Engineer’s Attempt at Writing

I have not cooked in such a long time that I forgot how easy it is to make a pretty good meal. I spent like a total of 20 minutes (this does not include washing dishes) making dinner tonight and it was pretty good. I made top sirloin steak, salad, and mussels. Obviously, I bought the pre-washed mixed greens and I had dressing in a bottle. I just seasoned the steak with some salt, pepper, Cheyenne pepper, garlic powder. I browned both sides of the steak on the stove and then threw it into the oven.  I just followed the directions on the box for the mussels.

I am no longer to eat what I used to be able to eat. I am no longer able to finish a 24 oz steak, eat a whole bunch of sushi, or eat a giant bowl of noodles. I went to this place to get some dinner tonight and I could not finish the bowl of noodle soup. Btw, you got to try this Bun bo hue thing – it is better than Pho. Bun bo hue has a much more richer spices than Pho. Pho has that nice broth, but Bun bo hue is that broth and infuse it with a lot of spices.

Back to my original point, I barely finished half of the bowl and I was super full. I wanted to finish the rest of the noodles but I just could not do it. The other day, I was eating sushi and I could not finish it either. I wonder if your stomach shrinks as you get older?

Here is a picture of bun bo hue I stole from the internet. The one I had did not look exactly like this

Here is a link to the description of this on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BAn_b%C3%B2_Hu%E1%BA%BF

I read an Op-Ed pieces by the CEO of netflix and I have to say that it is quite an interesting idea. He proposed that rather than putting a cap on CEO’s salary, it would be better to just tax them heavily. After some time, I actually think this is a great idea. If a company is stupid enough (i.e. the board members) to pay CEO an exorbitant amount of money for helping the company lose a lot of money, then let them do it, but let the government benefits. I agree with his argument that because there are so few CEOs with the good track records, you need to pay them a huge amount to lure them into your company.

However, if these banks are taking money from the government, should they really be paying the CEO that much? What do you think?