bid chronicles

Yesterday was our second day at Miami. Even though we are staying at Fort Lauderdale, we have been going to South Beach for all our beachiness. Yesterday, however, we did spend some time at Fort Lauderdale. We went to the lower parts of of the Everglades and got on a air-boat, drifted on water and saw a bunch of alligators.

Later at lunch we tried fried alligator, and I also tried a golden crab. The gator tasted great, I’ll try that again any day. The crab was good too, but by God it was a pain trying to get through all the shell and all. So no more fighting for crab meat for me. I’ll stick to the gators, chicken and fish.

Also news from the north says that Sylvee is doing fine. She’s a bit lonely, but I go back tomorrow and then it all goes back to normal.

I have done something today that have already confused a lot of my friends. Some may even consider it blasphemous. But I have done it, and there is no going back.

I have sold my Wii. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you read it right. I have sold my Wii. The Wii and I had a decent relationship. It was a fun thing when my sisters were hear. It is fun when my cousins are around. In fact the last few times they were around I didn’t even play with them.

I always wished that the Wii could stream videos from my machine. Or may be just play some DVDs. I wish the Wii could support 720p so that web pages will look better. May be once the Wii demand is met Nintendo will focus on the next Wii. Or may be they will be nice and provide all these features somehow for free. At that point in time, I can always get the Wii again

Until then, bye bye Wii. Hope you conquer more of the console market.

Today I came home and before starting to cook played with Sylvee a bit instead of doing it right before going to sleep. And then it was the cooking and eating while enjoying the latest from Omid Djalili. While I was watching it though, I saw Sylvee go upstairs. So far nothing out of the ordinary. What followed, however, was just too cute.

Sylvee managed to find her bag of treats and then manged to get it down and carried it all the way to me downstairs. It was just so cute!! How can I say no treats to a cutie pie like that?

What started back in 1999 has now come to an end. From today I have stopped using my ICQ completely. Most of the people that I was still talking with already have be on some other network anyway. The only one I can think of who isn’t only on ICQ is my freshman year roomie who I haven’t talked with in years.

If anyone else is still only connected to me by ICQ by some random chance; sorry love, but it’s time to switch. I am still available on Google, MSN, Yahoo and AIM. I wonder which might be the next to go…

Today was a bit different for me. To start I’m testing a HDTV tuner. I don’t watch that much TV, but sometimes I want to. HDTV has weird channel numbering schemes so I haven’t found all the channels yet. But we’ll get there. I have a couple of weeks to return the thing if I don’t like it.

The other thing is that I got a Rubik’s cube. I saw this really good tutorial online and wanted to really learn it this time. I could always do one side without a problem, but I figured it was time to explore further. And after a couple of painful hours with several mishaps that made me restart. But I did it!! That’s the big news for the day. Sorry to anyone who called me during then because I really couldn’t concentrate on anything else.

On other news, Big Cat is going to get a new name since some people are revolting against it. I’m thinking Vombol Daas. What do you think? The weird thing is that sometimes I get afraid that he’ll scratch me. It is weird because if anyone met me in the last year, they know I am all scratched up. But that’s by Sylvee, and she was there with me since she was a baby. Anyway, we’ll see whatever ends up happening with Vombol.