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Weekend / Monthly Update with Min-Hsao Chen

So it has been a very long time since I wrote in my blog and since I am in the middle of my craziness at work on a Sunday, what better time to write a little bit about what have been going on so I won’t forget all the little things.

So Let’s start from now and go back to where we last left off…

Today.. I am working in the office today… overwhelmed with 2 major projects. Oh and I also receive my new glasses… which is incredibly fast.  I ordered them on line on 05/20/2010.  Which means I got them in 2 days!!!!! oh and it was only 15 dollars with lens and coatings and all!!! Coastalcontacts.com baby!!!

I may post a picture later if I have time.

Yesterday (05/22/2010), we spend an entire day looking for carpets and paint colors…. why? well… look below… :)

This past Friday (05/21/2010), I was suppose to be a home owner, however, the stupid lender decide not to fund in the last minute and then decided that they made a mistake and will be funding me.  So I will be closing on Monday!!! Oh … I guess I will be a home owner soon!!! yeah!!!

This past Friday was bike to work day, and I biked to work going my fastest getting to work for an 8AM meeting.  54minutes from my townhome to my office!!! just short of 14mile/hour average time.  I am getting stronger.  In the afternoon, I took on the challenge of 8th Ave NE going south bound.  Yes, it was a super step hill and on top of that it was pouring !!!!  I was soaked!!!

Wednesday, my folks arrived in Seattle.

Monday, I biked to work with my new bike seat… I felt the comfort and more power!!!

2 weeks ago… I was back in NYC for my second trip for my project.

about a month ago… oh I signed contract for a new house. :)

So did I miss anything?

Weekend Updates with Min

Oh another week of August 2009 is concluding or beginning depending on how you count the weeks. Anyways… this past week has been pretty interesting.

1) My folks are in town. Yeah… Good to see my folks :) They will be here until Tuesday.

2) Only rode my bike once this week. On Wednesday :( , however, I got a record time returning home of 61 minutes from Lynnwood to maple leaf.

3) Scratched my glasses and ordered another pair and got it in two days via mail!!! It is awesome!!! for 80.41 dollars I got a new pair of glasses from CoastalContacts.com with in two days!!!! BTW the glasses are frames and lens with all the coatings (UV, anti-scratch, anti-glare) !!! AWESOME!!!

4)Clamming yesterday with my parents. We had a great time clam digging yesterday. Even though the tide was rising pretty quick, we were still able to get a great number of clams and have a great wonderful feast at home.

5)Installed Windows 7 Pro 64 on my computer. I upgraded from Window Vista 64. I don’t notice much difference so far… just slicker interface I guess. I hope it is more stable and better… we will see…

My first Iphone app

So… I woke up this morning feeling smarter with my new glasses on and figure out what was wrong with my “hello world” iphone app program. yeah… it just ended up that I was not running it on the simulator that is why I was getting a “code sign error”. So as soon as I fixed that the simple … I mean really simple “hello world” ran and I got an app that spits out “hello world”. Yeah!!!

“Hello World” is the confident builder when we geeks learn a new language.
Oh so yeah…I got my new frame in yesterday. Woo hoo… this time the lens were correct and the size was correct too. Gosh I have a big head. So how do I look?

All in all, my experience with online eyeglasses shopping was fair. I guess the important thing is to find the proper size and be really patient. In a modern on demand world, waiting two weeks for a pair of glasses just feels pretty painful, but you are paying only $55 verses $200 to $400. so yeah… it is a trade off.

Mail Ordered Glasses Round 2

So I finally got an email back from Goggles4U.com. The provided a coupon code for another free pair of glasses of my choice. So I decided to give it another shot. I did also adjust my frame size just slightly to try to fit my face better, and I enter in my prescription this time instead of just sending them the scanned version. I hope they will actually produce an accurate pair this time. Once again, I will let you guys know. It takes around 2 weeks for the glasses to arrive so I am estimating that I will get the glasses around March 30th. Oh what a time waster! If this one doesn’t turnout ok… I will go back to buying my favorite brand of frames, Lindberg.

Once again, I will let you guys know.