To finish Sunday's activities

I did go and buy the TV from CompUSA. PG helped me carry it into the house. The box was quite large and heavy. It is currently sitting right inside the front door. I cringe when I think of having to take it out of the box, removing the old TV and setting this one up. Seems like a lot of work! Well, I will try to get this done by tomorrow. I will ask PG to help me out.

D & M came by to meet Max. We also checked out the open house that I saw last Sunday. It is still a great house, but the closets are way too small to function properly. Not only is there not enough room for the clothes, but shoes have not place in the closets! I am not sure what the designer was thinking...maybe that anything would sell. People are getting pickier and more discriminating. We went to dinner at Asia Manoa (I cannot remember the name) and had a good Chinese dinner. M thought it would be a Chinese with an Italian influence. I did not see the Italian influence, though. She said that her sister highly recommended it. (g).

We had a chance to talk. I was a little hyper and got a little carried away talking about stuff. I once asked Dr Frank if he thought I was a manic depressive. I got an "absolutely not"! I don't really know what is a manic depressive personality. It is just sometimes I feel really up and other times, a bit draggy. Well, that may be the answer...I am never in the pits of despair and my really "up" is probably not even closes to the exhilaration a manic might feel.

Later that evening, I decided to finish checking out the other two shareware programs. Big disappointment. The MP3 Collector was too clunky and awkward to be very useful. I also did not care for the Movie Collector. Somewhere in this process I came across another shareware company selling very similar products (Library Series). I downloaded five programs to check out (Book, Music, Photo, Music and Movie Libraries). I decided to get two from the collector series and three from the library series. Will order them tonight. I got the Photo Library and scanned the A Computer and located about 800 MB of duplicate photos! Took me hours, but I finally deleted all the duplicates. When I looked at the clock, it was 3:45 am! Oh-oh...I did have the time to start the defrag process, though. I am not looking forward to scanning the B Computer for duplicate photos. Sheesh, then I have to compare the A, B and C computers for duplicates!

Where does the time go? Max did not bark once during this time. I got to sleep around 4:30 and got up today at 8:30.

Monday Starts here...

I went to the acupuncturist and all of the needles went in from the neck up! Gosh, there must have been 6 or so on my head! Ouch! I fell asleep and dreamed fleetingly. When I was done, Fred was waiting downstairs and we went to On Jin's for lunch. The food was on the sweet side and the portions were small. But for the price, the food was a bargain. However, I am rarely looking for bargains whem it comes to food..I want bulk (ggg)! Fred apparently felt realy stuffed. I felt like we had just had a tiny appetizer. I decided to experience what it is like to eat moderately. As I type this, I am hungry. I do not want to take the time to go out for dinner. Should I pass? I can eat tomorrow. I don't know what I'll do.

I talked to Dick around 3:15. He is having a good time. He went and had a steak dinner (16 oz NY steak, with an order of sauteed mushrooms and an order of creamed spinach! He was sure he was going to waste a lot of it. But, he ate all of it. This may be a record. I don't think I've ever seen him eat so much. This is such a major turn around for him. He's scouting out places that he wants us to go on the next trip. I am sure Max will be okay once he is grown-up!

On the 14th, Max will be 8 months old. I forgot to ask the vet if there will be a personality change. Will I notice that he is grown-up? Will he be like a new dog? I cannot remember what happens when a kitty becomes a cat. I can hardly wait for our puppy to become a dog (gg)! I wonder if I will miss the 'good old days'?

Looks like the head count for the Christmas party is dropping. My cousin is having his company christmas party on the same night. That removes 6 adults and a couple of kids from the headcount. In addition, two of my cousins are out of town...another 4 from the headcount. Gee, maybe the party will not be as stressful as I thought. We are going to start later (6 pm vs 4 pm) because it looks like no one wants to swim (too cold). However, that does mean everyone will be in the house (verses by the pool). However, I think I can deal with that. I have the piano and the electric key board for people to play with. I will have the Karaoke setup in two places. Then, Jen and Jac have some games lined up for the kids. I guess it will turn out okay!

Spent the rest of the night playing with the database softwares and catching up on my news reading.