Food, Playsets, Houseguests, Housework

[elfs]

Friday, I got home after a short bus ride (spent mostly watching Mai Hime episode 7, which had come out Thursday night and I had sucked down as fast as humanly possible off Usenet) and found my house alight with tygereclipse and her boyfriend, fallenpegasus, swirlgrrl, Omaha and Kouryou-chan all running about the house, getting dinners ready. After broiled halibut with mango-tomato salsa and a side of rice we all went down for this week's episode of Drawn Together. It was appropriately sick and disgusting, as one would expect. There were serious "Ewww!" moments. It was screamingly funny. Xandir dressed as Princess Leia was almost too much to bear.

Saturday, after waking the household up and getting everyone properly fed, Omaha and I made our way down to Kouryou-chan's school, which gets some collective effort out of the parents on a volunteer basis to keep the grounds. We got there about 10:30. I did some weeding for an hour, then had to run Kouryou-chan home to change her clothes after she spilled some hot chocolate all over her pants. When I got back, we went in the back and proceeded to help assemble the new playstructure that the school had bought for the kids. It was an impressive bit of construction, with meter-deep wells for the feet encased in PVC pipe and filled with loose rock to give it sway in an earthquake or windstorm.

I can't believe how expensive a commercial playset is; for the money laid out for that thing, a residential set would have been four times the size.

We buried the hole with gravel and laid down eighteen inches of woodchips. I met quite a few of the parents and a few of the kids. I wish there'd been more there; the rest of the playground was available after all.

Afterwards, we got home and showered together (yay!) and cleaned and all that. I was quite ripe after several hours of yardwork. Then technoshaman and jenkitty showed up on our door, looking bright and cheerful, and we went out to dinner at a new Thai place that was really good. Kouryou-chan became a little bored, so I took her for a walk through the mall while we waited for the others to finish their meal. I was good, too; I could hear Gordon Freeman calling to me, but I resisted. Save vs. Geek at -2. We bid our friends goodnight, went home, played two rounds of Sequence with Kouryou-chan, and then went to bed.

Sunday was a slow day: clean the kitchen, change the bedsheets, tidy the downstairs and vacuum the rugs, and organize the pantry. More rounds of Sequence with Kouryou-chan. And I built her new computer. Kouryou-chan now has a 1GhZ Intel box running Windows 98, with 512MB of ram, a 12GB hard drive, a 16MB Viper 770 video card and a Sound Blaster Vibra 128. That should be fast enough for most kid's games for the next century, right?

We had home-made tacos for dinner. Kouryou-chan likes hers on a hamburger bun, and she proceeded to pick out all of the lettuce and tomatoes before eating. I gave tygereclipse a ride to the airport, got home, cleaned up the kitchen, played a little more Halo (got up to the chapter entitled, "Wait, It Gets Worse!" I love that bit), and went to bed. Kouryou-chan, typically, did not want to go to bed, and thought it was funny that Omaha and I had made bets as to which excuse she would use first: "I had a bad dream" or "My tummy hurts." I won the first and third rounds; Omaha won the second.

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[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

[HalfLife Voice from the HEV suit comm]
Mr. Gordon.....Mr. Gordon.....You cannot escape. You know you want to play. You will come play. Can't you hear that headcrab behind you?
[/HalfLife voice]

;)

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which....what name do you play under?