it's raining, it's pouring...
Well, I meant to write this on Sunday when it was actually raining but I never got around to it ... It finally rained on Sunday and Monday here in Seattle. So we stayed in and watched movies all day on Sunday. I slept all day Monday until Rich got home from work. Guess I was a little tired. I haven't been sleeping well most nights so ... not sure why. Insomnia sucks major ass. It just seems like I can sleep easily when it's not bedtime.. i'm weird like that. Anyway.
Since lots of people were in town for Blue Hat and Toorcon, I finally did some touristy stuff. A bunch of us went and ate at the restaurant in the Space Needle. That was pretty nifty although totally over priced of course. Really yummy lamb though. Huge leg. Then we checked out the Sci-Fi Museum and Experience Music Project. Nifty stuffs. Then we met up with others at Cyclops for some drinks and snacks. People came and went from there all night. I met more people and saw more people I haven't seen in forever. It was really nice to see Freshmen again! That night we partied at Trinity Nightclub then went to En since the VIP list was fucked up and only the Microsoft people were on it and not the Toorcon people. Oh well. It's amazing how many people showed up at En. Dodgeball is awesome heh. There was more of a party there than at Trinity and the people at Trinity were dicks. The bouncer didn't want to let me in because he thought I was drunk cuz I slipped or tripped on uneven ground or something right as I was walking up. Yea, you try wearing heels on cobblestone streets heh.
So Toorcon Seattle Beta went well. Lots of people showed up, the talks were good, etc. It was a good successful first year and will be sure to happen again. The Willy Wonka badges were awesome too. Then we all went to dinner at various places and met up again at the Public N3rd Area for the Toorcon party. Keith DJ'd at some point so that was fun. Did a little drinking, did a little dancing. This guy lives in a warehouse and it's like the "hang out" nerd place. They build random things there and have a pool table and it's a warehouse so no neighbors to complain! Sunday was the SMS Drinking game. Divide and Jaqueline set it up and it was really fun. We were walking around Cap Hill with foil hats and taking random pics and doing random things. Pretty funny. We ended up all winning because all teams pretty much did all the tasks and got equal points. So we will all get Toorcon engraved flasks! Awesome! Then we met up with the crew that were at the contest at the public n3rd area at Pasta Fresca. We took up the whole place! The chef asks you what you like and don't like and just serves you food. It was pretty good grubbing. Oh, our SMS team bought Fun-Noodles and were beating each other up with them! Too funny. So people were getting ahold of them and having fights and there was a big one outside Pasta Fresca after dinner. Oh and we wrapped h1kari in pink plastic wrap and beat him with the fun noodles. Good times!
So Monday, Aaron and I went to the Market to buy steaks and stuff to BBQ dinner that night. He made us some awesome steaks and we had a nice sunset dinner on the rooftop. He made super yummy carrots that were sweet and delicious. He ended up staying at a hotel for his last night so Rich and I finally had the apartment to ourselves again. I have been pretty OCD about cleaning so I had a lot of work to do the next day heh.
Rich came home early that day (Tuesday) and we went boating on Blake's boat with his gf Jess. That was awesome. They have a nifty boat and we went out, picked up Brian and Chris at a pier and we were all wakeboarding and wakeskating. Good times! Then we cruised over to Pyramid Ale House to have dinner for Shyama's birthday. Their double hefeweizen wasn't very good. I was pretty tired that day so I passed out once we got home while the others watched a movie. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful.
Then we had the KC BBQ on Saturday. Their friends from KC were in town. Brian and Alice. They brought tons of different BBQ sauces from KC. If i was up on top of my pics I'd have visuals.. oh well. Pretty chill. I power napped then we all headed to Chopstix Dueling Piano Bar. That was pretty fun. We had sooo many shots. Patron and Washington Apple. Crazy. Everyone kept ordering rounds and there were 10 of us. After they closed we all went back to our place and chilled for a few. The boys are really addicted to Street Fighter. It's not enough that they have a machine at work to play each other, they gotta do it here too. Heh.
So this weekend we were supposed to go camping at Sasquatch but Rich got sick yesterday. Well, he was started to feel bad all week and it really hit hard Friday morning. So he has pretty much just slept the past couple days and therefore I have too heh. We have been so chill here. I had to go and go him some drugs and that's about all i've done heh. We have watched so many movies.
