It's just like 1998, only we're all pushing 30
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buoren is in town this weekend. So yesterday afternoon he and oren came up here to Ballard in the late afternoon, and eventually so did zml and queendogface. We played a few hands of Tichu until dvarin finally arrived, and then went over to Taste of India to meet up with mygrane and Joe.
Funny part about this is that it was like... "hey, I'm at Taste of India with Kevin, Carl, Oren, and Zach! This is just like nine years ago!" Despite that it's 3000 miles away from Pittsburgh, I still get a kick out of being at a ToI on a weekend night with a big gang of CMU people. Only difference between now and then is that we can't all divide the bill evenly, because half the table gets chai and then the other half gets alcohol (rather the old days, when everyone got a mango lassi or a mango shake). Personally, I thinkbk1e has to visit sometime.
We came back to the house, where Christine and Joe and Carl and Kevin opened up my copy of Candamir (a Settlers variant that Drew gave me for Christmas) and played it. The other four of us watched Idiocracy, the Mike Judge movie that came out last year, since I'd bugged Zach to Netflix it. I'd say it was pretty funny and I don't find myself wishing for that hour and a half of my life back, and the movie itself is a sound commentary on how retarded the world is becoming, but on the other hand I'm not sure I'll watch it ninety times like I've seen Office Space, so it might have been a little disappointing from that aspect.
I guess you could say the other funny part of the evening was getting the four WoW players sitting around a table playing a Catan board game that involved running off into the woods/fields/mountains on missions to kill bears and snakes and level up their character.
Once everyone had gone home, I started working with the portable drive I bought the other day and even ripped a few CDs. This is going to sound dumb, but I think I can actually hear the difference between 192kbps and 320kbps. Either way, what I figured out is that it'll be efficient for me to use my laptop to rip my stuff while I'm working on my desktop. So I ended up watching this week's episode of Hana Yori Dango (they did the Yuki/Sara/Soujirou plot) and Himitsu no Hanazono (♥ Wataru!) and uh, an episode of the New Dochi Cooking Show, just because I was curious about it (and I don't think I'll actually watch it again, even though it was pretty interesting... I was just wondering what Kusanagi's role was in it).
Now, it is Sunday afternoon and I'm going to go meet up with Oren and Carl and Kevin for lunch. Wheeee. Later I will answer more meme.
buoren is in town this weekend. So yesterday afternoon he and oren came up here to Ballard in the late afternoon, and eventually so did zml and queendogface. We played a few hands of Tichu until dvarin finally arrived, and then went over to Taste of India to meet up with mygrane and Joe.Funny part about this is that it was like... "hey, I'm at Taste of India with Kevin, Carl, Oren, and Zach! This is just like nine years ago!" Despite that it's 3000 miles away from Pittsburgh, I still get a kick out of being at a ToI on a weekend night with a big gang of CMU people. Only difference between now and then is that we can't all divide the bill evenly, because half the table gets chai and then the other half gets alcohol (rather the old days, when everyone got a mango lassi or a mango shake). Personally, I think
bk1e has to visit sometime.We came back to the house, where Christine and Joe and Carl and Kevin opened up my copy of Candamir (a Settlers variant that Drew gave me for Christmas) and played it. The other four of us watched Idiocracy, the Mike Judge movie that came out last year, since I'd bugged Zach to Netflix it. I'd say it was pretty funny and I don't find myself wishing for that hour and a half of my life back, and the movie itself is a sound commentary on how retarded the world is becoming, but on the other hand I'm not sure I'll watch it ninety times like I've seen Office Space, so it might have been a little disappointing from that aspect.
I guess you could say the other funny part of the evening was getting the four WoW players sitting around a table playing a Catan board game that involved running off into the woods/fields/mountains on missions to kill bears and snakes and level up their character.
Once everyone had gone home, I started working with the portable drive I bought the other day and even ripped a few CDs. This is going to sound dumb, but I think I can actually hear the difference between 192kbps and 320kbps. Either way, what I figured out is that it'll be efficient for me to use my laptop to rip my stuff while I'm working on my desktop. So I ended up watching this week's episode of Hana Yori Dango (they did the Yuki/Sara/Soujirou plot) and Himitsu no Hanazono (♥ Wataru!) and uh, an episode of the New Dochi Cooking Show, just because I was curious about it (and I don't think I'll actually watch it again, even though it was pretty interesting... I was just wondering what Kusanagi's role was in it).
Now, it is Sunday afternoon and I'm going to go meet up with Oren and Carl and Kevin for lunch. Wheeee. Later I will answer more meme.