Just regular folks.

I had an interesting conversation with Frank tonight. Honestly, I’m not sure I follow him all the time, but I do know that he thinks very differently than a lot of people out there. Anyways, one thing that he said stuck with me. He always tends to think about what his priorities are 10 years from now and tries to act accordingly. So right now, he’s 24, and he thinks about what his priorities would be at 34. Somewhere on the list would be, money, character, family (I’m guessing).

Of course, I can’t help but think about what my priorities are 10 years from now when I’m (oh god) 39. 😛 I would think character, family, money – in that order. I feel like I’m moving towards my character goals – growing and learning and experiencing life. I’m not sure I’m moving towards my family goals. Money, well, I feel like I’m moving away from that goal too since I have no money.

On the topic of getting married, Frank calls this issue “The Looming Deadline”. It probably applies more to women than men, but basically it goes like this: People hold out hoping to find “The One”, but when see that they are 32 and not likely to find “The One”, then they might relax their stringent requirements in order to get married. Why not just relax your requirements right now and avoid the fate that you’re setting yourself up for when you are 32? But people won’t do that and they walk knowingly into their least desirable outcome.

Am I doing this too? Choon says I’m too picky about women. But I’m not sure that Frank’s scenario applies in my case.

Click Me and Turn on Sound.

Compliments of Suzanne Frischkorn.

A new book meme circulating around the sphere is going by the name “123.5,” and its rules are these:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

“Men were driven by it, in his opinion.”

Vince and Jeremy use our meat grinder to grind turkey thighs for tonight’s tamale pie dinner.

Vince and Edda in the reading nook of the East Fishkill library.

This is Vince’s 4th day without a nap. I think the napping era may be over. I am a grouch because of this. I want, I need the nap. Oh well, at least he goes to bed at 8 pm not instead of 10:30 which I guess is an improvement. Also the move to Germany and Singapore is up in the air again, I don’t know the timing or anything again. Perhaps that is also why I’m in a sour mood.

heh, sweet. I forgot I just got a new scanner! whee! There’s the x-ray of my shoulder on 3/2. I’m going into the doctor’s again next Wednesday morning. We’ll see what they say, tho I’m a little worried. The bone is still flexing a bit. I’m going to keep on wearing hte slipg when i sleep. I think that’s when my bone is out of shape the most.

My Broken Collarbone 

So the fire truck stopped by this morning. Apparently someone had called about some steam coming off the roof of the house. Nothing seems to be on fire tho. One of my roommates locks his room, so I couldn’t check it out at all. The steam seemed to be coming out of a vent from the next door neighbor’s house. The fire dude said it was probably the shower or the dryer going. Oh well. pretty exciting!

I am with Mom. Came in last night. Stopped at Cinninati and got some famous Cinninati chilli on a burger. Claimed to be the best chilli around the country. I guessed it was good but not as advertized.

Too bad we are here without Donald though. But, always have “next time”. More tax time before 3 weeks trip. Will go to Washougal to get the river view window done.

Mom decides to build a house on her aunt’s 30’x36′ plot in ChungMing. Her aunt gracefully gives her the plot hoping that a more modern house will be built. We offered to buy the plot, but she said “no”. Other two adjacents plots are for their two kids. Mom will let her aunt and uncle stay in the house as long as they like. It is fair.

Head hunters asked me to explore a prospect in Denver. See what will happen? It is permanent. Not bad there either. Just touring the country while working. Maybe we can get a townhouse or an apartment there also. Who knows?

Just before this photo was taken, Edda was happily chomping on Ruby’s ear. I think Edda is finally back to her old self, the trip to Boston threw her for a loop. I remember when Vince was about Edda’s age and we went on a trip to the southern part of Taiwan, he was so fussy the whole time and when we finally got back home to his apartment and his friends, he was so happy.