Archive for December, 2005

Happy New Year

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Except for two minor incidents (which are bound to happen), our Christmas trip to DC was great. It was a very multi-cultural family reunion. Most everyone was Vietnamese, of course, but we had the great pleasure of meeting my Uncle Bob’s new wife Pati and her children Daniela (age 11) and Martha (age 9), who [...]

Happy Holidays!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

So, I just finished a week and a half at the new job. I’m still learning everyone’s name and figuring out how to get around the building. There are three hundred employees at the North Carolina headquarters office of FHI! I’ll be really happy when I eventually understand everything that’s going on. Until then, I’m [...]

Rogues, FHI and pork rinds

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Thanksgiving in Spokane was great. Our family went on a fun-filled window-shopping-and-gingerbread-latte-sipping outing at the Plaza in Coeurd’Alene, spent 45 minutes on a waiting list to get Hudson’s hamburgers (most likely the best hamburger west of the Mississippi), saw the new Harry Potter movie and played Perfect Dark Zero on my brother’s Xbox 360 until [...]