absolutely fabulous weekend
Sep. 8th, 2008 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabineThe past weekend was made of win. On Saturday, we got to watch the Badgers and then head to the book store and game store. I picked up a copy of Ink Exchange, the sequel to Wicked Lovely. It was beautiful, dark, and worth purchasing in hard cover.
We also went to Med Hookah with the Evil Empire belly dance group. The drinks and food were as good as always, even though the service was inexplicably atrocious. It ended up okay, though, since Tashar's dancing was INCREDIBLE. Tashar is widely known as "the fire dancer" and did not disappoint. Instead of using candles, she balanced a clay bowl of fire as she danced. Periodically, she would touch the bowl and have the flames on her fingers for a couple seconds. It was really, really impressive. Also, the large gentleman standing to the side with a wet towel in case of fire emergency was a nice touch.
I spent most of Sunday playing Spore. It's crack. Sometimes the controls were frustrating, but the graphics are cool and the game story is pretty darn cool. I played an herbivore into the Tribal stage and then started up an omnivore to see how that would be different. Speed is a good thing, as is flight, if you're trying to get away from predators. Just saying.
I also did a huge pile of laundry, cooked a pretty darn good lunch, almost finished my re-reading of the Belisarius series, watched the Bears game with Downwood, and started trying to learn Poi. I whacked myself a couple of times, but thanks to many years of flag line, the tennis balls didn't faze me. After working with 1.25" PVC pipe (the pole for the flag) and 2x4" (the base for a rifle), this was cake. It's really fun, but I need more time playing and maybe some instruction in order to get good enough to eventually do veil poi. Yes, I adore Sonya and would like to be her when I grow up.
Now, I'm sitting on the phone for a meeting so that I can continue working on some custom code while other apps get to make their updates. If I can make this code work, it will be really freaking cool. Also, Downwood is made of awesome for teaching me how to use Access.
We also went to Med Hookah with the Evil Empire belly dance group. The drinks and food were as good as always, even though the service was inexplicably atrocious. It ended up okay, though, since Tashar's dancing was INCREDIBLE. Tashar is widely known as "the fire dancer" and did not disappoint. Instead of using candles, she balanced a clay bowl of fire as she danced. Periodically, she would touch the bowl and have the flames on her fingers for a couple seconds. It was really, really impressive. Also, the large gentleman standing to the side with a wet towel in case of fire emergency was a nice touch.
I spent most of Sunday playing Spore. It's crack. Sometimes the controls were frustrating, but the graphics are cool and the game story is pretty darn cool. I played an herbivore into the Tribal stage and then started up an omnivore to see how that would be different. Speed is a good thing, as is flight, if you're trying to get away from predators. Just saying.
I also did a huge pile of laundry, cooked a pretty darn good lunch, almost finished my re-reading of the Belisarius series, watched the Bears game with Downwood, and started trying to learn Poi. I whacked myself a couple of times, but thanks to many years of flag line, the tennis balls didn't faze me. After working with 1.25" PVC pipe (the pole for the flag) and 2x4" (the base for a rifle), this was cake. It's really fun, but I need more time playing and maybe some instruction in order to get good enough to eventually do veil poi. Yes, I adore Sonya and would like to be her when I grow up.
Now, I'm sitting on the phone for a meeting so that I can continue working on some custom code while other apps get to make their updates. If I can make this code work, it will be really freaking cool. Also, Downwood is made of awesome for teaching me how to use Access.
