« steps to an engagement | Main | upcoming blog changes »
June 20, 2009
paper, NYC, other
Just hanging out on a Saturday...working on a paper, procrastinating with the power of the Internet. Kara's Mum is in town, helping us clean and organize the house, as she does, and which I very much appreciate. I unexpectedly put together a garbage bag of clothes to donate. Looks like I'll be making a dropoff at Goodwill later this week. I honestly thought I had nothing that could go, but I was surprised to find my drawers full of a number of T-shirts and even shoes that I never even realized I still had.
We were in NYC last weekend visiting Wu; had a great time in Chinatown. Tried Bubble Tea: interesting, but not really recommended; you can simulate the experience by chopping gummi-bears into pieces the size of airsoft pellets, then putting them into Kool-aid and drinking the whole thing via a wide straw. I discovered a bar where you can get Yuengling in quarts; this practice is shockingly not widespread. Also, bought a pair of flip-flops that have bottle-openers in the soles. This is only because the pair with the flasks in the heels didn't come in my size. And I finally got a pair of those Adidas massage sandals that every soccer jock had in high school. I was really missing out.
It was a great weekend and much love to Wu for letting us crash at her place, and for playing tour guide. Oh, I forgot: I got a sweet hat. I'll post a pic at some point.
Work is keeping me busy, and the transition to a new boss has had its challenges, but I'm keeping up with it. Between school and work, neither Kara nor I are spending a lot of hours at home, but only another week or so and then my real summer will begin. On the downside, that means I have a paper due on Thursday and a final the week after that.
My Snap Circuits kit came in the mail and I'm loving playing around with it. I would have killed for one of those Radio Shack DIY electronics kits when I was a kid, and this is my chance to finally get a handle on how the circuits within the devices I use everyday actually function. Well, in a simplistic fashion...it's a kit intended for audiences 8-108, so the descriptions of the projects leave out some of the detail of how/why things connect and work the way they do, but that's just another chance for me to experiment. It's only battery-operated, so no chance of shocking myself, though I've heard you can heat up the batteries to the point of them popping out of the holder if you create a short circuit. It'll be a neat thing to keep in the closet for kids to play with someday, once I do everything I can do with it.
Games-wise, I'm finishing Mario & Luigi: Partners in Crime for the DS, and I've got a copy of dungeon-crawler throwback The Dark Spire in the batter's circle. Now that The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is on Steam, I might grab a copy of that later this summer, and I still haven't finished Psychonauts.
Oh, and I brought the guitar out for an impromptu singalong the other weekend...I need to work on my Tom Petty for a Vermont trip with some friends on the second weekend in July. Thanks to Bennett for letting me borrow his Ovation.
Posted by Mark at June 20, 2009 04:17 PM
Comments
Post a comment
My Mom reads this site. Controversy is fine, just don't swear. Please don't be a spamming jerk.