Mochi Grande

After being left sitting for hours last night, today we wait for the dealer to come to bring Mochi Grande over!

Sooo pretttty and white :)

PS. Thank you oyster eater from east coast for letting us drag her along and sit around for hours.  ext time you come it will be much more fun!

Almost Total Solar Eclipse

Today we stayed at home so that we could see the solar eclipse.  Supposed to be a big thing because we would get close to 100% total eclipse.

Couple things I learned.
1) The couple % points matter quite a bit.  We never did see a total blackening like the folks we saw on the TV experienced (nor did we see the 'diamond' and the ring of fire).

2) Telephoto lens will burn, so don't use them unless you have bought a filter.  I did not dare use it for fear of breaking the lens, the camera, and my eyes.  Ended up using my phone for most of it, which actually provided a somewhat ok shot.

3) Do not stare directly into the sun without the special glasses.  Very very important.

Surprise Visit!

The plan: A surprise crashing of Aman's place, to celebrate his upcoming bday.  Organized by her sister, the plan would be that she would pretend to take a long time getting ready, in time for us to show up.

What happened: He got too hungry, started ordering pizza, and then ate a whole pizza before we came with the 'second' pizza to surprise him.  He was pretty surprised.

We also decided that there would be a power hour Despacito evening to follow in a weeks' time.

Happy pre-birthday!!!

Stitches Update

Another 2 weeks later, the cast was off last week.  First day off (left), it looked pretty dirtttty.  But after a few days and lightly showering, looking mucho better!

While my fingers are somewhat nimble, my wrist is pretty much stiff as a rock.  PT, here I come!

Wolverine!

As expected, one week later and one surgery later, I now have a metal plate and 7 screws in my wrist.  The plate and screws are not adamantium, just titanium :).

Colles fracture is the term.  Surprisingly, doc says that in one week, the cast can come off.  We will see how it goes.

Drugged up Mson the Wolverine out.

ER for 5 hours...

First time playing soccer in a month... ended up spending 5 hours in the ER.  A pretty freaky fall where I was doing a spin move and got tripped, and just fell sideways.  Landed with my left hand and snap, it was definitely broken.  Wrist was totally distorted - and it was very very painful.

Receptionist: How is it?
Nurse Person who walked me in: Yea, it's pretty deformed.

Yup - that sums it up.

Two morphine shots, and some 'D' drug later, the pain was controllable.  But supposedly they were about to hang me (my hand) for a few hours, to try to let gravity pull me into place - so I was originally going to take one more dose (since this hanging was supposed to be painful).  But I ended up not taking this second dose, as the same thing when I had bruised my ribs a few years happened.
I actually warned the nurses and docs that if this happened, all I needed was some apple juice and cookies.  Of course initially they did not really believe me, but as they were just about to give me my next dose, it started to happen.  Apparently my face and lips turned white, and my blood pressure plummeted... but they quickly stabilized me by putting me on more IV juice and started sticking more stickers on me.  Needless to say, shortly after that, I got my juice (thicked apple juice), Gatorade, but no cookies :(.

2 hours later, they tried to push the bone back into place, but no such luck.  So they sent me home with some painkillers.  As it turns out, the reason they didn't give me my cookies was because they were afraid that they might need to put me under general during the push the bone back process (since it was suppose to be super painful).  But nope, I have to say, after them drugs inside, I was actually not in too much pain.

Returning home, our haul from grocery shopping earlier in the day was waiting for us.  We had found a good deal on crab and spot prawns.  So getting home at midnight, after having had nothing other than 2 eggs, thickened apple juice, and Gatorade, we made a quick dinner with the fish and the spot prawns, and boiled the crab to be saved for another day.  Good thing I know how to open prawns with one hand (and a mouth :) ).  These prawns were pretty yummy!

Thank you to my soccer teammates for driving my car, giving me some emergency advil, taking me to the hospital, giving them there jersey for a splint for the car ride.

Lexus Test Drive

Went to the Lexus dealership today to test drive, in our continuing saga of looking at cars.  It was a pretty big fail.  Perhaps it's just not our thing to test drive cars.

A few weeks ago, we went to a Mazda dealership in U district and we thought the service was pretty bad.  The guy brought a manual with him into the car and read it out as I asked questions.  Then the  guy tried to be all gung ho and said that I can drive the car without him in it (which I took his offer on), but then after 5 minutes he calls and says I need to bring the car back thinking that I would run away or something (even though he has all my information???).  Then if that wasn't enough, as I was parked waiting for the salesperson who told me to come back (who at this point was no where to be found), I sit there where another other salesperson with another potential buyer basically walks towards the car, and in fact, opens the trunk.. while I was still in the car.  Needless to say I was not impressed.

But today, this would be topped.  We would get a salesperson who was supposedly new to the job.  That's fine - but she knew NOTHING about the car or what was being sold. 
a) We asked for something specific, then we are shown an excel spreadsheet of codes and prices (which of course made no sense to us), but apparently made no sense to her either. 
b) Then we asked to test drive a car, and 30 minutes later, we still do not have a car to test drive.  We finally asked around and finally got a a car to drive, but it wasn't the model that had the features we wanted to try out. 
c) We drove it anyway to try, but there was very little explanation on what the car does - guess she should have opened the manual...
d) We get back, and supposedly the car we wanted was supposed to be there.  But it wasn't.  Salesperson kept saying the feature we wanted to try (all speed adaptive cruise control) was on the car, and told us to try it.  I had to basically yell at her to stop telling us to try since i) she never showed us how to use it, and ii) the feature actually wasn't there (so if we did try it, we would have rear ended some poor person's car).

For a dealership so large, you would think there would be better sales... nope!

As a consolation for putting ourselves through that, we went to Ginza for dinner.  They had some delicious Japanese uni.  And their staple horse hair crab soup for $30.  Delicious!

Small 10 year reunion

College Roommate was in V. town, so we went up to meet him.  By stalking on Facebook, we realized that Hochi was actually also in town, so it quickly became a 10 year reunion!

First night, we had 1.8L bottke of sake… effectively between two ppl… :)
Second night, went to Cha Time! wuhahahaha!

THE Chablis - Bone Marrow Wine Funnel

It was a cloudy Canada Day to begin with.  Then as the day went by, it got sunny!

Ended up at RN74, where I was introduced to the "Chablis" - which translates roughly to Bone Marrow Wine Funnel!

How it works:
Step 1. Put end of chute (aka funnel) near mouth
Step 2. Slowly pour wine down chute
Step 3. Drink from the chute
Step 4. Finish pouring the wine into the chute
Step 5. Savor in the wine + fatty goodness :)

Delicious (and fun)!

Attending my First Education Conference (ISTE 2017)

Got an opportunity to attend my first ever education conference.

It was pretty eye opening to see all the education products that exist, and all the technology and different ways technology is helping kids learn.

There were alot of teachers, IT admins, etc.  Was pretty cool to talk to them first hand and see how the products are being used.

10 years later, 5 years late… diving in!