After realizing that I only have 2 days per week (and weekends) to work on my side projects, I decided to axe one of my hobbies. Unfortunately Hapkido got kicked out (no pun intended) of my schedule. Sad day. I really enjoyed Hapkido and I hope I can get back to it once things settle down a little bit. So what am I going to do on these free Wednesday nights?...

We went snowboarding for the first time this season. This is the first time I’ve hit the slopes after 5pm. It wasn’t bad at all, the lifts were empty and the slopes were free. Too bad I don’t know how to snowboard well enough, because I kept falling on my bum. Yoshi hasn’t figured out if she is regular footed or goofy footed and she kept trying both, hope she hasn’t confused her brain beyond repair....

I used LaTeX when I was in school to create reports, presentation (using beamer) and even sometimes class notes and assignments. Recently when I was looking for a presentation program in Linux I was crestfallen by the lack of polish in OpenOffice Impress. So I created my presentation for the Salt Lake Linux User Group in LaTeX and it looked professional (nothing surprising there). But that was created on my tiny Netbook running Meego....

My wife and I were in Burlington coat factory today and she finally found a pair of gloves that fits her stringent requirements. Her joy knew no bounds. I’ve never seen anyone so truly happy. She has been wearing them since we got out of the store and haven’t taken them off. Its been more than 4 hours. Reminds me of the time, I got my first bokken and carried it around everywhere....

I’m getting ready for the India Trip in January and it is one hectic process. I’m getting all these gifts for my parents, brothers, cousins, uncles and the list keeps on growing. Perils of having a large loving family. One of these days, I’m going to make enough money to get all of them the gifts that I really want to give. One of these days….