Back in town

[yendi]

Back from FLA. A few notes:

1. I got my Belated Early Father's Day presents from Elayna and shadesong. Along with a trip to Melting Pot, they included The History of the World in Six Glasses (the latest from Tom Standage), a damned nifty look at how beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coke have changed the world. Highly recommended. I also got Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection. Anyone who knows me knows that I consider The Bride of Frankenstein to still be the best sequel ever made, and James Whale one of the most under-appreciated directors. These are movies that everyone should own.

2. Only three days until ascension! Woohoo!

3. No, I haven't tried to keep up with LJ at all until now (as opposed to my usual half-assed way). Nor am I caught up on work.

4. At Target yesterday, I found two new pairs of boxer shorts. One has "Can You Dig it?" written on the back, with four pictures of Ralph Wiggum on the front, finger up his nostril, saying "I Can Dig It!" The other is the new Batman Begins boxer, with the bat symbol across the crotch, and the name of the movie across the back. So, yes, I can say, "Batman Begins on my butt."

4A. There's probably something wrong with having my primary means of self-expression

5. Handing the X-Men franchise to Brett Ratner is about as swift an idea as handing the Batman franchise to Joel Schumacher.

6. Waking up in a house without Elayna is weird. I go through this every summer, but that doesn't make it any less weird. But I can watch horror movies in the morning and walk around in the aforementioned boxers, which makes the transition a bit easier.

7. The cats were well-fed and the mail wasn't all crammed into the mailbox. Three cheers for jet_li_wannabe! And three cheers as well for karlita, who drove us to the airport!

8. I ate way too much this weekend. Including an entire bag of Garlic and Parm Cheeze-Its on the flight home. Because, well, you can't not eat a who bag of Cheeze-Its.

9. Even on vacation, I make bad puns. But the in-laws got a kick out of this one.

10. Our flight to FLA experienced "static discharge," which is a code-word for "holy shit, that was fucking scary!" I can only assume that airline pilots get emails offering pills to prevent this embarrassing problem. Thanks to thunderstorms, our two flights were a combined 3.5 hours late.

Comments

[brak55.livejournal.com]

Maybe they should rub the planes with a big sheet of Bounce before taking off.

[litch.livejournal.com]

didn't realize melting pot was a chain

they opened one here a few months back and the reports I have gotten back is that it is terribly over priced

[amokk]

I don't think I'm going to Ascend with my main, probably my secondary, though.

[phantom_wolfboy]

4A appears to be unfinished?

6. Waking up in a house without Elayna is weird. I go through this every summer, but that doesn't make it any less weird.

Funny the things you get used to, eh? Remember how you used to wake up Elayna-less every day?

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

For a while, the mail was well fed, and the cats were crammed in the mailbox, but then I realized my mistake.

Sorry for causing you undue stress with my terrible message listening skillz. I promise those two cats I bought look exactly like Max and Jack, so you'll never reali....

oh, I mean, they were well taken care of. Yeah, that's the ticket....

[yendi]

Heh. Jack would shove himself in a mailbox without any help, if given the opportunity.

Thanks again!

[yendi]

btw, did you see that the spectral pickle factory is back? It's usually a one-day only affair.

[yendi]

If nothing else, the plane wouldn't cling to the clouds anymore.

[yendi]

Fondue places are always overprices, but it's a worthwhile evening.

[amokk]

So I heard. ;)

My secondary can't really adventure there, but my main (level 16) has no problem. I've spent nearly 200 adventures there, having drank the best alcohol and second-best food (Spaghetti with Skullheads). ;)

I had just dropped a ton of meat to go out and buy a Spectral Pickle at the mall, too, figuring I wanted the familiar, and not thinking well enough that Jick would probably bring the Factory back at least some time before Ascension (although I bought it before the countdown so I had no idea to think it anyway).

[yendi]

I'd decided not to bother buying one, but now that I've been able to make my own, I'm fine with having one.

[amokk]

You seem better at not dropping a lot of money on fun-but-not-life-needed things than I am lately. ;)

[yendi]

:-)

I've wasted more than my share of money in the game world on things -- I just managed to not have the pickle be one of them.

[amokk]

True. Topping that, nichy and I have both spent a few bucks on Ebay buying millions of meat for KOL. ;)

[yendi]

*nod* I did that once myself.