Merry Rickey Henderson's Birthday, y'all
Dec. 26th, 2005 01:33 amWell, it wasn't exactly a traditional Christmas by any means -- but, I woke up to the ringing of my cellphone, as Nick was calling me. I was really groggy so all I really remember is that he called. A bit later I really woke up, and went to Safeway and procured various foodage, and then I spent an hour or two cleaning up my apartment, and preparing meatloaf. Rather than go with some actual traditional recipe, I figured that as long as I had two pounds of ground meat (I did 2/3 beef, 1/3 pork) and some eggs, it wouldn't really matter what else I mixed in. I went with 1-1/3 cups bread crumbs, a spoonful or two of diced garlic, a few spoonfuls of minced onions, a sprinkling of black pepper, and an estimated 1/2 cup ketchup. It seemed reasonable.
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farren_bronaugh came over around 5ish, pretty much immediately after I'd put the meatloaf in the oven, and we played Pokemon Puzzle League until oren showed up 45 minutes later or so. A little after that I also made mashed potatoes (from a mix -- it was really amusing to me to be like "wow! I put the water in the container, and the flakes in the water, and microwave it, and next thing you know I have mashed potatoes!") We had dinner a bit after that -- I think the meatloaf actually came out well, and I also had applesauce and rolls and stuff. Of course, half the pan of meatloaf is left, so you can guess what I'll be eating for the next few days, heh.
We played a game of Ticket To Ride after that -- Ryan won, though I did fill 6 tickets, screwing over Oren for his third ticket on the last turn of the game. Then, we played more PPL. For like, 4 hours. I'm not kidding. Ryan and I had one particular round of 3-D mode that went 23 minutes and 3 seconds, which even breaks the record James (Crackoon) and I had of that time we had a 15-minute game going until Charlie or Keevon or someone got sick of Blaine's "When you're hot, you're HOT" and turned off the N64. Towards the end of the evening tonight, we unlocked the hidden characters and Oren and I delighted in yelling "DEW-GONG-GONG-GONG-GONG!" while playing several rounds of 2-D mode at level 10.
Afterwards it was pretty late, so I kicked everyone out.
Whee. Not too bad a Christmas, I guess. So, let's see. Tomorrow I don't have work, but I need to assemble the wardrobe-shelf thingy, and in theory I should go to the gym, and work on some non-work computer-related things (like writing a Perl script to figure out when I'm going to Japan next summer, etc).
farren_bronaugh came over around 5ish, pretty much immediately after I'd put the meatloaf in the oven, and we played Pokemon Puzzle League until oren showed up 45 minutes later or so. A little after that I also made mashed potatoes (from a mix -- it was really amusing to me to be like "wow! I put the water in the container, and the flakes in the water, and microwave it, and next thing you know I have mashed potatoes!") We had dinner a bit after that -- I think the meatloaf actually came out well, and I also had applesauce and rolls and stuff. Of course, half the pan of meatloaf is left, so you can guess what I'll be eating for the next few days, heh.We played a game of Ticket To Ride after that -- Ryan won, though I did fill 6 tickets, screwing over Oren for his third ticket on the last turn of the game. Then, we played more PPL. For like, 4 hours. I'm not kidding. Ryan and I had one particular round of 3-D mode that went 23 minutes and 3 seconds, which even breaks the record James (Crackoon) and I had of that time we had a 15-minute game going until Charlie or Keevon or someone got sick of Blaine's "When you're hot, you're HOT" and turned off the N64. Towards the end of the evening tonight, we unlocked the hidden characters and Oren and I delighted in yelling "DEW-GONG-GONG-GONG-GONG!" while playing several rounds of 2-D mode at level 10.
Afterwards it was pretty late, so I kicked everyone out.
Whee. Not too bad a Christmas, I guess. So, let's see. Tomorrow I don't have work, but I need to assemble the wardrobe-shelf thingy, and in theory I should go to the gym, and work on some non-work computer-related things (like writing a Perl script to figure out when I'm going to Japan next summer, etc).
