Alive! Slightly awake ( Read more... )

Holy crap public transit luck was AWESOME this morning ( Read more... )

Finished NaNo last night around 4am. I am about a third into the novel, maybe? I don't know. There's still a lot left to write though ( Read more... )

Missed the Riverside train by a goddamn hair! Had to catch another train t Orange County and wait forever. I was going to be so good, and just use public transit instead of shuttling it, and in the end I caved and got a taxi for the final leg home because I could not STAND either moving my luggage further or waiting another hour. I spent two hours ( Read more... )

OK, back from Penang! Yesterday we picked Ray up and drove bravely on. Took us about four and a half hours, and we made a stop at Ong Cheng Huat in Sungai Dua for lunch around 2.30. They deep-fry spring chickens there, you see, and it's delicious. It's also hard to find unless you know what you're looking for, because it's in a slip road and ( Read more... )

So, we did neither tea nor fish spa, but
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Yesterday I got to Singapore no problem. The hostel I'm staying at is... kind of a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I like the open air concept. I'm currently sitting in the lobby and the roof is a plastic opaque thing, and I'm looking out to the other buildings. Somehow due to the placement of the building, the wind doesn't blow the rain in this ( Read more... )

Trying out this ASUS for the first time! The keyboard is tiny so it takes some getting used to, but I like it so far. Windows 8.1 is... very hit-and-miss. On the one hand, I think it's a pretty clean for touchscreens, if you're going to use touchscreens and Windows programs only. Not so much for using non-Windows things like Google stuff, which I ( Read more... )

I am in San Francisco! Until tomorrow, that is ( Read more... )

i spent the last two days doing very little. Now I'm in a fluffy to clean the apartment, do laundry and pack before I head out ( Read more... )