Bought Gina Trapini’s “Upgrade Your Life: The Life Hacker Guide” on Kindle and have been reading it and trying out the various tools and utilities she talks about in her book. It’s a geek’s handbook on how to make the most out of your computer. My kind of book. There are so many tricks and tips and free software mentioned, it’s going to be hard for me to even remember all of them. So there should be a weekly review on the GTD to go through her hacks and remember to check the backup or learn to use the software I’ve downloaded while reading her book and put them to conscious and good use. It’s a wonderful book, I would recommend it to anyone who is a tip and trick addict like me.
Actually, I should say a day at Marriot in Chicago. E is taking her whole day oral exam today and I volunteered to accompany her. We got here with no incident. Ey used his premium membership and reserved a room for us, it is in the Conciere’s floor that comes with free dinner and breakfast and freshly brewed Starbucks coffee machine. After we got here, we realized the test center is on the other side of the parking lot, a 5 minute walk if that. Great! We looked in the dining room and found hotdogs and some beef sitting in a pot of liquid. Not very appitazing. We talked to the conciere and decided to go out. He recommended Harry Carey about 2 miles away. We took a cab and had a great dinner there. The waitor, Robert, is from Poland and he’s quite funny actually. He approved our selections for dinner and chastised us when we wanted to order dessert while our leftovers are wrapped up in bags. But all in all, it was good food and good company. Finally had a chance to talk to E. It seems lately we never had time to sit down for a one-on-one talk. This was a great catch up dinner.
I walked her over this morning to the test center and came back to the room, did some knitting and found that I brought the wrong color of yarn for the lace project. And I need a separate needle for the edging. So I took a short nap, maybe just a closed-eye rest and checked out the room. Came down to the lobby and fired an email to L. It was a big mistake to not have the right thing for knitting. With all the stuff I brought, knitting is the thing that keeps my hands busy while listening to the ebook.