cream.

Second bowl was just more ice cream, whip cream, and toppings without the healthy banana.

More Ice Cream.

Useless Food News:
Made a lemon cheese cake (and a couple mini ones) tonight.  Will eat it with the family for my birthday later this weekend.

Lemon Cheese Cake.

I also made some mini-strawberry-lemon cheese cakes.  I'm iffy about the taste.  It tastes abit off.  The strawberry extract tasted bitter.  Could have just been me, as I tasted the extract in it's pure form and it messed up my taste buds.  I'll have to bring these to work find some guinea pigs (Peter, Katie, and Becky? ;) ) to test these on.

Useless Gaming News:
We played 5 games of Dominion today.  2 games at lunch time and 3 games after work.  I co-won 1 game and lost the others. 

Fongpay's Early Birthday Bash

Lunch today -> East India Company.
A bunch of us from work went to the East India Company for an early birthday lunch.  We feasted and stuffed ourselves silly.
For my first plate, I sampled all the meat dishes.  No crab curry today, but they had a fish one.  It's not as good as the crab :(.  There were 2 lamb dishes, both were excellent.  The beef dish was very good too as it used short ribs! but abit too spicy.  I was sweating.

Plate #1: Meat Feast.

Second plate was mostly lamb and chicken.

Plate #2.

Dessert was some timbit thing soaked in syrup, french vanilla ice cream, chocolate cheese cake, and some fruit.  The chocolate cake put me over the top.  I didn't eat anything for the rest of the day.

Dessert Plate.

Weekend Report -> Softball Tournament

Useless Softball News:
Softball tournament this weekend.  Strike Fighters first game was Friday night against Swingers Club.  We won handily and stayed in the C Division bracket.  I hit 3-for-3 with 3 singles.

Softball Game.

On Saturday, we played our first game against was against a B- division team.  I think it was Diamond Destroyers.  We played awful.  We dropped everything and couldn't hit much.  We lost 16-4.  I think I hit 2-for-3 with a single, fielder's choice, and single.
Next we played Da Knobs, another B- division team.  We beat them in a close game, but I don't remember the score.  I think I hit 3-for-4 with single, double, fielder's choice, and single.

Tyler at Bat.

We advanced to the semi-finals where we faced a B+ team in Reggae Sharks.  It was close for the first 3 innings, but we were outmatched in the long run because they were mostly power hitters.  I think I hit 2-for-4 with a single, fielder's choice, single and a fly out.
We made a good run this year, but we were facing teams on Saturday we were not expecting to see.

Food this weekend ->
Before our last softball game on Saturday, everyone apparently separated but came back to the diamond early with treats.  I brought the traditional cream puff and the new blue gilled steak Doritos.  Alex brought cherries and jubjubs, 

Softball Snacks.

Later Tanya brought 2-bite brownies and Maureen brought ice cream bars :)

Picked up Rideau Saturday night.  Got my standard beef chow mein and dry fried beef noodle.  I wanted shrimp too, so I got salt & pepper shrimp (with the head on). 

Rideau Dinner.

The shrimp were excellent.  Crispy enough to crunch through the shell and the heads were tasty and flavourful.  The noodles it the spot after a long day outside.

Ice Cream served with a Spork

Nothing much happening this week, just work stuff.  So I took Thursday afternoon off to run some errands and hangout with Julie, Sherlock, Lux, and Cass.

Dinner today -> Yakiniku One
Julie and I went to "Yakiniku One" for dinner.  We ate lots of meat.  Lots and lots of meat!  I think we ordered atleast 5 orders of short ribs, some 3 pork belly, 2 pork sausages (really good), 2 chicken hearts, mussels, squid, and more.  This pic doesn't do it justice.  I only remembered to take a pic after scarfing down most of 1st round of orders.

Grilling Food.

I also got some shrimp and some cold soba noodles.

Soba Topped with Short Ribs and Shrimp.

At the end of the meal, we ordered ice cream for dessert.  Which is normal, but what is not normal is that they served the ice cream with a spork?!?!  It worked at first, but once you get to the bottom of the cup, you have to uses the handle end to get the ice cream in the corners of the container.

Sticky Rice Wrapped with Seaweed Paper

Lunch today -> Sticky Rice.
I went home for lunch today.  I microwaved some sticky rice wrapped in leaves.  Normally the sticky rice makes a sticky mess on the plate and fork.  Today I realized that I could wrap the sticky rice in a sheet of seaweed and eat it by hand with no mess!

Sticky Rice.

It wraps up easily and handy to eat.

Seaweed Wrapped Sticky Rice.

Dinner today -> Wings
Went to Loblaws after softball tonight and picked up some discount wings.  They were OK, good enough for 50% off.

Discount Wings.

Useless Softball News:
Strike Fighters were visitors against Packing Dingers tonight.  It stopped raining long enough for us to get a full game in.  It was a good game and we won 16-10.  We are now 4-1 this season going into the tournament this weekend.
I hit 3-for 4 tonight with a single, double, walk, ground out, and a single.

Weekend Report -> Neo Hyrule

Food this weekend ->
Bacon, eggs, and toast for lunch on Saturday.  Maple bacon... :)

Mmmm... Maple Bacon.

I got shawarma from Shawarma House for dinner on Saturday.  I got the large beef sandwich fully loaded (forgot to take a pic).  It was very good, but that night and all day Sunday.  I had killer stomach pains.

Useless Gaming News:
Gaming Saturday night at my place with Jeremy, Arseni, Garth, and Gen.  Julie wasn't feeling well and didn't come over.  We played a long game of Charterstone.  It was Month 6 in the game and everyone is still building up their cities and stars.  Garth won easily this time, but I was close at 2nd.

Charterstone.

Our city "Neo Hyrule" got added to the Kingdom map too.

After dinner we played Ethnos.  I like this game.  It's a quicker version of Small World combined with Ticket to Ride, where you collect race cards to play them later inorder to claim territories.  By claiming territories you can gain glory points so to win the game.  Each race has a different ability and you only use different races in each game.

Ethnos.

Game review here.