I dropped my new Lenovo laptop twice at work, and it stopped working the way it used to. All my videos became a deep blue and the screen would periodically go black for no apparent reason, other than the two drops, I guess. My IT wife decided to take action (to stop my whining) and bought me a sleek, slick HP 840 laptop. It doesn't have a video player or HDMI hookup, but I can work around that easily enough. It's fast and very light, so hopefully I won't drop it, but if I do, I have a better chance of catching it. Remember, I did catch my daughter when she fell off the couch.
My school is planning a trip to Cambodia, and I'm really considering going. I've always wanted to see Cambodia, and I've heard the locals are wonderful. My new passport could use a few stamps and I could use a few days vacation away from Bien Hoa. The trip would be at the end of April, so there's time to consider all the pros and cons.
Of course, the biggest negative is that I'd be away from my daughter Joanna, who has recently decided that her dad is cool beans. When I come home from work at 7:30 p.m. -- after teaching a 5:45 p.m. class -- I ride down our street and see Phuong holding Joanna out in front of our house. Joanna immediately recognizes me and breaks into the cutest smile you ever saw. Then she starts grunting and groaning, which is her way of demanding that her dad holds her. And she grunts and groans whenever someone else tries to hold her or play with her when Big Daddy's around. She's daddy's girl much of the time. But she's very clever, and knows mom is the bomb in the morning, at dinner and at bedtime. Really, Joanna has no favorite and seems happiest when mom and dad are together. She is, however, wisely wary of strangers and is selective about who can hold her and be her buddy. Phuong's mom is part of Joanna's inner circle, and Phuong's dad is clearly one of Joanna's best pals.
Joanna has changed quite a bit in the past two weeks. Her two top front teeth are coming in, and she stands all the time by using anything and everything she can hold onto, such as chairs, cardboard boxes, and her crib "bars." And she crawls as fast as a cockroach. Joanna is quite a handful for a 62-year-old dad. But Phuong is non-stop energy and does an incredible job keeping up with Joanna and caring for her. We joke that Joanna is the princess and Phuong is the queen.Not sure where I fit into this royal family.
I needed a haircut and tried a new barbershop on Vo Thi Sau close to where the gang fight took place. I may have been better off letting one of the knife-wielding gangsters have a whack at my head. The barber gave me a semi-mohawk, kind of a Pee-wee Herman meets Kid 'n Play meets Sid Vicious meets Nick Kyrgios look. To make a long story very short, I look silly. Sillier than usual. Even though I'm losing much of my hair, the hair I have grows pretty quickly, so all should be back to normal in a week or two.
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