Earthdate 2008.11.30
I am not dead! I know I have missed three days in what now must seem like a religious posting schedule I maintain in posting… but rest assured I was busy having fun =) . To recap what has been happening the last couple of days I’ll give a quick break down.
Thursday was of course Thanksgiving. Lucas, Jackie, and I headed down an hour or so early to help mom with last minute house cleanup and furniture arrangements before the rest of the family guests starting showing up. The dinner was pretty great and the day seemed to buzz by pretty fast. Thanksgiving seemed to be out of place a bit with our father and youngest brother not being there. After a few debates over keeping a Christmas gift exchange draw or not people cleared out pretty fast, but later than normal. After the Falk side we went to our mom’s side for Thanksgiving, which was just down the road =) . It was very empty, only a few families were still around… but they were the ones who like to play games, which is what we did until about 2am!! I didn’t make it back home until about 3am Friday morning.
Friday, of course was supposed to be the great LAN party Lucas and I had been planning for. I use the word ’supposed’ because except for Ryno, nobody else showed up on Friday =( . We still had a fun time though. We played Tactical Ops and Team Fortress 2 for hours and ate corn chips with amazing bean dip made my Mason. Off an on through out the whole day I was working on my kiosk-box project for work getting all of the Linux packages compiled on it and trying to figure out most of the bugs that I had been running into. It turns out, at least I think, that I was using the wrong set of base packages… I was trying to use the i686 packages when I should have been using the base x86 ones. Again I didn’t get done gaming until about 2am or so when we finally crashed and all decided to take a break for sleep =) .
Saturday was equally, if not more fun than Friday. We played some more Tactical Ops in the morning and around 11am Ryno was making plans to leave =( . We convinced him to stay for a couple rounds of Starcraft which ended up being the game of choice for the rest of the day. When I say the rest of the day, I mean until about 3am on Sunday morning lol. Ryno did end up leaving around 3:30 or so but we kept playing away the rest of the day. We only played a handful of normal map games and mainly stuck to the modded map games with team based objectives to them. Around 7:00 or so we got a phone call from Emery, a person we used to hang out with in High School asking if he could come over and hang out and play with us. It was cool to catch up with him for awhile and play some Starcraft with him as well. Hopefully he won’t be a stranger and comes back again =) .
Sunday was pretty much a normal Sunday for Lucas and I. We headed back home to have dinner with mom and helped her do a few things around the house. She is really fixed on knocking out a wall in her bedroom before she leaves for the Philippines… so I imagine we will be doing to major work in the next couple of weeks on that. After we stocked her up on firewood in the house we said our goodbyes and headed back for home. When we got back Lucas didn’t waste too much time sticking around as he packed up and was back out the door in about five minutes of getting back… Now it’s Sunday evening and I have to go to work tomorrow =( .
I made zero headway on my user library…. read only about twenty pages in my C++ book, and did zero running over the holiday weekend. In some ways I feel rotten for not working more on these things but I feel hanging out and having fun with others ever now and again like we did was worth it. As I said, I did get a lot working on my kiosk box over the extended weekend and a final product is almost done =).
Duel OMG Shirts from Woot!
Falk Thanksgiving
Falk Thanksgiving
Falk Thanksgiving
Winan's Thanksgiving
Dangerous Game of Spoons!!
Winan's Thanksgiving
LAN Party!
Installing Linux for Kiosk
Lucas playing a bridge simulation game???
Mason's Bean Dip
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant and she fell on me. Then it wouldn’t seem quite so funny.