Good Things/Bad Things

The Good:

1.  Siam Sunset.  Apparently, one of the few places you can get Thai breakfast in town.  They serve Thai jook - a rice porridge.  I love Chinese jook and so wanted to try it.  Place was packed with Thai folks on a Friday morning.  This place is awesome.  Also serves Hainan Chicken.  Will be going back a lot, I imagine.

2.  Trader Joe's frozen chicken tenders.  Cheap, easy to prepare, healthy, tasty..  Leave 'em in the freezer, defrost them before dinner, cook 'em up on the stove in a little garlic, salt pepper, add some water to boil-cook them for the last bit, maybe a bay leaf.  Simple main course.

3.  The smaller head on the Sonicare toothbrush.  I had an old version of this thing and didn't like it much.  Convinced by my dentist to get the new version and use the smaller head.  Much better.

The Bad:

1.  AT&T U-Verse.  Inconceivably, it's worse than Time Warner.  Louie CK has a decent bit about our contemporary impatience with technology -- and I sympathize -- up to a point.  In some ways all this new technology makes life less pleasant.  Yes, we have 100s of channels, but with AT&T U-verse the TV doesn't even turn on half the time and I need to restart the box, which is like restarting a computer every time you need to watch TV.  You call, talk to machines for 5 minutes, get a person, they schedule a service appointment, and then the guy doesn't show up.  Meanwhile, you've wasted half your day making arrangements to be there.  This has happened multiple times.

2.  101 entrance on Western Blvd.  Horrible design.  Impossible traffic.