Weekend

[lederhosen]

Rey dropped silverblue and me in the city yesterday, and we tromped around shopping and amusing ourselves. Inflicted horrible temptation on her at places like Tin Soldier and a second-hand jewellery store, although not quite enough to avenge her introducing me to Anton's. She got SPANC, which is as gleefully silly and fun as most Foglio products are, and I picked up some new figures with which to traumatise our D&D group.

We managed to avoid most of the rain and all the homicidal drivers who don't understand that pedestrians still have right of way when the 'Don't Walk' begins flashing - I hope they *do* double the parking fees for 4WDs - before heading home for our housewarming party, which was also Rey's birthday party. We got to meet the neighbours, and Dog-Or made new friends; waitingman, quatranoctal the gaming group minus sarin_girl, various of Rey's workmates, and her brother also showed.

We had a new barbecue, and were having trouble lighting the briquettes until John (Neil's player from SSE) stepped in, successfully lighting the briquettes and one or two other things which were quite quickly extinguished, all things considered, so no harm done, but I am contractually obliged to poke fun at him for this. In unrelated news, he is being promoted to a Level 3 Safety Officer or some such at his work, so congratulations to him!

Food was eaten, SPANC was played, bad movies were watched. And Silverblue and I plotted and schemed and worked out stuff about Sithen's people. Coming soon to a shinyshinyelves near you. Rey actually invited her to play Bramble-and/or-Thorn in a ShinyShinyElves game, which is like asking the Mafia if they'd like to mind money for you.

Got up this morning and drove Silverblue to the airport, with only half a functioning brain. Some minor navigational errors, but we got there in good time for the plane and I just managed to get back to the carpark in under an hour, thus reducing the parking fees to survivable levels. Drove back, possibly not taking the most direct route (I think I may have ended up driving in a full circle around the airport), but just before I got home they played one of my favourite songs on the radio, which I'd have missed had I been more efficient. So it's all good. Then back to sleep for several hours.

Today: quiet day, catch up on sleep, catch up on LJ, catch up on painting, tidy up.

Also, Silverblue introduced us to Voltaire's "Dead Girls Like Me" and Devo's "Head Like A Hole", both of which had me in fits of laughter.

Comments

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that you had fun yesterday, even if it remains a mystery to me how you managed it without us. *grins and snuggles you*

Seriously, though, it sounds like the house was ably warmed (though thankfully not through John's impressive firelighting efforts!) and a good time was had by all. Wish we could have been there, and look forward to seeing the place at some point...

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

Take a gander at this list. Does the third title sound familiar?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

The name's the same, but mine doesn't mention a Sharon Bainbridge - the main culprit for that is Adele Olivia Gladwell. Not sure whether those are different editions of the same book or different books that share a name.

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it is not the same book, so that I won't have to try to explain the in-joke that I don't quite get, having not sat through the introduction to that book.

I'm guessing it's another Eye of Argon.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

See excerpt here...