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weekend
Gail and I decided not to go to the event in Buffalo, so I invited her for Shabbat lunch instead. (She would have joined me for services first if the person in the other half of her duplex hadn't been very loud for a very long time in the wee hours of the morning.) We had a pleasant meal and gab session. It's been too long since we just sat around and shot the breeze.
(I'll write more about Shabbat stuff later, separately.)
In the evening we went to Ralph and Lori's party, which was a lot of fun! It was a good crowd of people, and the food, as usual, was fantastic. (I loved the curried gouda.) At one point I picked up a cookie-like object and, after sampling, said to someone "I have no idea what I'm eating, but this is really good". (I know that I can trust Ralph and Lori with food, so it's safe to pick up random food and eat it.) Lori described the recipe to me later. It was the buttersctch-orange candy.
I had one surreal moment when someone walked up to me and said "Hi Monica - do you remember me?" (I hate it when people ask that. There's no diplomatic way to say "I have no clue who you are", so I don't try for diplomacy. :-) ) This person was a co-worker at CGI, the first company I worked for after college. I left there in 1988. I still don't know what she actually did there; she had such strong memories that I felt odd asking something that would demonstrate that I really didn't remember any of this. I know she was not an engineer (I think I remember all the engineers anyway) because she talked about "you engineers". She seemed like a friendly-enough person, and apparently she now lives across the street from Ralph and Lori so I'll probably see her in the future.
There was one guest who was quite clearly not safe to drive home, so Dani and I tried to give him a ride. (We could have each driven a car to his house, so his car wouldn't be stranded.) He was very firm in his refusal and we didn't want to make a scene, but I worried that ultimately the hosts were going to end up in a show-down with him. I've since heard that someone else prevailed and he accepted a ride, which is good.
Today after a leisurely brunch we mostly finished shopping for my relatives. (There's always something you can't do via mail.) We also bought a desk for me; we went back to the second-hand room at one of the stores and they had something perfectly reasonable that's already assembled, so I don't have to do the IKEA-esque thing. :-) (Well, I was going to cave in and pay someone to do it.) And it's not expensive. It's a little beat up, but it's perfectly functional and I don't need fancy. I just need a writing surface with drawers. It'll be delivered a week from Monday; with luck the contractor will be done in that room by then, and then I can start carrying stuff upstairs. Yay.
Ralph and Lori gave us a copy of the Dungeon Master's Guide as a Chanukah present, and while we were in Borders today we decided to complete the initial set and pick up a Monster Manual. This is strongly influenced by my character's plans for Polymorph Self; it's time to peruse some of the options. :-)
Tonight I baked cookies for the choir dinner tomorrow. I was trying something new (but safe-new, not completely-untested-new), and it came out pretty well. Of course I had to perform quality control. :-)
(I'll write more about Shabbat stuff later, separately.)
In the evening we went to Ralph and Lori's party, which was a lot of fun! It was a good crowd of people, and the food, as usual, was fantastic. (I loved the curried gouda.) At one point I picked up a cookie-like object and, after sampling, said to someone "I have no idea what I'm eating, but this is really good". (I know that I can trust Ralph and Lori with food, so it's safe to pick up random food and eat it.) Lori described the recipe to me later. It was the buttersctch-orange candy.
I had one surreal moment when someone walked up to me and said "Hi Monica - do you remember me?" (I hate it when people ask that. There's no diplomatic way to say "I have no clue who you are", so I don't try for diplomacy. :-) ) This person was a co-worker at CGI, the first company I worked for after college. I left there in 1988. I still don't know what she actually did there; she had such strong memories that I felt odd asking something that would demonstrate that I really didn't remember any of this. I know she was not an engineer (I think I remember all the engineers anyway) because she talked about "you engineers". She seemed like a friendly-enough person, and apparently she now lives across the street from Ralph and Lori so I'll probably see her in the future.
There was one guest who was quite clearly not safe to drive home, so Dani and I tried to give him a ride. (We could have each driven a car to his house, so his car wouldn't be stranded.) He was very firm in his refusal and we didn't want to make a scene, but I worried that ultimately the hosts were going to end up in a show-down with him. I've since heard that someone else prevailed and he accepted a ride, which is good.
Today after a leisurely brunch we mostly finished shopping for my relatives. (There's always something you can't do via mail.) We also bought a desk for me; we went back to the second-hand room at one of the stores and they had something perfectly reasonable that's already assembled, so I don't have to do the IKEA-esque thing. :-) (Well, I was going to cave in and pay someone to do it.) And it's not expensive. It's a little beat up, but it's perfectly functional and I don't need fancy. I just need a writing surface with drawers. It'll be delivered a week from Monday; with luck the contractor will be done in that room by then, and then I can start carrying stuff upstairs. Yay.
Ralph and Lori gave us a copy of the Dungeon Master's Guide as a Chanukah present, and while we were in Borders today we decided to complete the initial set and pick up a Monster Manual. This is strongly influenced by my character's plans for Polymorph Self; it's time to peruse some of the options. :-)
Tonight I baked cookies for the choir dinner tomorrow. I was trying something new (but safe-new, not completely-untested-new), and it came out pretty well. Of course I had to perform quality control. :-)
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Wel, I think you'd like it, anyhow. :)
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My planar cosmology is taken from GURPS Cabal.
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Then again, my favorite non-Wizards d20 book is Oathbound, so I'm weird.
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Weekend