Yeah I totally upgraded my software to 2.0. Initially I was being lazy and figured that I’d get around to it when they released it through iTunes for all people. But this morning I got the urge and figured it would take about as long to complete as it would for me to get ready to head to work — wrong, it took a bit longer. Still, I upgraded, downloaded a few free apps and was out the door. Unfortunately since wifi does not flow freely here and as you can see my signal strength sucks in the office, I haven’t played with it all that much. Jott is the only application I haven’t opened at all, and I’m thoroughly disappointed with Bank of America (no shock there) as their “application” is no different than surfing to their mobile site, no advantages offered by the application at all.

Still, I’m glad I upgraded before this morning’s rush. The stories coming in about it sound a little nightmarish on the part of employees and those lined up. Also, the new shortcut to take a screen capture? Love it.

It has been… a good week… socially. I am saving up my work moanings to be posted at a later time because saving up my manifesto in a little notebook is a lovely way to vent some frustrations about the behavior here. But I digress.

Monday and Tuesday were chore days. Target run, dry cleaning, laundry, tidying, recipe management, trash runs. All the stuff that sucks but is totally necessary. As a result, there are now bare areas of my apartment that haven’t seen light in ages and I’ve tossed out quite a lot of my past that fell into that “I’m saving this, but I never look at it” category. I did save all my queer, campy, tacky buttons however I tossed all the beads.

Wednesday was a little Witches of Eastwick happy hour with Moose, Michael and Fredo at Cobalt. I never thought I’d make Cobalt a regular option for happy hour, but their drink prices aren’t too bad and fortunately, or not depending on how you look at it, the main bar isn’t all that crowded most nights and happy hour goes from 5-9pm! After a few drinks and many laughs, we moved over to Annie’s for a nosh and then made our way home.

Thursday I met up with Kyle so that he could introduce me to the wondrous food item that is Phở. I saw it pop up all over when the craze first hit the states, I’d just never been. The neon signs always seemed to indicate that it was a soup of some sort, but that’s all I could sort out. We met at Cleveland Park Metro and went over to Nam-Viet Pho-79, a place that I’d seen many times but kinda glossed over. The phở was delicious and I also had their seafood fried rice with shrimp, squid, scallops, lump crabmeat and spices in jasmine rice. Amazing dish and plentiful. I’ve got leftovers awaiting me at home tonight.

read on for further adventures into northwest…