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Nice day yesterday, with an invigorating session with [livejournal.com profile] ketronic and the annual Lobstercon dinner. Pain dances up and down my dorsal region, from neck to hips, and my arms? Well, they've felt better.

Sessions with [livejournal.com profile] ketronic are always fun. She's a good person to talk to, as well as a skilled RMT (they're no longer called masseuses). I'm going to try to ensure regular sessions with her from now on. I'll have one the morning before Cynra & I go see the musical LotR.

The dinner was weird. It seemed there were some people missing (including the inimitable [livejournal.com profile] kaijigal), so the table I was at had a couple empty spaces.

As usual, it was held at the Mandarin, where I, in attempting to pace myself, went back about five times.

Oh, lord. I wished for nothing more than not to die. To say I ate too much is an understatement. I speculated, for a while, that I was in fact gonna punch my ticket in the Mandarins' WC, but it turned out to be not that bad. I wished for a nice, deep, long belch, but none was coming. I even got a ginger ale, but to no avail.

The parents called today, and I spoke to Uday a while while we waited for Pater Bitter to come to the phone. I discussed the previosu evening with him, and we decided that dying of a heart attack in a Mandarin WC is, in fact, really far down on the "bad ways to die" list.

We did figure out that a shark attack would probably be pretty quick, since getting a limb torn off by a great white would probably put you into shock PDQ. He then countered with a cougar attack, but I pointed out that great cats tend to either go for a major vessel or just smother you. That led into a discussion of a cat's nose.

Anyway, the parents have acquired a nice (niiiiice) TV, bigscreen LCD. It's sad to think my parents have a better TV than I do. They're supposed to be above such things, perhaps using a 12 inch B&W to watch hockey while drinking thick dark coffee.

Cynra spent the early part of the day spectating her students at a speech competition hosted by the Legion. I watched the Arrested Development pilot and ate a BLT (one thing I have in common with Sam Vimes; the BLT, not watching Arrested Develoment). [livejournal.com profile] pyat, did you ever do a Thud! review?

We did some shopping, and I picked up a Clone Strike booster. Got a Gungan, and a Destroyer Droid. Nice little droid. Cynra picked up a new pair of dungarees, and I got her a card for our anniversary. I'm planning to pick her up a Razr for a gift, but I need to know how easy it'll be to switch over her Simm card. Does the new phone need to be reactivated?

Date: 2006-02-27 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] umario.livejournal.com
All this talk of me eventually buying an LCD TV, then the elders go out and beat me to it, and get a much bigger one than I was thinking of (I was debating between 27" and 32").

Yikes. Not quite like the parents we grew up with, eh? Always the last to get a microwave oven (which is now in my kitchen), a VCR (which is the VCR I'm still using), a computer (which - oh wait... you mean this ISN'T a VIC 20 I'm working on?)

I think I'm just a cheap bastard who mooches everything when the parents are done with them...

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