About to go mad...

[thebitterguy]

Ozzie is walking around the house mewling. I swear, if he were an unfixed female, I'd assume he was just in heat. But being neither female, nor unfixed, he has no excuse.

Enjoyed the shindig last night. The venue was... well, the food was better than the E&C, but the room they gave us was just shit. There were people eating at the pool table. Oh, yeah: and they apparently didn't take Liz seriously when she told them we'd have 25 people, because they only had one chef and one waitress.

The waitress, who was apparently a chemistry student from Ireland, was new to the game; she took orders one table at a time, and food kind of dribbled into the room. I never took any courses in restaurant management, but I think a Saturday night where you have a party of 25 coming in ADDITION to regular walk in requires more than one waitress; ditto for kitchen staff.

Sgt. Bob brought his boys along, and I got to spend the evening discussing some of the finer arcana of the Marvel Universe with them. I swear, arguing with a 10 year old for 15 minutes over whether or not Galactus actually ended up consuming the biosphere of Zenn-La is, I think, the first step to accepting I have a problem.

On the other hand, good sign that the kid enjoys the graphic novels. I endorsed Activision's latest set of computer actioners to them.

Comments

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

My mother's cat does that. I think it's a guy thing for cats, whether or not they're fixed. They like to wander around and hear their own voices.

I once saw a National Geographic special where a lion was doing the exact same thing -- meandering around with his head down, going 'rrrrrowl? Aaaoou?'

[thebitterguy]

Least he's popped himself down and gone to nap now.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

My tomcat does it too, but in his case it was pretty clearly an attempt to get us to pay more attention to him.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, he got back up when I did laundry, so I just rubbed his face and belly a bit and how he's staring out the window.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

...whether or not Galactus actually ended up consuming the biosphere of Zenn-La...

He did!

[thebitterguy]

He did? That bastard!

When?

[thebitterguy]

Ah, Wiki answers all my questions.

Jesus,'82? I should have known about that!

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I blame John Byrne!

Why, I don't know, but I still do!

[thebitterguy]

He led Stan astray.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Waitress was from England ;) I can't figure out why they didn't have more people on staff, if the private room was booked as well as regular traffic I'd say they should have had at least 2 probably 3 people working the evening shift.

Next time I'll have to be earlier so as to get a real table seat ;)

[thebitterguy]

Ah, Irish, English, same thing. The service was, if anything, comparable to Rancho Relaxo's.

And, I will point out that there was a seat next to me.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Was there a free one there? I totally didn't see it or I'd have joined you, although my comic knowlege is pretty slim so you and the boys would have had me confused in no time ;)

[thebitterguy]

Yep. The guy whose name I can never remember came and sat down next to me afterwards, but Cindy abandoned me to sit with Colleen and Maggie and Heather so it was empty.

Sgt Bob's kids were very enthusiastic. Reminds me of me at that age.