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Friday: The last going out with the people at work in the forseeable future.

The person who plans all of our happy hour type activities had her last day with us on Friday, and is now off to Monterey to try to open a restaurant. As she was well liked, it was quite the event with just about everyone coming out to buy her a drink, or other people drinks, or just random unclaimed drinks. I’m pretty good about pacing myself, so I didn’t have any trouble getting home, although, things where a bit questionable round about 7 where I ended up with two tequilla shots essentially back to back. One being “Take a shot with Kim” and the other being “Take Kim’s shot too because ???” I’m sure there was a reason, but I don’t think anyone ever told me.

I always seem to leave just before the interesting things happen. Which I guess means I need to stop leaving.

Saturday: Hooray work and stuff.

Only about an hour at work, so it wasn’t too bad. Then off to do general shopping. I got a 1GB flash drive for $25, so that was a nice find. I don’t expect it to last long for that price, but I don’t really care. I also continued the never-ending quest for new hiking boots. I was close to getting a pair, but they just didn’t quite fit right, so I didn’t. Someday I’ll find you, oh legendary size 8 1/2.

Sunday: Oh right, with the destroying of the world.

I finished Might and Magic VI. That was pretty much my day. When you destroy the alien reactor at the end, you have to use a special item, or it will explode and destroy the world. I always forget about that. But on the plus side, if you do happen to forget, it still says “Congratulations!” on the ending screen. It just explains that you’ve done something wrong as well and now everyone is dead.

Monday: Yay! More work. And food.

Back to work for 4 hours or so. Nothing was horribly wrong, so it was pretty easy. Then it was off to Melody’s for some vegan BBQ. MmmMm….corn, and gluten, and probably soy. And perhaps some of the best peanut butter and chocolate rice crispy treats I’ve ever had.

Oh, and I was supposed to meet someone I might get set up with. And I met her, but apparently no sparks were observed, so that’s probably not going anywhere. So, now I’m waiting until someone from Huston I’m supposed to marry visits in July.

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Somehow it has again gotten to be time to to to sleep without me managing to take the pictures off my camera so that I can display them. Which leads to the non-pretty version of my weekend.

Since all of my readers were present for the weekend, we present: Completely Made Up Drama Theatre

Once upon a time, in ancient China, there was a city in which everyone communicated primarily through kung fu. In this city were 5 factions, Guy with Hankerchief Dojo, Guy with Pockmarks Dojo, Guy with Scar Dojo, Manipulative Princess and Minions, and Badass Law Guy with Hat.

Guy with Scar Dojo brought much terror upon the town with their master’s legendary Bowling Fingers Strike, leaving a triangle of dots upon it’s victims.

Meanwhile, Skinny Guy who talks with his mouth full, returned from somewhere to be met by Old Woman who gave the “Either your father died while you were gone, or the local industrialist has bought the orphanange and is going to convert it into a brothel” speech. As it turns out, it was the former. This causes Guy with Pockmarks to go into the woods to train and is met by Guy with Hankerchief, who tasks him with the side-quest of learning “Non-breaking Egg Strike.” Guy with Pockmarks decides to work on that later and goes to stick his nose in everyone else’s business for a while. Which works out well, because he is able to earn the favor of Badass Law Guy with Hat and annoy Guy with Scar by disrupting his plans to steal various, or perhaps the same woman over and over again.

Meanwhile Manipulative Princess is busy looking pouty and kicking guys in the ribs. That’s pretty much her main duty as princess.

By foiling Guy with Scar, Guy with Pockmarks earns enough XP points to get “Non-breaking Egg Strike” and earn the favor of Guy with Hankerchief, who then fights Guy with Scar, and brings in the evidence that Guy with Scar killed someone buy the river. But no one cares about that, so they wait for him to try to kidnap Girl who Gets Kidnapped again and put him in a cage. Being a powerful Kung Fu master, he escapes and defeats all of his captors. But Badass Law Guy with Hat was expecting this and through the sacrifice of his hat, attains the power to defeat Guy with Scar.

About this time, everyone realizes it’s time for the big Homecoming Kung Fu Ball game and everyone splits up into teams. Guy with Hankerchief’s and Guy with Pockmarks’s teams waste their energy fighting away from the goal, which Manipulative Princess’s team opt for the “work smarter, not harder” option, which is unfortunate as they are capable of doing neither, and stay near the goal. As always happens when you are really into a game, the ball ends up on the roof. Guy with Pockmarks uses Donkey Kong Ladder Climb Technique, while Manipulative Princess opts for Super Mario Brothers 2 Luigi Never-Ending Jump, leaving them both on the roof with the ball. Manipulative Princess decides to try for something outside her job description and use a knife, which weighing almost several ounces, is able to pull her off the roof when she misses. Guy with Pockmarks, not recalling his ancient fables about foxes and scorpions elects to save her by using his weight to break through things she would have just landed on and been fine. This of course leaves him injured and gasping for air as he has some roof tiles and most of a cart jammed in his back.

It is at this point that Manipulative Princess sees him in a new light. Primarily that light being: He looks sort of like a fish. I love fish. Also, I think I could kick him in the ribs a lot. Hooray, he will be mine!

Through the Kung Fu technique of Episode Change, Guy with Pockmarks recovers from his injuries and tries to score the winning goal in Kung Fu Ball before the Shot Incense runs out. But to no avail, as he is thwarted by double coverage from the Guy with Hankerchief team. Not playing for the Lakers, he passes the ball off to a teammate, who scores the goal and wins the game.

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Today’s valuable lesson: Do not shut your phone in a car door.

I think I’ve managed to get most of the numbers out of my contacts list, but I had to guess at a few digits due to some numbers looking the same if the tops or one side are cut off. And there are a few numbers I could get that I don’t know who they belong to since the names were in broken parts of the screen.

I suppose I could call them and ask who they are.

But, I don’t think that would be best. As I accidently called someone yesterday who was one person down the list from who I wanted, and apparently, I’m not in her list of caller IDs. And after thinking about it, having someone call you to tell you “your trunk is open” might be a little odd.

The story behind that being that I was following someone’s car on the way to a hike, and I noticed their trunk wasn’t latched and was bouncing open when we started off. It managed to latch itself before I got ahold of anyone in that car though. So all was well.

The hike itself was kind of tiring, it was supposed to be 7 miles, but we took the wrong trail and it ended up being closer to 10. The trail split and the sign only listed the milage to where we were going for one direction. They both went the same place though, and once you are there, there is a map of the trails, so we were able to take the shorter way back. Just before we got to the split we had taken, we found a sign telling us the shorter milage to where we went. So, the way to find the shorter way, if you’ve never hiked it before, is to walk past the only visible sign to find the secret sign. Not exactly the way I would set it up, but we all survived, so that’s what matters.

It ended up being 2400 vertical feet of change for the hike, and it was well segregated, so it was all up going there, and all down coming back. I think I like hikes that have ups and downs more than all one then all the other. I need some rest here and there.

Also, we saw a rattlesnake. It was pretty big, and not really interested in dealing with large groups tromping by, so it went off into the bushes. Someone who was camping out in the area seemed to be a bit of an expert in rattlesnakes since he said he goes out and catches them, and the said it was probably 5-7 years old based on the size of the rattle.

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Serenity synopsis with hand puppets

I found it generally cute and amusing.

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