some more update
Ok, so I guess the last time I updated, I was not in the best shape. I'm a bit better now... mostly owing to Kuibbles. He's really good at cheering me up.
Anyway... So, there was Sunday. We spent the evening here for the most part, with me pining up a wall because I'm a dork. We did go out for a bit to the Metreon, where we got dinner with Cleaver, Artemis, Hades, Demeter, and Hermes, oh, and Steve Jackson. (The first 5 are pirate names, the last is actually the one and only Steve Jackson, who plays PP. Whodathunkit.) Anyway, so we went there, and we met up with people, and had dinner... I guess it was kinda fun. The thing was that I kept trying to make conversation that WASN'T about puzzle pirates and well, it's just hard to do at a table of people like that. So I chatted with Cleaver about Seattle, and with Artemis and Hades about their new house and how much fun it is moving and whatnot, but other than that... PP PP PP PP, that's all anyone talked about. Ah well.
After dinner we went to the Caltrain station and picked up Dan/Devonin (aka![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
danno_san), and came back to the House of Things. I forget the exact sequence of events after that but we ended up playing Corsairs, which was fun... Jeff won, I was second, that's about all I remember. I was still being sad at that point, and somewhere around midnight is when I just totally broke down, since the day was over, and it meant I wasn't going to get to see Mike again. Of course, midnight is around when everyone wanted me to play Jason's 16-tile game or whatever... but I was just like "dude I am in NO shape to play it" and well, I went into the room we're staying in and pretty much stayed there for the next 7 hours going between playing PP, trying to sleep and failing, and crying my eyes out. I'm so dumb. To his credit, Jason came in around 2am and stayed with me for most of that time trying to cheer me up and talk me out of how awful I felt, and he just hugged me a lot and tried to make me feel better. I was pretty far gone though and kept just breaking down... I'm not sure why, really. It just seemed like... there had been this whole week of some pretty bad timing, and then this whole overemotional weekend of meeting so many people and being so nervous about everything, and I'd been keeping everything in all week/weekend, and just, I had to cry and cry and cry and get it all out. Or maybe... or maybe I really just wanted more than anything to see Mike again and give him a hug goodbye? It's really hard to say. Totally illogical.
Though, I felt really bad because well, here's the only time I'd be really hanging out with Devonin and here I was being a total mess.
Oh well. So Monday morning, after like 3 hours of sleep, we wake up, we decide to go to the Metreon so Dan and I can play DDR and so we can all go to Three Rings HQ afterwards. So we did. Michelle met up with us there too, which was a little odd because Jason didn't really want her to but he felt bad for her wandering around the city alone. So, anyway, Dan and I played a few games of DDR, and I totally killed myself, but that's ok. I think we had fun, if I didn't scare him too much. (I got 6 greats on Butterfly HVY, I think that's a record for me actually) At the very least, I got to do silly crap like trying to websurf to find the codes for DDR 1.5 mix... while PLAYING and almost FCing Brilliant 2U basic on the 1.5 mix machine... everyone seemed to have a good laugh over that one.
So, I tried to clean myself up since I was a sweaty mess, and then we went over to 3R, where Cleaver was playing Munchkin with Poseidon and his wife. I hate Munchkin, and I was exhausted, so I went and took a nap on the couch while they all played. I got woken up by subscriber noises eventually :) By that point they had all started a second game of Munchkin with everyone else too, so ugh. Demeter, Artemis, Hermes, and Hades all showed up at one point, and I talked to them a bit, but honestly I had no real reason to hang out at HQ any longer, so I IM'ed Kuibbles and we made plans to go hang out for dinner and stuff. I gave Cleaver the cool Goofy Roger flag I got from Pirate's Plunder, and the pop-up pirate card... he seemed to like them. And then I left to walk to the BART station, stopping off briefly to change shirts and stuff.
Anyway... yeah... so I took the BART out to Berkeley, and Kui met up with me at the station, and we had dinner together at a little Chinese food place which was yummy but too spicy for me, and we talked a lot and he hugged me a lot and told me silly jokes and made me feel a lot better. I ♥ Kui, he's really wonderful. After that we stopped by Eudemonia, the LAN cafe that Cioj had told me he'd be at for PP'ing. He wasn't there yet, but the guy manning the register was actually Jujube, one of the crew members of the Fifth Fist. Hee. So Kui and I told him what we were doing there and that we'd be back, and then we walked around Berkeley for about half an hour and talked about more stuff.
