And Barbecue sauce!

Last night Esther and I went out to dinner at Chili’s, which was surprisingly good. A wonderful little thing that the Chili’s people do, is add a trivia to their little drinks menu. Most of the trivia I knew, but it was fun to read them to Esther. I had a sampler platter, including ribs and shrimp (at Esther’s request) and Esther had a steak and chicken Quesadillas. It was pretty good, and as I told Esther last night, the only time I remember eating at a Chili’s with with my grandmother. That of course let to Esther insinuating that she reminded me of my grandmother and that devolved into chaos (good chaos).

So why were we having a dinner out? Esther is kind of done with her semester. She presented a major paper yesterday and outside of a single final she is done! She has survived her first semester as a Ph.D. student, hoorah!

Also last night, I worked on getting the laptop and the media center PC all hooked up where I could use it as a real computer as well as the media center hub. I installed TightVNC on the PC and Chicken of the VNC on the mac, which is much better to use than Remote Desktop Connection, which locks the PC when I disconnect. I also setup Dynamic DNS updater to eventually allow me to access the computer anywhere without having to use Orb. Now I just have to figure out how to get around the router directly the PC.