Happy Thanksgiving y’all! So, I can’t believe it–my mom’s going to make a real Thanksgiving dinner. See, being Chinese and growing up in Kansas, we never had a real Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving has always just been an excuse to invite the other Chinese families from Kansas over and cook more Chinese food. If I was lucky, I’d get some stir fry turkey or something like that. In high school, I would always go over to the McGuires in the evening to have some pumpkin pie just so I could have some taste of Thanksgiving. So you can understand what a shock it was to find out this week that my…

My flight was pretty nifty—last night, prior to going to bed, I finally decided–after some research–to buy & download this software called MyTVToGo which will easily convert my dvr-ms TV shows from Media Center onto the new Apple Video iPod that I got a few weeks back. All I can say is “sweet”. Nothing beats a plane ride being able to catch up on Prison Break and Gray’s Anatomy. I was really happy with the software and it couldn’t have been any easier. As for flight delays, my brother’s flight is majorly delayed. He was supposed to leave Boston around 8pm but instead left at 10:52pm. Instead of arriving around…

Ah, it’s that time of year—Thanksgiving traveling. Matt’s picking me up in 40 minutes to head to the airport where we will be headed to Vegas for the next 5 days to hang out with 12 of my relatives (eeks!). It will be one crowded house! All right-time to jump in the shower so I’m ready when Matt gets here.

Friday, went to see the Death Cab for Cutie concert. Admittedly, I knew nothing about this band prior to the concert—really liked their music though and enjoyed the concert. They put on a good show. Afterwards, met up with Eric & Sri and we all went to get drinks at Fox Sports Grill until it closed. Saturday, went to see tons of pictures at Matt & Jigna’s of their recent trip to India…fun fun. Saw a bunch of people that I haven’t seen in awhile…really nice to catch up. Sunday, went to work at the movie theater! Asayo’s husband, Matt’s, family owns a bunch of cinemas and recently bought the…

I’ve been using a lil’ website called kayak.com for a few months now to check out flights. It’s a pure service-based search engine website that will search *across* tons of different websites to find the best deals. They don’t book the flights themselves—incentive is just to find the best deal..for you. It’s not like Expedia where it can only show airlines that they’ve made deals with–it just searches across diferent websites…so it includes results from airlines like jetblue and song airlines and southwest—airlines that typically don’t appear in Expedia or Travelocity. It’s awesome. Anyway, they just launched multi-city search tonight plus they added themes and regions to their “Buzz” feature,…

Woke up this morning feeling my throat more constricted…nothing too bad, but I left work early just in case to ward off any sickness that may be trying to invade my body. Ick Ick Ick–hope I don’t get sick. I’ve been amazingly healthy so far this flu season, considering my history. Knock on wood.

Matt and I have been with each other for a year now–woo hoo. We celebrated by just spending a relaxing day at the spa and taking advantage of the 25 for $25 menu at Campagne. We decided to go to the Ummelina International Day Spa downtown where we got the Pacific Rim package, including a massage, and he got a pedicure while I got a facial. Overall, my thoughts…Pros: Great location, it’s downtown I love the international theme–smells great inside, nice decor AMAZING massage. Really great therapist–was very impressed. She spent a good amount of time giving me a nice, deep massage and really working out the kinks in my…

Election Day was yesterday—I came home and had 15 minutes to run to the nearest poll. I grabbed my keys and ran down the street with less than 5 minutes left before the polls closed. Got inside–“Did I make it in time?!”“You sure did! We were just about to close up!”“Great–I don’t know what my voter id number is though..”“No problem, do you have ID on you? That’s the new rule this year.”“Oh crap. My ID. I just grabbed my keys and ran down here”I knew I didn’t have enough time to run home and come back. I fumbled around my pockets hoping that I had my Microsoft badge somewhere…

The weekend started with a bang by attending the Emerald City Swank, Seattle Works’ annual fundraiser. I went last year with Gary and had a blast–this year, Kabir and I organized 2 tables worth of our friends (Sri also got a table of people from work). Seattle Works is an organization dedicated to encouraging people in their 20s and 30s to volunteer and contribute to the community–so as you can imagine, it was an evening filled with the hipsters of Seattle partaking in auction bidding, dinner and dancing. The silent and live auctions had so many items–I walked away with 3 things: a set of cheese knives with a bottle…

Microsoft’s Live.com — users can customize content and add things like weather, horoscopes, hotmail, blog feeds and news…quite similar to My Yahoo. My initial thoughts—the good things that make this service stick out: the ability to include RSS feeds as part of the page and the ability for software developers to develop “gadgets” for use on these pages. What I don’t like: the layout. While it’s cool to choose 2-column vs. 3 column vs. 4 columns, Microsoft has decided to make each of the columns be spaced evenly, which I don’t think works well for the eye and the user. At least one column should be wider than the others…