Month: December 2004

It’s another holiday here at Chateau D’Isaster; with the roommates all off at family functions and me sitting here in front of the computer in a big empty house. Sure, I get the invites to the family functions and all, but I’m not family… I’m n+1.

Fortunately I’ve been doing this since I joined the Navy, so the calluses are fairly thick and I don’t really notice all that much anymore. The thing that gets me every year is that nothing is open: There’s nothing to go do out in the real world and it’s a thorny reminder that it’s “family time”.

Oddly enough, I’m usually looking forward to some time away from the folks here at the house, but my brain keeps going on with the childhood programming of “Christmas” and “family”… Bah.

Add to this that I’m not one for buying groceries as the above mentioned roommates always tend to eat everything before I get to it. So come Thanksgiving or Christmas when everything is closed, I usually wind up eating dinner ala gas station.

That’ll make ya joyous.

For those out there in a similar situation, the only thing I can recommend is too burry yourself in some project so that you don’t notice the second hand on the clock. That and realize it’s just a day, like any other, though one with a decidedly more consumerism base.

When I think about it that way I can get a chuckle: It takes the idea of free stuff to get most families together for a weekend… In that light I guess I can live without the family thing.

So I’ll probably fire up EQ2 and get engrossed in some 12 hour quest or something just to pass the time till I get to go back to work Monday and pretend like this weekend never happened.

Time for the bi-weekly update…

Not a lot happened Thursday and Friday; just the usual routine of getting up, going to work, answering a few unsolvable problems, heading home, and then sleeping.

Friday on the way home from work Jae and I stopped by Microcenter; I was there to get a 1 Gig compact flash card for my camera and Jae to see about getting a new mother board and CPU for his computer.

Well to get the parts he wanted/needed it took a lot more money than he’d figured, so I dropped the $200 for his motherboard as a Christmas present.

Saturday morning Aryntha, Rai, and I went and got breakfast at our ritual road-trip breakfast place, then headed north to spend the day in Wyoming. No, no real reason and yes, there is *nothing* there… If you ever want to get away from it all, go to Wyoming.

So we bummed around for the afternoon out in the middle of nowhere then returned back to Denver. After dropping them off at their apartment I returned home and spent the remainder of the evening writing.

Today I spent the morning organizing my photos in Adobe Photoshop Album before waking Jae up at 1pm to see if he was interested in getting lunch…

It turns out that he got the wrong CPU for the motherboard I bought him Friday night and needed a ride back over to Microcenter to exchange it for something useful.

So off we went back to Aurora and he got something he could use for $60 more. From there we finally stopped for lunch/dinner at the Chili’s across the parking lot from the old Continental Theater. The Continental is neat because it’s one of the few 70mm theaters in the US (a normal theater is 35mm). Anyways, we stopped there to see “Ocean’s 12” which was ok, but not as good as the first one in my humble opinion.

And there you have it, my weekend. This week is only three days long and the company party is Wednesday, which promises to be fun.

So, having driven about 500 miles this weekend I’m signing off “life” early this evening, taking a long hot shower, and crawling into my bed.

See you all some time during the week.

Well, I took some of my Christmas bonus and bought myself a present… A nice new Olympus C-8080 camera… It’s really nice. 🙂

After the battery had a few hours to charge I got a hold of Aryntha and Rai, and we decided to journey up to Morrison and have dinner at the Morrison Inn…

Once we were full of some of the best Mexican food in Colorado, we drove a little further up from Morrison to Red Rocks Amphitheater for some long exposure shots of Denver with the low clouds that were in abundance tonight.

After an hour or so of peace and quiet we packed up and headed back down the mountain. I dropped Aryntha and Rai off at their apartment and then trucked across Denver to pick up Jae and deliver him home.

Thus ended my day.