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So, this is 32.

Eh. Same as 31.

Anyway, the weekend was very enjoyable. Friday I had breakfast with lubeguy, who is betraying the House Atreides by moving to Bakersfield (but it's a good move for him, so I'll cope). Then I hung out with g31g3r and mslulu the rest of the day until Elli's game began. Saturday I got shanghied off to San Francisco by the husband, as well as tobin and mslulu. We had lunch at a nice Italian place where I completely blew my diet on pizza and half a canneloni. Yum. Then I stared at my beloved ocean¹ for a while before we went to Japantown to get yummy tarts at a cafe there, as well as frustrate my low Nihongo fluency in the Kunokuniya Bookstore.

Sunday I was taken to play at Laser Force by ox_number_10 (who is to be commended on his planning -- not easy when dealing with the Six), elisandra, tobin, mslulu, g31g3r, lograh, and thunderlord and his wife. This was followed by dinner at Tower Cafe (yummy!) and strange games played at the Social Fallout Shelter.

Monday was nice and quiet -- hours of playing Enter the Matrix, then I went to the familial residence for an hour of frustrated unloading of their camping supplies and then a few hours of pleasant family birthday celebration and much ribbing about being 32. Grandpa told his traditional story of the day of my birth², John got fairly drunk; there was very good food (my family makes a mean BBQ). I received enough dollars that I'm seriously considering going to Best Buy after work to buy a new Hard Drive. 7GB is just not cutting it any longer even with the 2GB drive I use for storing nonsense files³. And an afternoon of installing windows and re-installing all my third-party software seems pleasant enough, compared to math.

Oh -- Children of Dune is excellent. Except for the eyes. Those were bad.


1 - There is nothing on this planet so beautiful to me as the sea. Nothing.

2 - "I went to see Michael when he was born, they said 'Oh isn't he the cutest thing?' I said 'Shit, no!'" That's the entire story.

3 - Yes, that's a euphemism for Porn.

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I think I need, for my own sanity, to actually do some of the household improvement projects I've come up with.

Currently, these include:

1) Refurbishing the Koi Pond so it's less maintenance-intensive and overgrown with weeds. (New filter, grass/sod around it, demolish and replace leaky waterfall)

2) Ripping out that ugly-as-sin juniper near the kitchen window and replacing it with a small Japanese garden. (Or, at the very least, decent groundcover)

3) Painting Living Room (hmmm. Perhaps I'll swing by Home Depot on the way home and get the paint . . . I can certainly afford it . . . and I have the time . . . hmmm)

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Here's the thing.

As Elli has observed, I often will eat crow just to end an argument and/or make peace.

You know what? Sometimes, I get to a point where I'm fed up with doing that, and I want to take it to the wall instead of make peace. And that's just not conducive to continued friendship. So I swallow it some more, and then vent later.

It wasn't just EMH that was making me angry, kids.

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WOOHOO!!

Thanks to birthday cash and a handy rebate offer, I now have a 40GB HDD that I spent only $29 for.

Yeah, I know, 40GB isn't a huge amount these days -- but I upgraded from a 7GB drive, so this is fun fun fun for me.