So my other Seattle oddities I've discovered is ... on streets with slanted parking, you park backwards with your back wheels against the curb. So weird. I've only seen one street that had it the "normal" way of pulling in forward heh. Here, you back into the spots. I suppose it is better for hilly streets but they do it on flat streets too. I dunno. They have a really big REI here too. So the biggest thing I've found to dislike here is you have to go to actual "Liquor" stores to buy liquor! Like the hard stuff, tequila, rum, vodka, etc. Lame! So we kinda stocked up when we went before the BBQ. I got some more patron! yay! good stuff. I can't believe you can't go to the corner market or Costco to buy that stuff. So weird. What's wrong with this state haha.
Oh so at the BBQ, I discovered my friend Rob who lives here, happens to live with the only other friend I know here except for the geek crew. Well, he just moved out but they were roommates this whole time and I didn't know! Such a small world!
Next weekend is Rich's b-day and I have no idea what to get him! Hmrph! Hopefully I get out and check out more of the town this week. Probably hit up a mall. Wednesday we spent all day furniture shopping in Redmond. Rich found a new sofa/loveseat set and a kick ass coffee table. Pretty nifty. We were in suburbia so there were actually stores around! I went to an asian supermarket and was like the only asian person there. Weird. Well, except the employees. Then we went to Fred Meyer which he said is like a super WalMart. Yup it was ... i wanted to walk around all over and shop but Rich was pretty shopped out for the day so we bought the necessities heh. He didn't want to get a cart or basket again and we ended up getting a whole cart-full of stuff heh. I found an empty cart somewhere in the store heh. Got some organizer stuff so the bathroom sink looks better now. Clutter annoys me. I got some organizers for my desk too so that is a better study area now too. Although studying up on the roof sounds a lot funner heh. They recently made it so the wireless works on the roof. It also works in the club house area downstairs. Oh, did I ever mention this place has awesome amenities. Two gyms (but no stair climbers), pool, jacuzzi, BBQs by the pool and on the rooftop, awesome views, club house, tv room, conference room (free computers/printer), AND 2 tanning beds. Yea, tanning beds! Isn't that crazy?!@! Yea.. heh. I couldn't believe that when I saw it. I wonder how many people use it. Hmrph.
Since lots of people were in town for Blue Hat and Toorcon, I finally did some touristy stuff. A bunch of us went and ate at the restaurant in the Space Needle. That was pretty nifty although totally over priced of course. Really yummy lamb though. Huge leg. Then we checked out the Sci-Fi Museum and Experience Music Project. Nifty stuffs. Then we met up with others at Cyclops for some drinks and snacks. People came and went from there all night. I met more people and saw more people I haven't seen in forever. It was really nice to see Freshmen again! That night we partied at Trinity Nightclub then went to En since the VIP list was fucked up and only the Microsoft people were on it and not the Toorcon people. Oh well. It's amazing how many people showed up at En. Dodgeball is awesome heh. There was more of a party there than at Trinity and the people at Trinity were dicks. The bouncer didn't want to let me in because he thought I was drunk cuz I slipped or tripped on uneven ground or something right as I was walking up. Yea, you try wearing heels on cobblestone streets heh.
So Toorcon Seattle Beta went well. Lots of people showed up, the talks were good, etc. It was a good successful first year and will be sure to happen again. The Willy Wonka badges were awesome too. Then we all went to dinner at various places and met up again at the Public N3rd Area for the Toorcon party. Keith DJ'd at some point so that was fun. Did a little drinking, did a little dancing. This guy lives in a warehouse and it's like the "hang out" nerd place. They build random things there and have a pool table and it's a warehouse so no neighbors to complain! Sunday was the SMS Drinking game. Divide and Jaqueline set it up and it was really fun. We were walking around Cap Hill with foil hats and taking random pics and doing random things. Pretty funny. We ended up all winning because all teams pretty much did all the tasks and got equal points. So we will all get Toorcon engraved flasks! Awesome! Then we met up with the crew that were at the contest at the public n3rd area at Pasta Fresca. We took up the whole place! The chef asks you what you like and don't like and just serves you food. It was pretty good grubbing. Oh, our SMS team bought Fun-Noodles and were beating each other up with them! Too funny. So people were getting ahold of them and having fights and there was a big one outside Pasta Fresca after dinner. Oh and we wrapped h1kari in pink plastic wrap and beat him with the fun noodles. Good times!
