So we had Ryan Haggerty over for dinner (hot dogs and homemade french fries, made in our very own fry-daddy from potatoes, which is the coolest thing ever), and the evening was winding down. Haggerty had just left, and, before we started our nightly marathon of AOE, Ryan and I decided that it would be best to rid ourselves of our tawdry tenenbaum. ( Read more... )

Having gone to bed at the responsible hour of 11 o'clock, I was sleeping snugly and soundly when the phone rang out in the night at 2 a.m. Ryan, ever inquisitive and thinking someone had died, answered ( Read more... )

So, the sound of the wind through the vents and against the window panes, once a novelty, has become louder and actually kind of irritating. Ryan and I sit here and make ghost sounds all like "wooooo! WOOOOO!" to pass the time. Oh my god! Shut up, wind! *sigh ( Read more... )

Okay, so, the most important thing in my life is really letting me down. Age of Empires 2, the Conquerors Expansion, will not work multiplayer and so I cannot play with Ryan. This is the winter of my discontent. Aaron, glib and confident, says that he can fix it, and that the problem is simple, downplaying our suffering. Such suffering! However, ( Read more... )

Last night, as the wind blew through the open windows at the Post Heights and the clock on my computer rolled over to 8, staying in and playing video games yet again would not do, especially not on Friday night. So, Ryan and I, rather than conquering empires for ages on our computers, went to dinner at Pei Wei then off to JR's for a beer ( Read more... )