{"id":2245,"date":"2012-08-05T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2012-10-09T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:25:09","slug":"moving-games-and-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Moving, games, and disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t done a general life post in a while. Life goes.<\/p>\n<p>People seem to like my SimSimi pillows that I brought back from Thailand.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/080512keith.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/080512marina.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In any case, Greg&#8217;s sister Chris recently moved to Pittsburgh for a year-long internship thing at UPitt. We spent most of the weekend helping her move things from there to here.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/080512move.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nNothing like helping people move to realize how much stuff people can accumulate. It&#8217;s left me and Greg with a desire to get rid of more of our things so any future move we might do isn&#8217;t nearly as painful.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, after moving was done, we went to Red Robin for dinner, as I had been wanting to do for a while. Maybe I have unreasonable expectations or something for a casual restaurant, but I felt rather disappointed. Our waitress didn&#8217;t refill my tea unless I asked (and would come by and grab other people&#8217;s empty glasses and refill them), and generally seemed like she was unhappy at me. Also, my &#8220;well-done&#8221; burger came out terrifyingly red in the middle. (Not even sure how a burger that thin could manage to be that undercooked.) By that point, I was feeling unhappy enough that I just wrapped it up and took it home instead of asking it to be fixed. And then reheated burger is never that good&#8230; managed to eat it tonight, somehow. But kind of a disappointment for something I&#8217;d been looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, today we had some more board games.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/080512games.JPG\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/080512games2.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nBesides Ingenious, which seems to be getting popular on game nights and is one of Greg&#8217;s favorite games, and My Happy Farm, which I think has become my favorite &#8220;quick&#8221; game choice, we also played Puerto Rico for the first time in a while. There was also a lot of 7 Wonders (with Max and Yubin&#8217;s set that we&#8217;re holding on to until they return from getting married), which is quickly becoming one of my more favorite games&#8230; perhaps it will be time to buy a copy in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>This upcoming week will be interesting. On call for work while I&#8217;m spending Friday being driven to a wedding in Connecticut, then on call all weekend while I&#8217;m there and on a train to Boston. With luck, nothing will happen. Without luck&#8230; well, at least I&#8217;ll always be at most 30 minutes away from an internet connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t done a general life post in a while. Life goes. People seem to like my SimSimi pillows that I brought back from Thailand. 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