Dinner with German friends.

We had dinner with Jeremy’s coworkers from AMD-Dresden who are here on a 1-year assignment. The live in the same apartment complex that we do, just a few doors down. Martin and Partrize have two kids, a daughter Clara and a son Johann. They were giving us advice on where we should live in Dresden.

Martin actually grew up in East Germany in Dresden. He lived in a area nicknamed “The Valley of the Clueless” because unlike a lot of East German – Dresden, because of the topography, could not get TV reception from West Germany – so he lost out on learning about American culture via television.

I saw a doctor today

I had a doctor appointment today and no fever. It is getting better now. Doctor complained there are too much paper work and no time for real medical work. I think it is all over in the USA now.

I do not know too much coumpter is really help the production? In engineering area, there are more scheduling people, controllers, and beam counters. We never have those jobs 20 years ago. Overhead is very high everywhere now.

Tot time

Went to “Tot Time” at our apartment complex. There were about 5 other moms there with a bunch of little ones. We played in the tot room and had a snack and then we went to the gym where they pulled out scooters and balls. I sometimes don’t like these playgroups because I spend a lot of time just chasing Vince around telling him to share, but this playgroup was really low key, a lot of the moms were friends and the kids pretty much did what they wanted.

Crawling Back to Pittsburg & Crawling Back to Office

Sunday, it was tough and rough. I got Mom’s love bug but had to flight back. Boy, what the trip it was! I felt really terrible but what else could I do. When I landed in Pittsburg, it was midnight. By the time, I got to my motel, it was 1:00 AM. When I reached my motel, what a relieve it was. I just crawled back to my bed and slept. Next day (same day?), I went to work at 7:00 AM. I rested a lot in my office yesterday. Today I am better and Mom probably has to see a doctor today. She is in worse shape than I was. What a love bug and crawling back to Pittsburg.

Everyday, I run from the parking lot to the front door of my office, just for exercise. It was helpful a bit for my daily route to exercise. It covers about 100 steps. Today, however, I tripped while doing that. My glasses, orange, banana, bagel and brief case were scattered all over the frozen ground. A nice lady, helped me to pick them up and put them into my brief case. What a crawling back to office :(. I am okay now. No problem and will do that with greater care.

This week and next, I will try to set a record for “paid” overtime. 🙂

I Need to Gain Weight (Fat)

Got back from a late afternoon ride. It’s getting to be pretty warm here so I didn’t really bundle up that much. The temperature started to drop, and it got cold. At least I was wise enough to bring my arm and leg warmers but it was still bitterly cold. I’m down to about 170 now and I think I’d want to keep it there. Lately I’ve just been so sensitive to weather. I get chilly just standing in class today. It’s almost scaring me a little. So yeah, maybe I’ll have to start eating Jack in the Box before going to bed now. 🙂

Catfish dinner

Here’s a good dinner that we had last night and I think it’s easily adaptable to one, for all you people cooking alone out there. 🙂

One catfish fillet, soak in milk for a little bit. Get some bread crumbs and mix in salt, pepper and whatever other spices you want (we used cayenne and paprika). Take the catfish out of the milk bath and dredge in the bread crumbs until coated. Place in an oven-safe pan and pop into oven or toaster oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes (I’m not sure exactly how long) until done. Test with a fork. Serve with starch and veggie. We had a mashed yam and steamed broccoli. Yummy!