Hey, a tenative date with Hsu. She's from Burma aka Mynamar. This will be a first then. I haven't met many Southeast Asian women in general.

Let's check the Burma Wikipedia entry. Longest civil war in history. Rampant ethnic strife. Economy largely based on petroleum gases.

This kind of looks like a dump. I wouldn't want to live there.

What else? My fingers are kind of messed up. I think it's an allergic reaction to tomatoes. Now my right middle finger's knuckle is inflamed. The tips of both index fingers are sore too. And my pinky is still swollen but...not as bad as it was. Some days it looks better, other days it looks worse.

Could be carpal tunnel, I guess. But just to be safe, I'm going to completely eliminate tomatoes from my diet and see if that helps. This awful chili that I made had a can of tomatoes in it. I've been eating tomatoes all my life without any problem but maybe it's Scottish tomatoes.

It won't be easy. Loads of recipes have tomatoes in them. Technically, pizza is elimated.

And this damn chicken. What am I going to do with it? This recipe was awful but it's good in the sense that you make a big pot of something and then just heat up portions every day of the week. I like that aspect. Shame the food is so bad. And possibly causing my fingers to swell.

And no, it's surely not carpal tunnel because my lips felt swollen before. So that's clearly an allergy.

So weird. But what to do with this chicken? I need a recipe where I can just make a big batch of something. Chicken soup, I guess. But that didn't actually use much chicken from the recipes I saw. Can always add more chicken, I guess. I don't even eat the vegetables anyway. Carrots and celery or whatever. No thanks.

So yeah. Try chicken soup for next time. Hopefully tastes better and doesn't mess with my fingers.