We came back, and a guy waved to me from the back, and it was Cioj! Whee! So we went in and got set up with accounts and the three of us sat there swordfighting for like 2 hours. It was actually a lot more fun than you'd think. We took turns fighting each other and watching each other fight. Cioj is really scary, he builds with tons of breakers and whatnot... Kui is just FAST and builds scary big blocks... me, I dunno how it happens but I seem to do okay against both of them... it was really funny having others on our boat in-game like Thecrapton and Lovelytini, we told them we were at the cafe so they went and looked on the webcam to see what was up in the store, so we started doing goofy stuff, like we did the wave... or after one battle, I put my hands in the air like the PP pose for SF winning... and we kept waving at the camera and being silly... it really was pretty amusing overall. Especially since there was some dude from Quix's crew sitting a few rows away from us and he kept asking Juju for help with the puzzles. Har!
Anyway, so it was pretty neat. Cioj reminds me of Bobby Conover. It's actually kinda frightening. But I think it was interesting and fun to meet him.
Kui walked me back to the Berkeley BART station after that, and I took the BART train home... well, I took it to 16th and Mission which is a SCARY neighborhood at 12:30am, to me at least, and there was no bus coming for like 25 mins, so I called Jeff but he was out running around, so eh, I took a cab back to the House of Things. The cabbie was a computer geek of sorts so he got me into a conversation about different computers and whatnot. It was a little surreal.
Hmm... so, then there's today (Tuesday). We stopped by Potrero Center for some dayquil-substitute medicine (because my sore throat is becoming unbearable) and some lunch and Jamba Juice, and then we headed off to this AWESOME game store in the Haight area called Gamescape. It had a ton of games, and books, and everything. The people there were very cool too. I passed up getting a copy of a game called Cap'n Clever, and instead got a game called Mutiny, and I also finally acquired Katamino, aka the carp game! Whee.
Came back here and I guess we've been hanging out since pretty much. I logged into PP and talked to Mike for a very long time... I guess it's good to find out that it wasn't one-sided, that he actually *did* feel the same way I did about our meeting... on the other hand that makes it even more sad. Ugh. So yeah. Well, we will see what happens, I suppose. I know, it's seeming like I'm getting out of reality more and more day by day sometimes... Anyway, so Jeff and Jason and I grabbed dinner at the grease shop / liquor store across the street and watched the end of the All-Star Game (DUDE WTF CLEMENS GIVES UP SIX RUNS IN THE FIRST INNING?!!?), and then we took Jason to the airport. I gave Jason a hug and kiss goodbye, and I'm guessing that we're leaving things at "friends" for now. I mean, a guy who will stay up all night with me while I'm a crying mess can't possibly *not* be a friend.
The rest of the evening has been... well, if I wasn't feeling so lousy sick, I'd say boring, but actually it was probly good to relax. Muffy, Adam, Jeff and I sat on the couch with laptops and pretty much just hung out doing respective nerdly stuff, mostly PP and Nethack and whatnot. While I feel it'd have been cooler to do something more active with them tonight, nobody really suggested anything, so this was fine.
Oh, actually, I made the worst joke of my life tonight. Earlier, see, I was memming around the Jet archipelago, and well, there were just these CRAZY awful disconnects and lagging out before fights and all... it was terrible! I couldn't figure out was wrong, until I realized...
...it was just a really bad case of JET LAG!
HAR! I KILL ME!
Tomorrow... dang, I don't know what I'll do tomorrow. Either go to SVGL or hang out with Kui again. Or both. We shall see. :)
BTW, I'm seriously considering going friends-only again for a while, which means all you lurkers need to get accounts. I don't mind cool awesome people like Kui reading my entries, but when it comes to people like Jason's psychotic ex-girlfriend sending me freakish IMs, that's when I stop. Plus it just occurred to me that my mom still reads all this crap. Ugh.
