my eyeballs ache

[jazzfish]

Cripes, I'm tired. And it's only seven PM. This does Not Bode Well.

Boardgaming with folk back in Arlington was great fun, as usual. Didn't get to play anything terribly heavy or involved, but got in a bunch of good mid-weight games. I'd invited a couple of friends from work along, people who've never done much gaming (I think one had played Ticket To Ride), and they took to it like the proverbial Anatidae sp. to water, which was also gratifying. I hope they'll keep going.

Sunday I sat around with Dad and watched a bunch of the special features on the Hobbit DVD. Almost makes me want to watch the movie.

Sunday night I ran a RAM test on the new memory sticks I'd picked up, since I had a sneaking suspicion they're the reason things keep randomly crashing on me. Seems to be the case. Grr. Will send them back this week.

Monday morning I woke up far too early and drove out to National. Sideswiped a pole in a gas station parking lot in the process, so I'm likely to be out a lot of money to the rental car company getting that fixed. I'd declined the rental coverage on the grounds that my USAA credit card covers it; I'll see whether or not they'll actually cover anything. I have a sneaking suspicion that they won't. Oh well. It's just money.

The day slowly improved after that (hard to get much worse, though I'm sure it could have been managed). Had an empty seat next to me on the BOS-SEA flight. Visited a very large thrift store in Seattle with uilos and picked up a few nice shirts. Then met up with Ederlyn at the University Bookstore, to hear Scott Lynch answer questions. He MAY have also read from something (hilarious) that isn't going to be out until sometime next year. Good times.

Then we drove home in what uilos described as a brick cinder block with a BMW logo on it (she'd been 'upgraded' at the rental agency), and unloaded an awful lot of groceries, and I slept for not quite long enough because between the little cat and my internal clock I am not allowed to sleep past seven.

And as of today the immigration medical stuff is done, and Xmas shopping is begun, and I am exhausted. I want to stay up until at least nine, preferably ten, so I can get my system back on West Coast time. Thankfully Chaos is not snoring in his box, because few things are more soporific than a snoring adorable cat.

Comments

[notyourwendy]

Actually, I called it a cinder block. A brick is more maneuverable and picks up speed faster.

[rbandrews]

"A brick with wings" is how astronauts described how the space shuttle handled. Also "the glide path of a set of car keys."

[jazzfish]

Fair enough!

"The ships hung in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't." --Douglas Adams

[shanaqui]

Scott Lynch! Ah, such jealousy.

they took to it like the proverbial Anatidae sp. to water, which was also gratifying.

I love this way of putting it.

[jazzfish]

Scott is hilarious and awesome and I highly recommend changing your vacation plans to see him if he comes to town. Or even just to a town that's two hundred miles away.

I love this way of putting it.

:) Thank you!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Wow. You have been sooo busy. No wonder you're exhausted!

I love snoring kitties. They're so sweet.

[jazzfish]

I've been doing a lot of running around, but it's not quite the same as busy. Close enough, I guess. Although that 'exhausted' is one of the other things I've been meaning to write about.

Chaos has been known to snore so loud I though my phone was buzzing.

[blairmacg.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a wonderful time (pole-contact notwithstanding), and you certainly deserve some wonderful. :)

[jazzfish]

:) Thanks! The week's had its ups and downs, but could certainly have been worse.