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If I was in Japan I'd be getting out of taking the JLPT 2-kyuu test right now. Wow.
So, I wrote one of the Perl scripts I wanted to get done today. It wasn't one that was more important, but it was one to suck up all of this year's raw boxscores in Japanese so I'll have them to work with later after Yahoo makes them disappear.
Then in the evening, I went to Jenkintown!![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tesposit and lshirley1 picked me up at the station and we went to the Drake Tavern for dinner and it was great! I had a BBQ pulled pork sandwich and despite that it was barely cohesive as a sandwich it was great. They gave a wet napkin with the sandwich too for when you make a mess of your hands, and I thought it was fantastic that it said γγγΌγ on it -- because, believe it or not, I'd almost forgotten how you say it in English at this point.
We stopped by a super-nice ACME grocery store after that to get some things and then I got to see Tim and Laurie's new house. It's really old and really nice, in one of those "the owners made a lot of renovations to it, but SANE ones" sorts of ways. Oh, and they have greyhounds, which are surprisingly cute dogs once you get used to them (at first they seemed a bit odd to me, especially since one of them is afraid of strangers).
Tim cooked Bananas Foster for dessert, without any flame, but it did have ice cream and was quite good, and then somehow I ended up just talking to them for three hours. I feel extremely bad because Laurie's a high school teacher now and I was one of those sorts of students in high school that I'm sure was extremely frustrating for teachers, and I was telling stories about how I used to basically sleep through school and not work much... naturally, when I got to CMU I had to totally redo my way of thinking about school. But man, I was such a slacker before. Guess I'm lucky I was smart when I was a kid.
There is, of course, a non-zero chance I could wind up as a high school teacher in Japan next year. Which would be bizarre.
Oh, anyway, look, a cute dog!
So, the silly thing is, we ended up talking until 11:30pm. If we'd looked at the clock like TEN minutes sooner I could have gotten a ride to a train station to come back, but as it is, the trains left from Jenkintown at like, 11:31, and then not until 12:18. So Tim and Laurie gave me a ride back to downtown, which was nice of them. We went down Broad Street and they told me about history of the area. I wonder if I should go try wandering around Temple and La Salle just for fun one of these days, since I never did before. Eh.
Hopefully maybe we can all hang out again whenmrpeck is in town! That would be cool.
So, I wrote one of the Perl scripts I wanted to get done today. It wasn't one that was more important, but it was one to suck up all of this year's raw boxscores in Japanese so I'll have them to work with later after Yahoo makes them disappear.
Then in the evening, I went to Jenkintown!
tesposit and lshirley1 picked me up at the station and we went to the Drake Tavern for dinner and it was great! I had a BBQ pulled pork sandwich and despite that it was barely cohesive as a sandwich it was great. They gave a wet napkin with the sandwich too for when you make a mess of your hands, and I thought it was fantastic that it said γγγΌγ on it -- because, believe it or not, I'd almost forgotten how you say it in English at this point.We stopped by a super-nice ACME grocery store after that to get some things and then I got to see Tim and Laurie's new house. It's really old and really nice, in one of those "the owners made a lot of renovations to it, but SANE ones" sorts of ways. Oh, and they have greyhounds, which are surprisingly cute dogs once you get used to them (at first they seemed a bit odd to me, especially since one of them is afraid of strangers).
Tim cooked Bananas Foster for dessert, without any flame, but it did have ice cream and was quite good, and then somehow I ended up just talking to them for three hours. I feel extremely bad because Laurie's a high school teacher now and I was one of those sorts of students in high school that I'm sure was extremely frustrating for teachers, and I was telling stories about how I used to basically sleep through school and not work much... naturally, when I got to CMU I had to totally redo my way of thinking about school. But man, I was such a slacker before. Guess I'm lucky I was smart when I was a kid.
There is, of course, a non-zero chance I could wind up as a high school teacher in Japan next year. Which would be bizarre.
Oh, anyway, look, a cute dog!
So, the silly thing is, we ended up talking until 11:30pm. If we'd looked at the clock like TEN minutes sooner I could have gotten a ride to a train station to come back, but as it is, the trains left from Jenkintown at like, 11:31, and then not until 12:18. So Tim and Laurie gave me a ride back to downtown, which was nice of them. We went down Broad Street and they told me about history of the area. I wonder if I should go try wandering around Temple and La Salle just for fun one of these days, since I never did before. Eh.
Hopefully maybe we can all hang out again when
mrpeck is in town! That would be cool.
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That seems kind of rare, really--most of the really old houses I've been in had non-sane renovations if they had any configuration-changing renovations at all. Certainly the current house I'm in is fairly strange...
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