Monday, December 12, 2005
Okay, this post was supposed to go up two weeks ago, but it never got put up. I'll update y'all on further good news soon. Ciao!
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Woof! Thanksgiving! Food! Eat stuff! Blargblargblarg!
As is traditional, I went up to Las Vegas to visit my Aunt for thanksgiving. A fun time was had by all. My uncle was actually off work on Friday, so we decided to postpone the actual construction and consumption of turkey until Friday, which meant that Thursday was open for one of my other favorite thanksgiving activities, the voodoo lounge!
The voodoo lounge is a lounge on top of the rio, which is off the strip, and it’s got one of my favorite views of vegas, cause you can see the whole strip and all the lights and it’s just gorgeous. Well, myself, cousins, and other associated friends met up there, had some alcohol, did some dancing, and all-in-all had a pretty fantastic time.
Also, Crub (Krub?) was made, another fantastic tradition/meal. It came out quite well. And, of course, there was the thanksgiving meal, with all the pretty standard eating-stuff. Delicious all around. My uncle was a bit worried about his waistline, because he’s been on a diet of late, and has been, by all reports, quite good on it. So good, in fact, that there were a bunch of pants that he was planning to give away to goodwill since they weren’t even close to fitting him anymore. And now they do. So yay for healthiness.
After the turkey was consumed (and after I took a serious nap), Uncle, my cousins husband and myself all rolled off to Gameworks, which is great, nerdy fun. You go there and buy a card that lets you play any game you want for X number of hours. And they have alcohol upstairs, too. I wasn’t drinking, but I just like the idea of an arcade/bar so much. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Saturday I went to the indoor swap meet (another tradition) and picked up my yearly influx of incense. (I don’t use it that often, but it’s nice to have.) And afterwards stopped at a GameStop place (they sell video games) and played around on the new, fancy, Xbox 360. My initial impressions: it’s neat, but I’m going to take my time on this one. The new consoles, it seems, will really need a new HD TV to take full advantage of the graphics, and it’ll be pretty near impossible to get an Xbox until the initial fervor drops off. It looks neat, and there’s some cool games on the way, but I’m going to wait until prices drop a little more, a few more games show up, any kinks in the hardware are worked out. As with most technology, I’ll wait until it’s refined a bit and made a bit less expensive. I’m in no hurry, I have a *lot* of games to play before the end of the year.
And, happily, the trip back home from Vegas was wonderfully uneventful, though it’s time for me to get my car serviced again.
Two lectures and one final remain: yay countdown!
-N
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Woof! Thanksgiving! Food! Eat stuff! Blargblargblarg!
As is traditional, I went up to Las Vegas to visit my Aunt for thanksgiving. A fun time was had by all. My uncle was actually off work on Friday, so we decided to postpone the actual construction and consumption of turkey until Friday, which meant that Thursday was open for one of my other favorite thanksgiving activities, the voodoo lounge!
The voodoo lounge is a lounge on top of the rio, which is off the strip, and it’s got one of my favorite views of vegas, cause you can see the whole strip and all the lights and it’s just gorgeous. Well, myself, cousins, and other associated friends met up there, had some alcohol, did some dancing, and all-in-all had a pretty fantastic time.
Also, Crub (Krub?) was made, another fantastic tradition/meal. It came out quite well. And, of course, there was the thanksgiving meal, with all the pretty standard eating-stuff. Delicious all around. My uncle was a bit worried about his waistline, because he’s been on a diet of late, and has been, by all reports, quite good on it. So good, in fact, that there were a bunch of pants that he was planning to give away to goodwill since they weren’t even close to fitting him anymore. And now they do. So yay for healthiness.
After the turkey was consumed (and after I took a serious nap), Uncle, my cousins husband and myself all rolled off to Gameworks, which is great, nerdy fun. You go there and buy a card that lets you play any game you want for X number of hours. And they have alcohol upstairs, too. I wasn’t drinking, but I just like the idea of an arcade/bar so much. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Saturday I went to the indoor swap meet (another tradition) and picked up my yearly influx of incense. (I don’t use it that often, but it’s nice to have.) And afterwards stopped at a GameStop place (they sell video games) and played around on the new, fancy, Xbox 360. My initial impressions: it’s neat, but I’m going to take my time on this one. The new consoles, it seems, will really need a new HD TV to take full advantage of the graphics, and it’ll be pretty near impossible to get an Xbox until the initial fervor drops off. It looks neat, and there’s some cool games on the way, but I’m going to wait until prices drop a little more, a few more games show up, any kinks in the hardware are worked out. As with most technology, I’ll wait until it’s refined a bit and made a bit less expensive. I’m in no hurry, I have a *lot* of games to play before the end of the year.
And, happily, the trip back home from Vegas was wonderfully uneventful, though it’s time for me to get my car serviced again.
Two lectures and one final remain: yay countdown!
-N
Comments:
Nope. J(5) went to hang with some other people for thanksgiving, and is going home to *her* family for christmas. Perhaps next year.
-N
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