A Chocolate Diversion

I decided earlier today that I needed a hair cut. Several people told me that there was a place on Water street I could go to. I found two of them and neither was open. It was only 5pm and they were already closed (or in one case, remodeling). So I found a way to treat myself so the trip didn't feel like a total loss.



I ate the purply/red one (bottom right corner) first, because I had no idea what it is so I figured I would start with a clean pallet and maybe I could guess it. There was a very soft chocolate center that seemed to have a mixture of raspberry, cherries, and a hint of lemon.

Next is the coconut. This one was very good. The outside was a very dark chocolate (probably around 70% cacao (yes I did spell it right, slightly different meaning)) and the inside seemed like slightly moist compressed coconut. Coconut makes everything taste better. So does making something spicy or free. The best flavor in the world must be spicy coconut that you got from someone for free.

Now hop to the top left for the organic peanut butter chocolate. The peanut butter is what you taste first in this one, followed by the sharpness of the dark chocolate. The peanut butter is super light and creamy and goes very well with the chocolate.

Next up, the Italian liqueur. The chocolate on the outside was extremely thin and the chocolate on the inside had the consistency slightly thicker than that of pudding. I could taste the remnants of the alcohol (unlike popular opinion, the alcohol is almost never cooked off completely. If fact, most of the alcohol is usually left after cooking). From my limited experience with alcoholic beverages it reminded me most of wine.

The double chocolate with nibs was next. Wow, this one packs a punch. They weren't lying when they said "double chocolate." The nibs actually offer a toffee like texture with a pure chocolate taste.

I saved the wasabi chocolate for last because if it really was hot I didn't want it to effect the other chocolates. This one was not very enjoyable. I do enjoy wasabi, but apparently not in my chocolate. I will not be buying this chocolate again.

My top two were the Italian liqueur followed by the double chocolate with nibs. I don't feel that any of them were worth the $1.85 (each) price tag, but they were enjoyable. When I head to San Francisco I think I am going to try to get myself some excellent chocolate and I'll tell you how it is.

Coming soon, The New and Imporved Tim…

Once again I will mention that this blog will probably become obsolete shortly (except for the christmas list, that is going to stay up forever). You should start migrating to my new blog

I think I mentioned in the last post that I started to work out again. Well I actually remembered to take pictures this time before I started working out. I’m not going to post them until I have some “after” photos that look really good, but so far after only two weeks into it I’m looking rather impressive. So all my loyal readers (I’m pretty sure this only amounts to about two people) should be looking forward to some before and after photos and probably a video in the next few weeks. I’ll also share my workout on here. Some of my dress shirts already don’t fit as well as they used to. That’s ok, by the end of the next few weeks I’ll look better without a shirt than I would with one :) haha, I have to be able to joke at least a little don’t I?

Dorm tour, Life advice, and Diets

First off, I recommend you start to shift yourself to my other blog. Here is a link, and there is also another one off the the right.

Hey there. I’ve only written a few things in my blogs since coming to school and I haven’t uploaded any videos. Sorry about that. Here is a new video in which I give you a tour of my glamorous new dorm. It’s very exciting and comes highly recommended by someone, probably. I’ve been reading a lot of the blog posts by Tim Ferriss, the author of 4-Hour Work Week and and inspiration to many people. He gave me the idea for my new workout, which requires that I only actually work out twice a week for half an hour. That post was titled “From geek to freak: how I gained 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks.” That should give you an idea of how effective this workout can be. There are also some crazy before and after photos. I’m going to add his blog to my list of links on the side because you should really check it out, well worth the time. In my last post I talked about my “walkabout”, well that’s not happening anymore because I found something that will be much more exciting. I’m sure I’ll do it at some point, but maybe I’ll wait until the weather is a little nicer.

One of the most important differences I have noticed in myself since December is that I no longer feel guilty about stuff anymore. It’s not that I can do bad things and not feel bad about them. Not that at all. It is that I don’t do anything that requires guilt. I used to feel guilty about things I had to reason to feel guilty about, and that doesn’t happen anymore. I realized this when several people recently tried to guilt me into stuff and it didn’t work. I used to always be easily guilted into things, not anymore though. It’s awesome! Guilt free is the way to be. It’s kind of like one of the things I try to tell people. I feel the advice “live life without regrets” is some of the worst advice you can give someone, because human beings aren’t usually rational enough to make quick decisions on important things. Besides, it is not possible to live a life without regretting things. It is going to happen whether you like it or not. The phrase should be changed to “don’t regret the life you live.” Live life in such a way that in the future you can look back and say “yeah, I have some regrets, but I lived my life in such a way that I can be proud of it and if I did it again I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Diets: Why most people are complete idiots

The typical view of a diet is something that restricts your eating habits for a period of time usually with the goal of losing weight. Here is the problem, that is the worst way to look at it. Your diet is just your eating habits. You should always be on a diet, there is no way to not be on a diet. Take for instance when people talk about animals. They say, “its diet consists of…” and then go on to say whatever it is they eat. For my example we will use a snake. They don’t say “the snake’s diet consists of only mice this month because it wants to lose an extra pound.” That would be ridiculous. You diet is just what you eat and is not a temporary thing, you should always have a healthy diet that is not constrained to a period of time. The goal of your new diet (what you eat, not a weight loss program) should be health, not weight. You should be eating healthy to get all of the important vitamins and nutrients that your body needs. Losing weight will be a side effect of health eating habits, not the goal. The reason diets don’t work for most people is because they look at it as something temporary, when they should actually be changing their eating habits for the rest of their life. This is one of the hardest concepts to get people to understand.