Thursday? Thursday!?!?!? THURSDAY!

Randomness abounding…

Looking like work is picking up even more now. I’ve apparently got a 2 week deadline to design, code, and test my module that isn’t even speced out yet. whee!. I went on a yelling spree today. I sent a not so nicely worded email that basically was like, “everyone talks way too much in this group.” a couple people in my group thought it was a harsh email. oh well. I wonder if people think I’m difficult to work with. Or if I’m the group asshole? or maybe they just think I’m weird. Whatever.

I saw Ted’s x-ray the other day. He totally crushed his collarbone. It’s in 4 pieces right now, and apparently they are _not_ going to do surgery and pin it. I don’t understand how it’s supposed to heal straight, but okay! No wonder it hurt a ton for him too. I was like, dude, you’re a wuss. it’s not that bad! :p

I got the dukes of hazard dvd from you doris! Thanks! Where’d you get the elvis card from anyways? It’s pretty cool.

I’m trying to go suit shopping for arif’s wedding. i dunno if i’ll make it in time as it seems like it takes 10 days for people to tailor it. ah well. I suppose I should get one anyways, since I really don’t have a suit to begin with, and it’ll come in handy for other weddings. Looks like I’m going to go with a black 3 button suit from Brooks Brothers!

In other news, I don’t know if I can keep commuting anymore. getting up at 7:30 is killing me. Rather I should say, going to be at midnight is killing me. but ah sa. I need to rethink this…

Donald out!

SGP…

Ruby, with her carefully arranged flight schedule, made to carefully coincide with predicted bowel movements, arrived not with us as planned, but 12 hours earlier on the continuation of our first leg out of Frankfurt. Jeremy had spent many days trying to arrange a good flight for Ruby, which included a 12 hour layover in Frankfurt to insure her a rest and nice kennel. But the baggage people left her on the plane and allowed her to go ahead without us. Ruby the pioneer! She got to the airport 10 hours earlier than us. Luckily, the company we hired to help up put her in quarintine was already on-site at the airport and moved Ruby to the quarentine station without us. We are fortunate to have procured their services as they paid for the quarentine space before we even landed. Lucky for us, we also taped copies of all the import information onto Ruby’s crate. Visiting hours are from 4-6 today, so I’m hoping the kids and I can make it down there to see her new digs for a month.

It sounds like our apartment is fully furnished and ready for move-in, but the landlords are still waiting for the 2 month deposit from AMD. Hopefully, that will happen today and we can move in on Saturday before Jeremy has to go to Germany for 5 days.

I’m going to try and get a cool cell-phone today. I don’t know what it is about being in Asia, but I love cell phones here. It’s becuase I’m cheap and I love not paying for incoming calls and I truly believe that the cell phones are cuter here than in the US. My major goal for the next two years is to learn how to text message. Woo hoo!

Frankfurt.

We are doing our 12 hour layover in Frankfurt. Vince loves flying business class! He’s pretty hilarious with his video remote and a beautiful tray of mac and cheese with nuggets and huge headphones on his head. He went to bed about midnight EST and got up at 4 am EST. And now he’s sleeping during our layover.

Edda’s doing well, she slept for most of the flight.

The Singapore flight attendants are amazing, remembering everbody’s name and being so nice and helpful.

We are hoping Ruby is doing well in baggage, the reason we are doing this 12 hour layover is so Ruby gets to be in a larger kennel and gets to walk around.

Denver & the New Car

Mom is heading to Denver. Her starting date is August 8th. The assignment is a temp assignment of 3-6 months and can be longer. With higher hour rate and per diem, Mom is ready for the new work in Denver. I will move Mom’s stuffs to Washougal and drive Mom to Denver.

The other upside is that Denver is much easier for me to get in and out. It is also cheaper.

With lot of incentives from Ford, we bought a Ford Crown Victoria yesterday. We need to have a car in Washougal and it is going to be Ford Windstar. F150 was out due to it is too big for Mom plus the reflection of the dash board on the front window bothers Mom a lot.

NO F150, but Crwon Vic

We did not buy F150 since it is too big. The big problem is the reflection due to the panal which is made of three parts with different colors. It shows on the front glass and there is lots of distraction. The second problem is the rear view mirror is too small and the back window is very small too so the view is not that good even the side mirrors are so big. Daddy is bit disapointed that we did not buy F150.

However, the Crown Vic is a very smooth car and I do like it. With V8 engine, it runs very smoothly. I did not get leather seats since they did not have one. Daddy did not like leather seats anyway.

I think I will know if I have official letter for Denver offer.

Arif’s Bachelor Party.

We had Arif’s bachelor party last night. Tho I must admit it’s probably not quite the bachelor party that Arif imagined he’d have 4-5 years ago. No strip club or strippers. Just basically hanging out in Arifs’ old stomping grounds in the City. Aka the Fog City Diner and Cafe Greco on Columbus.

I think we’re all getting old. everyone was pretty much beat after that. Oh well.

Ted Joins the Crowd.

He broke his collarbone on our bike ride last night. We were coming down 84 and his rear wheel locked up and over he went. He pretty much slammed his shoulder into the pavement, broke the entire right side of his helmet and almost got run over by a car afterwards.

but he’s okay now. I would tease him a bit more, but he isn’t quite pleased with himself like I was when I broke my collarbone. Too bad, since he needs a good ribbing.

heh. onward I suppose!

Denver & Charlotte, NC

I am with Mom and will shop for a F150 at Washougal. She is the one like truck. I can not quite figure it out. Here comes the cowgirl – Rena, driving a truck.

Still not cast in stone. Mom probably will be in Denver for a temp job (3-6 months) with the same per diem and 1/3 higher hourly rates as mine. After that, she is eligible to have un-employment payments with WA for 6 months. Those payments remain effective until we are 65 and 7 months for 6 months. Still, it has a lot of time & ??? in between. See what will happen.

I have a prospect in Charlotte, NC with 3 months as a temp and, later, becomes permanent. It is iff right now. But, first, be hired first.

We will look houses in both places and do some math before doing anything. Denver with comparative lower market values and close to Rockies probably is more suitable place. Don’t know.