Just regular folks.

Vince wearing Edda’s Easter dress.

So on Monday, Edda started to have a little bit of puking and diarrhea but on Tuesday, she seemed happy and eating a little bit better, but the watery poop continued as well as a low grade fever. She stayed up most of Tuesday night fussing, so on Wed, we went to the doctor. Actually, we all see Dr. Sullivan at the Red Hook Family Practice near Bard and just by coincidence, I had scheduled Vince, Jeremy and me for phyisical exams on Wed., so I just added Edda to the schedule. And to make it a full afternoon, Ruby had her annual check-up on Wed also. Five appointments in one afternoon. Pretty efficient.

Anyways, the highlights…

Edda is fine, I was worried about dehydration, but Jeremy figured out a way to get her to drink Pedialyte from a bottle. She’s not very skilled about using a bottle because I mainly breast feed her. And the doctor said that it’ll take another 2 days or so to run its course. She seems better hydrated today and less fussy and she did sleep much, much better last night, although it seemed as if she nursed every 30 minutes, so less sleep for me.

Ruby got a microchip put in her back for identification. We are getting ready to move her to Germany and Singapore and one of the requirements is to have an electronic tag placed in her. It’s a chip enclosed in glass and is about the size of a grain of rice. It comes loaded into a syringe and then the needle is placed between her shoulder blades. And voila, she is scannable!

Had dinner with Bob last night, BBQ chicken and rice. Yum.

Now Vince is running a low fever, but he seems to be in a good mood. We’ll see if the runny poop makes the rounds.

For the LCD panel. I just got it today. I’m been wrestling with it for a couple hours trying to reinstall Windows XP, but it kept on giving me an error about how my hard drive was corrupted. I’ve figured out the (possible) solution but I need to get my USB floppy drive back from Choon. I don’t think I’m going to ever buy another laptop without a CD-ROM again. It’s a real pain to get the operating system on it.

Folks, I will be in DC Sunday Night & Monday. Mom moved to her new office which is a little bit further than the old one’s.

Played bridge and Soul Caliber on the Sega Dreamcast tonight. It was Shwe’s 30th birthday, and we surprised him at dinner. I should say his girlfriend surprised him by playing coy and even making Shwe suggest the restuarant that we were all meeting up in. Clever.

On the other note, Jack and Lynn are finally engaged. Lynn had her rock on her tonight. They had shopped together for the ring awhile ago and Jack was just making her wait for the ring to torture her. The proposal came in their living room after watching “The Notebook”. She was wearing her pajamas and he had just come out of the bathroom.

Turbotax is great. It cost me a little bit to file, but I found some deductions that I probably would have missed otherwise. Plus I get to keep my tax history online. Great stuff.

Hope she is getting better!

Donald, Mom told me about options you are considering. That is very good. Here are a couple of my thought on this. They may be out of cohesiveness.

1) Very good
2) Don’t plan & think too much. Just go ahead do it.
3) Do them simultaneously, not sequentially.
4) The easiest way and best bet are still in your main field. Keep looking intensively and smile a lot. Try to get back to your field with concessions.
5) Looking in your field can be done parallelly with other options.

Just let us know what can we do to help.

Well, I was back yesterday. The lady right next to me read her book all night on the plane. I almost punched her but, of course, I did not. Just pretty annoying with those shining light reflected from her book. I managed to sleep anyway and went to work after stuck in the traffic for 45 minutes. After working 7 more hours & my blood pressure was normal. That was a piece of good news. I plan to be around a long time to enjoy Mom’s nagging 🙂 Well, Mom is great, especially, she is very good to me. Sometimes, I am wondering why Mom said “yes, I do”. Kind of lucky 🙂 You too.

Well, while on the way out to Richland, the airlines provided free lunch and it was a big surprise. Surprised indeed, I got a bag of expired chips. I complained to the flight attendant. Not too much response because I guessed everyone got their chips expired. Not just expired recently, but 3 weeks ago. Guess what, I wrote a letter together with the expired chips to their customers services. Stay tune …

Well, now my small refrigerator is full of Mom’s supplies. Great! I found out wrinkled paper is an excellent insulator. Food stays cold after 20 hours.

So I’m posting a few photos from Jeremy’s Germany trip. On Friday after the meeting ended, Jeremy went with Asuka and Carrie to the Festung Koningstein, a castle near Dresden. It was really, really cold because the castle is on top of a pretty big hill and totally exposed to the winter wind. They also ate very nice pastries. Jeremy looked at a nice 3rd floor apartment for us. We have to see if they will let Ruby live there. Well, we also have to sign the agreement.