Just regular folks.

So, I took Vince and Edda to the gym today and dropped them off at the Kid’s Club while I worked out. Vince was thrilled to be playing with the other kids and Edda seemed freaked out at first. After I finished my 20 minutes of rowing, I went back to check up on them and as soon as Edda saw my mug, she started crying. Apparently she spent the time sitting on a little girl’s lap, happy as a clam, and as soon as she realized that I was in the room, she would start to cry.

Well, I am sitting in front of a house to use their internet wireless service. We are in San Diego area and enjoying ourselves.

Doris & Jeremy, your dating picture is great. Donald, how is your bone?

Jeremy has spent the past 2 days interviewing 2 different candidates for rotation positions at AMD. One is a grad student from Yushan Yan’s group at Riverside and the other is from Paul Ho’s group at UTAustin. Now that the interviews are complete, he’s concentrating on preparing for the Singapore trip next week.

The kids and had a great time today. I started my 1 week trial membership at the Fishkill All-Sport. I know I’m only going to be joining for 2 months, but they have an outdoor pool, children’s classes, and day care. I think Jeremy may be in Singapore by mid-May and I need somewhere to go for a few hours in the afternoon now that Vince doesn’t nap anymore. It was nice this morning, Edda was a little freaked out by the day care, yesterday during the tour, she was fine being left alone in the day care room – but this morning, I think there were a lot more kids and a lot more commotion and she was crying a little bit. Vince went to a Kids in Motion class where they got to play with bean bags and parachutes. I rowed an uninterrupted workout! Hooray!

Then we rushed home for Sammy’s party at the apt. complex. Sammy’s mom, Ormere baked scrumptious cupcakes and had Hi-C juice boxes. Two other kids came and they all ran around in the beautiful weather.

Then this afternoon, Sammy came over for a playdate. They played inside for 45 minutes and then we went to the playground outside. It was fun.

Vince and Sam, the birthday boy inside the Incredibles tent.

On Monday at preschool, Vince spends the last part of outdoor time in the sandbox. Ms. Pat supervises on the left. From left to right in the sandbox is Hyon Woo. Michaeil, Daniel and Tina.

Edda inside tent with Vince protesting outside.

Sheez, I love new hobbies. I’ve known about bookcrossing for a while, but now I’m into Geocaching. I guess I’ll need to buy a GPS system.

My Framebuilding Adventure

On Sunday, I got up at 6am and headed down to Monterey to watch the largest cycling event in North America – The Sea Otter Classic. My friend Jason had the (ugh) earliest start time of the day at 8am and I was trying to make that. I was off by about 3 minutes. Grr.

Also, the owner of the bike shop, Mike, was going to race in the 44-49 age group category. He’s a big roadie, but was convinced into trying out mountain bike racing. He didn’t even practice riding the mountain bike before he raced on Sunday. He still came in 24th out of 80 some. Pretty impressive.

Mike Riding Sea Otter 

We adjourned to the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae for the banquet. I got seated at table 16! The number itself wasn’t terrible, the fact that there was a large pillar blocking our view of the dance floor and head table was. Whenever someone gave a speech or when people clinked their glasses to have the couple kiss, we missed out on the action. cse la vie.

Afterward the dance floor opened up, and here’s Choon and Pei-Sun tearing it up. They are really ood dancers…

Choon and Pei-Sun Swingin’