Supposed to be “fixing” my aunt’s computer right now before I take off tomorrow morning, but since I’m waiting for some files to download, I guess I’ll put up another post.
Woke up around 8 AM on Tuesday. I wrote some potential quotes down on a paper pad so I wouldn’t forget them by the time I got to a computer with internet access again. (My sister considers this the essence of nerdiness and gives me a hard time about it, so consider yourselves privledged to be getting this gold! 
) Watched Three Stooges, Seven Days, and Goonies. Man, Spike TV sure has some good stuff on in the mornings. Cau Dung came home from work at around 11, and Anh Bi got up and showered while I packed my backpack with a change of clothes, just in case I get stuck at someone else’s house again instead of going back to Cau Dung’s place.
Cau Dung took the two of us to “The Tavern,” a local bar that is famous for its wall-eye. The fish was good, if a bit lacking in quantity, but whatever.
Dropped by Ong Ba Ngoai’s old place after that, and dad was already there and waiting for us. He had already done most of the prep for painting, so I finished up taping up the place as Cau Dung took him to Home Depot to buy paint. Anh Bi pulled all the nails out of the wall and spackled. My dad got back with the last of the supplies, so Anh Bi and I rollered every wall, and my dad went after us with a brush to do some of the detail and touch-up work.
We ended up finishing a lot sooner than expected, so Ong Ba Ngoai came and picked us up and took us back to their new place. Along with more of their endless boxes of stuff. Quote comes from the drive back to their new place -
“Don’t you think I’m so lucky to have a co-pilot helping me?”
- Ong Ngoai to Anh Bi and me because Ba Ngoai was constantly back-seat driving (from the passenger seat) for the four blocks from the old place to the new place.
“Oh yeah, it makes me sad that I don’t have a girlfriend to do the same for me.”
- Anh Bi.
I’m not sure if Ong Ngoai was being sarcastic or not, because it’s harder for me to tell in Viet. But I’m going to assume it was. Ba Ngoai didn’t seem to notice, though. She just kept telling him to brake, gas, and signal.
Cau Dung came over after he got off work and we had bun bo hue (not home-made, though, it was from some local Viet restaurant, and a bit sub-par.) The moving crew was still pretty hungry, so some uncles went to a place around the corner called Mandarin Kitchen, and brought some Chinese to-go back to the house, and we ate our fill.
Went back to Cau Dung’s house after that and watched Curb your Enthusiasm. It’s a show on HBO about the life of Larry David, one of the creators of Seinfield, and feels a bit like a Seinfield rip-off. It’s very funny, except for the parts that are so awkward they make me cringe more than laugh. Also got owned at Scrabble. I thought all the Literati I’ve been playing lately would be good training for me, but it’s just different enough to screw me.
Since Di Phuong was over to help Natalie make phở, Anh Bi and I split the Love Sac. Boy, that sounds awkward. Actually, it was a Corda-Roy, a big bean-bag chai that converts into a queen-size bed. I passed out extremely early (around 12:30), because the next day we would be helping Cau Minh move into his house, so I wanted to be sure I was well-rested.