Trina's page of Blogginess

"Fruit flies like a banana"

Generally speaking, if I don't have a blog up for the day, it's safe to assume that I'm too busy working to blog. (unless, of course, I'm just being lazy......)

I've realized that I don't talk much about my work here - which is actually intentional. Client confidentiality, and all that ;)

So rest assured, I am working, I am busy, and I'm still LOVING my job!

"What does Trina do?", you ask?
see for youself!

Today is January 15th.

don't forget to pay your Estimated Quarterly Taxes today :)

Our kitties provide endless hours of amusement...

Here's Marcel's latest thing:
We have a small space-heater set on timer in our bedroom. (old house, no heat upstairs) Marcel has just discovered that the heater is nice and warm! (the room is generally very cold) Over the past few nights, we've found him laying next to the heater. Not surprising... The funny part is, he likes to stretch his front paws out so that they are underneath the heater! It's pretty funny, and hard to describe, so here's a pic!

Dick just found this: it's a UNIX command that brought up all of these dates from The Lord of the Rings. I don't really get it, but somehow all of these things are just living in my computer. It's a UNIX thing... If you have a Mac running OS X, (or any computer running UNIX, for that matter) open up a terminal, and try it out for yourself!
Note: there aren't any years, just months and days.

Who knew that Dick shares his birthday (September 14th) with both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! I didn't know that Bilbo and Frodo shared the same birthday... let alone Dick! What does it all mean? Perhaps I'm dating a hobbit! ;)

[Trina-Chows-Computer:/usr/share/calendar] trinacho% cat calendar.history | grep LOTR

01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR)
01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR)
02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR)
04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
07/04 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
09/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
09/15 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR)
10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR)
12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)

check it out - new section on the right side over there ---->

I have my "blog-arama" list started. you know, other geeky friends I have who write blogs. (and I do mean "geeky" in the absolute best way possible!)

I didn't ask anyone's permission to list them (come to think of it) but I assume if they have a blog out there for the world to see, them it should be okay for me to point you their way, right? (Hmmm, just let me know if you want me to take you off the list)

if you'd like to be added to the list, let me know! :)

Enjoy!

I've hardly been home at all this weekend! Finally having a chance to sit at my computer to catch up.....

Friday night, we went to Pete & Richard's house for dinner. They made a yummy split-pea soup! We all love the same Jacques Peppin recipe. Mmmmmm. We played a good round of Halo on Pete's new TV, then he showed us "Voodoo Vince".

Saturday - spent the entire day with my family in Stockton. We went to visit my Grandparents. We had lunch with my Dad's parents. Grandma made us Turkey Jook, and some How-Gow. Yum! Then we went to Grandma & Grandpa Chan's house. My parent's bought them a new DVD player for Xmas, so I hooked it up while my Mom worked on some computer stuff for them. We're so efficient! My Grandpa Chan's birthday is on January 22nd. We celebrated his 87th birthday a couple of weeks early by taking him out to dinner. It was really nice.

Sunday - I met up with some friends from high school today. That was fun. We usually meet up once or twice a year. I was pretty much out of contact with all friends from high school until about 3 years ago when we reconnected. It's nice to catch up with all of them.

We just got back from dinner at Roy's!!!!!!!!!!!! In case I haven't mentioned it here before, I've decided it's my favorite all-around meal. Appetizer: blackened ahi tuna. Entree: butterfish. Dessert: chocolate Souffle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmmmm. Decadent. We went with the usual dinner crowd: Omar & Lora, Shan, and Vivian. Very fun.

That's about all for now. Just wanted to touch base before the weekend completely ends.... (sorry, too lazy to put in links.....)