Well, I’m officially off this little cleanse that I put myself through, or this little inconsistent cleanse since getting sick.

In the past, few weeks, I tried my hardest to be compliant but if it wasn’t one thing it was another that brought me out of it. Getting tired of trying to keep a strict diet and my stomach feeling a little bit better, I decided to get off this cleanse and reintroduce some stuff back into my diet again.

My first meal after this kind of cleanse, Banh Xeo. I thought I’d be fine since there was no soy. The only thing that was really non-compliant was probably sugar and the rice flour. Do I have a thing about rice?

Actually, my first legit meal was KBBQ at Hanjip in Culver City. Cloud had a long layover on her way to Costa Rica and she wanted kbbq and that was one that I’ve been meaning to try without having to drive all the way out to K-Town.

Overall, it was all right. Good to know there’s a AYCE kbbq spot that’s kind of decent. The price is what it is, but for the most part, it was good. I had a good time. Meat with very little veggies and beer.

My stomach felt okay afterwards. I didn’t think I had much problems with it, but then again, my stomach is reeling after the banh xeo. I don’t know what it is.

Now, I have bread too. Looking forward to my first bite of sourdough. I missed it. I know that I need to cut down the bread. It’s just the right thing and the healthy thing to do.

Let’s see how it goes.

I would prefer that my stomach is at 100% no issues before I try the bread, but I guess life has other plans for me.

I am severely underweight. I need to get my weight back to normal before I start rethinking my diet and maybe make it a lifestyle to be a little healthier. It’ll be tough. Very tough, but let’s hope I can do it.

But in the meantime, as I suffer to eat anything to get back to a healthy weight, I’m going to enjoy the fuck out of it.

Now all I’m doing is trying to figure out what I want to make and eat.

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This weekend I tried a new bread recipe that is 80% hydration. Shaping that dough was tough and I have no faith in the bread turning out well.

I baked two loaves this morning and one turned out okay and the other was flat. Very little rise and I’m sure the problem was in the shaping. I fucked it up and degassed that shit.

I hope that the other ones turn out to be better.

Here’s to hoping.

Along with the higher hydro, it uses four type of flour, rye, spelt, wheat, and white. I’ve never used rye and spelt before but I am very curious to what the flavor of the bread would be.

I just hope it is good. I think it’ll be good. I know it’ll be good.

I think I’ll try it freshly cut and then I’ll try it as toast and then maybe add butter with it. I don’t know. I want to know the taste and how different flour affects the bread.

Whether the bread turns out good or bad, I’m at a point that I don’t care. It was more of a way for me to destress and relax, more than anything.

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Food.

That’s all I’ve been thinking about. Food.

What I want to eat and what I think I should cook.

Food.

Right now, I’m doing research on how to do a deep-dish pizza.

It seems easy enough.

I think I should do it soon.

I’ll make it with sourdough pizza dough. Why not. Get more flavor, get more umphf.

I wish I wasn’t such a fan of food.

We’re just in March and I’m already wishing that the year be over already. It’s been a long year and it only just started. I still got a long way to go.

It’s all because of work.

For some reason, it’s been really busy for me. I guess with the whole Tools Taskforce and O365 and SharePoint integration along with Teams, things are busy.

I should be happy that it is busy. It just means that the day goes by faster, but it is a little draining mentally.

I don’t think I have fully recovered from that flu like illness that I had in February, but I’m sure that may have something to do with this also, but man, work is crazy.

It’s like by the time I leave for work around 4pm I can’t focus on anything. My brain doesn’t want to work. It can’t focus on the audiobook that I’m listening to, but then again, the reader is British and I always have problems with British readers.

It takes more effort to get through the accent and also, I think it is the book also.

Who knows?

But yeah, work………….things are changing.

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I’ve been doing a deep dive into MS Teams. It’ll be launched for General Availability on Tuesday and I’m going through the latest update to see what new features they’ve added and to find any quirks that my team and I need to know before we start pushing it out to more users.

I spent most of my Saturday doing that deep dive and found some interesting stuff that one can do with the new bots and new tab integrations and all of these new features. I’m thinking long game and ahead in terms of what the agency’s needs and creative needs and department needs and how they can use the tool successfully.

I’m trying and testing out different scenarios. It’s my job and it’s one of the biggest thing that has been keeping me so busy these past two-and-a-half months.

It’s exciting and interesting all at the same time, learning about this tool and just understanding a few things better in terms of how some things work within the agency.

I’m sure I’ll have to show Benjo all the things that I found out and how to set it up so he can understand the tool better and come up with other ideas on how users can use it.

It’s a very collaborative tool and I’m collaborating with Benjo and many others on how to roll it out.

I’m doing my due diligence in terms of learning about this tool and all our O365 tools and integrations so I can be a better-informed IT person to speak about the tools and how they work together and how it can be beneficial to someone’s team.

I just hope they work, because a lot of people in the agency are worried and so against change that they stopped using it.

Change is tough.

Technology is tough.

But people love their #slack and I don’t get it.

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Just stopped whatever I was typing just to do more research on Teams and its new features.

I guess it’s just how my mind works.

My OCD isn’t letting me do anything but focus on Teams and learning about its capabilities.

This behavior is like any of my other obsessions like baking. It’s nonstop until I can learn as much as I can.

Will it ever end?

Who knows?