An awesome weekend
After working very hard and crazily for two weeks, I asked for Friday the 20th off. What a perfect day to have!
I left Corinth around 6:45AM and made my way to Gardiner to get my car checked out for inspection. Rear subframe mounts need to be replaced, which is about a two hour job. Ugh. And various lights (which is normal). The good news: The car's chassis is in better shape than 90% of those its age in Maine. I'm jonesing for an engine swap now... Drools.
I arrived in Portland around 11 and saw on FaceBook that Tina wanted to go for a walk and have breakfast with someone. I called her, drove to her house, and that's exactly what we did. It was an absolute blast to wander around Portland reminiscing about living there and sharing stories of the distant past. We had lunch at Marcie's, which was actually quite good for a hole in the wall.
When I got to JJK's house, no one was there. But JJK did manage to rope me into seeing Watchmen later that night with Tyler. We were late enough that we missed the previews and advertisements! Life is good! Watchmen impressed me primarily because it didn't feel like three hours, things just flowed. However, the lack of character development for Ozymandias was frustrating. (Is it strange that my spell checker knows the name?)
Saturday I managed to just relax all day and not feel bad about it. We had a relaxing breakfast--French Toast prepared the way I like it (baked) and I made some good dinner, too. I'm feeling rather Curry recently. And Saturday night I think I helped remove another quarter of the Tequila from the bottle.
Finally, after waking up a little hung over on Sunday, I made it out to my parents and helped load the Virtual On arcade machine into a U-Haul headed to New Hampshire. The machine has been in my parents garage for about four years, but it has a new home now!
That was my awesome weekend. Almost completely unblemished by work, stress, or worry.
I left Corinth around 6:45AM and made my way to Gardiner to get my car checked out for inspection. Rear subframe mounts need to be replaced, which is about a two hour job. Ugh. And various lights (which is normal). The good news: The car's chassis is in better shape than 90% of those its age in Maine. I'm jonesing for an engine swap now... Drools.
I arrived in Portland around 11 and saw on FaceBook that Tina wanted to go for a walk and have breakfast with someone. I called her, drove to her house, and that's exactly what we did. It was an absolute blast to wander around Portland reminiscing about living there and sharing stories of the distant past. We had lunch at Marcie's, which was actually quite good for a hole in the wall.
When I got to JJK's house, no one was there. But JJK did manage to rope me into seeing Watchmen later that night with Tyler. We were late enough that we missed the previews and advertisements! Life is good! Watchmen impressed me primarily because it didn't feel like three hours, things just flowed. However, the lack of character development for Ozymandias was frustrating. (Is it strange that my spell checker knows the name?)
Saturday I managed to just relax all day and not feel bad about it. We had a relaxing breakfast--French Toast prepared the way I like it (baked) and I made some good dinner, too. I'm feeling rather Curry recently. And Saturday night I think I helped remove another quarter of the Tequila from the bottle.
Finally, after waking up a little hung over on Sunday, I made it out to my parents and helped load the Virtual On arcade machine into a U-Haul headed to New Hampshire. The machine has been in my parents garage for about four years, but it has a new home now!
That was my awesome weekend. Almost completely unblemished by work, stress, or worry.