august 19. 2010. post double down.

So it's 8:51 and I just got back from my Double Down Expedition in Cortland. As much as I looked forward to biting into two crispy chicken breasts with bacon, cheese and colonel sauce in between, I was a little let down. Don't get me wrong, it was good in the worst kinds of ways, but I wasn't wowed. It wasn't the trashiest, fattiest, grossest thing that I have had, although maybe when taken as a combo of all three categories it would place first in Most Artery Clogging Food Zach's Eaten. So overall, it didn't live up to my hype and I probably wouldn't get it again, but I am glad I experienced America's most recent atrocity in fast food.

In other news, we went mini golfing at the Pirate Mini Golf Course in Cortland too! Of course, I won, because I am just so great. I beat Erica by one stroke, suck it.

Oh, and Pete and I realized we are twins who like to dress alike, but not too alike, so we reverse the coloring of our shorts and shirts. Classy, I know.

august 19. 2010. pre double down

So today is a big day. No, I haven't arrived in London yet, that is still a week away. Today I am going to accomplish something that I have been looking forward to ever since I knew that it was something I could look forward to. It was a magical day when I found out that something called a Double Down existed. I was reading an article in Wired that described the delicacy as something "clearly concocted in a laboratory manned by maniacs." And these maniacs obviously know the way into my heart: two boneless pieces of fried chicken acting as a bread to colonel's sauce, bacon, and cheese. In a word, heaven.

Now, I read this article back on April 15. It has been over 4 months that I have had to wait until the fateful day that I would get to devour a Double Down, but it has finally arrived. You may wonder why it has taken me so long to get a Double Down. Now, I have been in Ithaca, NY up until now, and here we basically despise fast food restaurants. Especially in College Town. Therefore, the nearest KFC (and consequentially, the nearest Double Down) is in Cortland, NY. This is only about half an hour's drive, but the majority of my friends have no car and neither do I, so the trip was never made.

But that changes today and I feel like I have to document my life as it is now, as after I consume the Double Down, my life will irreversibly change.

Today I woke up like any normal day (any normal day that follows a night of black out debauchery) at 11:15. The sun was shining in through the window, warming my already hot room. I wandered into the main room of my apartment in a daze. I showered, shaved, ate and lazed around all day. Nothing too exciting, you know, like usual. Rebs sent me a text asking me if 5 was okay to get Double Downs. Of course I responded positively. I lazed around more, waiting anxiously for the hour to arrive. Rebs suggests to me that I write a blog entry about this, she tells me she just likes the word blog and uses it at every opportunity she has. I know she just likes to read about things that happened to me while she was present. So I write this entry which leads me up to this moment in time.

I guess you need details for the Double Down Expedition:

Location: KFC in Cortland, NY

Co Conspirators: Erica, Pete, Dan & Rebs (of course)

Weather: Sunny, 82, no wind

Time of Departure: 5:15

Estimated Time of Arrival: 5:40

Estimated Time of Pure Bliss: 5:43

I will describe later how this day has changed my life.

august 16. 2010.

So it has been obvious to me that this blog is painfully dull and boring. Up until now, the most interesting thing that happened and was documented in the blog was the discovery that I am Jewish, and I pretty much glazed over that story. As I know it has been boring, I do not need my friends (Naj) to point out how boring it actually is by accurately mimicking my writing style on my Facebook wall. Yet, I will try to spice it up with this blog, probably unsuccessfully.

Up until now, I thought I had 2 choices for my blog: write about nothing or write nothing at all. I chose to write about something, so my blog would actually have some kind of life, no matter how excruciatingly dull it may be, but I realized I, in fact, have a few more choices. One being, I could include pictures and videos of cats, because everyone who looks at blogs, also likes to look at funny pictures of cats in boxes or wearing pots and pans with poor English written beside it. So, without further ado, I present to you (thanks to Huffington Post) fancy cat with top hat.

If fancy hatted cats don't impress you, I am not sure what will. Maybe I could attempt to write fiction. Alas, I am an engineer, and although I have overcome some engineering stereotypes by being somewhat sociable and able to talk about things other than video games (it took me months to figure out what WOW meant), I am not a writer. I have no mastery over the English language, and will not be able to rival J. K. Rowling or Hawthorne.

Besides cats and fiction, I am not sure what you guys could want. So I will try to make my own life more interesting in the next year, but until then, I will leave you with your first and last post about cats. Enjoy this while it lasts.

Oh, and I have 9 days until I leave for Europe!

(Some things won't change)