The guys I usually eat lunch with all ditched me today. And I thought I’d go home early today because it is my birthday, but they scheduled a meeting for 3-4PM even though we just had one three days ago. I was found out during the meeting and they realized I wasn’t doing much and the project lead told me to hang around until he could give me some more stuff to do and that would be AFTER another meeting he was having. Can you imagine how much this threw off my Sony PSP buying frenzy? I wasn’t able to leave until much later than I had planned.

Well, I went driving around after work to Costco and Best Buy but didn’t get everything I needed! My friend Sun was worried that I was going to be sitting in the basement by myself, playing with my new PSP all night so she called my sister to foil my plans. I cut my buying spree short so I could go out to dinner with my sister (my brother-in-law bailed because it was getting a little late on a school night for him.)

See the cake my sister got me?

We had a nice dinner at the Industrial Cafe and Saloon where I had a ribeye steak because I could. Oh and I should thank people for the presents!

My sister and Carolyn got me that cool (but oddly complicated) Australian computer bag, my parents pitched in on the PSP, and Moonmoon in San Francisco sent me the Rice Krispie treats!

Back to the PSP story: I didn’t get a memory stick (necessary for saving games) and I wasn’t about to push that damn katamari around all night only to have to start over tomorrow. So the PSP is sitting quietly in the box and I still need to get a screen protector and the memory stick.

Thanks, everyone, for all the birthday wishes!