Archive for the year 2003
Logan’s Birthday
Posted on July 20, 2003 by Ching under Family.
I’m feeling rather lazy so I’m doing this the short way. What I mean by that is instead of posting Logan’s birthday party pictures here, I’m just sending you to the offical birthday album via the Alonso family website. We had so much fun at Chuck E. Cheese, even though all of their games were for kids eight and under. Brian was really looking forward to playing games but much to his disappointment he was a little too old for them. We had a blast watching Logan play, though!
While we were outside Chuck E. Cheese waiting in the parking lot for mom and all the other guests to show up, Brian and I were really debating whether or not to go inside or continue to wait. We were reluctant because, even though we lived less than half a mile from there for almost two years, we both have never been inside before. Brian really told me we couldn’t enter because we didn’t have any children with us. He says that it said so on the door. There’s supposedly a sign that reads, “All adults must be accompanied by a child.” Since I can’t see that far without glasses or contact lenses I almost believed him. Ha-ha, Brian!
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Random Stuff
Posted on July 20, 2003 by Ching under Family, Life, Poker.
We went swimming at Andy’s yesterday. It was a blast, specially since we spent more time swimming than usual. Of course, since I don’t know how to swim and can barely keep myself afloat, it thoroughly wore me out. It gave my body a major workout. I’m yo-yoing between 108 and 110 lbs these days. I’m glad that I haven’t gained more weight since I’ve stopped working out on a regular basis. It just goes to show that eating less helps tremendously.
After swimming Brian and I took my car to the carwash. It’s my car’s turn to get cleaned since we took his car to the carwash last week. We didn’t even bother changing. We knew that we were going to get wet anyway so we just went there in our swimsuits right from swimming with Sarah and Ashley.
Later that evening Brian and I went to his parents house to check out their new computer from Dell. Brian helped his dad setup a network between their old pc and the new one so he can transfer all of his files. They needed to transfer their stuff over because they plan to strip their old pc and give it to Brian’s grandparents to replace their old pc which cannot play any of the games that are available now. It has a difficult enough time playing the games that are already installed in the system.
Anyway, I hung out with Brian and his dad as they setup the network between the two computers. Brian shared the C-Drive on the old pc so that the new pc had full access to it. Dave wanted to transfer his contacts and saved email messages from the Outlook Express on the old pc to the new pc and I was the right man for the job. Transfering the contact list was easy enough. Brian and I have done that numerous times because of all of the times that he has uninstalled and reinstalled the operating system on his computer, exporting and importing contacts from our Outlook Express and Yahoo! mail, not to mention to and from our computers.  Transfering the messages was a little harder because we’d never even attempted to do it before. We went through the motions of importing but neither Dave nor Brian could figure out the source folder. They both gave up pretty easily and resigned themselves to the tedious task of forwarding all those emails (hundreds of them) that they had saved over time and just retrieving them on the new pc. Never one to give up easily, I kept digging. I finally found the source folder on the old pc. So we tried again. Brian who sometimes has doubts about my abilities (but I can’t blame him because I act like a dumb blonde most of the time) goes, “If this works, I’ll be really impressed.” Under normal circumstances I would’ve replied, “Prepare to be impressed then!” But, as I’d never done it before, I wasn’t too confident about the process either. Dave goes, “It this works she’s getting a really big hug.” Guess what, I got the hug!
That’s all for now, I have to get back to playing UB. I lost $88,000 goofing off at one of the 100-200 tables one night and now I’m back to the kiddle tables. Brian had a really good night last night and got up to almost $300,000. We also figured out how to transfer funds between players. He gave me $50,000 so that I could play with him at one of the 500-1000 tables but I lost it all on ONE hand! He gave me another $10,000 just now but I blew threw that pretty quickly too. I’m going to have to work on getting more playchips myself from now on because Brian won’t give me any more money! See you all in UB! Â
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July 4th Photos
Posted on July 12, 2003 by Ching under Family, Life.
Here are the pictures that we took on July 4th as promised. They’re not all that exciting but I figured I had to get them posted because I’m running way, way behind on posting the pictures that I’ve taken. There’s still the pictures that we took on July 10th at work, for Misty’s birthday and then the pictures that we’re going to take tomorrow during Logan’s birthday party.
