The day began where the night before ended - with me sleeping at 3AM.  I awoke at 8AM on the sofa, looking at my watch, with a sense of urgency in the back of my mind.  Listening closely for the voice of my friend, or his footsteps, or a knock on the door, I slowly realized that he had not shown up yet.  Thus, I was able to grab perhaps another half hour of rest, before I received his text that he was at the door.  Thus, I hastily put some clothes on, grabbed my helmet, gloves, wallet, and cell phone, and went downstairs to open the door for him.  He greeted me with his usual grin, and came inside.  We then ate a plate of fruits each, which my mom had prepared.  Then, I pumped up my bike tires with sufficient air, and we took off biking 20 miles on the wide, fairly empty streets of McKinney and Plano.

About two hours later, I arrived back home, exhausted.  I rested for half an hour by playing some Heroes of the Storm.  I went back downstairs and had lunch.  Then, I drove down to Alamo Drafthouse to watch Ant Man with some friends.  The movie was nice, fairly mundane with a few witty and funny moments, but mostly inconsequential.  

After the movie finished, I then drove to the office parking garage, and took a nap in the cool dark shade of the empty garage.  It was nice and pleasant.  Around this time, I received a text from a friend, asking whether I would be interested in eating dinner together, to which I replied in the positive.  I wanted to show her a new ramen place that had recently opened.  

This was still a few hours before dinner.  Thus, I opted to drive to Kazy's for some ice cream (4 scoops of green tea ice cream, to be exact).  Thus, it began.

After finishing the ice cream, I drove to Valleyview Mall, and met up with her, picked her up, and took her to Monta.  There, I ate my usual Tonkotsu Ramen, plus egg, plus a second serving of noodles, plus a side order of gyoza.  She had a bowl of Tonkotsu Shoyu Ramen (which is a combination of Tonkotsu Ramen and Shoyu Ramen).  We talked over dinner about various insignificant things.  

After finishing, I dropped her off back at the mall, and went to Dallas Yamasushi.  There, I had a few sakes, and chatted with the staff.  It was fun.  I both learned a lot from them about they way they think, as well as consciously resisted conforming to their lifestyle.  But, this night was shaping up to be exactly according to the way they live.  After a few hours, seeing that everyone seemed to be busy, I took my leave.

On the way home, I received a text from Frank, who was asking whether I would be interested in going to Yamasushi for comfort food.  I asked him, "which one", to which he replied the Plano one.  Thus, I went back home (in the half hour left when I could still see outside without the aid of a lamp), and refilled the gas, and bought a bag of topsoil with which to fill in a few patches of eroded earth from Home Depot.

Having finished the job, I then drove hastily to Plano Yamasushi, where I had dessert - taiyaki, and mochi ice cream.  Once we were finished, we noticed that there was a lady who was there who worked at Kazy's.  She was with another fellow who took care of the mechanical aspect of Kazy's business.  We got to talking, and I learned that he was looking for programmers.  I gave him my email, and he told me he would forward me details for what he was looking for.

Then, I bought them a bottle of sake, which they shared with me and a waitress who was the friend of the lady who worked at Kazy's.  After all that, I chatted a bit more with Frank, and we parted and went home.

The whole day costed about $100, which is two times my budgeted allowance for eating out per week.  In other words, I will be foregoing optional non-obligatory opportunities for eating out in the future, until the balance evens out.

Of course, some people may say that I really lived last night.  However, deep down, I lack the peace to be happy with the way the day turned out.