Thu Tu’s Blog

My heart skipped a beat or two this morning when I checked the car clock on the way to work and it said 11:30. Sure, going to work at 10:30 is late by some standards, but it feels very different to me when it gets to be 11 o’clock. Then it dawned on me that [...]

If you’re in the US, make sure your clocks are showing the correct time. Daylight saving time started 3 weeks early.
So far, these are my gadgets that are not showing the correct time, but should due to sync mechanisms:

digital clock that uses radio signal to synchronize time. Even though I changed it to DST on, [...]

It’s another single Valentine’s Day for me. At least the shipments of two of my online orders coincided to work out so that I got two gifts for myself: Wii Play and the latest version of my Honda GPS Navi DVD. Yeah, I’m a big geek.
I get my shipments sent to work so I don’t [...]

When I got my Wii, I noticed that I kept losing internet connection. I thought it was a coincidence and that I just had a bad DSL connection. My laptop was able to connect to my wireless router but I had trouble getting an IP address from my ISP.
I was able to browse the web [...]

I finally got my Wii yesterday. Goodness, what an ordeal it has been. People who know me know how hard I’ve tried to get one. It was difficult to endure the extra week of wait because I chose standard ground shipping
It was so worth the wait.
Trauma Center was addictive. And it’s really cool [...]

Today was a work holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I went to see if I could pick up my Wii delivery from shipping & receiving. It wasn’t open, as someone had told me it would be.
Oh well, at least I could go to Costco on my way home. At [...]

I just saw a commercial for the Lexus LS, which parallel parks itself!! Woohoo!
Well, I am not buying a car soon, but it’s reassuring that the technology will be around the next time I buy a car. I live in the suburbs where I rarely have to deal with parallel parking. However, when I go [...]