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Jan. 1st, 2006 11:14 pmHad a fine two-day New Year's holiday, and an end to all of this holiday hubbub. He said, as we now plow into Hunt season... but at least that's a holiday I can get behind. Anyway...
I had been entertaining thoughts of bringing the Volity guys to First Night, this being their first Boston winter and all. And so it came to pass that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cthulhia took radiotelescope (daerr choosing to stay home and sleep off his cold) to Redbones for dinner and thence to the Common, where we saw thrillingly low-altitude fireworks (to make up for the overcast sky, I suppose) and met up with more friends.
Drinky wandering ensued, and various places were visited. I went to the Middle East for the first time ever, but all I did there was use their bathroom. I split off shortly after the group went into party-crashing mode. This may be the bread and butter of folks like Ms. Cthules but it tends to stress me out. Anyway, was starting to feel a bit strung out from my having slept only four hours or less that morning, so thatdaerr could drag me to a breakfast shmooze with a visiting Maine tech power whom I had not yet met. (Which I appreciated, don't get me wrong.)
Went home, and though I intended to drop in on the Freaks, started going into involuntary shut-down mode as soon as I took a hot shower, so had to settle for IM greetings before a collapse into bed and the soundest sleep I've had in a while. I ended up spending all day today with the Freaks and friends (including the l & taspartaimee, again visiting from that other city), leaving before rt got here and therefore making him wonder why I was still asleep in my room at 10pm. The end.
Also cleaned house at a game of Ticket to Ride: Europe, ho ho. After two plays I think I do like it slightly more than the original game, mainly because I think the map is more balanced; I feel it's too easy for someone to get a big advantage on the U.S. map by connecting several linked 15-point tracks, no matter what their goal routes are. The Europe map keeps most tracks short, and tends to make the longer ones more difficult to get my making them ferries or tunnels.
I had been entertaining thoughts of bringing the Volity guys to First Night, this being their first Boston winter and all. And so it came to pass that
cthulhia took radiotelescope (daerr choosing to stay home and sleep off his cold) to Redbones for dinner and thence to the Common, where we saw thrillingly low-altitude fireworks (to make up for the overcast sky, I suppose) and met up with more friends.Drinky wandering ensued, and various places were visited. I went to the Middle East for the first time ever, but all I did there was use their bathroom. I split off shortly after the group went into party-crashing mode. This may be the bread and butter of folks like Ms. Cthules but it tends to stress me out. Anyway, was starting to feel a bit strung out from my having slept only four hours or less that morning, so that
daerr could drag me to a breakfast shmooze with a visiting Maine tech power whom I had not yet met. (Which I appreciated, don't get me wrong.)Went home, and though I intended to drop in on the Freaks, started going into involuntary shut-down mode as soon as I took a hot shower, so had to settle for IM greetings before a collapse into bed and the soundest sleep I've had in a while. I ended up spending all day today with the Freaks and friends (including the l & t
aspartaimee, again visiting from that other city), leaving before rt got here and therefore making him wonder why I was still asleep in my room at 10pm. The end.Also cleaned house at a game of Ticket to Ride: Europe, ho ho. After two plays I think I do like it slightly more than the original game, mainly because I think the map is more balanced; I feel it's too easy for someone to get a big advantage on the U.S. map by connecting several linked 15-point tracks, no matter what their goal routes are. The Europe map keeps most tracks short, and tends to make the longer ones more difficult to get my making them ferries or tunnels.
