Weeee... the incredible speed of dial-up

egadz! i'm writing this post from my humble home in Marina! it's my mom's bday weekend and i bought her a computer. not that i can really afford it, but she deserves one! it's the least i can get for her. not a bad deal for a really bare bones computer, but it has Vista on it which is a complete RAM hog! at any rate, she finally has a way to email me and check for ticket prices for her next trip to Kauala Lampur or something like that!

Next weekend she's coming back up to Alameda for her second birthday present. me and my sister are taking her to the Pacific Orchid Exposition. she LOVES orchids and has become such an avid collector and "connesieur" of them. our patio is full of em, and our outside patio has a bunch more pots. but i was talking about them yesterday, and she was using all this terminology like, "i'm so excited that this one is beginning to spike." wha? "spike" i was really impressed and amazed. i know i shouldn't be but it's nice to see my mom really excited about something. :)

so today, after church and seeing my dad, we're prolly gonna take her to watch a movie. maybe NORBIT since my lil sis says it HIGHLARIOUS! my mom's become a movie maven in these last couple of years. it was a couple of weeks ago that her and my sister went movie hopping. i don't know why i just haven't been able to do that. i definately ain't no saint, but i do have such a strong sense of what is write and wrong. funny thing is, this sense is challenged by the fact that i have been asking my self, in certain situations, "what would Jack Bauer do?" hehe. so the choice between doing what's "morally" right and doing "what NEEDS to be done for the greater good" becomes a little blurred.

i'm mostly confronted in this situation at work. i'm still loving it there, but for a geeky nerdy point, i'm getting so frustrated from my and my teams tech standpoint of not being able to get my work done. i know that i already said that it's not worth getting frustrated in one of my last posts, but i guess i just want to get something done right.