Author: Doris

My computer is still broken; no word yet from the HP guys when it will be fixed. I have been using Jeremy’s work computer at night, I feel weird doing much blogging on his computer. I quite enjoy my respite from so much computer time – I really am addicted to the internet.

On another technology front, I think I can finally say that I’m a competent cell phone user. I’ve always been an awkward phone user. I like putting off making calls. I always hope that someone else answers the phone when it rings. I have owned at least 4 cell phones in my life, but I’ve always forgotten to charge them and hence, I very rarely used them.

Now I have a few friends I can SMS, I have appointments to make/keep, I’m always out of the house. I actually keep my phone in my front pocket. Jeremy was so impressed when he hung out with me on Friday – I was calling and SMSing all day. It’s a big thing for me, making calls and plans with other people, I haven’t done it for many, many years. I’ve relied on Jeremy to call for the last 10 years and in college, I just hung out – no elaborate plan making. I guess it’s becuase I don’t know if folks really want to hang out with me – you know, maybe they are busy with their other, more interesting friends. I don’t like asking people to hang out, but I love the actual hanging out – I love being busy and having lots of plans with other people.

I’ve been regularly getting up at like 8:30 these days without an alarm clock. Doesn’t matter when I went to bed. midnight, 1am, 2am. I’m up without the alarm. Strange for a boy whose mutant power was to sleep like 13 hours a day….

We got the underwear. I forgot to tell you. Jeremy is happy.

It was a party night.

Brian, a mechanic that worked at the shop, had his last day yesterday, so a bunch of us from the shop did a rare thing and actually hung out together outside of the shop. We went to a Japanese restaurant to eat. It’s funny cause some of the younger folks were freaked out by sushi and couldn’t use chopsticks. I had fun freaking them out a bit. 🙂 Otherwise it was really nice hanging out with them. It’s really a shame that we don’t hang out more often in non biking settings.

Afterwards, went to Lynn’s, where I gave her the ceramic knife. We’ll see if she likes it. I think she just got her knives sharpened, so maybe it’ll just be a fancy plya knife now. oh well. We were celebrating the pending brith of P’ng and Judy’s baby in October and we played a lot of silly baby games like – who’s the fastest drinking from a baby bottle and having to do a blind taste test of chocolate bars melted into a diaper. Oh boy. Life is gonna change when your friends have kids. Ha

Before Mom has her ipod, she was already crazy about music. With ipod, she has been spending a lot of time with music – Chineses, Oldies in 60s/70s, Opera, Presley’s, etc. In short, she is submerged herself with anything music. And evidently, she is enjoying. That is good – our apartment and car is full of sounds of music all the time. And according to her, with ipod earphones on all the time, she does not have to listen my nagging 🙂

Well, after 40 years of knowing her, here comes the “music” girl. But, I am still enjoying doing nothing and sleeping 🙂 – Mom says that I am pretty lazy with zzz …

My beloved computer is being repaired by the HP folks. Someone in this house (someone short I suspect) broke my “.” key and we wanted to get it fixed while it was under warranty.

Tonight (9/8), the moon in the sky is the brightest. Mom and I drove out to find a place that we could enjoy the moon together. But just too early at this time (9:30PM), so we decided to go back to our apartment to have noodles and some white Portuguese wine (mateus) – the first wine that Mom and I shared 40 years ago. The noodles are good but the wine is not too tasty based on our later experience on other more fancy wines. But, we did really enjoy it.

After that, we will go out again to chase the moon tonight.

Jeremy is 38 today. That is *this close* to being 40. Yikes, we are in the middle of middleagedom. I chose a Barney theme for the party.

Good cake was had by all.

When I boarded a small shuttle bus at a long term parking lot of Douglas International, at Charlotte, NC to catch my fly to Las Vegas, an old man [I thought] stood up immediately and asked me to sit down on his seat. I was very thankful for his courtesy but, on the other hand, I was surprised. It rarely happened to me – I think I can manage myself all the time. I thought I wasn’t that old that this “old” gentleman needed not to yield his seat for me. Not only that, there was a lady sitting right across the aisle there and she helped me very hard to put my small luggage on the rack.

On the way back at Fort Worth International, Dallas, Texas, when I boarded one of the sky link light rail cars, there was an old lady doing exactly the same thing. I thought it wasn’t coincident. This time, I just carried a small hand bag without any check-in luggage. Not only that, there was a young man with his wife. He cleared up all his belongings on the adjacent seat to make more room for me, so I could have two seats all by myself. This time, I realized how old am I? At least in their eyes. Nobody offered anything to Mom who was right next to me. I was really surprised and immediately had a “Shrinking-Ego Attack” while everyone was looking at me to get settle down. I did and, after that, I patted that young man on his shoulder and said “I think you are pretty old too and do you like to sit down on this empty seat”. Everyone around me laughed. And I “did” too.

I guessed right now I realized I am old, old and never be able to going back, not a year, a month or even a day. But, to be truthful, I am still young in my heart. There are a lot things that I really like to do 🙂

Aries:

“You are on edge now, for it’s hard to know when to quit. You may be seeking perfection in an imperfect world, and can easily frustrate yourself if you expect too much. It’s no use looking to your friends and associates for guidance today, for they will only end up confusing you even more. As much as you want to be done so you can move on to what’s next, accept lack of forward movement with as much grace as possible.”

Hrm. dunno. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. Not sure why really… sigh.