Month: October 2005

(Site maintenence question)

Bro –

I just turned on the site feed (under settings) on Just Regular Folks, but I think it isn’t an RSS feed… Could you take a look at it? Do I have to use something like feedburner to make and RSS feed? Do I need an RSS feed? I’m starting to use Google Reader and I’d like our blog to come up on it. I figure that Google Reader and Blogger should be compatible, but who knows…

Also I changed back the comments to Anyone but with word verification so we won’t have the spam, but we will have anon. people commenting. Thanks!

Love,

Sis

Vince’s grumpy mood continued today and even though we went to the trouble of making pancakes for breakfast, he declared that he wanted to do nothing today – or as he says it – I don’t want to do nofing. So over and over again Jeremy and I ask, is there something you want to do? Do you want to eat at the Move and Pick? Do you want to go to the Gymboree? Do you want to eat at McDonalds? OK, we didn’t really offer the last option… He finally said, “I want to go to Takashimaya.” Takashimaya is only the most expensive and popular mall in Singapore. The mall that the store anchors has Gucci, Tiffany’s, Bulgari, etc. etc. etc. Boring and expensive consumerism at it’s best. So what do we do? We oblidge and head straight to Takashimaya down town. We usually take the bus there and taxi home. The kids like the bus. On the bus, a woman tries to convince me to go to church, that makes about 5 people so far who have tried to convince me that I need to become a Christian. It’s mainly cab drivers who have me as a captive audience who try to get me to go to their church. Jeremy hasn’t had anyone try to convert him. Lucky guy.

We get to Takashimaya and we get a snack at a coffee shop and head straight for the toy section. Vince must have caught us in a nice mood because he scored the following Thomas the Tank Engine goodies – a pajama set and also sneakers with blinking lights. I swore once that I would never, ever purchase blinking light shoes. Now I swear never to say never. Edda got a little pop-up toy thing-y. We also bought the Hi-5 CD which is this kids show that Vince watched over and over again on the plane ride over here and hasn’t stopped talking about it since.

Jeremy took the kids home by cab and left me to look at the shoe and handbag section, but by the time I had really started to feel relaxed and unwound from the week (nothing like trying on shoes with heels that I would never wear, but imagine that I look way cool in them even though I’m wearing torn shorts and a food-stained T-shirt surrounded by young, hip, thin Singaporians), Jeremy called and said that he forgot his key and was locked out of the house. Yikes.

Headed back and unlocked the door and then went grocery shopping and made dinner. And now I’m going to go to sleep. Good night!

Today Vince was in a grumpy mood. Even he admitted as much. A lot of whining, complaining and indecision. I had planned to go to both IKEA and Gymboree, I knew it was going to be tight because IKEA opens at 10 am and the Gymboree class started at 1 pm. We queued for a taxi to go to IKEA and the whole time Vince said he didn’t want to go, he didn’t want to go and the line wasn’t moving at all, so finally I stepped out of line and headed towards home and he said, “But I DO want to go to IKEA!” So we got back in line and went to IKEA and didn’t get there until 10:45 am which meant that the Gymboree was not going to happen. I know, I know, lame things to talk about, I know I can only plan on destination per day with the two kids. When I have Jeremy with me, we can usually do 2 or 3 but with me, I only have the energy to go to one place. I’m always so anxious when I’m out with the kids by myself. I’m always sure someone is going to cry or we’ll have to find a bathroom at some incredibly unfortunate time, but even when things like that happen, we all manage to do what needs to be done and it’s OK. But the whole time I’m just anxious anticipating these inconviences. I’m trying to do better. We had lunch at IKEA and not at McDonald’s or KFC or any other fast food place. Hooray. The kids actually at some meatballs and had fun there.

I started my sock project today that my secret pal sent me. Actually, I was going to put it off because socks seem pretty hard to me, but I looked through the instructions and I think I can do it. I didn’t start the actual socks yet, just the gauge swatch and the yarn is so tiny and the needles are so tiny, it’s like I’m knitting floss with toothpicks. It’ll be cool.

Moving Offices… Yet Again….

Heh. On monday we are moving to our new home off of Page Mill. It’s sorta crappy in a way cause it’s nice to be on campus but really it was just a matter of time. I went to some Asian Staff Forum luncheon today, and the provost said basically that a lot of staff will end up in the old Excite@Home buildings in Redwood City, so in a way, Page Mill is a lot better than that.

I’ve packed all my stuff up already. pretty much i just used 1 box. I’m pretty proud of that fact. 🙂

I’m basically not doing anything for the rest of the week. ha

Edda loves, loves, loves, loves animals… All animals. Especially ones she can get really, really close to and laugh at.

My laptop was delivered on a freaking wooden pallet!

Finished my first knitting project! Hooray! It turned out pretty well for my first project. I’m doing a little dance. Dance, dance, dance. Doesn’t Edda look great? And her big toe looks huge.

Jeremy’s boss is in town and so he’s at dinner for the 2nd time in a week, leaving Vince really bummed that he’s put to bed by me. Jeremy’s been doing the bed routine for months now and the boys really enjoy it.

I’ve been surfing the web on my new computer and it’s so nice. I can’t believe how much I’ll pay in hardware for a stupid internet connection. I don’t want to download anything, not even the Flash plug-in, because I want to keep my computer all new and pristine. You know when you buy new white sneakers and you don’t want to scuff them? Same thing.

Hmmm, what else? Oh yes, we got a bigger fish tank and more fish. The goldfish were just getting so huge, they needed more room, so I Super Sized the tank and added 2 new Rosy Tetras. I’m pretty much not picking out the fish, I’m just asking the guy at the aquarium store which fish are the hardest to kill. Anyways the 2 new guy are called Bob and Wendy. And it turns out that I’m overfeeding the goldfish. Apparently they are the Laborador Retrievers of the fish world, always pretending to be hungry.

And for the knitters out there… I’ve finished my first project, a green kids sweater, but I can’t post a picture becuase I haven’t downloaded and photo software just yet.

I’m typing this on my brand-spanking new HP/AMD Laptop! Woo hoo! I’m connected and ready-to-go! I will post a picture soon. Finally after almost 2.5 months without one.

Oye, what a pain in the butt. I bought my nice 24″ lcd panel the other day, and I ordered a pretty cheap Nvidia card with a DVI port thinking that I could run 1920×1200 just fine on it. Apparently it’s not able to do it even tho it’s max resolution is like 2000×1500. And then on top of that newegg has a 15% restocking fee! sigh. well i guess it’s my own fault for not doing my research first. I’m running only 1280×1024 right now on my old crappy ass card. Looks like I’ll have to bite the bullet and go out and buy a computer now. sigh….

in other comptuer news, I reinstalled Arif’s boss’ computer. It took me awhile to transfer all the iTunes playlists over to the new system. iTunes definitely does not make this easy. The other funny thing is that her computer could run 1920×1200 just fine! and it’s like a 2 year old computer! double sigh.