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Recent life - last week
Mar. 9th, 2016 01:28 amSo after getting back from the family shenanigans, I have been living a fairly quiet existence, interspersed with a certain amount of human contact.
I have a conference-running gig right now, which is taking up a substantial amount of my time. It's keeping me busy and contributing to my general well-being (i.e. it's not volunteer, though it's below my pro rates).
Wednesday evening, I inquired of a certain engineer whether he was up for dinner-and-human-contact, which he was. Wednesdays might be becoming a new tradition. Choice of dinner venue is always an interesting debate; this time he was in charge due to root canal recovery. It turns out that even when you take the Lunatic out of the shop, you do not take the shop talk out of the Lunatic.
One of the minor bits of amusement that ensued was thanks to StPatience. She's a friend from #adventuresofstnono, and is also about on Twitter. She saw a tweet about the possibly forming new tradition of Wednesday night dinner (why yes! I would be delighted to have dinner with you next week!) and interpreted it ... hilariously differently. She hadn't connected the Purple who I was clearly rather fond of, with the [wallet name derivative] she knew from #adventuresofstnono, and this led to some interesting assumptions. I clarified. We found the entire thing hilarious.
Friday was rather rainy. I appreciate that in the weather, though it would be good if there wasn't wind damage or flooding. It was also beer bash down at Virtual Hammer, which would not have been sufficient enticement to head down thattaway, but my favorite ghosts had a bit of a game night planned. (It being first Friday, Purple was otherwise occupied, or there'd have been dinner as well.)
Purple called while I was on my way down, to let me know where beer bash was being held (not in the usual place). I was glad to know that! I parked accordingly, and no sooner had I scaled the steps (stairs are a little more of an option now! yay knees!) than my old team spotted me and proceeded to glomp me with enthusiasm. It was Researcher Sweatervest's last day! It was good to see those of the team that I saw. I was waylaid and glomped by the Dean as well.
I had a bit of trouble locating Purple (unusual for me) but finally did, thanks to the wonders of mobile telephony and his distinctive hair. We grabbed food and a table. Acidhelm spotted us and joined us, which is always fun.
The Dean is pretty well convinced that one of the reasons he is in HR is so that they can keep an eye on him. It's good to be amongst the few that he can let his metaphorical hair down around!
I had not realized that when the ghost crew said that the games were "in [certain dude]'s office", what they meant was an entirely different company and office building. Acidhelm and I exchanged numbers and he gave me the address, that I might find the place and be let in, if I opted for game night.
The woe hit me pretty hard as Purple and I took the access road back in the direction of the central garage, and he petted me reassuringly for a while. We made terrible jokes at each other, including the concept of UL rated "dance clubs" -- bonky items made for dancing. It's harder to get them safety rated with an approval for indoors.
I was eventually feeling human enough to talk myself into wandering down in the direction of [certain dude]'s office, knowing that once I got there, I'd most likely feel obligated to join games.
And join games I did, albeit with a detour for bubble tea and the latest Price-Healy novel. The game of the evening was Roll for the Galaxy, and great fun was had.
One of the small traditions that's also forming is inquiries after weekend time. Purple's Saturday plans involved setting up his new NAS (again), and watching TV. After putting in some work on conference stuff, I headed down thattaway in some pretty vigorous precipitation. I got introduced to the new big chunk of storage, I watched as he updated some of his music gear, and then we settled in for Shaun of the Dead (fun). There was a dinner run, then we sat back down with the first episode of Drawn Together (DO NOT WANT), an episode of Elementary (it was burning a hole in his DVR, and I enjoyed it), and some Arrested Development (always fun).
I have a conference-running gig right now, which is taking up a substantial amount of my time. It's keeping me busy and contributing to my general well-being (i.e. it's not volunteer, though it's below my pro rates).
Wednesday evening, I inquired of a certain engineer whether he was up for dinner-and-human-contact, which he was. Wednesdays might be becoming a new tradition. Choice of dinner venue is always an interesting debate; this time he was in charge due to root canal recovery. It turns out that even when you take the Lunatic out of the shop, you do not take the shop talk out of the Lunatic.
One of the minor bits of amusement that ensued was thanks to StPatience. She's a friend from #adventuresofstnono, and is also about on Twitter. She saw a tweet about the possibly forming new tradition of Wednesday night dinner (why yes! I would be delighted to have dinner with you next week!) and interpreted it ... hilariously differently. She hadn't connected the Purple who I was clearly rather fond of, with the [wallet name derivative] she knew from #adventuresofstnono, and this led to some interesting assumptions. I clarified. We found the entire thing hilarious.
Friday was rather rainy. I appreciate that in the weather, though it would be good if there wasn't wind damage or flooding. It was also beer bash down at Virtual Hammer, which would not have been sufficient enticement to head down thattaway, but my favorite ghosts had a bit of a game night planned. (It being first Friday, Purple was otherwise occupied, or there'd have been dinner as well.)
Purple called while I was on my way down, to let me know where beer bash was being held (not in the usual place). I was glad to know that! I parked accordingly, and no sooner had I scaled the steps (stairs are a little more of an option now! yay knees!) than my old team spotted me and proceeded to glomp me with enthusiasm. It was Researcher Sweatervest's last day! It was good to see those of the team that I saw. I was waylaid and glomped by the Dean as well.
I had a bit of trouble locating Purple (unusual for me) but finally did, thanks to the wonders of mobile telephony and his distinctive hair. We grabbed food and a table. Acidhelm spotted us and joined us, which is always fun.
The Dean is pretty well convinced that one of the reasons he is in HR is so that they can keep an eye on him. It's good to be amongst the few that he can let his metaphorical hair down around!
I had not realized that when the ghost crew said that the games were "in [certain dude]'s office", what they meant was an entirely different company and office building. Acidhelm and I exchanged numbers and he gave me the address, that I might find the place and be let in, if I opted for game night.
The woe hit me pretty hard as Purple and I took the access road back in the direction of the central garage, and he petted me reassuringly for a while. We made terrible jokes at each other, including the concept of UL rated "dance clubs" -- bonky items made for dancing. It's harder to get them safety rated with an approval for indoors.
I was eventually feeling human enough to talk myself into wandering down in the direction of [certain dude]'s office, knowing that once I got there, I'd most likely feel obligated to join games.
And join games I did, albeit with a detour for bubble tea and the latest Price-Healy novel. The game of the evening was Roll for the Galaxy, and great fun was had.
One of the small traditions that's also forming is inquiries after weekend time. Purple's Saturday plans involved setting up his new NAS (again), and watching TV. After putting in some work on conference stuff, I headed down thattaway in some pretty vigorous precipitation. I got introduced to the new big chunk of storage, I watched as he updated some of his music gear, and then we settled in for Shaun of the Dead (fun). There was a dinner run, then we sat back down with the first episode of Drawn Together (DO NOT WANT), an episode of Elementary (it was burning a hole in his DVR, and I enjoyed it), and some Arrested Development (always fun).
