Phoenix Photos
With all the craziness of getting paperwork graded and fina exam questions written, I neglected all of the photos I took in Phoenix. I finally went through and uploaded a few. For being the 5th largest city in the U.S., Phoenix certainly needs to grow just a little more for me to return. My visit felt similar to my visit to Charlotte where downtown wasn’t much more than a few tall buildings and anything outside of that was residential or rural-looking. Their Children’s Hospital is beautiful and brand-spankin’ new. So was the Sheraton. The 2-day workshop was helpful and it was a lot of fun catching up with Elaine and Arlene who also attended the course with me.
Here are the photos from my weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.
To all my loyal readers…
Merry Christmas!!
Love, Beak
Lam Housewarming
On Saturday, we went to the Lams’ to warm up their new house in Redwood City. It’s a cute 3-bedroom house complete with a backyard and lots of indoor space. Koa got to come along and got to check out Kona’s new home too. They had Street Fighter for Wii with arcade controllers for a true retro experience. Congratulations to Jen, Kevin, and Kona!!
Here are the photos.
Time for an upgrade!!
After 2.5 years of abuse, my white Gen One MacBook will be getting a little rest. Last week, I was in the middle of surfing the internet when my MacBook decided to give up on me. It just shut down for no reason. So, I pushed the power button and it tried and tried to start up again but just couldn’t boot up. I thought it was because it ran out of battery power but nope, it was plugged in. Boo….
So, I gave it a rest, turned it back on, and it started working again! Sweet! That following weekend I took it with me to Phoenix and as I was using it on the plane (not plugged in of course), it died within a matter of 7 minutes!! What the heck?!
Last night, we went to the Apple Store to see what could be done and I guess the battery was just plain dead. We purchased a new battery for $125 and I ended up taking home a brand new MacBook Pro too!! Woohoo!!! I had contemplated an upgrade a while back but decided that I could wait. About 6 months later, I am now an owner of my second mac. It’s bigger, brighter, faster, and oh so pretty. Merry Christmas to me!
I was also surprised at how simple it was to migrate the entire contents of my old harddrive to the new one. It only took an ethernet cable and a couple clicks of the mouse to get me up and running. I didn’t need to reinstall applications. I didn’t even need to reset my desktop image. Amazing.
It’s like a puppy tree!
This evening on my way home, I picked Jes up from work and he suggested that we stop at the tree lot. Yay! So with only about 50 bucks in hand, we went on a search for this year’s tree. In an effort to be frugal this year, I finally got to buy one of the smaller Charlie Brown trees.
You really gotta love a tree that you can throw in the trunk. It was short, fat, costed 20 bucks, and perfect. I had to choose my ornaments wisely this year and thankfully there was enough room for each of our annual ornaments and a few standard ones.
‘Tis the season!!
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