My new baby
This is my new baby at work, the ThinkPad T61 Model 7664A24. It replaced the T43 you may have seen in my other blog. This baby’s got 2GB of RAM, 250GB HD, a 14.1″ WXGA+ display and three USB ports instead of the usual two on other older T-series laptops.
Of course it’s not really mine, it’s the company’s. But I get to use it. Yeah. Small pat on the back for working so hard, I’d like to think. A raise and a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland, now THAT’s a pat on the back that I’d really like, but I’ll settle for this one for now. I’ve had this one for a week now and it’s sleek and fast and can stand its share of rough handling. Just the kind of thing for the way I work.
There’s a lot of things I’m looking forward to these couple of months. There’s Season 7 of CSI:Miami which airs in the U.S. on the 22nd. Couple of days from then it should be available for download on my favorite torrent site. There’s my participation in the CSR program of one of our clients when I’ll be going to Masbate with 10 or so desktop computers for donation to the schools in that area, and teaching the teachers and students how to use them. There’s sem break for Kuya Maui and perhaps another visit from Kuya Pax, and maybe this time we can go somewhere nice.
But once a year
Had all my babies in one room again this weekend. This happens only once a year, and not even on Christmas. Happened on my birthday three years ago, though. There had been years when it didn’t happen at all.
But this weekend Athelstan Emil was playing in the Magic: The Gathering Open Tournament, so in the hours when he was not playing, we had him at home.
Turns out I didn’t take anyone at all with me, but I did take a few pictures of the event, which you can view here.
A Walk through the Republic
Life for me has been rather interesting the past two weeks, but there were developments I was waiting for before I could finally blog about them.
My son Maui is in fourth year high school, a time when you can no longer postpone the decision of what you want to do with your life. A huge part of that is where to go to college. At first I thought it was not going to be that difficult, as I had attended a parent-teacher meeting at his school where his adviser said that the school’s guidance office will coordinate with the colleges and the students regarding applications for entrance exams. This is, the advisor said, to avoid the absences a student would have to incur on the days that he/she would go to the chosen college to get application forms and such.
Happy burp*day
Just when you think we have the franchise on downturned smiles we give you a snap like this 
This is Kuya Maui and me at our joint birthday lunch. Kuya’s birthday was on the 12th of July, mine will be on the 23rd. Maui had just turned 16, and I’m hitting the big 45. We decided on the weekend in the middle to celebrate. Just the family out to lunch at one of the best places to eat in town—Burgoo!
Actually lunch turned out to be a bit of a mess because Maia suddenly became claustrophobic and refused to stay inside the airconditioned area at the second floor of the Mall of Asia, so we ended up on the tables outside on the walkway. But even then that didn’t stop us from having a good meal and taking a few good pictures.
- Birthday Lunch at Burgoo, MOA
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