Trina's page of Blogginess

Yow.

I just read that the price of an adult fare on Muni increased to $2.00 today. (It was $1.50.)

That's quite a hike.

Here's a list of all of the fare increases

and another of all of the Bay Area Transit fare increases.

Labels: san francisco

This is really nice.

This afternoon, I changed my Facebook status to read:
Trina Chow is spending the day with her Mom to celebrate her Birthday!! Happy Birthday, Mom!!

I also have all of my blog posts automatically posted to my Facebook page. Today's post was in honor of my Mom's Birthday.

Here are all of the sweet comments and birthday wishes that were sent to my Mom from some of my Facebook Friends.

Everyone loves Barb! :)

Happy Birthday, Mom! Enjoy!

Labels: family

Today is my Mom's Birthday!! Happy Birthday, Mom!! To celebrate, I came down to Milpitas to take her out to lunch.

First stop before Milpitas: Baker's Square in San Bruno. My Mom's favorite pie is Baker's Square's Hawaiian Pineapple. It's only available during strawberry season. The Baker's Square in Milpitas closed a couple if years ago, so my Mom doesn't get to enjoy the pie as often as she used to.

Hawaiian Strawberry Pie

Happy Barb with her Surprise Birthday Pie

For lunch, we went to House of Genji, in San Jose. It's one of my Mom's favorites - it's very similar to Benihana.

My Dad will be taking my Mom out to dinner tonight, so she'll have a full day of celebrating.

Happy Birthday, Mom!!
xxxooo

Labels: family

I love living in the Castro. Especially during Pride. Especially when
the weather is as gorgeous as it is today.

We're kicking off the festivities at Toad Hall with Pete & Richard.

Happy Pride, everyone!

I just played my third round of golf within the last month or so - I've just started playing again after my bout with tendinitis in both arms. My arms seem to have recovered pretty well. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to continue to play as long as I'm careful.

Today, I played two rounds of 9-hole golf at Flemming, in Harding Park. Yes, two rounds - we were having such a great time - it's beautiful out today, and my arms were fine, so I'm hoping it wasn't too stupid.

Anyhow, I had two of my best rounds ever at Flemming! Getting more consistent, and (particularly exciting) I've finally learned how to hit my driver!

Well, actually, I took a 1-hour lesson on Thursday - the first of 3. It went really well, I mostly wanted to improve my stroke in general, but also wanted to learn how to hit my driver correctly. I'd guess we spent about 2/3 of the time on my driver, which, so far anyway, paid off today! I hit it well, straight, and reasonably far, which is really the best I can ask for at this point. It was pretty exciting. I'm hoping I can benefit as much from my next two lessons.

The other highlight of the day was when I shot a birdie on hole 4, during our second round. I think my putt was about 6-8 feet. Very exciting.

It was a gorgeous day - sunny, clear, and probably in the mid-70s. It doesn't get much better than that!

Oh, I should mention the other funny part of the day - I tried to teach Dick and Andy how to spin a golf club. :)

Labels: golf

Today was Omar's last day at the SCV campus. I joined a bunch of the guys at a local sports bar to send him off with several pitchers of
beer. Farewell, Omar & Lora! See you in Seattle!

Labels: friends

The iris plants in our backyard have just begun to bloom! I'm pretty
excited about it. My neighbor had warned me that they may not bloom
during their first year (apparantly, her's didn't).

They are really beautiful and quite large. Very pretty!

Or, "How you, too, can bring Blane home with you!"

My friend, Blane, is a pilates instructor, and has his own pilates studio in San Francisco: Parkside Pilates. I've been taking lessons from him for over 7 yeas now (wow).

I usually take individual lessons from him on the reformer, but have participated in a few of his Springboard classes as well.

A few months ago, Blane told me that he was filming a training DVD for a new piece of equipment that was meant to be used at home. The product is called "Tower on the Go™", and is a modified version of the Springboard which can be easily used at home. It seems as if it was just recently made available!

There's a sample clip of the instructional DVD where you can watch Blane give directions on how to use the equipment for a 60-minute workout. Very Cool!

This piece of equipment is meant to wrap around any standard sized door in your home. I was trying to figure out if I have any doors in my house where I could attach the equipment, have enough floor space for the workout, and also have a TV/monitor nearby to play the DVD on. Believe it or not, only 1 door in the entire house fits the bill! I'm glad I was able to figure out at least one!

I'm going to order the equipment over the next few days. It'll be very cool to work this into my at-home workout. (I only see Blane at the studio once a week.)

Congratulations to Blane! This is very exciting!

Labels: friends

We spent the day in Stockton today to celebrate Father's Day with (most of) the Chow Family.

Here are my two favorite "Dads" - My Dad, and my Grandpa.


...and here's an old favorite - Me and my Dad, 1970.


Happy Father's Day to all of the wonderful Dads out there!!

Labels: family

it's always something...

The new iPhone 3.0 Software Update was available this morning. I usually like to wait a day or so after the initial launch, just to see if the launch goes smoothly or not. My friend, Mike upgraded successfully without any problems, so, against my better judgment, I decided to bite the bullet and update my iPhone.

After the initial download, an error message popped up without explanation. I went to the Apple web site, which suggested restarting my Mac. Simple enough.

So, I restarted, and the update started to install on my iPhone without incident. It took a few minutes, but everything seemed to go smoothly.

Up until I saw that my phone was back up and running...

...and everything was in German.

whoops.

no biggie, since everything else seems to be working.
Kind of funny, actually (she says, as long as she knows she'll be able to figure it out relatively soon...)

I found this thread on the apple discussion boards. No replies, so not terribly helpful, but, at least I know I'm not the only one.

After much searching on the internet, I eventually found this youtube video which demonstrates how to change the language on an iPod Touch. I figured it would be similar enough to an iPhone. Luckily, it was close enough for me to use as a guide, and I was able to switch back to English. :)

For the record:
to switch the language settings, go to... Read More "Settings", then to "General", then to "International" (second from the bottom). (these were all in German on my phone, but luckily, it wasn't hard to figure out what was what). The top option under "International" is "Language" from here, select "English".

Regarding the actual upgrade to 3.0, Mike just sent me this handy article:
How To Use The Best 40 Features of iPhone 3.0.

Labels: computers, geeks