Alumni brunch cruise thingy, and whatnot.

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bpr called me this morning and made me wake up and go downtown with him for an Argosy Cruise thingy -- it was an SCS Alumni event.

Surprisingly, I didn't really know that many people there. (There were only like... 20-25 people total anyway.) I saw Eric Leese and Derek Leung, so I ended up hanging out with them most of the time. I also spotted Matt Centurion, who I hadn't seen in two years, so he and his friend sat with me and the other guys, and I guess it was fun to talk to everyone and stare out the windows of the boat as it drove all over Puget Sound. Randy Bryant was there talking up SCS stuff, and he was all like "We just opened a campus in Qatar..." and I'm like "Yeah, and a car bomb exploded there yesterday?"

I recognized some other faces on the ship, but didn't get a chance to talk to most of them, as they weren't people I knew well. Like Eli's friend David, from homebrewing... or Chad "I'm a drama minor" McDaniel, who I don't think I ever talked to when we were both undergrads. Oh, I did run into Jason Crawford, who is apparently out here now working at Amazon. That was kinda weird. I couldn't remember his name for a bit, just "jac2".

After the cruise, Brian and I walked around downtown for a while. We stopped by Pirate's Plunder and some other stuff on the waterfront, and he wanted to go to Elliott Bay Bookstore so we walked down there. I went through a really neato book of photographs from the Baseball Hall of Fame, while Brian went looking through used books. I didn't buy anything. It started raining as soon as we left the bookstore.

Brian gave me a ride home, and I goofed off on PP for a while, and I did my taxes. If I've calculated it correctly, and I'm pretty sure I did, I'm getting a nice fat juicy return. (Mostly because of the time I spent unemployed last year and the overtaxing as a result, and partially because I get a tax credit for buying my Civic Hybrid.) So the question is, should I do something gratuitous with the money? Like get a plane ticket and just hop to Japan for a few weeks and bum around watching baseball games? Or at least get myself a new digital camera, or a new computer? Or all three? Or none at all? Man, I suck. Emily pointed out the other night that well, I'm not always going to be young enough and free enough to just do crazy things like hop to other countries for the hell of it. On the other hand, I wonder how much I should worry about money, after all.