Saturday: it was an uneventful workday, though I did wind up eating the rest of the spaghetti for lunch. As my shift was coming to an end, Julie went out to pick up more Juana Tamale, since she hasn't had it in a while, and there's a chance they may have to close soon due to a rent dispute. As soon as I finished eating, Julie and I went out to the corner to get picked up by our ride share, as we needed to get to the Mann Center for the evening's concert. This was Vampire Weekend, a band that shows up on Alt Nation all the time, and which usually causes me to change the radio station: they've just been played so much that I can't really handle their sound. Julie would have had a friend come in my place if anybody had been available, but circumstances weren't with us. When we arrived, the opener was playing: a band made up (mostly) of women, called Cults. We were on the lawn again, which was unfortunate since it was raining a bit. We had our rain jackets, so we didn't need to resort to using our ponchos. We set up our blanket at the top edge of the first part of the lawn. While this was a lot more comfortable than the slope we were on last time we came to the Mann, our proximity to the walkway meant that we had to listen to a bunch of young guys who wanted to stand around up there and comment on how much of a banger each of Vampire Weekend's songs were. I found myself unexpectedly entertained as the band launched into a country western sequence, and the zoomers were not happy about it.
When the concert ended, we were excited to see that they'd brought two busses instead of just one, but since they insisted on travelling together, we still had to wait until both were full to get moving. A subway ride later, we were back home, and I treated the cats before crashing into bed, just past midnight.
Thursday: didn't get much done today! Spent a lot of time playing Hearthstone, and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, and watching videos. Julie made that spicy stir fry with rice, and I stayed up too late. On the plus side, we didn't spend any money on anything today.
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Saturday: Julie and I went to see Nick Offerman at the Orpheum. I think we took edibles first; I don't have strong memories of the show.
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Monday: Julie posted her favorite photo of me on facebook.
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This was the submission deadline for the 2001 Interactive Fiction Competition, into which I entered The Newcomer. I was already neck-deep in the process of flunking out of the University of Kansas, but that didn't stop me from committing to enter a competition in which 90% of the writing and coding I was supposed to have completed already took place in the final week before submission was due. No testing occurred. Players could "win" provided they followed the eight steps included in the walkthrough, but there was no way for them to intuit those commands from within the structure of the game itself. An embarrassing relic of hubris, or perhaps the digital scar tissue of untreated mental illness? I can't decide.
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