Last night, as I was finishing what I'd been writing about Penzey's, Bryan (the groom), Krista (the bride), and Brad (her brother) came by to invite us to join them at Dave and Buster's.  I like D&B a lot more than GameWorks, which is Tampa's lame excuse for a grownups' arcade.  I had mentioned going there while we were at Al's Pizza in Riverside, ( Read more... )

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These t-shirts are clever ways of raising funds for breast cancer research. I especially like the one that says fuck c*ncer (it's cancer that's obscene, says the explanation).

I woke up at 2:20 this morning and had some ice water and got into bed just in time for jitterbug5bi5 to return home from what turns out to have been her first official day as an ( Read more... )

Saturday morning we left without jitterbug5bi5, to my disappointment. (It's okay, though; she had some fun this weekend too.) We got to Miami in time to see loucheroo arrive at the party, and went down to Kendall for dinner with Dad and Fran. We were hoping to go back to the party, but since we were sleeping in Kendall (pretty much the opposite end of the metro Miami ( Read more... )

I've got a new LJ friend, mattyo3000, who is also my brother. So if you see him posting comments on my journal, you'll know who belongs to this new head popping up all of a sudden. Don't whack that mole!

I've played more Monopoly this weekend than I ever thought I would. It's not really all that much fun, but Jodi likes it, so I play it. And besides, it's marginally more difficult to play than Uno and Skip-Bo. The Geevers are playing Taboo now (and arguing about whether "CD" is a valid answer for "compact disc"). This is the game-playingest ( Read more... )