The Two Towers, and other stuff today.

( Who is driving? Janthina is driving! )

Yeah, so anyway. Today I went over to the House of Slack, where we had most of our normal slackers (Megan, Josh, Cory, Heidi, Mike, Justin, me, Eli) and we watched the Extended Dance Remix of The Two Towers. There wasn't quite so much extra in this one as there was in Fellowship, it seemed... or maybe it's been too long since I saw the movie? I did like a few of the extra scenes, especially the extra footage they gave Faramir. I couldn't get gootmu's condensed script out of my head though.

The 4 hour movie took us around 5 hours to watch with all the bathroom breaks and whatnot, and then we all had dinner. Megan made super goulash. Justin, Cory, Josh, and Eli played the LOTR Movie Collector's Edition Trivial Pursuit game. I read questions instead of playing because I hate Trivial Pursuit. Josh and Cory won, IIRC. Many of the questions were really silly hard or really silly easy.

Came home and played Puzzle Pirates since I hadn't played all weekend. Finally ran into laurel on a ship. I really suck at everything but carpentry lately, which is getting kinda frustrating (especially things like having to spend 4-5 leagues getting incredibles in gunning on the training ship to get my Ultimate back. I don't know why I bother). But people are fun to talk to and stuff.

And now, sleep.

Hello from US1 230.07

So I got to work and there was no sign of any moving happening. Whew. I hadn't actually labelled all my stuff so I was a little paranoid. I found labels, labelled stuff, and then tried to do work while wondering when the movers would show up. Got lunch across the street at Uwajimaya and brought it back... the movers showed up right when I finished eating.

Took 'em like 20 minutes to move my stuff and reassemble it, and now here I am. Guido and I have cubes near the northeast corner of the building, which means that if anyone wants to meet me down here for lunch or a Mariners game or whatever, I can see the fountain thingie from my cube, which is really convenient. Yay. All the other guys in the group have offices. I didn't actually ask for an office, and maybe I could, but eh, it's nice to be able to see outside, which I couldn't with an office.

I hadn't been in the cafeteria here in ages. One benefit of this building is that it will reunite me with my first love: pinball. The PacMed building used to have a game room in it, but they took it out to make more office space, and the pinball machines and game tables just disappeared (Which sucked, because they had Getaway and Dr. Who). So the US1 cafeteria currently has two pinball machines, Cactus Canyon and Big Guns. I'd never played CC before today but I really like it, I got multiballs pretty easily and I think the game mechanics are pretty fun. Big Guns, I think I'd played it in high school a bit. It's an older machine but it has really sweet gameplay including two "sections" of the machine with four flippers and all. Unfortunately, the skill shot seems to be broken, because I got it on my second ball and then the machine had to sit there for two minutes until it finally unjammed it.