In reverse order

D&D lasted way too long tonight. We basically played one battle from 8pm until 12:30am. That was just... bad. I lost interest about 2 hours in... well, really, I just got tired.

It was good to see people though, we had a whole buncha people hangin' out at the House of Slack for a while there. We listened to the Mariners game, which sounded fun.

I went to the gym after work and before D&D. I swam for half an hour. It felt really good, what with being sunburnt, but it felt really bad, what with being somewhat sore still. Walked to the HoS from the gym, which is also good exercise.

I left work right after getting a script to work. That was pretty satisfying. It's nicer to leave on an accomplished note than a "dammit, I'll figure it out in the morning" note.

Work was pretty good, too. I feel like I am getting more into the "how to sp34k p3rl" mindset every day. It's cool when I figure out the "right" way to write stuff the first time.

This morning, chai from Torrefazione Italia or however you spell it. Still generic, just like yesterday's chai from Tully's. I'm going to try chai from every coffee shop between 4th & Union and 4th & Madison, since I walk that every morning from the bus to work.

I'm sorry about London. I wish I knew if rkane was okay, since I know he's there for some Magic tourney that was starting today, but other than that I don't think I know anyone currently in London. It's very sad. Bad people suck.

I need to redo my journal to properly use tags, don't I

I've noticed that the more I wish I could stop thinking about something and get it out of my mind, the more I think about it. This sucks.

Today's morning chai came from Simon's or whatever the cafe is called in my work building, because it was raining and I didn't feel like strolling down 4th avenue. It was generic yet again. I'm running out of coffee shops.

Work went well! I think. My brain is still full, I find.

Something I think I forgot to mention, but, my 5th year anniversary of playing DDR passed this week, on July 4th -- the first time I ever played a game of DDR was July 4th, 2000, at Sunnyvale Golfland, on the 1.5 machine, with Tim. I guess maybe one of these days I should go play a game again, but I've been enjoying NOT fucking up my knees and feet for the last few months, so we'll see.

Anyway, after work I ended up skipping the gym because I was there until late enough that I wouldn't catch Heidi and Megan. Oren was coming over and we were going to get dinner, and I had emailed Katy and Seth earlier in the day because I thought Oren would like to talk to Seth about motorcycles and building planes and stuff. Fortunately, I think I was right about that. The four of us went to Taste of India for dinner and I talked to Katy a lot while the guys babbled about motorcycles and stuff. Afterwards we went back and played a game of Ricochet Robot while Seth worked on sanding stuff for a cool model plane he's building.

Um, this weekend is largely unstructured for me, so if anyone in the Seattle area particularly wanted to hang out, they should let me know. I have a buncha chores to accomplish like more clothes/shoe shopping, possibly hitting IKEA for a new dresser, doing laundry and cleaning up around here, etc, and of course trying to get in a bunch of walking and exercise... but it'd be good to see people for dinner or things like that.