After one week, please check these tomato photos. 🙂

Happy!  My jetsetter tomatoes are turning red, and yellow pear tomatoes are growing.  Please check the following exciting pictures.  😉

1. The first and biggest jetsetter tomato

2. Yellow Pear Tomatoes

3. The whole plants

  In April, I bought two tomato plants from OSH and planted them in a 15-gallon planter box.  One plant is “Jetsetter”, and the other one is “Yellow Pear”.  As today, the jetsetter tomato plant has about 10 small tomatoes, while the yellow pear tomato plant starts to bloom.  Hopefully, I will get my first mature jetsetter tomato next week, and more jetsetter and yellow pear tomatoes in a few weeks.  🙂

 Note: “Tomato Jetsetter: A vigorous, high-yielding tomato with smooth, round, 8oz fruit and juicy, flavorsome flesh.  Maturity is 64 days.  Indeterminate growth.  Use in salads, hot dishes and preserves”.

“Tomato Yellow Pear: A unique tomato which bears clusters of acid-free, pear-shaped, 1 oz fruits of golden yellow.  Fruits will mature in 70-75 days.  Indeterminate growth.  Use in salads, hot dishes and preserving.”

  Today, I went to Toys R Us in East San Jose.  They have moving sale of 30% to 50% off.  I bought four toys for my niece and nephews: two Cube World Double “Stick People Sticking Together” Series 3, FastLane Super Aircraft 4 pack, and Ferris-Coaster Wheel.  I will see how my niece and nephews enjoy playing these toys!  🙂 

  I am very very happy to announce that several new born guppy fries showed up in my tank today!  🙂 🙂

  The firmware of my PSP was 2.60 for a long time, until I found out that “Dark Alex” released an open edition of 3.03 last week.  Under the risk of having a brick, I started the journey of upgrading my PSP as follows.

1. Upgraded from 2.60 to 2.71.
2. Installed HEN-C on top of 2.71.
3. Installed 2.71 Downgrader.
4. Downgraded from 2.71 to 1.50.
5. Installed 3.03 OE-A.
6. Installed 3.03 OE-A2.
7. Installed 3.03 OE-B. 

  After having the firmware of 3.03 OE-B, my psp can run homebrew applications, play 480×272 AVC video,  and do more things.  Now the potential of PSP is unleashed!  Many many thanks to “Dark Alex”!  😉

Yesterday, I went to a high school with two friends to play my RC airplane for the first time.  We standed in a soccer field to launch the plane.  The plane just couldn’t fly.  It went up a little bit and then dropped to the ground.  After the battery power was gone, I recharged the plane about 4 minutues.

After recharging the plane, one of my friend successfully let the plane stay in the sky for about thirty seconds.  I saw the plane perform a 360-degree loop in the sky.  Incredible!

It’s my turn.  After I launched the plane, I kept pressing the throttle button to make the airplane to fly high.  The plane went higher and higher, further and further away from me.  The crazy thing happened.  The plane wasn’t controllable and it flew over the soccer field, toward the street and to the nearby houses.  Finally, it landed over a fence, but I was not sure where it landed.

I ran to the houses and looked for the plane but couldn’t find it outside.  So, I knocked the door of one house to look for the plane.  The first family was very kind to let me enter their back yard, but I still couldn’t find it.  I felt disappointed, and thanked the family to walk out.  Suddently I heard the noise of the airplane motor from the left side of the next house.  I knocked the next door, and a lady answered to help me get the plane.  It’s a happy ending.

Next time, I should find a bigger field to play my RC airplane to avoid this embarrassing situation.

NOTE:  The nose of the RC plane has some damages, because the plane crashed several time.  Fortunately, the body and the wing are still in a good condition.

Hey Hey!  I got a good “after Christmas” deal from Target: an RC airplane for $35 (the original price is $50).  The issue is that the airplane charger base needs 8 D-size batteries.  To save buying 8 D-size batteries, I tried to connect a 12V 500mA AC-DC transformer to the positive and negative metal contacts.  It worked!  Pretty amazing.

To my curiosity, I tried to use another AC-DC transformer (9V 1000mA) to the charger base.  Then, I started to smell very strange odors and the light of the charger base went off.  I destroyed the charger base.  😦

To not give up, I opened the charger base and checked the circuit board.  A 16V/100uF capacitor was blown up.  I hurried up to Fry’s and bought a new capacitor ($1.07).  After going home, I removed the bad capacitor and soldered the new one to the circuit board.

After the repairment, the most important thing came.  I reconnected the first AC-DC transformer to the charger base, and turned on the switch.  Bingo!  The light of the base went on.  It worked again!

This was the greatest achievement I got on Jan 1st, 2007.  🙂

Today is Thanksgivng Day.  I’ve not seen my cherry shrimp for more than one week, but I saw it near the wood this morning.  The cherry shrimp is healthy and RED.  Thank God!  🙂

   My red-claw crabs are good, too.

Today, I found one empty crab shell in my crab tank.  The female red-claw crab just took off her old shell and became lager.  One of her left legs was stuck in the old shell.  Fortunately, the female crab seemed happy after molting.

Empty Crab Shell (Bottom View)