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The Package Has Landed 

Sometimes blogger gets really, really flaky. I’ve been trying to edit some old posts and it takes forever for the site to reload.

I read teh first chapter of Wishcraft. It makes sense to me. You do what you liked to do as a kid. Except the only problem is that I can’t really remember what I did as a kid except to play. 🙂 Laff. Goodluck Doris, lemme know if it helps you out.

Folks, I joined the fitness club downstairs. I have a locker, shower places and a lot of exercise machines. First two months are free. After that, everymonth is $40.00. I think I need to exercise more to control my blood pressure. The best part is they open at 5:30 AM during weekdays. The worst is they don’t open during the weekends. They said that will change in April.

Edda slept through the night last night! Could it have been the 4 chicken strips she ate at dinner last night keeping her tummy full to the brim?

I’m thinking of starting to sell stuff on Ebay, but even though I would like the money, I think I’m also pretty lazy. I have thought about it occasionally before, but I always thought the picture stuff was a hassle but Picasa has taken care of that. Then, I thought getting to the post office was a hassle. But the local post office has a self-automated machine and secure package box that is located in the post office box area, so you can get there 24 hours a day and mail your packages. Hmmm…

I’m also reading through Wishcraft and I’m trying to work through some of the silly exercises and figuring out what I want to do in the future. I think it’s time to set some personal goals. Blah!

It was a great day again to go biking. We went up to the city and biked across the bridge and into Marin. We passed thru Salsalito and went into Tiburon. All told about 40 miles of biking. Not bad. Too bad when we got back to our car, we had found out that it had been towed. Apparenlty we were too stupid to read the signs that said – “4pm to 6pm TOW AWAY ZONE”. So we located the tow place and thankfully, it wasn’t too far away, so we biked there. We paid our 170 dollar ransom and left. Too bad there was a parking ticket to be paid on top of the towing fee. Yikes! I made my way back home on the Caltrain. It’s kinda fun to see what other bikes people were commuting with. There was this on guy with a pretty tricked out cruiser. The tires had tread in a flame pattern. 🙂 I got sorta pissed when the stupid girl yapping on her cell phone, put her stupid 5 dollar bike right on top of mine. All the racks were filled, I’ll grant her that. But at least pick a rack that has a cheap looking bike on it! She had no clue of course, and ended up picking the rack that has the most expensive bike in the car. Mine. Grrr.

Vertigo 

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 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.

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.