It is raining and cold here in Boston today. Good day to stay indoor and work on my sculpture, or is that just the result of my unpacking?
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After you moved, no matter how organized you are, the first thing that you need is in the last box that you open.
Corollary in progress — where should you pack the packing tape?

Adding to the list of Universal Truth of living — Do not smell the fish sauce.
During dim sum at lunch today, we entered into a extended dicussion on why we love eating foods with fish sauce, but never, never, smell it straight up. Do you know how fish sauce is made?

Good Friday, have some time at home, so it’s time to call all the services and switch addresses. Apparently, for electricity from NSTAR, they will pick up the tab for the electricity during the time the the loft is not occupied. That’s pretty good. So I don’t have to pay for the initial few weeks […]

Believe me or not, I had a great experience at the RMV (Registry of Motor Vehicles) today. One of my Spring ritual is to get the Miata ready for the nice weather. At the local garage to renew the inspection sticker, and I realized that I threw out the actual registration but kept the renewal […]

I just watched a live broadcast from Hong Kong on CNNfn. The Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chi Hwa gave a press conference on SARS. He came acrossed as a very skilled communicator and politician. He was smooth, personable, communicate in both Cantonese and English seamlessly. Yet he politely ignored questions that he did not […]

Moving is …painful. Lucky that I have help to packed my entire kitchen, all 15 boxes of it. Books and CD’s and DVD’s are easy also. But the office is, well, not done yet. Last two times when I moved it was so much easier, partly I think I am moving to a bigger place […]

ARRGGHHH…. I hate packing. Picked up 25 small boxes from Uhaul, paper tape, and movers wrapping tape. Then I found 20 boxes in my basement from my previous move. I think I have enough boxes now. Five minutes into (re)assembling the boxes, gave myself a huge papercut from the box. Now I am boxing with […]

From slashdot — the full Matrix Reload trailer is now available here. It’s a 96 meg download. Luckily I have MegaModem — downloaded at 200+ KB speed. Sadly, my old trusty IBM T22 ThinkPad is not quite fast enough to show this quicktime movie smoothly. Oh well. Have to view it on my Shuttle (the […]

In the loft I currently have Digital Cable TV from RCN. The service from RCN has been first rate so far, but the cable TV itself has not been so good. I am not complaining about the program (yet), but the cable box. This Motorola Digital cable box is years behind my Sony DSS controller. […]