Gotta keep up!

Woke up and went online. Talked to Kitty for a while. I miss her. If you’re read­ing this, Kitty, I’m mak­ing you quote!

More stuff online, includ­ing writ­ing up a post, check­ing e-​mail and Xan­gas. Just bummed around the house for a while after that. Watched some Ronin War­riors with Vince, had lunch with Peggy, and then it was time for the Crocker Art Museum project.

It was the first time we’ve done this project, so I didn’t really know what to expect. There was no dress code, which was a lit­tle odd, because it’s a Tea and Tour event. Well, when we got there, it looked like the event was wrap­ping up… even more odd. Turns out, they just wanted us to do dishes. I don’t mind doing dishes, but it seems kinda wrong of them to spring that on us, since not every­one would have taken it as grace­fully as we did. The lady in charge told me it was great hav­ing us because the docents tend to skip out at clean-​up time. The docent who showed me around told me that she got a degree at Stan­ford to do this. Any­way, they loved how well we worked, and asked us to come back every first Thurs­day of the month to do it again. I told them I’d talk to Will about it. Oh, one plus we got out of the project was that they gave us the left­over good­ies that were served with the tea.

On the way home, Peggy told me 49er Video was hir­ing, so we swung by there to get a movie (I had a free New Release coupon from Cham­ber Day) and fill out some apps. Didn’t remem­ber all my references/​previous employer’s info, so I took the form home. Oh, we passed by Panda Express’s Hibachi Grill or what­ever it’s called. There was a huge line that wrapped around the build­ing because they were giv­ing free meals to the first hun­dred cus­tomers when they opened for the first time at 5 PM. Thought about wait­ing in line for some food, but Peggy prob­a­bly would have been late to her Fel­low­Comm meeting.

Went home and Peggy took off. Played Halo with Vince and Sara for a while. Vince is still a league above us, but I think I’m slowly get­ting bet­ter. I switched from Default but­ton lay­out to Boxer lay­out, and things went a bit bet­ter for me, but I have a ten­dency of acci­den­tally mash­ing X (Grenade) when I mean to hit A (Jump). That’s trou­ble. A lot more so than acci­den­tally hit­ting Mêlée. But I’ll get the hang of it. I think the thing that will make me a lot bet­ter is learn­ing the maps. I just got to keep play­ing them until I accli­mate myself to them all, with all the hid­ing places and the spe­cial power-​ups.

Had din­ner with Peggy after that. We caught the sec­ond half of Mean Girls with Vince and Les­ley, then watched Pre­mo­ni­tion, the movie we had got­ten from 49er. It’s a Japan­ese hor­ror about a “News­pa­per of Ter­ror” that tells you ahead of time about how you’ll die. I passed out about halfway through the movie, but woke up in time for the end­ing. Was sur­pris­ingly awake as I brushed my teeth, so stayed up some more to work on old posts on the web­site. Watched some Adult Swim with Drew, Kevin P, and Thu H, then back to the web­site when they left. Even­tu­ally my eyes hurt from look­ing at the screen, and I called it a night.