Eriko has confirmed her plane tickets to visit Anchorage this winter. it will be a nice long trip, about a week – 22nd - 30th. at that time we’ll work together to put the finishing touches on the fiance visa application and she’ll be able to see a Kirsch Christmas. X)

i spent a great number of hours this weekend trying to get a wireless PCMCIA card working. i was reading docs, googling, recompiling kernels, modifying source code… but to no avail. as a last ditch effort i installed Windows (since the card has supported drivers for Windows) but even this didn’t work. i’ll take the laptop & card to work tomorrow and see if i can get it going on that wireless network. if so, then there is simply too much wireless interference from my neighbors. if i can coerce one of my co-workers to try it and it works, then i can only conclude that my laptop is too slow to handle it. if nothing works then i will print out the amazon return slip and put it in the mailbox. i’m hoping it either works in my laptop at work or not at all. i need a working wireless connection for my AI class, which starts in about two weeks…

my co-worker just came and asked me for some Japanese phrases and dos and donts as he meets with some Japanese business men from our Japanese partner in Tokyo. i want to know more. i want to be able to be the guy who greets these people and speaks to them fluently.

i spent many hours at work today but the last two were the best, because i called Eriko. X)

i tasted the most disgusting egg this morning, prompting me to throw both of the freshly prepared eggs away. i’ll try and scramble them tomorrow and see if they taste better. they don’t seem to have spoiled the sourdough pancakes… this the first time i’m eating ‘Omega 3’ eggs (or any) from Trader Joe’s.