Anyway... So, there was Sunday. We spent the evening here for the most part, with me pining up a wall because I'm a dork. We did go out for a bit to the Metreon, where we got dinner with Cleaver, Artemis, Hades, Demeter, and Hermes, oh, and Steve Jackson. (The first 5 are pirate names, the last is actually the one and only Steve Jackson, who plays PP. Whodathunkit.) Anyway, so we went there, and we met up with people, and had dinner... I guess it was kinda fun. The thing was that I kept trying to make conversation that WASN'T about puzzle pirates and well, it's just hard to do at a table of people like that. So I chatted with Cleaver about Seattle, and with Artemis and Hades about their new house and how much fun it is moving and whatnot, but other than that... PP PP PP PP, that's all anyone talked about. Ah well.
After dinner we went to the Caltrain station and picked up Dan/Devonin (aka
danno_san), and came back to the House of Things. I forget the exact sequence of events after that but we ended up playing Corsairs, which was fun... Jeff won, I was second, that's about all I remember. I was still being sad at that point, and somewhere around midnight is when I just totally broke down, since the day was over, and it meant I wasn't going to get to see Mike again. Of course, midnight is around when everyone wanted me to play Jason's 16-tile game or whatever... but I was just like "dude I am in NO shape to play it" and well, I went into the room we're staying in and pretty much stayed there for the next 7 hours going between playing PP, trying to sleep and failing, and crying my eyes out. I'm so dumb. To his credit, Jason came in around 2am and stayed with me for most of that time trying to cheer me up and talk me out of how awful I felt, and he just hugged me a lot and tried to make me feel better. I was pretty far gone though and kept just breaking down... I'm not sure why, really. It just seemed like... there had been this whole week of some pretty bad timing, and then this whole overemotional weekend of meeting so many people and being so nervous about everything, and I'd been keeping everything in all week/weekend, and just, I had to cry and cry and cry and get it all out. Or maybe... or maybe I really just wanted more than anything to see Mike again and give him a hug goodbye? It's really hard to say. Totally illogical.Though, I felt really bad because well, here's the only time I'd be really hanging out with Devonin and here I was being a total mess.
Oh well. So Monday morning, after like 3 hours of sleep, we wake up, we decide to go to the Metreon so Dan and I can play DDR and so we can all go to Three Rings HQ afterwards. So we did. Michelle met up with us there too, which was a little odd because Jason didn't really want her to but he felt bad for her wandering around the city alone. So, anyway, Dan and I played a few games of DDR, and I totally killed myself, but that's ok. I think we had fun, if I didn't scare him too much. (I got 6 greats on Butterfly HVY, I think that's a record for me actually) At the very least, I got to do silly crap like trying to websurf to find the codes for DDR 1.5 mix... while PLAYING and almost FCing Brilliant 2U basic on the 1.5 mix machine... everyone seemed to have a good laugh over that one.
So, I tried to clean myself up since I was a sweaty mess, and then we went over to 3R, where Cleaver was playing Munchkin with Poseidon and his wife. I hate Munchkin, and I was exhausted, so I went and took a nap on the couch while they all played. I got woken up by subscriber noises eventually :) By that point they had all started a second game of Munchkin with everyone else too, so ugh. Demeter, Artemis, Hermes, and Hades all showed up at one point, and I talked to them a bit, but honestly I had no real reason to hang out at HQ any longer, so I IM'ed Kuibbles and we made plans to go hang out for dinner and stuff. I gave Cleaver the cool Goofy Roger flag I got from Pirate's Plunder, and the pop-up pirate card... he seemed to like them. And then I left to walk to the BART station, stopping off briefly to change shirts and stuff.
Anyway... yeah... so I took the BART out to Berkeley, and Kui met up with me at the station, and we had dinner together at a little Chinese food place which was yummy but too spicy for me, and we talked a lot and he hugged me a lot and told me silly jokes and made me feel a lot better. I ♥ Kui, he's really wonderful. After that we stopped by Eudemonia, the LAN cafe that Cioj had told me he'd be at for PP'ing. He wasn't there yet, but the guy manning the register was actually Jujube, one of the crew members of the Fifth Fist. Hee. So Kui and I told him what we were doing there and that we'd be back, and then we walked around Berkeley for about half an hour and talked about more stuff.
