A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I had an especially fun game night at rikchik-n-Mary's last Tuesday, but I accidentally messed up magid's awesome hand at Gang of Four by not making an obvious move when I shoulda (I was enchanted watching people play Toppo in the other room and absentmindedly passed my turn), and allowing queue to go out a round or five earlier than he really shoulda, and sticking magid with 100,000 cards, making the game end earlier than it shoulda too. (Not to say queue didn't have his victory coming to him, but I kind of carved it up nice and served to him with garnish, which is not optimally fun.)

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I enjoyed an especially fun brunch that cthulhia hosted in honor of zyxwvut's visit to the east coast. Lots of Rabbits/Arisia peeps in attendance and lots of good food that they broughted and I eated it. I volunteered to help with coffee, but through miscommunication I ended up leaving my own coffee equipment at home. I used Cth's equipment as if it were mine, even though it wasn't, and long story short ended up spilling scalding water all over my sous-barista classicaljunkie's right hand. I feel awful about this and have put myself at her beck and call while she convalesces. I would write more but she just told me to go fold laundry, so OK.

Woke up this morning with a terrible headache. Three CVS-brand Excederin-clones and a half-hour nap later it's just barely contained. I think I may have caught it from dictator555, who was also having similar pain earlier, but are there illnesses whose only symptom is a headache? I don't really get them all that often anymore, and it's not like it's from dehydration. I hope it's not from the exertion of moving my furniture around, for that would be just pathetic.

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It takes me a while to get used to some things. Yesterday someone said "Why don't you call your girlfriend and tell her that [etc. etc.]" as a way of delivering some practical short-term advice, but I initially parsed it as sarcasm. That is, I heard girlfriend as "this person you like so much and whom I will now tease you about by calling them your girlfriend (or boyfriend)". It's certainly been used far more often like that to me than it has in any literal way.

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Guitar Hero is lots of fun (and it's gotten me back into DDR too, I think) but I still niid a Wii. My desire's only been enflamed since actually getting to play with one. I'm hearing more often of friends finally managing to score systems, so it's only a matter of time.

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I wanna work on Gameshelf but my camera's all gunked up and I'm waiting for some cleaning supplies to appear in the mail. At least I hope it's gunked up, coz otherwise I must conclude that the tumble it took a little over a year ago rendered it incapable of stably exporting video, and this would make me very sad.

He didn't explicitly say it, but I get the feeling that kynn just messaged me from the middle of his root canal just so I'd note it here.