Will wonders never cease....
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It's been a good weekend. Friday night we went out for Japanese food withtelynor and her son and our friend Mary, then gleefully hooked Mary on the tv show Coupling. (The British version - the American version is an abomination.) I took a Tylenol PM and slept nearly nine hours - but more importantly, I slept through instead of waking up over and over. I never remember how much sleep deprivation affects my outlook until I finally catch up and feel right again. I need to make a note and stick it on my forehead or something. So, Saturday we slept in, then took my car to be detailed and have the oil changed. The hope was that that would be all it would really need to recover from it's swim - the insurance company had already confirmed flood damage would be covered, but with a $200 deductible, so it was worth trying. As we started driving home I was elated, since it seemed to have stopped the stalling, but it shortly started up again, as well as some very disturbing problems in the automatic shifting and a bit of grinding when I tried to restart it after a stall. I got home in a really bad mood but we decided we'd just take it to the dealership on Monday and make them fix it and deal with the insurance. That is, after all, what insurance is ultimately for.
So I went online and beat things up for a while on City of Heroes and felt much better! The rest of the day was housework, groceries, and lazing around with ACat. We'd hoped to do the CoH respec mission with our team but server problems nixed that. No loss - ACat and I found, ah, alternate forms of amusement!
In fact, we must have been both fairly worn out since we slept in, then due to miscommunication were a bit late to the noontime dim sum lunch a bunch of local poly folk had organized. Neither of us had ever had dim sum before, and it was amazing! I'd somehow had the impression dim sum was gray mushy dumplingish things filled with unidentifiable mush. This was a wide variety of delicious things - some dumplingish, but also duck, bok choy, shrimp, crab, sweet cakes and many other things. (I did get one of the sweet rice cakes filled with plum and coated with sesame seeds -maedbh7, were you the one who said we absolutely had to try that? Or was it tigerbright? Or both?) A lot of the tidbits I couldn't identifiy, but all of them tasty, and the company was also lots of fun. I tend to get quiet and withdrawn in crowds when I don't know people and can't hear well, but I felt pretty comfortable and didn't really start having hearing overload until just about the end of lunch, which was amazing considering how crowded and noisy the restaraunt was. That's definitely something I hope becomes a tradition. I asked if it was a monthly thing, and vatavian said it had been at one point but hadn't really lasted. That's a damn shame, since we both had a lot of fun and everyone else seemed to as well. It's good to meet interesting people and potential friends, and if we can find a poly friendly group of friends out here I'll be a lot less envious of the Boston group. :)
We came home midafternoon, I got the last of the housework and groceries done and we had a lovely lazy bit of time together (relaxing together after a frazzled day at work is just never the same), then reported to do the respec mission withkhaosworks and four more of our superteam members. We were optimistic and sharp, ready to kick ass on the bounce and take names! Unfortunately, so were the bad guys. We got through a few very pitched battles to save the reactor, then got overwhelmed when a couple of skiffs appeared THROUGH a door to pound our asses. Ouch. We cut our losses but we have some ideas of what to do to help the odds next time, and a lot more sympathy for all the people who've been whining online about the impossibility of the damn task force. We will be back - Penguin Force will prevail!
But in the meantime, it's back to work and dirty dishes and keeping the rent paid up. Paragon City's a lot more fun!
