Last weekend
Haven't updated in a while. Can't think of anything hugely intelligent to write, so I'll just fill you in on my weekend.
Friday night I went to the new Salvadoran restaurant on University, which was quite nice. Service was a little distant, but food was good, especially desert (stuffed plantain). The fish was very bony for people who get put off by that, but I wasn't (especially as it was a whole fried fish, so there wasn't exactly any way to remove the bones). If we could ever get people to walk past the Thai place we often go to it would be good for logic dinner.
On Saturday, I went to the Cal footbal game with people from church. It was a bit of a Cal whitewash (42-16), but Portland did manage to get the first points on the board (a field goal after Longshore gave away an interception on his first pass of the game). Things definately improved after that though, although you can see why Longshore's the first choice QB after the look at Ayoob and Levy we got in the second half. I thought Levy played pretty well in the big game last year (which was the only time I'd previously seen him in that position), but he wasn't on Saturday. Though, in fairness, the offensive line weren't always making it easy on him -- it seems they tired quicker than the Vikings defense.
That evening, a few people came over to play board games. I actually managed to win one of them for once (very rare when playing against mathies!) We should play Citadels more often. Citadels involves absolutely zero spatial reasoning, which does get rid of the main disadvantage I have when playing board games.
Sunday morning at Mass, we sang Rutter's Garlic Blessing along with a few other nice bits and bobs. It seemed to be well received, although I kept worrying that the rest of us were over-bearing on the sop.s, who really have the melody throughout most of that piece.
Sunday evening, I watched two horror movies from the forties: Cat People and Revenge of the Cat People. The second (the sequel) turned out to be bizarrely non-horror, given that the first was pretty much horror.
Friday night I went to the new Salvadoran restaurant on University, which was quite nice. Service was a little distant, but food was good, especially desert (stuffed plantain). The fish was very bony for people who get put off by that, but I wasn't (especially as it was a whole fried fish, so there wasn't exactly any way to remove the bones). If we could ever get people to walk past the Thai place we often go to it would be good for logic dinner.
On Saturday, I went to the Cal footbal game with people from church. It was a bit of a Cal whitewash (42-16), but Portland did manage to get the first points on the board (a field goal after Longshore gave away an interception on his first pass of the game). Things definately improved after that though, although you can see why Longshore's the first choice QB after the look at Ayoob and Levy we got in the second half. I thought Levy played pretty well in the big game last year (which was the only time I'd previously seen him in that position), but he wasn't on Saturday. Though, in fairness, the offensive line weren't always making it easy on him -- it seems they tired quicker than the Vikings defense.
That evening, a few people came over to play board games. I actually managed to win one of them for once (very rare when playing against mathies!) We should play Citadels more often. Citadels involves absolutely zero spatial reasoning, which does get rid of the main disadvantage I have when playing board games.
Sunday morning at Mass, we sang Rutter's Garlic Blessing along with a few other nice bits and bobs. It seemed to be well received, although I kept worrying that the rest of us were over-bearing on the sop.s, who really have the melody throughout most of that piece.
Sunday evening, I watched two horror movies from the forties: Cat People and Revenge of the Cat People. The second (the sequel) turned out to be bizarrely non-horror, given that the first was pretty much horror.