Just regular folks.

I woke up last night during a dream and I said to myself, ah, I gotta remember this dream. But this morning, the dream has been misplaced. Maybe it’s under a pile of laundry or something.

Jeremy is booking tickets to Geneva from JFK sometime today or tomorrow.. Our friend’s wedding is on June 25 in Grenoble and Katherine and Bob are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary the week before in the South of France. The plan is to have all 4 children and partners and their 2.5 grandchildren there as well. I think maybe Charlotte will come too. Katherine has rented a B&B on Lake Geneva. Very exciting. Except for the fact that we don’t know exactly where we’ll be living. The worst case senario is that we’ll be living in Dresden, all together, and would have spent $3500 on unrefundable airline tickets. But Jeremy thinks that the Dresden thing is off and now we are just headed to Singapore after our European Vacation.

Ms. Pat told me yesterday that as soon as Vince goes outside for playground time, he asks her over and over again if it’s time to go inside yet. It got to be so often yesterday that she asked me if Vince doesn’t like being outside.

Arif … is ENGAGED!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here’s my braze welding sample from class today. It’s not bad, tho there’s a wall of perfect welds in the lab, and it’s got these perfect dimes to them… man. This is a bit different than the picture I had before. Braze welding, you don’t actually melt the steel underneath. You just melt the brass and it joins the 2 pieces. Anyways, this will probably be my preferred way of joining up frames in the future. You can grind down the brass and make the weld look smooth and pretty – and I like the gold too. 😛

I talked to my prof about my frame today. Apparently, she wants me to design a jig instead to align the frame properly. Great! So I’m thinking that instead of making a frame for my final project. I’ll probably end up making the jig for the frame. Ha! But it might be a good thing, cause then I’ll have something that I can just pump out frames on…

Braze Welding 

To day, we had an all hands meeting and informed us that 1/3 will be gone. It is not supperise due to the wrong siesmic curves and lack of work. We will have 60 days notice. So, if I have my pink sheet next week ( I am on vacation), my last day will be in middle of June. It is not a bad one at my age. However, office working will keep my life regular and paychecks are very nice to have every two weeks. On other hand, I have all free time to go to school to meet friends and traveling. I think that I have paid my full dues to the sociaty.

The only thing I owned is to the Chinese sociaty which educated me to my collage years. So I will do more volunteering work in China. Most likely, I will teach some kids at my home town-Choung Ming Dao. Many of my friends like this idea and would like to help. I am very happy that my Aunt gave me her lot for building a house on. She is my father’s younger sister and she is very close to my mother too.

Unlike last time, I am ready and prepared for the moment this time.

What did the doctor say?

Vince has been invited to his first real birthday party!!! It’s for a boy named Michael in his preschool class. It’s at a gymnastics place called Diamond Gymnastics & the Fun Zone. I’m looking forward to going, although in a few years, I know I’m going to hate going to birthday parties.

So last night I dreamed that I was in a casino… That’s pretty much all I can remember about the dream. Jeremy was a bit stressed last night after meeting with an AMD VP for 10 minutes. It sounds like Jeremy may go to Singapore during the last week of April to scope things out.

The alarm clock on which I first heard Michael Jackson’s Thriller is dying a slow death. This poor little alarm clock has woken me up for almost 20 years has become unreliable. A few months ago, I noticed that sometimes when I turned on the radio, it would come on very softly even though the volume was turned up. Today, we overslept because even though the alarm was set for 6 am, the alarm turned on at 7. Ah, time to look for a new beloved clock-radio.

So since I’ve been rowing, I’ve got little muscles all over my body. In order to celebrate, I might buy this. It’s pretty much low enough to show my C-section scar. Jeremy says that since we are going to the south or France, I could save money and only buy the bottoms.

Went shoe shopping at the Poughkeepsie Galleria. My, what a fine shopping institution that is. Got Scooby Doo shoes for my little boy. He picked them out himself.