Friday night I stayed up
late watching the Ocean's Eleven commentary track. I was just trying to
stay up late so I'd get up late and hopefully mom would leave for her
yearly Christmas gift thing without me. It worked because Christopher
woke me up at like 11:00. Apparently he had hid in Steph's room so he
also didn't go.
Dad, Steph, Chris and I went to Rice Bowl for Dim Sum. The place was
already packed by noon with lots of people waiting for seats. Somehow
we got seated rather quickly. I wasn't there but Chris said money was
involved. Oh well, that's how it's done in more rough and tumble
cultures. We had a small table for four and lots of food because there
were food carts everywhere.
Chris gave out his gifts. I got a Targus Notebook Chillhub which is a
pad you put your notebook on. There are two fans to blow air up onto
the bottom of your notebook. The pad is powered by your USB port and it
also functions as a USB hub with four ports. It actually does work
fairly well in keeping my notebook computer cool even when I'm running
at 100% processor usage with boinc.
Auntie Mien came over for dinner. We had prime rib with Christopher's
mashed potatoes. Later they watched Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a bit
too loud. Then they watched the rest of White Christmas. I finished
watching the Ocean's Eleven commentaries and copied some of Steph's
DVDs for later viewing. Getting a bit tight on hard drive space.
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Oh, Christopher fixed my
old iPod. Actually he had Apple fix it. He went to the Apple Store and
had them take a look. They couldn't get it to boot so they gave him a
new one. Steph now has Christopher's 15 GB iPod which may be useful
with her new car. Her car has a six CD changer mounted on the
dashboard. It only shows a CD slot so you have to stick each CD in one
at a time. At least it's more convenient than having a CD box stuck in
the trunk like Dave had for his car. Anyway, with an iPod and an FM
broadcaster she should be good. I'll give her mine which I didn't have
any luck with.
I played a couple of hours of Elite Force II. Figured out the part I
was stuck in on the Romulan base. There were three things I had to
shoot and I didn't see the third one. Then I went through the rest of
the base to get the location of the final planet. I went to the planet
and have been working my way forward. I stopped at this part where it's
me and a big monster in a not that big arena, with no health
rechargers. Haven't been able to kill the monster yet.
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