I was offered a seat

I was moved by a simple action by a fellow New Yorker.   It was raining pretty hard this past Friday.  So, Evan and I took the subway to Grand Central from work instead of walking.  The train ride is short, only 2 stops.  Evan and I stood in the train like usual since it was only 2 stops away.  As the train door closed and I grab hold of the pole to steady myself.  A young lady offer me her seat.  I kindly refused since I will be getting off the train very soon anyway.  I was touched by her simple gesture.  

I didn't think I was that pregnant to warrant someone offering me a seat, since I still walk from Grand Central to the office everyday, which is about half a mile away.  But, I guess at 8 months, I'm very pregnant in other people's eyes.

 

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New Baby Ultrasound

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Evan and I went to take our 3rd trimester ultarsound.  Our little nugget definitely look alot more human like now.  She is currently weighing in at 4-lb 8-ounces.  That sounds like a lot.  

I was so excited to see her little face.  I was able to see her eyes, her little button nose, her lips, and her little fingers.  Evan was just as excited as I was, but I think he wsa expecting more realistic pictures.  We are both anxious to meet her in a few weeks.  I can't believe that we are going to have a baby in less than 2 months!

 

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Google Chrome

I downloaded Google's new brower, Chrome for a test drive.  After four days of using it on my old work computer running XP and home laptop running Vista, I'm impressed.  I really like the lightweight and simple interface.  The browser started within seconds of me double clicking the short-cut on my desktop.  Compared to IE 7 and FF3, Chrome is very speedy on start.  I only encountered couple of problems with Chrome.  It didn't work so well when I tried to use it to log into my work computer from home using logmein.com's tool.  Other than that, all the other sites like facebook, cnn, google, wsj, etc. all worked well.

IE 7 and FF3 have been giving me problems for months now.  FF3 crashes every time I tried to quit the program.  And it bogged down my computer.  FF3 would dragged the entire computer down after about a cuple of hours of usage.  IE is just as bad.  I could get Flash to work after IE recommend that I restart the browser.  I installed and re-installed Flash several times and still nothing.  Very frustrating.  I don't want to spend hours at work trying to fix something as silly as that.

Chrome worked great, lightweight, I have no complaints.

 

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Journey, Heart, and Cheap Trick at Bethel Woods

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I finally re-lived my teenage years.  Evan and I went to a concert at Bethel Woods (the original Woodstock concert location).  

My friends and I use to dress up and lip-sync to Heart songs when we were 13 or 14 years old.  We collected magazine articles and stayed up late to watch Heart videos.  It was before the Internet, getting access to information on a band was not that easy.  Heart did all their great stuff, Barracuda, Alone, Never, and more.  They were awesome.  

I wasn't that into Journey when I was younger.  I knew couple of their songs.  But the story of the Journey's new singer is like the movie "Rock Star".  The band found him on YouTube singing Journey songs.  They auditioned him and apparently he was so good that they took him on as the lead singer.  I thought he sounds like Steven Perry.  He didn't quite have the presence, but it was still entertainng.

 

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