The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
Today Sandy picked up Tita Flor at the AmTrack station in Oakland. After some greetings we went straight to Tribu in Union City for lunch. We ordered chopsuey, tribu fried chicken, pork sisig, binagoongan fried rice, bululo soup and finished up with ube ice cream & frozen brazo.
This was followed by a quick trip to Pacific Island Super Market, where we purchased a Golden Pompano & Tuna Collar to grill for dinner.
Gemma was in town for a visit so we decided to go to one of our favorite restaurants…LeCheval.
Tonight’s secret ingredient… left over asparagus risotto. Threw on a rack of lamb in the iron skillet, dinner for Sandy.
With the advent of the eye-pad, we’ve been spending our nights challenging ourselves with various games. This exercises our minds but neglects the body. So today, we invented Scrabble Stairmaster. We simply start a “pass n play” scrabble match. Sandy is downstairs and I am upstairs. When you finish your word you have to transverse the stairs to pass the eye-pad to your opponent. Now my cerebral cortex and my rectus femoris hurt.
Today we checked out dog days of summer part one at Jack London Square in Oakland. It was a small turn out, most were very well behaved but a few… Anyway the sun was out and it was very hot, I felt sorry for the dogs in the costumes.
Sorry I took these photos last weekend and forgot about them. Apparently there was a race here in Alameda right on the shoreline. Vinny & his brother were there just in case anybody dropped off.
I’ve had my eye-pad for a month now and I thought I would share my feelings.
Things I like:
Battery life – It’s advertised as a 10 hour battery. While I haven’t performed a timed test I’ve been pleased with the battery life.
Graphics – Love the graphics display especially for showing photos.
Speed – The 1GHz A4 is peppy enough for my needs. I’m not a gamer and never played games on my home PC, but I have to admit I been toying with some since I got my eye-pad.
Instant on – This is the best feature. I use it to instantly check my email. If I could rid of my laptop I would, it seems to take forever to boot and check email and it weighs a ton compared to my eye-pad.
Data plan – You can sign up and change your data plan very easily on the eye-pad, right from the settings tab.
Things I don’t like:
I use more data than I planned, which is not the eye-pad’s fault. The 250MB a month for $14.99 went by way too quick and I had to upgrade to the $29.99 unlimited plan.
iTunes is problematic with regard to syncing… well at least on my PC. My music/data is on a external 2TB Drobo drive which could be the reason.
While I love the touchscreen interface the finger smudges are distracting especially when viewing the aforementioned photos.
I have to fight Sandy to use it… share dear!
It’s a bit pricey but I did get the top of the line model.
Since I don’t see very many eye-pads its an attention magnet and I hold on to it tightly. I’m reluctant to hand it over when people ask about it.
This morning we had the traditional breakfast of my people…spam, rice & eggs.
This month I celebrate the 3 year anniversary of my blog. I still haven’t been able to move beyond the silly stuff we do and stupid duck humor.
Today I honored Sandy’s birthday by going to LaPinata for brunch. The birthday gurl had corned beef hash (at a Mexican restaurant?) and a Mexican hot chocolate, I had the chorizo burrito. I’ve been belching it up all day.
