11:35 AM Monday, <August 7>, <2006>
Dogsitting Marla this weekend was great. She never woke us up in the morning, which was awesome. And makes me much more likely to do it again. She didn't yak, or have any problems whatsoever. Great dog. Managed to get Windows XP installed via Parallels Desktop on Carbon. All set up. It's awesome. Seems faster than my work computer. So these means I'll have work email available all the time I'm on my laptop. All the time. With no speed issues or anything. It's awesome. I am however having issues install iWork '06, not sure why. Not that worried about it since I hardly use it. Still, the MacBook is an absolute joy, it positively screams, and it gets nice and toasty. Tracy and I wandered around a bit, checking in on some shops, having lunch at Silver Cloud, going into the too trendy Akira Chicago, getting some sweet things at Sweet Thang. We ended up grilling some pork chops for dinner. Friday night I got some Pizza Hut delivered, because I can't get it at my place because the store that used to deliver shut down, and I had a craving. Sunday we went down to Chinatown for dim sum at Phoenix with her family and her sister-in-law's parents. We checked out some other stores, and I picked up some sake related things, a couple wooden drink boxes and one of those fancy bottles with a spot for ice to keep it cold. More couch time before heading back to my place before heading out to Sai Cafe for dinner. Good to see Bryan, his brother David and friend, Akira, Joe and Kevin. Good fish, as usual. Tracy and I passed on Ricky Bobby because they were headed to the late show and I wanted to get to sleep. We watched a couple episodes of Entourage before knocking off. Full weekend.