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Coincidentally, our League of Legends team, which also has a team house in southern California, also stopped by the same KBBQ place, so I snapped a photo of them too. (I had to blur out a few faces because they’re new members of the team who we haven’t officially announced yet.
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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog and are familiar with my eating habits, you know that I hate eating hot liquids. You may be wondering what exactly I would get at a ramen house? Luckily, even restaurants dedicated to serving hot liquids have dry food options.
I occasionally ate eel back when I still lived in Illinois, as my mom would sometimes cook it Korean-style as a side dish. But, since moving to California, I haven’t had eel.
I like having variety in my life, so usually when I go to a restaurant, I’ll order something different every time. Because I didn’t have eel for so long, that was today’s dish of choice. This post is over 9 years old and may contain information that is incorrect, outdated, or no longer relevant.
My views and opinions can change, and those that are expressed in this post may not necessarily reflect the ones I hold today.
Usually, I post photos of the stuff around me, but I decided to actually post photos of myself today for a change.
First up is a photo with Hyped. He’s a professional Overwatch player for Immortals now, but he used to be a professional Hearthstone player for Tempo Storm, and was one of the people who ran the classic Tempo Storm Hearthstone Meta Snapshot. I’m friends with his girlfriend, so I tweeted this photo at her and said “hey look who I found.”
Part of the activities that were offered were designing your own card and putting your face in the space where the card art would be. I made myself an 8/8 for 8 mana that has a Battlecry of bringing your opponent down to 1 HP, then losing the game anyway. I thought it would fit me well because I tend to play aggro decks a lot, and my opponents tend to be really good at making a comeback after they’re down to single-digit health.
There were also dry-erase boards in the shape of emotes, so I made one that said “Lost board control on turn 2? I concede to you.” I tend to get really frustrated at cards like Knife Juggler and other RNG-based cards that just completely destroy your early board (so much so that they basically just win the entire early game if their Knife Juggler hits, or they get smashed the entire game if their Knife Juggler misses). So, this is actually pretty accurate.
And finally, one of my friends convinced me to write “♥ I love reynad ♥” and hold the sign up while standing next to him. He was in a meeting with someone in this photo, but the person with whom he was talking actually noticed me and alerted reynad to my presence, thinking I was an actual fan who wanted his attention, rather than an employee at Tempo Storm just joking around … lol
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I had never eaten lamb before because it’s not very common in the United States. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in 2015, the top consumers of lamb were Sudan, Kazakhstan, and Australia, with Algeria trailing close behind. To put it in perspective, Sudan had a 10.5 kilogram per capita consumption of lamb, while Algeria had 7.1 kg. per capita, and the United States has 0.4 kg. per capita.
The lamb at this restaurant was a bit too well-done, especially compared to how much I had liked the rare lamb from the Cleo at SLS Las Vegas. It also contained bones, while the Cleo lamb did not. (In case you can’t tell, the lamb is next to the tomatoes in the photograph.)
I’m actually liking lamb, and will likely try to seek out some raw lamb so I can cook it myself at home to my preferred doneness level at much cheaper prices. This post is over 9 years old and may contain information that is incorrect, outdated, or no longer relevant.
My views and opinions can change, and those that are expressed in this post may not necessarily reflect the ones I hold today.
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My views and opinions can change, and those that are expressed in this post may not necessarily reflect the ones I hold today.
The tour started with a lot of displays and fish in tanks. I decided to post this particular photo because Karen is extending her arms out trying to hug a fish inside a tank, while you can see my reflection on the left side of the photograph taking the picture.
The path then led to an area fully enclosed by a larger tank. You can also see a guy with a blue helmet underwater cleaning the tank in the bottom-right corner of the photograph.
Deeper into the tour, there’s an open area where you can reach in and touch batoidea in a sandy tank. There were a lot of kids here, and I was more interested in seeing whether or not a kid would fall into the tank while reaching for a ray, rather than actually looking at and touching the rays themselves. I also found it confusingly unsanitary because, although you can wash your hands after touching the rays, you don’t have to wash your hands before … so basically, that pool is essentially a festering ground of bacteria.
And finally, my favorite area of the aquarium was the purple-lit tanks with jellyfish. This photo doesn’t do this tank justice because of the low light and the low detail on my camera, but the jellyfish inside the tank looked translucent and illuminated.
The ticket to get into the Shark Reef Aquarium was US$25.00 per person, which is far more than I would be willing to pay normally, as I’m not really much of a touristy person. But, because I was in a group, I was ok with joining in, and I’m glad that I at least got some photos out of it.