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May. 12th, 2003 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbourn"what kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground-speed of joy tell me what king of gauge can quantify elation what kind of equation could I possibly employ" -- School Night Ani Difranco
Had a very full weekend. Friday evening met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ludic_eros and friends to see Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead at UW. I loved the movie rendition, but this was the first time I'd seen the original play. Very cool and chock full of great quotes, existentialism, angst, and humor ("We can give you blood, love, and rhetoric... What we can't do is the love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.") Tara is a lovely girl, although we didn't really have much chance to talk in-depth being a 'group' activity with her friends. Neat people.
Saturday was running a Living Force game and playing Living Kingdoms of Kalamar. One major issue was that when I woke up Saturday morning I discovered I had no hot water. Yipes! The hot-water heater circuit breaker had tripped a day or two previous. So, I did what I do when camping: heated water on the stove, and did the mix-with-cold-water-as-you-go thing. Yeah. It was a pain, but the beat the hell out of a cold shower.
Tried to make Dim Sum with the poly-folk Sunday, but missed them yet again (parking is always a bitch and they must finish up pretty fast). So I ended up at Alkai Cafe for brunch by myself, then sat out on the beach enjoying the sun, the surf, and the wind. Called my folks for Mother's day, watched the locals, and listened to the constant 'tink' sound of some kids using an aluminum bat to hit rocks out into the water. It took like 25,000 years for those rocks to make on the beach, and they are thrown back by some idiot little monkeys. Sigh.
Went to the TERRA Witches' Brew for a cool open discussion, then went with my friend Lori to play in the park for a few hours. Point Defiance Park in Tacoma is lovely, the weather was great, and I forgot how much joy there was in walking barefoot in the park, feeling dirt between your toes, and doing nothing much at all. I used to be really outdoorsy, but years of Texas heat, getting out of doing SCA events, and focus on geekier pursuits got me out of the habit save for camping a few times a year at pagan events. Besides, in Texas you have to deal with Africanized bees, scorpions, fire ants, stickers, mesquite needles, poisonous snakes (cotton mouths, rattlesnakes, copperheads, a few coral snakes), and poison ivy/sumac/oak. I definitely need to enjoy more of the nice weather this summer by exploring the local 'soft nature' (as my brother puts it).
Work is going to be fairly quiet this week with half the company (and most of the bosses) out at the E3 tradeshow this week. Hopefully it will be a productive, if somewhat boring week. My big plans for this coming weekend are seeing The Matrix: Reloaded at the Cinerama Friday and trying to make some of the local Mensa monthly meetings Saturday.
Had a very full weekend. Friday evening met up with
ludic_eros and friends to see Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead at UW. I loved the movie rendition, but this was the first time I'd seen the original play. Very cool and chock full of great quotes, existentialism, angst, and humor ("We can give you blood, love, and rhetoric... What we can't do is the love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.") Tara is a lovely girl, although we didn't really have much chance to talk in-depth being a 'group' activity with her friends. Neat people.Saturday was running a Living Force game and playing Living Kingdoms of Kalamar. One major issue was that when I woke up Saturday morning I discovered I had no hot water. Yipes! The hot-water heater circuit breaker had tripped a day or two previous. So, I did what I do when camping: heated water on the stove, and did the mix-with-cold-water-as-you-go thing. Yeah. It was a pain, but the beat the hell out of a cold shower.
Tried to make Dim Sum with the poly-folk Sunday, but missed them yet again (parking is always a bitch and they must finish up pretty fast). So I ended up at Alkai Cafe for brunch by myself, then sat out on the beach enjoying the sun, the surf, and the wind. Called my folks for Mother's day, watched the locals, and listened to the constant 'tink' sound of some kids using an aluminum bat to hit rocks out into the water. It took like 25,000 years for those rocks to make on the beach, and they are thrown back by some idiot little monkeys. Sigh.
Went to the TERRA Witches' Brew for a cool open discussion, then went with my friend Lori to play in the park for a few hours. Point Defiance Park in Tacoma is lovely, the weather was great, and I forgot how much joy there was in walking barefoot in the park, feeling dirt between your toes, and doing nothing much at all. I used to be really outdoorsy, but years of Texas heat, getting out of doing SCA events, and focus on geekier pursuits got me out of the habit save for camping a few times a year at pagan events. Besides, in Texas you have to deal with Africanized bees, scorpions, fire ants, stickers, mesquite needles, poisonous snakes (cotton mouths, rattlesnakes, copperheads, a few coral snakes), and poison ivy/sumac/oak. I definitely need to enjoy more of the nice weather this summer by exploring the local 'soft nature' (as my brother puts it).
Work is going to be fairly quiet this week with half the company (and most of the bosses) out at the E3 tradeshow this week. Hopefully it will be a productive, if somewhat boring week. My big plans for this coming weekend are seeing The Matrix: Reloaded at the Cinerama Friday and trying to make some of the local Mensa monthly meetings Saturday.