So Monday, Aaron and I went to the Market to buy steaks and stuff to BBQ dinner that night. He made us some awesome steaks and we had a nice sunset dinner on the rooftop. He made super yummy carrots that were sweet and delicious. He ended up staying at a hotel for his last night so Rich and I finally had the apartment to ourselves again. I have been pretty OCD about cleaning so I had a lot of work to do the next day heh.
Rich came home early that day (Tuesday) and we went boating on Blake's boat with his gf Jess. That was awesome. They have a nifty boat and we went out, picked up Brian and Chris at a pier and we were all wakeboarding and wakeskating. Good times! Then we cruised over to Pyramid Ale House to have dinner for Shyama's birthday. Their double hefeweizen wasn't very good. I was pretty tired that day so I passed out once we got home while the others watched a movie. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful.
Then we had the KC BBQ on Saturday. Their friends from KC were in town. Brian and Alice. They brought tons of different BBQ sauces from KC. If i was up on top of my pics I'd have visuals.. oh well. Pretty chill. I power napped then we all headed to Chopstix Dueling Piano Bar. That was pretty fun. We had sooo many shots. Patron and Washington Apple. Crazy. Everyone kept ordering rounds and there were 10 of us. After they closed we all went back to our place and chilled for a few. The boys are really addicted to Street Fighter. It's not enough that they have a machine at work to play each other, they gotta do it here too. Heh.
So this weekend we were supposed to go camping at Sasquatch but Rich got sick yesterday. Well, he was started to feel bad all week and it really hit hard Friday morning. So he has pretty much just slept the past couple days and therefore I have too heh. We have been so chill here. I had to go and go him some drugs and that's about all i've done heh. We have watched so many movies.
So my other Seattle oddities I've discovered is ... on streets with slanted parking, you park backwards with your back wheels against the curb. So weird. I've only seen one street that had it the "normal" way of pulling in forward heh. Here, you back into the spots. I suppose it is better for hilly streets but they do it on flat streets too. I dunno. They have a really big REI here too. So the biggest thing I've found to dislike here is you have to go to actual "Liquor" stores to buy liquor! Like the hard stuff, tequila, rum, vodka, etc. Lame! So we kinda stocked up when we went before the BBQ. I got some more patron! yay! good stuff. I can't believe you can't go to the corner market or Costco to buy that stuff. So weird. What's wrong with this state haha.
Oh so at the BBQ, I discovered my friend Rob who lives here, happens to live with the only other friend I know here except for the geek crew. Well, he just moved out but they were roommates this whole time and I didn't know! Such a small world!
Next weekend is Rich's b-day and I have no idea what to get him! Hmrph! Hopefully I get out and check out more of the town this week. Probably hit up a mall. Wednesday we spent all day furniture shopping in Redmond. Rich found a new sofa/loveseat set and a kick ass coffee table. Pretty nifty. We were in suburbia so there were actually stores around! I went to an asian supermarket and was like the only asian person there. Weird. Well, except the employees. Then we went to Fred Meyer which he said is like a super WalMart. Yup it was ... i wanted to walk around all over and shop but Rich was pretty shopped out for the day so we bought the necessities heh. He didn't want to get a cart or basket again and we ended up getting a whole cart-full of stuff heh. I found an empty cart somewhere in the store heh. Got some organizer stuff so the bathroom sink looks better now. Clutter annoys me. I got some organizers for my desk too so that is a better study area now too. Although studying up on the roof sounds a lot funner heh. They recently made it so the wireless works on the roof. It also works in the club house area downstairs. Oh, did I ever mention this place has awesome amenities. Two gyms (but no stair climbers), pool, jacuzzi, BBQs by the pool and on the rooftop, awesome views, club house, tv room, conference room (free computers/printer), AND 2 tanning beds. Yea, tanning beds! Isn't that crazy?!@! Yea.. heh. I couldn't believe that when I saw it. I wonder how many people use it. Hmrph.