Weekend!
One of those sentences you never expect to write involves bouncers and the geeky trivia question night at the local watering hole.
Anyway, we went to a Geeks Who Drink event last night. They have a pretty sweet setup: Free Trivia, happening around suppertime (so people will want to order a meal in addition to the brewskis), and have the event early enough so that folks who will have to be at work at 7AM tomorrow won’t feel like they can’t go. Prize pool? A couple of gift certificates as well as free drafts for every bonus question.
And people will say “We should go next week” when they only get 2nd place.
Which we did. (We talked to the gamesmaster at the end of the night and he told us that the final scores of the top two were 65 to 68. SO CLOSE. But we were the only team to get the Squirrel Nut Zippers question right, so we had that going for us.)
Next week we will get first. Oh yes.
Anyway, this weekend has a somewhat less hectic schedule going on than last week. The main event this weekend is a post-birthday party for one of the nephews. I realize that I did my birthday parties wrong when I was a child. Instead of saying “I want to invite kids from my class!”, I ought to have said “I want to invite your childless grownup friends who have white-collar jobs and who are also in the middle of a perpetual adolescence.”
Though there seemed to be fewer of those on the ground in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
The other evenings, thank goodness, are free and clear and will be spent convalescing from HOLY CRAP THIS WAS THE WORST WEEK EVER. Good riddance.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Photo is “Footrace finish line, 1925” from the Seattle Municipal Archives, used under a creative commons license)
That’s been most of the attendees at our daughter’s birthday parties so far. This year for the first time she has a long list of kids she wants to invite.
This weekend picks up a little ahead of where last weekend left off in terms of cleaning, and a week further behind in terms of yard cleanup and getting the garden ready. I’m a little unsure about the garden as there’s at least a passing chance we’ll tear down the garage and build a two-storey one during the summer, and there’s no way the garden would survive that.Report
Flying back to SF tomorrow.
Belle and Sebastian on Sunday.Report
If my experience holds, B & S will be much more dancey than you might have suspected. I know you like Camera Obscura, have you listened to Alvvays? Sort of similar.
(One day I should get around to doing a “Twee!” post).
I might go see some electronic stuff tonight sound unheard, don’t know if it’ll be any good. If I can get my butt there.
The last three shows I planned on attending, I crapped out on – one I forgot about/missed, one I was just too tired to drive all the way there/back that night, and one was on an evening/weekend I had to take care of family stuff, so I ended up skipping it (after I had already bought a ticket!)Report
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The show is at an outdoor theatre in Berkeley called The Greek Theatre. I’ve seen B&S three times before this. The first was in 2002 with the Ailers Set opening, the second was in 2006 at a free summer concert that Starbucks put on, the third was at a usually second-rate music festival in SF called Treasure Island. But the new album is pretty dancey.Report
I tripped walking up the stairs last night and my pain-free movement is limited.
I swear this house is going to kill us.Report
http://youtu.be/wEqc-ArxAzIReport
In this case, I was going upstairs! There was one more step than I was counting on.
In my defense, there was a crying Lain and it was five in the morning.Report
This is significant injury #3 or #4 in the new house? I’m losing track.Report
Don’t go into the light Will!Report
Fourth total, third on the property.
Yesterday we saw a fox attack the neighbors’ cat. So it could be dangerous to the dog, too!Report
Wow, foxes don’t usually attack grown cats. My paranoid ass would immediately think “Rabies!” They almost never attack dogs, either.Report
The cat won, for whatever that’s worth. Well, sort of. The cat scrammed to go through the cat door, but then realized that it was leaving an opening for the fox during passage, or that the fox could follow it in. Turned around and snarled. The fox ran away.
The good news is that our dog is fast, and a little bit bigger than the fox was. So she’s probably safe. My only concern is if the she is too brave. She was awfully brave with the groundhog at our old place.Report
I am sick. Alsotoo, tired. I have to work 2-10 today, but after that I’m planning to spend the weekend in bed. Hoping to feel perky / noncontagious enough to visit with our friends on Saturday. (It’s not really a post-birthday party so much as a “oh, we should bring some presents over since (kid in question) just had a birthday”.) Other than that, life can go hang until I beat off this germ.Report
A whole lot of work this weekend, sadly. I would kind of like to take a couple of days off and just vegetate.
On the plus side, GoT premiers this weekend, as does Veep. And the Younger Boy and I will probably get take out and watch a bad kung fu movie at some point.
Also, I’m finally over my astoundingly bad cold, so I might make myself an old fashioned tonight and slip into a book tonight.Report
Blood oranges are in season here in SoCal, so the old fashioneds around the Likko household have been particularly good recently.Report
I’ve never had blood oranges before, but it makes for good ecigarette flavoring.Report
And Italian soda. And juice for vodka.
(Though I have had blood oranges before.)Report
My pear cider has fermented and will need bottling this weekend. Next weekend the beer should be ready to bottle.
Other than that, I’ve motion oppositions due next week and a stack of hearings, so I may be doing some legal writing over the weekend. Boo.Report
What’s your source of pear juice? I made some pear cider last autumn but not as much as I had hoped – the one tree of good cider pears I have access to dropped most of its fruit unusually early.Report
I’m on call this weekend, but that can’t stop me from going to oregon’s famous tulip festival!!! I’ll also be planning my trip to Disney World.Report
Be there on a fireworks night.
The fireworks are worth the price of admission.Report
I saw the fireworks at Disneyland. Those where cool. Are these better?
Luckily I have a friend who works for Disney so the trip is free. Holy cow, it’s gotten expensive!Report
I passed the PA Bar, and I’m board gaming it up tomorrow instead of getting around to doing my taxes.Report
DUDE! WOOO!!! PASSING THE BAR!!!Report
Congratulations!Report
Yay! Absolutely!Report
Snapped the cleats into the pedals this afternoon, did six miles out and six miles back. I am so fat. I am so out of shape. I am so fishing old.Report
I have approx. 1,608 things I have to do this week between work and home, so this weekend has been mostly about R&R. Plus my back is wrecked thanks to an ill-advised 2-on-2 basketball game with my brother and our nephews last weekend. Trying to rest it up so I can tackle the 1,608 things.
I brought back a large bag of cheese curds from my trip to Wisconsin last week. So last night we snacked on those, dove into the DVR (4 episodes of The Good Wife – caught up) and tried to do as little as possible. Need to cut the grass which went from brown to needs-to-be cut seemingly overnight. Not sure if the back will allow but if not, that’s what the kids are for.
Really excited about GoT tonight. In years past I have waited until the season was over, convinced the cable company I needed a free trial of HBO for a month and then binged over a couple of days until I was done. As an early Father’s Day present my wife agreed to keep HBO for the length of the season. So…this is my first season premiere. Excited to have something to talk about around the water cooler tomorrow morning instead of covering my ears and yelling, “NO SPOILERS!”Report
When Maribou told me that she was going to be visiting her sister at Disneyland and she asked me if I wanted to come too (wanting me to say yes but thinking I’d decline because of work, vacation, so on), the first thing I remembered was the Disneyworld fireworks show.
I said yes.Report
I finished taxes! We’re even getting a refund from the feds! Due to some extremely low withholdings from one of Clancy’s jobs, we were expecting to owe money. I’d actually set aside thousands. We’re getting back hundreds.
We do owe the state some $300 or so.
I know that, logically, I should be thrilled with getting an interest-free loan from the state government and lamenting that we’ve been overpaying the feds. But I just can’t bring myself that eminently logical point of view. Chalk it up to irrationality. Or patriotism! Let’s go with patriotism!Report