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The Return of the King

You know what I haven’t done in a long time? Quote of the day!

Here’s one for today:

Do you think if [the man­ager] knows I have a hole in my pants, he’ll kick me out?“
 – Will N

Will said this as we ate at Phở Hoa for din­ner. We told him there was only one way to find out — he should ask the man­ager. Or show him. So I guess that’s actu­ally two ways?

Any­way, sorry about the quote hia­tus, guys. I tell myself it’s because I’m bor­ing and anti-​social. I will endeavor to do post them more reg­u­larly. Not sure if I can do it on a daily basis again.

Oh, and a HUGE thanks to Will N, Joe M, and espe­cially James S for your help today. I think my dad and I would have died if you guys hadn’t come by.

Break Open My Shells

Not much went down yes­ter­day. It was a nice cloudy day, not boil­ing like usual. Slept in until around 10. Read more of War­rior Élite. Went online around noon. Aaron L asked if I wanted Sonic’s. Haven’t been to the place since it opened, so I fig­ured I’d give it a try.

Aaron L came over in a bit with Ian, and we were off. Sonic was still pretty crowded, con­sid­er­ing it was around 1:30 by the time we got there. The whole drive-​in thing is fancy look­ing, but it seems counter-​productive. They should just have a reg­u­lar counter/​drive-​through that other fast food places have.

Any­ways, I got an “Island Fire” Super­Sonic burger. It’s got two pat­ties, pep­per jack cheese, and a habanero sauce. Not as hot as I would have liked, but eh… can’t expect much from white folks. Also got tater-​tots and a straw­berry limeade. The drink was excel­lent… it even had bits of straw­berry in it.

Stopped by Wal­mart real fast after that. Mostly just the three of us look­ing through the toy sec­tion. I was tempted. By Mega Bloks. Sounds sad, huh? But these things were pretty cool… There’s the Super Tech Spidey (with web-​shooting action) and Super Tech Wolver­ine (with extend­ing claws). But they have this “remov­able mask” fea­ture that reveals a grey cyborg face under­neath that’s really creepy.

Back to Davis. We chilled at Ian’s for a while. Aaron L and I played Gran Tur­ismo 4 and Grand Theft Auto 3 as Ian cleaned. Then it got around time for Alice C and Nancy W’s BBQ, so Aaron L and I headed to Avalon. (Ian drove him­self because he was also pick­ing up Tina.) On the way, we stopped at my place to for me to take some Benadryl, because I was start­ing to hive again. Then we stopped by Park­side to pick up Thu H, who was wear­ing pants. Stunned both Aaron L and me.

So yeah… over to Avalon. We were just ten min­utes late, so of course were among the first there. BB Diana was there. She’s always sur­pris­ing me with ran­dom trips to Davis now. Had some grub, and Will Oh cooked up, even though he said he wasn’t going to grill this time. It was great. Tried to get Alice C and Nancy W to drink, but they wouldn’t. Had a beer, and I think that’s where every­thing went down­hill. I guess the alco­hol inter­acted with the Benadryl, and I started hiv­ing up much worse than before.

Thanks to every­one for your con­cern, by the way. Except Aaron L. When I explained my weird the­ory about how I’m aller­gic to some­thing in the ARC, since I only hive after going to work out there with Joe M, Aaron L tried to get me to go into the Avalon work-​out room. Then he threat­ened me,

I’m gonna rub dumb­bells on you and see if it’s true.”

- Aaron L. :twisted:

Tried to fight it for a while. It didn’t work. Asked James S to take me home. Took another Benadryl and cold shower. Then I passed out to keep from scratch­ing myself and mak­ing it worse.

They Are Night Zombies!!

Hey, look! I’m basi­cally caught up after this post. Well, tech­ni­cally, I guess I should do two more and cover today, too. But I’m not gonna.

Fri­day! Woke up nice and early and put the fin­ish­ing touches on Sophia C’s project. Drove home home to print it out and frame it and stuff. The process takes a while, so in the mean­time, I watched Robots and Princess Diaries 2 with Dong Ha. (I picked the first, and she picked the sec­ond. I don’t know why, because even she doesn’t like Princess Diaries 2.)

Oh, and I chat­ted online at the same time. Mostly with Alice C, who I don’t talk that often with, but she was goof­ing off in KHOP and wanted to dis­cuss Harry Pot­ter. And that’s where quote comes from.

Were you upset or sad that X died?”

- Alice C.

Just… sur­prised, I guess. I didn’t have as much of an emo­tional out­pour­ing as the news led me to believe.”

- Me.

Yeah. At first I was in dis­be­lief. But then I thought, maybe X will come back as an inferi or something.”

- Alice C.

Hey, I never thought of that, but that would be really cool! In a very twisted sort of way…”

- Me, going on and on about the possibility.

… I was kid­ding. That will never happen.”

- Alice C.

If you haven’t read it yet and didn’t know a major char­ac­ter dies, sorry for spoil­ing it for you, but it’s been in every news medium known to man, so deal with it. And I’m still intrigued by the pos­si­bil­ity, though I think it’s a lit­tle too dark for Rowl­ing to use. (It reminds me a lot of how Storm of Swords ends, though.) Although… after the gob­let scene, I wouldn’t put much past her. That was some shit.

Thought I was miss­ing some­thing impor­tant, so I ran to Home Depot (which is thank­fully lit­er­ally just around the cor­ner from my house) and got it, but came back to find that it was there the whole time, I just hadn’t looked hard enough. Fin­ished up fram­ing Sophia C’s pic­ture and headed back to Davis.

As I was leav­ing the house, started hav­ing another hive attack, but I took a Benedryl tab imme­di­ately, and it died back down before it got too bad.

But first, a stop down­town to do that favor Chi Hai had asked of me. She’s a para­le­gal for a law firm, and they needed copies of some records of two Cal­i­for­nia busi­nesses. Nor­mally, they could pay a ser­vice to go get those copies for them, but sup­pos­edly lately the Cal­i­for­nia Sec­re­tary of State’s office has been giv­ing such ser­vices the run-​around, and delay­ing for a cou­ple of weeks. Well, she needed them right away, so she asked me to go as my com­pletely non-​legal self and request the copies, which sup­pos­edly would be faster. Turns out, those records were sup­pos­edly removed from the build­ing to be scanned into a huge online records data­base, so I couldn’t get them, either.

So yeah, after that, back to Davis. Stopped at Sophia C’s to drop off the project, and she fed me as well as pay­ing me. Sweet! Called up Phim­phao C, because she had wanted to do a sim­i­lar project, but she didn’t pick up.

Went home and bummed online for a while. James S called me up and told me he was going to watch some movies at Genie L’s place, so I wan­dered over there. We watched Meet the Fock­ers, which I actu­ally hadn’t seen before. It was very enter­tain­ing. Then Genie L went to sleep, so back to my place.

We watched Hostage, which wasn’t as crappy as I was led to believe by Rot​ten​Toma​toes​.com. Went online and talked to Peggy S for a while, but then I had to go to sleep, since I have to be a good exam­ple and be well-​rested and stuff for the ser­vice project today.