Puzzle Hunt is upon me
Nov. 5th, 2005 01:17 amMatt Lahut is in town for Microsoft Puzzle Hunt. I always forget how much I totally adore him until he comes to visit. The reason I really adore Matt is that not only is he absolutely fucking brilliant (sort of in the same way ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jcreed is, just some big raw energon cube of intelligence) but also, unlike everyone else in the galaxy (except maybe Nick), he laughs at all my jokes. You have no idea how gratifying it is to have someone around who actually always appreciates my warped sense of humor. I guess the bad part is that it makes me hyper-silly because I'm just trying to get out all my goofiness while someone's around who will laugh at it.
Anyway, after work, through a bunch of cellphone walkie-talkiness, we converged upon the Celtic Bayou for dinner; we being Lahut, Drew, Jason, Brian R, and me. I'm just not a fan of the CB's food, but oh well, it's still a good hangout place. Afterwards we went over to Microsoft Building 41 to play Robo Rally -- the new Wizards-of-the-Coasted version, that is. There are a few significant rule changes, mostly affecting how you get options, and there's these wacky new boards, and no virtual bots, and they've sort of dumbed down a little bit of it. Anyway, we played two games; the first was one board, two flags, and I won; the second was one board, three flags, and Matt won. Fun was had, although I spent most of the second game with 2 registers locked and just flailing around in board lasers. Wheeeee.
I came home and baked brownies, and am getting my junk together for Puzzle Hunt, which starts in about 8.5 hours, so I better go get some sleep, since I don't plan to sleep tomorrow night. Woo. PUZZLE HUNT! See you all Sunday night.
Also, I would like to point out that tonight was actually a monumental event: the first time since 1996 that I missed a fall semester game of Capture the Stuff With Flags. Crazy, isn't it? Oh well -- I'll be in Pittsburgh in three weeks and can see everyone then, without all the running around, screaming, and singing Yankee Doodle at the top of my lungs.
jcreed is, just some big raw energon cube of intelligence) but also, unlike everyone else in the galaxy (except maybe Nick), he laughs at all my jokes. You have no idea how gratifying it is to have someone around who actually always appreciates my warped sense of humor. I guess the bad part is that it makes me hyper-silly because I'm just trying to get out all my goofiness while someone's around who will laugh at it.Anyway, after work, through a bunch of cellphone walkie-talkiness, we converged upon the Celtic Bayou for dinner; we being Lahut, Drew, Jason, Brian R, and me. I'm just not a fan of the CB's food, but oh well, it's still a good hangout place. Afterwards we went over to Microsoft Building 41 to play Robo Rally -- the new Wizards-of-the-Coasted version, that is. There are a few significant rule changes, mostly affecting how you get options, and there's these wacky new boards, and no virtual bots, and they've sort of dumbed down a little bit of it. Anyway, we played two games; the first was one board, two flags, and I won; the second was one board, three flags, and Matt won. Fun was had, although I spent most of the second game with 2 registers locked and just flailing around in board lasers. Wheeeee.
I came home and baked brownies, and am getting my junk together for Puzzle Hunt, which starts in about 8.5 hours, so I better go get some sleep, since I don't plan to sleep tomorrow night. Woo. PUZZLE HUNT! See you all Sunday night.
Also, I would like to point out that tonight was actually a monumental event: the first time since 1996 that I missed a fall semester game of Capture the Stuff With Flags. Crazy, isn't it? Oh well -- I'll be in Pittsburgh in three weeks and can see everyone then, without all the running around, screaming, and singing Yankee Doodle at the top of my lungs.
