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Weekend, briefly
So, been jetlagged. Napping each day from 10am to 2pm is a little weird, but it allows me to stay up to watch the playoffs... which are all over now. Looks like a Dragons-Hawks Japan Series, which I may or may not bother staying awake for when the time comes :)
Saturday night, we went to Marymoor to attend a wedding for James and Kelsey; James is a friend of Mike's from gaming at Microsoft, and so the entire wedding party was mostly family and somewhat dorky people. Mike only knew a handful of people, and I knew nobody (well, except for one guy who I'd met several times before over the years at MS boardgames and/or Puzzle Hunt stuff, but don't REALLY know, though he's on Derek L's team for PH). The ceremony was very laidback and unrehearsed and involved the couple telling a lot of embarrassing stories about each other; and then the best man rickrolled the entire room during his toast. Mike and I ended up sitting at a family table by random chance just because that's what was open by the time we decided to sit down. It kinda worked out okay, I guess.
After the ceremony, the meal, and the cake (which, BTW, had two Companion Cubes from Portal next to it, though they weren't edible, sadly) we basically ended up in the outer room chatting with two of the guys Mike actually knows fairly well -- one had been to Japan before, so the two of us talked for a while. So that was good. We decided to go home around 11pm, though the rest of the party was still dancing and whatnot.
Sunday, we went to the west side to hang out with Carl. Mike had heard about a puzzle exhibit at the Pacific Science Center, so we went there. Sadly, the exhibit was just a huge Rubik's Cube and a few assorted puzzley things around it. The Rubik's Cube was an artifact from Burning Man, and it had 3 console screens to "turn" the cube, which really meant just shifting the lights. BUT we could only get control of two of the consoles, the 3rd always had some little kids randomly pressing buttons, so it was basically unsolvable. We made the best of the situation and wandered around other parts of the PSC and played with various toys and made fools of ourselves in various exhibits like one that required you to put on sight-reducing goggles and walk a straight line and play catch. A highlight for me was a butterfly room, though there were certainly other interesting things around. (And a preying mantis the size of a yacht, btw.)
Because we were already in Queen Anne and pondering dinner, I suggested the Melting Pot. We were able to get in with about a 30-minute wait, so we went to a nearby bookstore to kill time, which worked out okay (and I got two books about Japanese history). Dinner was good as always though also ridiculously filling as always, it's so deceptive because everything you eat in fondue is individually so small, but it all adds up. We solved the "dark or milk chocolate" argument by having the dark chocolate cookies'n'cream, which was really good!
I gave Carl a bunch of randomness that I brought back for him from Japan; the yatsuhashi was timely but I think the other things were interesting too (he's probably the easiest friend to find things for because there's always stuff I see that reminds me of him).
Whee. Tomorrow I will start actually looking at websites for apartments in SF. I should probably plan a trip down there ASAP.
Saturday night, we went to Marymoor to attend a wedding for James and Kelsey; James is a friend of Mike's from gaming at Microsoft, and so the entire wedding party was mostly family and somewhat dorky people. Mike only knew a handful of people, and I knew nobody (well, except for one guy who I'd met several times before over the years at MS boardgames and/or Puzzle Hunt stuff, but don't REALLY know, though he's on Derek L's team for PH). The ceremony was very laidback and unrehearsed and involved the couple telling a lot of embarrassing stories about each other; and then the best man rickrolled the entire room during his toast. Mike and I ended up sitting at a family table by random chance just because that's what was open by the time we decided to sit down. It kinda worked out okay, I guess.
After the ceremony, the meal, and the cake (which, BTW, had two Companion Cubes from Portal next to it, though they weren't edible, sadly) we basically ended up in the outer room chatting with two of the guys Mike actually knows fairly well -- one had been to Japan before, so the two of us talked for a while. So that was good. We decided to go home around 11pm, though the rest of the party was still dancing and whatnot.
Sunday, we went to the west side to hang out with Carl. Mike had heard about a puzzle exhibit at the Pacific Science Center, so we went there. Sadly, the exhibit was just a huge Rubik's Cube and a few assorted puzzley things around it. The Rubik's Cube was an artifact from Burning Man, and it had 3 console screens to "turn" the cube, which really meant just shifting the lights. BUT we could only get control of two of the consoles, the 3rd always had some little kids randomly pressing buttons, so it was basically unsolvable. We made the best of the situation and wandered around other parts of the PSC and played with various toys and made fools of ourselves in various exhibits like one that required you to put on sight-reducing goggles and walk a straight line and play catch. A highlight for me was a butterfly room, though there were certainly other interesting things around. (And a preying mantis the size of a yacht, btw.)
Because we were already in Queen Anne and pondering dinner, I suggested the Melting Pot. We were able to get in with about a 30-minute wait, so we went to a nearby bookstore to kill time, which worked out okay (and I got two books about Japanese history). Dinner was good as always though also ridiculously filling as always, it's so deceptive because everything you eat in fondue is individually so small, but it all adds up. We solved the "dark or milk chocolate" argument by having the dark chocolate cookies'n'cream, which was really good!
I gave Carl a bunch of randomness that I brought back for him from Japan; the yatsuhashi was timely but I think the other things were interesting too (he's probably the easiest friend to find things for because there's always stuff I see that reminds me of him).
Whee. Tomorrow I will start actually looking at websites for apartments in SF. I should probably plan a trip down there ASAP.