We helped Daniel load up a moving van for his drive up to Kirkland tomorrow. He owns the heaviest TV I’ve ever seen. It’s one of those really nice flatscreen HDTVs, but it seems to be carved out of a block of solid lead. It took three guys to wrestle (sometimes literally) the beast down two flights of stairs, out the hall, down another set of steps and up the ramp into the truck.
The rest of his stuff wasn’t too bad though, and the truck wasn’t even half full when we were done loading it. Then Daniel served us all a dinner of Eggplant Parmesian, followed by all of us heading over to Perry’s on Fremont for dessert. Everyone ordered something different, and we actually just passed the plates around, so everyone could try a bite of everything. Zima definitely won, with some sort of huge mocha cheesecake with caramel toppings and sliced bananas.
Eric and Zima departed to check out a concert, and the rest of us retired back to Daniel’s kitchen for a final game of Settlers of Catan (at least until Eric and I buy our copies of the game for Saturday). It was a very good match, but Daniel dominated us all again. (Despite his assurances that it was mostly luck, the fact that he’s won 3 of 4 games we’ve played with him speaks volumes.) If I had known Daniel had access to the game, I would have had him bring it over earlier. Still, it’s nice to have a game everyone is into, to promote my efforts to turn one of our weekly get-togethers into game night. Next game on the list: Zombies!!!!
I'm a 30-year-old 
lego night
depending on packing and the like, i plan to sort through all the legos and bring most of them over in a big box or something, for you all to play with. i don’t really need, or want, most of them: i’ll just keep the stuff i know was mine and pass on the rest.
i can/am willing to afford buying more new sets just for parts, and anything i need i can probably mail order anyhow.
sometime next week, most likely.
May 2nd, 2003 at 2:53 am
Dude, you will soon recognize that I have been winning by luck
You don’t win 3 games of Catan in a row by skill. Just doesn’t happen.
In other news, I already have an internet connection here. The manager works for Comcast, so while the burly movers I hired were carrying stuff downstairs (they used advanced dolly technology to move it even faster than we did!), he walked in, asked if I wanted him to set up cable TV and internet, walked out to get a modem and some cable, and when I got home from dinner, all I had to do was install the software. No “we will come by sometime between 6 AM tomorrow and 5 PM the next day; please stay at home” crap. It was awesome. He even fixed the broken porch light bulb.
Well, it’s 1:30 now, and I have a big day of buying basic household stuff tomorrow. How have I not owned silverware before today?
May 3rd, 2003 at 1:42 am
great news!
I’m glad to hear the move went smoothly! You should ICQ/AIM me if you’re ever online!
May 5th, 2003 at 8:44 am