Holiday mode
I haven't posted here in a while. I guess it's time to give my dad something new to send random comments to a year later.
After shutting down my computer and leaving work today (before dark!), I am now officially on Tet holiday. This lasts for one week now -- for my company, it's the last day of the old lunar year (Wednesday this year) and the first four days of the new lunar year, plus "in lieu" days if those days fall on the weekend. Other companies, including our office building management, take a whole Monday-Friday week off (effectively a 9-day vacation), so our building has been very empty this week.
As usual, I have been lax in planning for the holiday and at this point it's very difficult to get tickets anywhere (or, rather, to get back from those places -- I was hoping to get to Danang but there isn't a single ticket available to return to Saigon, on three airlines, from Sunday to Thursday). I may end up saying in Saigon for the entire break. Not the worst place to be.
My "big plans" so far include:
* Finally finishing mother-effing War and Peace. I feel like I've been reading it for more than a year, and it's a bit of a slog. But I'm in the home stretch now. Only about 400 iBooks landscape pages left. If it was more compelling reading, I could finish that in a day.
* Finally starting to use the iPhone 6 that I bought when I was home for Christmas. I have not even taken it out of the box yet. It's still sealed. I guess I had a bit of buyer's remorse over spending that much money on a phone. I'm not a phone guy, and I worry about carrying around something worth $800 in my pocket every day. (Really, I worry about losing something worth $800.) I had considered selling it when I got back to Vietnam, but I didn't advertise it and now most of the people who really want an iPhone 6 already have one. Plus, my hand-me-down iPhone 4 has a short battery life and some minor issues when used heavily, so I should probably just go ahead and migrate to the new phone.
* Finally getting my suit pants hemmed. Or maybe not.
After shutting down my computer and leaving work today (before dark!), I am now officially on Tet holiday. This lasts for one week now -- for my company, it's the last day of the old lunar year (Wednesday this year) and the first four days of the new lunar year, plus "in lieu" days if those days fall on the weekend. Other companies, including our office building management, take a whole Monday-Friday week off (effectively a 9-day vacation), so our building has been very empty this week.
As usual, I have been lax in planning for the holiday and at this point it's very difficult to get tickets anywhere (or, rather, to get back from those places -- I was hoping to get to Danang but there isn't a single ticket available to return to Saigon, on three airlines, from Sunday to Thursday). I may end up saying in Saigon for the entire break. Not the worst place to be.
My "big plans" so far include:
* Finally finishing mother-effing War and Peace. I feel like I've been reading it for more than a year, and it's a bit of a slog. But I'm in the home stretch now. Only about 400 iBooks landscape pages left. If it was more compelling reading, I could finish that in a day.
* Finally starting to use the iPhone 6 that I bought when I was home for Christmas. I have not even taken it out of the box yet. It's still sealed. I guess I had a bit of buyer's remorse over spending that much money on a phone. I'm not a phone guy, and I worry about carrying around something worth $800 in my pocket every day. (Really, I worry about losing something worth $800.) I had considered selling it when I got back to Vietnam, but I didn't advertise it and now most of the people who really want an iPhone 6 already have one. Plus, my hand-me-down iPhone 4 has a short battery life and some minor issues when used heavily, so I should probably just go ahead and migrate to the new phone.
* Finally getting my suit pants hemmed. Or maybe not.