Someday I will find a way to automate this process. Until then, you’ll have to settle for the lag time.
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Recap
Posted on July 8, 2003 by Ching under Life, Travel.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two weeks since my last posting. We’re not even that busy! Fourth of July came and went like a blur. The three-day weekend was super nice but it went by too quickly for me. A real vacation would be nice but I’ve used all of mine up already (remember when our furnace died in winter)..
Fourth of July was spent at Sedgwick County Park and then at Brian’s parents. The Filipinos gathered at the part for a fourth-of-July-slash-despedida-party celebration for the Doronios who are moving to Kansas City. Tita Tessie, probably the most creative person on the face of the earth, made this really cool scrapbook thing with everyone’s pictures for Tita Lita and Tito Wendell to take with them so they’ll remember their friends from Wichita wherever life may take them. I thought that was really neat.
A Filipino party without karaoke isn’t a Filipino party at all. So naturally, someone brought a TV and MagicSing (or Magic Mic, as I like to call it). As they were doing karaoke, I went and played sand volleyball with a bunch of people. That was a lot of fun. I love playing volleyball. Of course, Brian, who is not so fond of physical activity, just sat in the shade and watched. I wish that he would play volleyball with me sometimes. He did this during our honeymoon too. I went and begged a whole bunch of strangers (well, they were on the same ship as us) to let me play volleyball with them, as he lay in a hammock watching from a distance. I don’t know how to convince him or what to bribe him with to get him off his butt and playing volleyball with me!
Over at Brian’s parents, everyone was sitting around in their lawn chairs on their neighbor Jim’s driveway. I think the highlight of the evening was Kevin getting shot with a beanie baby by a 120-psi air-powered cannon. Email me if you want the video clip.
Saturday was spent laying out with Ashley and then shopping after that. On Sunday Mom took us all out to eat at RibCrib and then we went to see Legally Blonde 2 (but only because Derby Bowl was closed for the holiday weekend). I have some pictures but I’ve been lazy so I haven’t processed them for posting here. I will post them next time. I promise!
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Weekend Plans
Posted on June 29, 2003 by Ching under Life, Movies, Poker.
I just learned that you get Ultimate Points (redeemable towards Ultimate Prizes) just for playing on Ultimate Bet. Of course, you earn more points for playing in the real money tables but Brian and I can’t afford that so we just play in the play chip tables. You get bonus points for playing in tournaments and everything. I don’t care if it’s just one Ultimate Point per hour of play. I’m just happy that not only am I getting fun and entertainment value out of sitting my ass in front of the computer for hours on end, I also get to earn points towards prizes.
The only depressing thing is that, after making a few calculations, I’ve determined that in order to earn enough Ultimate Points for the prize that I’m working towards (the Tahiti cruise and Bora Bora stay worth $2,000,000 Ultimate Points) I’d have to play in the play chip tables fulltime for the rest of my natural life. Unless of course I start playing in the real money tables and start earning bonus points. Brian’s already put his foot down on that one!
We didn’t get much done today. We were supposed to clean house before going to the movies (we just went to see CA2: Full Throttle at the new Warren Theater downtown) but Brian and I ended up watching Junkyard Wars instead. After that Brian decided to play poke on UB (and he said that I can’t whine about it because I’m the one who got him hooked to begin with) and before either of us knew it, we barely had enough time to shower and meet Andy, Ashley, Misty and Sarah.
Before leaving, we said to ourselves that we would clean house when we returned from the movie but that didn’t happen either. UB struck again. Brian’s actually still playing as I’m typing this entry. Hey, at least he’s earning points (hopefully towards that trip I want but I think he will hold out for the Harley-Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle). It’s just a shame that we aren’t able to combine our points together so we can get the points we need faster.
By the way, the Kansas Powerball was up to $135 million after no one won the drawing on Wednesday so Brian and I decided to take a chance on it. We spent four bucks. He got to pick numbers for one and I got to pick numbers for one and we got two quickpicks. I ended up nailing the Powerball number on the one that I chose numbers for so I got $3 out of that one. Not too bad. I wish we could have won the jackpot but, at least we have three bucks towards more lottery tickets for a shot at $165 million (if no one wins again). No whammies! Â
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