European press

There is a hot water heater in the break room which used to serve us well, where tea other hot drinks can be instantly made by pulling a handle to get the hot running water, as long as you don't put your hand down there. But recently it's not working anymore, and it's left there unfixed for about two month, well, until now. Fellow workers who are used to a hot drink once in a while expressed their frustration by putting tags on the tap saying "my name is BROKEN!". Just now I saw two plumbers bending over the thing working on it.

But I got to use a French press I had in possession during this period. Soon after the incident, coffee makers starts to appear on breakroom table one after another, and I'm the only one who uses a french press (I use microwave to heat it). In the beginning I had no idea it is actually called a "French press". One morning while I was using it, a lady walked by. I think she is European, but I never confirmed that. She said to me, "emm, a nice French Press there you have". And I replied with correction: "yes... ehh, acutally it is made in Germany,".

The lady showed some surprise, then quickly turned to normal and said, "well, then that's a European press!"

temperature

We are getting frosted morning tomorrow. According to weather report, temperature will be low to 38F.

Man, that's FROST, in May 4th. Are we in Siberia?

And we had a 70F warm & humid day around December 20th, 2010. I don't remember exactly which day that was. There was tornado warning that day.

Excess of snow this winter, latest snow fall in April when the temperature was around 80F.

What's happening there?

Horrible weekend

I just learned that one of my coworker was almost ran over by a car last Saturday afternoon, when he was walking pass a busy road in front of the park I jog daily. AND he was pushing a stroller with his few-month-old son in it. The car barely missed him, but the tire ran over his foot and injured spring. All the luck, his son was not hit. Later we figured out that I was actually running nearby at that time. But I didn't notice them, because my attention was attracted by a car accident right at that time, when a green Camry was hit by a white sedan on the right side, rear door. I remember that slightly damaged Camry pulled over in front of me and a man ran out of the car to meet his accident mate. One young child was sitting in the backseat of that Camry looking out of the window, seemingly calm.

While on the other side of the globe, a man was killed in a Surgical Raid by the US force who has killed +3000 people in US ten years ago.

Join the chat

I made a feature request to Google Talk, basically to set up a chat group, so whenever two guys in the group start chatting, other people in the group will notice that they are talking through their contact panel -- e.g. the two talkers are placed next to each other, their status icons are changed from a green disc to animated face, or even a vibrating curve connecting the two faces... And guys in that group can request joining the chats they see.

And that's it.

So yes... I will continue writing on this blog, perhaps all in English.