autographedcat starts next!It's been a good weekend. Friday night we went out for Japanese food with
telynor and her son and our friend Mary, then gleefully hooked Mary on the tv show Coupling. (The British version - the American version is an abomination.) I took a Tylenol PM and slept nearly nine hours - but more importantly, I slept through instead of waking up over and over. I never remember how much sleep deprivation affects my outlook until I finally catch up and feel right again. I need to make a note and stick it on my forehead or something. So, Saturday we slept in, then took my car to be detailed and have the oil changed. The hope was that that would be all it would really need to recover from it's swim - the insurance company had already confirmed flood damage would be covered, but with a $200 deductible, so it was worth trying. As we started driving home I was elated, since it seemed to have stopped the stalling, but it shortly started up again, as well as some very disturbing problems in the automatic shifting and a bit of grinding when I tried to restart it after a stall. I got home in a really bad mood but we decided we'd just take it to the dealership on Monday and make them fix it and deal with the insurance. That is, after all, what insurance is ultimately for.So I went online and beat things up for a while on City of Heroes and felt much better! The rest of the day was housework, groceries, and lazing around with ACat. We'd hoped to do the CoH respec mission with our team but server problems nixed that. No loss - ACat and I found, ah, alternate forms of amusement!
In fact, we must have been both fairly worn out since we slept in, then due to miscommunication were a bit late to the noontime dim sum lunch a bunch of local poly folk had organized. Neither of us had ever had dim sum before, and it was amazing! I'd somehow had the impression dim sum was gray mushy dumplingish things filled with unidentifiable mush. This was a wide variety of delicious things - some dumplingish, but also duck, bok choy, shrimp, crab, sweet cakes and many other things. (I did get one of the sweet rice cakes filled with plum and coated with sesame seeds -
maedbh7, were you the one who said we absolutely had to try that? Or was it tigerbright? Or both?) A lot of the tidbits I couldn't identifiy, but all of them tasty, and the company was also lots of fun. I tend to get quiet and withdrawn in crowds when I don't know people and can't hear well, but I felt pretty comfortable and didn't really start having hearing overload until just about the end of lunch, which was amazing considering how crowded and noisy the restaraunt was. That's definitely something I hope becomes a tradition. I asked if it was a monthly thing, and vatavian said it had been at one point but hadn't really lasted. That's a damn shame, since we both had a lot of fun and everyone else seemed to as well. It's good to meet interesting people and potential friends, and if we can find a poly friendly group of friends out here I'll be a lot less envious of the Boston group. :)We came home midafternoon, I got the last of the housework and groceries done and we had a lovely lazy bit of time together (relaxing together after a frazzled day at work is just never the same), then reported to do the respec mission with
khaosworks and four more of our superteam members. We were optimistic and sharp, ready to kick ass on the bounce and take names! Unfortunately, so were the bad guys. We got through a few very pitched battles to save the reactor, then got overwhelmed when a couple of skiffs appeared THROUGH a door to pound our asses. Ouch. We cut our losses but we have some ideas of what to do to help the odds next time, and a lot more sympathy for all the people who've been whining online about the impossibility of the damn task force. We will be back - Penguin Force will prevail!But in the meantime, it's back to work and dirty dishes and keeping the rent paid up. Paragon City's a lot more fun!
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Date: 2004-09-20 08:14 am (UTC)"mushy grey dumplings filled with something mushy unidentifiable" is amazingly far away from the truth (especially since most of the actual dumplings are rice dumplings, as far away from "mushy" and "grey" as possible!), but understandable if you heard "dumplings" and grew up on the bad cheap Chinese dumplings invented for American audiences that didn't know the difference.
Favorites of mine of various Dim Sum fare include taro cakes, the flat rice noodles with beef or shimp in them; Har Gao (bite-sized shrimp with a rice-noodle dumpling wrapped around them, so thin that you can see the shrimp inside), various roast duck things, and for desert, the coconut cubes and sesame seed buns with lotus paste in them.
But at a good place, it's all good, really; even chicken feet if you can find enough people to split them.
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Date: 2004-09-20 12:03 pm (UTC)Anyways, Atlanta's somewhere I might visit some time, but is mostly too far away. Come visit NYC? With three different chinatowns, we've got -lots- of great Dim Sum resturants!
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Date: 2004-09-20 01:44 pm (UTC)Dim Sum and Polyamory (http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/dimsum.html), then you can read some of the original entry and the comments and see more double meanings than you might expect.
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