more than a mini

I thought awhile ago that fast food places could maybe do their drink sizes maybe a - d cups. I was thinking that the above would be a d cup. Pretty good deal since it only cost I think thirty cents more than getting the normal combo drink. If I would have not paid the thirty cents, I could have got a mini shake, though I am not sure what size that would have been.

Iceberg is where we ate today. Good to get back on the statestreat route and mark another one off. We'll be to university ave in no time.

Iceberg reminds me of galaxy diner for some reason. Galaxy diner used to be over by movies 8
back in the day. They had all you could drink juice. Joe Christensen and I had an all you can drink contest or two, and I am pretty sure Joe won each time. Mormons chugging oj! Wow, they are party animals!

Hate to ruin the end, but my shake was a cup within a cup, so the real size was as below. Still a pretty good sized shake, but I felt a tad duped.

y return?

I went to the byu to talk to some folks that want to get quiz bowl going again. Funny enough, one of the honors deans that helped kill us off with rather extreme prejudice is still the gateway to the honors department. "I didn't actually look at the number on your proposal, but it was too much." Ok, he didn't say that exactly, but pretty close. Turns out he (and the department he speaks for) still feels the same. Good luck new quiz bowl team! This also in, that was like ten years ago, and yes, I am old.

If I am going to the y, that means I will sure try to grab a wrap or a navajo taco. Today it was the latter. So good. While we were there, some one put flyers like so out



For whatever reason, that kind of sums up a lot about byu for me. Oh, and wraps were a hit.




Finally, some pictures that might sum up a bit why I might not be too sad that I didn't end up as a college professor.


If I could have made dean or director, I could have driven a super-posh car, as pictured! Instead, I drive a super-posh kia amanti.

rat cream puffs!

Ok, just kidding, but it does kind of crack me up that our neighborhood chinese buffet includes good old cream puffs. You know, just like in china. It also cracks me up that the name of the place is called the new chinese gourmet buffet. Not only do they get to decide that they and their cream puffs are gourmet, they also get to say, that for now and perhaps forever, they are new. Like, I think they are incorporated that way.

Most of our team went to chinese to help celebrate the year of the rat. Me, like a dope, keeps putting monkey on my checks! Ok, I stole that from wait, wait don't tell me, but I thought it rather clever.

For me, the new chinese gourmet buffet is actually pretty tasty. It is also another, should I tip? place. The buffet price includes a drink, and the drinks (orange / mango++) are pretty tasty as well, but is someone getting me a drink to go with the meal I got myself, worth a tip? Today, it was. Course, it starts at the mongolian bbq. Today, someone giving me a strange look when I asked him to add more stuff as he felt so inspired, did not lead to a tip. Somewhere along the way, some things have to be include in the purchase price.


And yes, we were north of twelfth north, but there ya go.

quick change

Ok, so I went to burger's supreme, which isn't on state street, or even in orem, but I saw a sign that kind of cracked me up


That has got to be about the quickest change from excitement to reproach, ever!

chicken dinner!

Ran this one past the misses and since she laughed, I figured it was worth blogging about.

Thanks to my mother-in-law for the pictured card. I was just thinking that once I have three (or maybe five) useds scratched off for say, carls jr, that I could ask something like

"I got all useds, what do I win?"

say hola (again) to sopes!

Well, hard to compare when you have only had one sopes, but now that I have two, I definitely liked the sopes of El Gallo Giro. Kind of funny, but google language tools can't give me a translation. Also kind of funny, that when our orders arrived, the cashier had to come and tell us which were our respective orders. Not your father's gordita.



I chose chicken for my meat topping. Gotta say, that even though autentico mexican food may not be my total cup of tea, I was really impressed at how much these folks seemed to want us there. The cashier did come out when I think our food deliverer perhaps sensed our confusion, and walked us through it all. They kept the rather yummy chips and salsa flowing. They even brought us a fork. How cool is that? Whereas I usually don't get too excited about tipping at places where you order at a counter, a food deliver delivers your food, and you bus your own table, here I left a tip. If the trash can says thank you, I think that means bus your own table. Considering the level of autentico-ness, I am surprised we didn't have gracias trash cans.

pre-cloverfield

Guess I never stepped foot near the statue of liberty, I always thought it would be bigger. Darn french.

Victim of a little gandolfo's bait and switch. Well, kind of. The coupon was buy a sandwich, get one free. Too bad for me and drew, our particular statestreet gandolfo's, wasn't listed on our coupon. So whereas some places accept competitor's coupons, this one didn't even accept sister location coupons.



Funny enough, the one down the street did on a different occasion. The mrs and I like the occasional gandolfo's breakfast sandwich. We had a coupon as above, and figured we'd give it a go one saturday. I think we went a little later, and we got a full sandwich and a breakfast sandwich. The total came to like eleven dollars. The coupon said up to a nine dollar value, so naturally, our cashier took our coupon (though his location wasn't listed, though I didn't realize it at the time), and charged us two dollars and some few cents. We said, well, it should probably be more, since the breakfast sandwich would come free and we would pay for the full sandwich. Ok, he said, and charged us three dollars and some few cents. No idea what his algorithm was there.

And this of course would be post-cloverfield