We came back, and a guy waved to me from the back, and it was Cioj! Whee! So we went in and got set up with accounts and the three of us sat there swordfighting for like 2 hours. It was actually a lot more fun than you'd think. We took turns fighting each other and watching each other fight. Cioj is really scary, he builds with tons of breakers and whatnot... Kui is just FAST and builds scary big blocks... me, I dunno how it happens but I seem to do okay against both of them... it was really funny having others on our boat in-game like Thecrapton and Lovelytini, we told them we were at the cafe so they went and looked on the webcam to see what was up in the store, so we started doing goofy stuff, like we did the wave... or after one battle, I put my hands in the air like the PP pose for SF winning... and we kept waving at the camera and being silly... it really was pretty amusing overall. Especially since there was some dude from Quix's crew sitting a few rows away from us and he kept asking Juju for help with the puzzles. Har!
Anyway, so it was pretty neat. Cioj reminds me of Bobby Conover. It's actually kinda frightening. But I think it was interesting and fun to meet him.
Kui walked me back to the Berkeley BART station after that, and I took the BART train home... well, I took it to 16th and Mission which is a SCARY neighborhood at 12:30am, to me at least, and there was no bus coming for like 25 mins, so I called Jeff but he was out running around, so eh, I took a cab back to the House of Things. The cabbie was a computer geek of sorts so he got me into a conversation about different computers and whatnot. It was a little surreal.
Hmm... so, then there's today (Tuesday). We stopped by Potrero Center for some dayquil-substitute medicine (because my sore throat is becoming unbearable) and some lunch and Jamba Juice, and then we headed off to this AWESOME game store in the Haight area called Gamescape. It had a ton of games, and books, and everything. The people there were very cool too. I passed up getting a copy of a game called Cap'n Clever, and instead got a game called Mutiny, and I also finally acquired Katamino, aka the carp game! Whee.
Came back here and I guess we've been hanging out since pretty much. I logged into PP and talked to Mike for a very long time... I guess it's good to find out that it wasn't one-sided, that he actually *did* feel the same way I did about our meeting... on the other hand that makes it even more sad. Ugh. So yeah. Well, we will see what happens, I suppose. I know, it's seeming like I'm getting out of reality more and more day by day sometimes... Anyway, so Jeff and Jason and I grabbed dinner at the grease shop / liquor store across the street and watched the end of the All-Star Game (DUDE WTF CLEMENS GIVES UP SIX RUNS IN THE FIRST INNING?!!?), and then we took Jason to the airport. I gave Jason a hug and kiss goodbye, and I'm guessing that we're leaving things at "friends" for now. I mean, a guy who will stay up all night with me while I'm a crying mess can't possibly *not* be a friend.
The rest of the evening has been... well, if I wasn't feeling so lousy sick, I'd say boring, but actually it was probly good to relax. Muffy, Adam, Jeff and I sat on the couch with laptops and pretty much just hung out doing respective nerdly stuff, mostly PP and Nethack and whatnot. While I feel it'd have been cooler to do something more active with them tonight, nobody really suggested anything, so this was fine.
Oh, actually, I made the worst joke of my life tonight. Earlier, see, I was memming around the Jet archipelago, and well, there were just these CRAZY awful disconnects and lagging out before fights and all... it was terrible! I couldn't figure out was wrong, until I realized...
...it was just a really bad case of JET LAG!
HAR! I KILL ME!
Tomorrow... dang, I don't know what I'll do tomorrow. Either go to SVGL or hang out with Kui again. Or both. We shall see. :)
BTW, I'm seriously considering going friends-only again for a while, which means all you lurkers need to get accounts. I don't mind cool awesome people like Kui reading my entries, but when it comes to people like Jason's psychotic ex-girlfriend sending me freakish IMs, that's when I stop. Plus it just occurred to me that my mom still reads all this crap. Ugh.
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Best moment was when Jason was talking to him, and saw Jeff walking by and went "Hey Jeff, come over here and tell Steve Jackson how much you hate Munchkin!"
Incidentally, Richard Garfield of Magic: the gathering fame also plays, but wasn't at the party.