Disco Fever

Hyunjoo and I went out last night with Nayoung and her two friends, Michelle and Young. We drove about 10 minutes away to the Red Rock Casino. We've been there a couple of times before to catch movies at the theater there. Last night was by far the busiest night, being a Friday and all.


They have an enormous bowling alley there and they feature a neon setting on the weekends. We each dropped $12.50 to play a couple of games in the most distracting environment conceivable. My game sucks in general, so I'm not trying to make any excuses here. I did about average for me: just under 100 a game or so. It was fun though. With neon balls and pins you get a wicked experience - perfect for Sin City.

Ryan Choi - my nephew

I can't believe I've forgotten to add some pix of my newest nephew. Since we've arrived here in Las Vegas, he's gotten really good at or learned how to:

• stand up and move around the perimeter of his play pen
• cruise around in his walker
• crawl with great speed for very short distances
  
• climb the stairs
• eat Cheerios on his own
• wear sunglasses
• demand that people pick him up
• ride on Uncle Kent's shoulders
• make a lot more noise
• stuff everything in sight into his mouth

That's no small list for such a little dude. I'm pretty impressed how quickly he learns things.

Lost in Limbo

Procrastinating on another resume. This one was bumped up because it is one of the first hits I've gotten closer to home (well, our temporary one). I just heard two days ago from one of the first positions I applied for. They said that the position was "canceled" so that's a dead-end. That was up at Portland Community College. They had the most rigorous application yet.

So, in my 15 min break, I played around with a new piece of software that let's me broadcast a webcam feed from my MacBook. Not that there's much happening of interest here right now. The port number will keep changing every time I reboot, so I doubt the link will stay active for long.

I think we're all going out for Thai this evening. We go out for dinner about once a week. That's one thing Vegas has a lot of: restaurants. Unfortunately they've gotten more expensive since the last time I was here, but that was a long time ago and everything was more expensive.

The housing market is looking good for us. If only I could get a bite on one of my applications and get a job. I'm really excited to think about where we'll end up. It's nice being back in America.


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Went out for a little adventure yesterday with Scott, my brother-in-law. We checked out an area called Spring Mountain Recreation Area, about 30 miles from here. It's a multi-purpose national forest area and we saw some ATV'ers setting out. It was so beautiful, too bad I forgot to snap some pix. It's not too far that I couldn't head out there every now and then. I promise more pix next time.

Is it really the weekend?

I've sorta lost track of the days. The upside to being jobless. That's about it. I'm ready to get working again. Anyone wanna give me a job (that I'm looking for)?
:-)

Still working on getting more applications out. They're taking quite a long time. The current one requires me to write an essay addressing a number of points. It'll be good for eventual interviews, but it's a lot of work. Applying for positions over the internet isn't as straight forward as sending in a resume and cover letter. It's pretty cool actually to see what different schools are doing to hire folks. I just hope I start getting a few hits.


We put a deposit on a 2008 Honda Fit Sport as of yesterday morning. We'll have to wait for it to arrive. It could be up to a month! It didn't seem like too long at first, but it's starting to sink in. Hopefully it'll be much sooner and I was reassured that it might very well be. We'll just have to wait and see at this point.

We had a real nice evening over at Scott's (my brother-in-law) brother's house last night. They live only about a 5 min drive from here. They have a beautiful place right on one of the local golf courses. We had a fantastic Korean meal and eventually made plans to meet up again this evening. Us guys even decided that we'll look for tickets to the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight coming up soon. That is if we can even buy tickets.

Happy Labor Day!

I hope everyone is enjoying a great day off. I'm just resting up now that I'm back from Dallas.


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I flew up to Salt Lake City last week to help my sister, Lynn, move down to Dallas. I had a chance to spend two short days hanging out with Chase and Cole. They're very well. I got to see Chase's football practice and Cole's Cub Scout meeting. I was a pretty proud Uncle.

Last Thursday at 9:15 AM, Lynn and I took off with a 6'x12' U-Haul trailer on the back of Lynn's new Volvo XC90. Thankfully, driving forward and turning with the trailer is pretty easy. Reverse is another story. Lynn and I took turns driving 3-hour shifts covering a little over 1400 miles to get to Dallas. We drove through Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma before we arrived at Lynn's apartment two and a half days later.

Dallas wasn't anything like I expected. It was far more residential than I would have figured. There are some very nice areas to drive through only a few minutes outside the concrete high rises.

Best wishes to Lynn in her new beginning down in Dallas! Take care Lynn!