is it possible to overdo it with the fruits? i've been snacking on an apple a day for the past 2 weeks. it definitely keeps me away from the junk food and the candy and i do feel healthier. only red delicious though, i try to avoid the tart varieties.

my order of fluorescent bulbs arrived today. being that these glass tubes are sort of fragile, i was curious to see how they shipped them. the lights were wrapped in a tight coil of inflatable plastic balloons then surrounded by a layer of styrofoam peanuts inside the cardboard box.

finally finished hellgate:london with a level 31 blademaster. the ending is sort of anticlimatic: after you defeat a series of demonic bosses in hell, it plays the finale movie then the game ends, showing you the credits before dumping you out. no option to replay the game at a harder level, but you can still play the game with your old character, just starting from the beginning of the game. i may try a different class of character but the blademaster is the best (and probably the easiest).

those cypress vine seeds? i was curious why they never sprouted, so tonight i dug around the dirt with a pencil, trying to figure out if there was anything going on. two of the seeds never germinated, one of them seemed waterlogged, and the 4th had a fungus gnat maggot living inside of it. i should've never recycled the dirt containers, should've gone with a fresh potting mix. so i'm doing it all over again, soaking some seeds overnight, plant them tomorrow.