I came so close to winning the tournament yesterday. Its been a while I made it to the last four and yesterday I lost 3-4 in the quarter finals. But, I was happy with my game. I am doing less safeties and shooting better. I think slowly I am getting there.

Other than pool, I bladed on the same 7.4 miles trail covering Belmont and Foster city. Plan to do the same today.   Oh, and I worked on integrating the Photos section of my website with my picasa web album by using Picasa API. If you are a web developer, you surely will be interested. Check it out.

I worked from home this morning. But, was not too productive , so drove to work (a mile away from my home) only to find people evacuating my building. Seing a fire engine standing outside, I made out that this is about a fire inside. So, I drove back only to find later that it was a fire drill and that the evacuation lasted just 5 more minutes and people were back to their cubes/offices in no time working.

Evening I went to rollerblade after a long time (2 weeks or so ).  I did around 9 miles total . Here’s the route I took.

….and woke up at 10. The reason for night out was my laptop (IBM Thinkpad) that suffered a broken hinge owing to its age (almost 3 yrs now). Since its out of warranty and I did not want to get exploited by the computer repairmen , I decided to take matter in my own hands…Opened almost every part of the laptop LCD and found the exact part that needed to be replaced. Of course, there was collateral damage (the power cable to the night light snapped while playing around).  I was pleasantly surprised at knowing that every sub part of IBM thinkpad can be ordered online. Eventually placed an order from thinkpad-parts.com for as little as $34 ($10 for shipping) and they should be here end of this week.