Computer Fixin’, Golf, and Friends
Sapana arrived back in Raleigh on Monday from her semester long study abroad at King’s College in London. Nate was kind enough to greet her at the airport and even made these signs with bears on it saying ‘welcome back Sapana’. Sachi started work at Glaxo on Monday too, but so far she says that it is mostly training. Sapana will start at Glaxo with her former colleagues this upcoming Monday. Over the past few days I’ve been trying to fix a bunch of computer issues. The hard drives in the computer my mom uses went down so bad that one them is most likely physically damaged. Can’t even slave it on to another computer to get the files off. I backed up the other one and we wiped it clean and put Ubuntu Linux on it. So now my mom can have fun learning a new operating system. :)
Last Saturday I tagged along with my dad to play golf with his buddies. We got there late and so I couldn’t take a few swings on the driving range. I walked up to a par 3 hole having never swung a golf club in over 10 months! Needless to say, I didn’t do so hot. But I had a good time anyway, and in a little bit Greg and I are going to go by a driving range so he can teach me a few pointers. He’ll be golfing too this weekend. On Wednesday Nate took me and my two sisters over to Top of the Hill restaurant in Chapel Hill. We had a great time and tried four kinds of beer. It was just a really really great day, weather-wise.
The days before I leave for Maryland are proving to be very busy! This weekend we are getting some plans in place to see the new X-Men movie. We’ll see how it turns out, though admittedly my expectations are fairly low.
I’m currently reading Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond as the first book on my summer reading list; so far its great. I’ll do a more complete write-up on it after I finish.