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Driving to Conroe
Posted on October 25, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life, Travel.
David drove us to the APL building so we wouldn’t have to leave our parked car in their lot. Brian is a nerd so we got there like 45 minutes before the scheduled meeting time. We just hung out in the car and chatted until everyone showed up.
Everyone started arriving around 9:00 AM as planned. We could slept in a few more minutes if not for Brian’s nerdiness. Anyway, we didn’t actually leave until after 10:00 AM. Brad had a flat tire so we waited around for him. He wasn’t much later than the scheduled departure time, though.
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Brian and Ching Circa 2003
Posted on October 22, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life.
I found these photos in my old Fotolog. It’s where I kept my photos before switching to Flickr. I love looking at old photos. They bring back so many wonderful memories.
When I showed Brian these old pictures he goes, “Man! I miss my old TV.”
“You mean the one you chainsaw’d into a million tiny pieces?” I asked.
“It quit working!” He protested.
I had gotten that TV for him as a birthday present in 2001, before we were married. I have no idea why it quit working. I know my dad has a similar TV that is even older and it is still working. I guess we are just rough on stuff. =P
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Triple Celebration
Posted on October 19, 2008 by Ching under Family, Flickr, Food and Drink, Life.
We met at Carrabba’s for lunch today for a triple celebration: grandpa Clark’s 91st birthday, grandma and grandpa’s 67th wedding anniversary, and my 31st birthday. Since the events all happen in October (grandpa’s birthday and their wedding anniversary are both on the 12th and my birthday is on the 30th), we usually just get together for one big celebration.
This year it was even more important to celebrate early because Brian and I will be out of town on the day of my birthday. We will actually be aboard the Carnival Conquest tendered in Grand Cayman on that day.
Lunch today was a blast. Our party of 12 consisted of David, Donna, grandpa Clark, grandma Betty, Chad, Chad, Jay, Becca, Cory, April, Brian and myself. I think everyone had a good time. Joe stopped by our table and talked with grandma and grandpa a bit. I think they really liked that.
After our meal, they brought us complimentary desserts. Joe had them bring a full-sized dessert for each of us — grandpa, grandma, and me — and even an extra one for everyone else to share (we had two sogno di cioccolatas and two dessert rosas to share). The desserts were yummy!
As if that weren’t enough, Joe comped grandma and grandpa’s meals. We were really confused at first when they brought our ticket. Brian found the mozzarella sticks, the calamari, carafe of sangria, and our meal on there but couldn’t find grandpa’s meal.
We had agreed beforehand that Brian’s parents would pay for grandma’s and then we would take grandpa’s. Brian was worried that both meals ended up on David and Donna’s ticket by mistake. So he checked theirs and didn’t find grandma’s meal on there either, that’s when our server came by and explained that Joe had comped the two meals. We thought that was way cool of Joe and totally unexpected.
Carrabba’s rocks and Joe is the best!
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Over Six Years of Photos
Posted on October 15, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life.
Because I’m a nerd who likes to take lots and lots of pictures…
| 2002: | July (39) August (70) December (19) |
| 2003: | January (4) March (63) April (6) May (10) June (98) July (5) September (1) November (14) December (20) |
| 2004: | January (18) February (31) March (6) April (4) May (101) June (7) July (19) August (107) September (211) October (391) November (178) December (60) |
| 2005: | January (75) February (74) March (43) April (136) May (120) June (368) July (160) August (172) September (33) October (55) November (51) December (166) |
| 2006: | January (152) February (192) March (178) April (132) May (340) June (330) July (286) August (164) September (91) October (238) November (79) December (290) |
| 2007: | January (79) February (44) March (165) April (82) May (312) June (439) July (781) August (247) September (342) October (186) November (354) December (463) |
| 2008: | January (248) February (102) March (99) April (611) May (520) June (1049) July (919) August (672) September (199) October (1478) |
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People and Pooches Came Out for Unity Walk
Posted on October 12, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life.
We had a really good turn out at the Walk for Unity 2008 held at Central Riverside Park today. There were a couple thousand participants, easy. And that’s just counting people. If we count all the canines in attendance, we could probably add another hundred to that tally.
When we first arrived, Brian immediate noticed all the dogs. He said we should have brought Molly. He was really tempted to go back home and get her so she can socialize with the other pooches. Then we thought against it. It would have been sensory overload for her. She probably would have gone berzerk and we wouldn’t be able to control her. That, and we would have to pick up her poopies. LOL.
Anyway, we had several people from work participate in the event. Nothing like Cessna, though. They had over a thousand participants. They must have asked every single employee to attend. Everyone had their own team shirts and all of us were mere blips in the sea of Cessna shirts. Brian and I got to chat with a couple of people from Cessna and one of the Cessna guys joked that it was amazing how they were able to get the employees to show up for this event because they couldn’t get them to show up for work. Hmmm… I wonder if they have FMLA woes there, too. I suppose that it’s a plague that most companies suffer.
Even though we didn’t have as many participants as Cessna, we did win the prize for best shirt design. And, after the work fundraisers that got divided up among the various participants, I had collected almost $300 ($294 and change) in donations. Thank you so much to everyone who made a contribution. I really appreciate it.
Brian had pretty much told everyone how I forced him to walk with me so I decided to go the short route (instead of the long route) this time. I didn’t want to hear any more whining from him. It actually worked out better because we got to eat a small cup of frozen custard from Freddy’s and a little bit of chocolate chip cookie from Panera. By the time everyone else got back from the long route there were no more cookies left. I’m not sure if there was any frozen custard left, but there were a lot of participants so I’m guessing not everyone got some. The cookies went really fast, though.
Anyway, Angie found out that the massages performed by the Butler County Community College massage therapy students were free so we lined up to receive one. There was a short wait, but it was worth it. Hey, I won’t turn down a free chair massage. Although, Brian did get a much longer chair massage than I did. Beggars can’t be choosers, though. I was just grateful I got one.
I was telling Brian that if it were up to me, I would have given the massages for free but asked for donations. That would have been additional money raised to go toward Diversity Kansas. Brian thought it was a good thing that I wasn’t the one running the free massage area because we never would have gotten one as he left his wallet in the car.
We took ofter shortly after so that we could pick up a new optical mouse at Wal-Mart for Brian’s grandma. We went to see them before meeting Chad for dinner at Tsunami. Today is Brian’s grandfather Clark’s birthday and his grandparents’ 67th wedding anniversary. We went over to greet them and also bring them their gift, a digital photo frame that we had purchased a few weeks ago at Sam’s Club. I went ahead and loaded the internal memory with pictures, but it also accepts memory cards. Brian put it together for them. I think the remote is too small for either of them to use, though. We might return another time and help them figure out how to make the most of the digital photo frame, and maybe bring a memory card full of music so they can play music out of it also.
Anyway, we are doing our big multi-celebration on Sunday at Carrabba’s. It’s my most favorite restaurant right now. Since Brian and I are going to be away for week, we figured that we would celebrate my birthday early and do a combination celebration with the grandparents. Basically, we will celebrate grandpa’s birthday, grandma and grandpa’s wedding anniversary, and my birthday simultaneously. It should be fun. Chad said he will join us also.
Please comment on this entry if you’d also like to join us. This will help us get a head count for reservations. Hopefully, Carrabba’s allows reserverations. If not, we can just call ahead. We’re looking at being there around 11-ish next Sunday.
I hope everyone has a fantastic week. Thanks again for the donations.
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