February 24, 2006

Encouragements and Discouragements

This has been a fairly challenging week for me. I realized again just how poorly I deal with stress and the unknown. Common human conditions both - just the response differs.
  • Coming home last Friday, my car suddenly started shuddering in the middle of the road. I lost most power and the Check Engine light blinked like crazy. To make a very long story short, the engine is damaged, and the repairs are in the thousands of dollars. So much for tax refunds, huh.
  • Until Thursday I didn't know what the cost was going to be. I found myself obsessing over how much money I was going to spend, and how it was going to be tough, and so on. I finally decided that money was supposed to be my servant, and not my master. To prove that out, I decided to abuse my servant - by going and spending some money. I had been promising to get Tish a pink Razr forever. I finally did. And I got myself a new phone too. So here are our new phones. The thing I like about my phone is that it has WiFi built in. So even though the screen is small, it's cool to check out email, and 'surf' the web.
  • I spent yesterday staring at this machine in the little town of Morris, IL.


The end result was a stack of sheets perfectly lined up. Look at the registration marks on the right side.


  • I added more memory to my home PC. I now have a grand total of 1.5 GB. Circuit City was selling 512MB memory modules for $24.99. For fifty bucks I couldn't resist adding in a gig more of memory. Smokin...
  • Michelle beat me to it (as usual? - hehe), but here's a video that I wanted to play during Priya's dedication (during lunch), but totally forgot about. So now, here for your viewing pleasure, is Priya...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought you worked with rockets... hehe j/k

Anonymous said...

Nice phone Tish!!!

Tyson said...

that's such an awesome video! you look younger in the slide show photos than i expected, which is cool. i'm glad you guys have so many family and friends around ... priya will be well-loved.

Anonymous said...

I like the video, I forgot to add that in my first comment. IT brought a lump into my neck, especially the new born pics, as we await ours to arrive!