Most of the weekend.

I got a lot of cool stuff yesterday.

Okay, so I stayed up too late Friday night, and damienroc showed up here around 9 or 10am. I went back to sleep for another hour, then got up and we went out to Redmond for the U.S.S. Mariner pizza feed, which was a 5-hour gathering of baseball geeks who read the USSM.

( babbling about the USSM meet )

After the feed, Jeff and I hung out here chatting for a bit, and then I kind of zonked out for a while because I have a sore throat and was feeling like crap. I decided to go out for a bit to stop by crankyuser's surprise birthday party, which was at a climbing place in Ballard. I was kinda psyched about it originally, but I realized there was no way in hell I'd be able to actually do rock climbing because I was feeling yucky.

But, dude. So I went for a little while... I met Khoo, and saw Laura and Erik, and Cuban, and people I don't know. I gave Brian back his copy of Diceland which he had left at my OLD house in January. And he gave me the best Christmas present EVER -- two "Ye Win!" t-shirts from Puzzle Pirates. Apparently Cleaver had donated some to a charity event or something? and so Brian got them for me. I don't think he realizes how totally rare the shirts are. So, I WIN. And I feel so awful for being so lame and sick last night. Because Brian rocks my socks.

And when I got home I looked in my mailbox and I had a card from my mom, and I also had a card from the Mariners, which basically is a picture of a snowy Safeco field with Ichiro in front of it batting with a baseball bat that looks like a huge candy cane. Hee.

I played a little PP and zonked out. All I can really say is that C totally knocks me out with how smart he is sometimes. He figured out who three of my unknown alts are. It made me direly happy for some reason, as if I'd left a puzzle for someone to solve and he was smart enough to solve it. I'll probly be deleting the alts anyway as foraging is dead, but still. Man, I just love smart people.

I didn't update last night because I just kinda fell asleep. I woke up today at like 1:30pm, and zqfmbg pretty much showed up on my doorstep shortly after, having driven from California to Portland last night and from Portland to here this morning. We hung out talking for a while, and after I did some waking up, we went to Fremont to hang out for a bit. I took him to Blue C Sushi since I hadn't been there in a few weeks, and we had lots of sushi and it was good :) Then we walked around Fremont, but the market was closing down. I did show him the rocket and the Center of the Universe and the troll though. Came back here, played some Pop'n'Music 10.

Then he left to go pick up lauraisback from work and to go hang out with her for a few hours. He actually left his car here and I'm letting him drive my car, so I hope he comes back here in one piece :) I stole his PNM controller and PNM 10 for the time being to make sure he actually does come back. Or something. I wish I knew more of the PNM10 songs, honestly, though the new Sana stuff is cool, and yes, so is the Goonies theme. So, yeah, I-Gene will get back here in a few hours, and probly crash on my couch and then head up to Canada tomorrow morning, I believe.

I'm going to drink more orange juice and answer some email and putter around here for the rest of the evening. I wish this dumb sore throat would go away.