Author: Gene

Updating the blog at 4 am. woot. Played some WoW w/ Pat. We’re almost 29.

Earlier today I played Zombies w/ Aaron, Donny, Lain, Jill (Aaron’s gf), and Trent (Aaron’s drummer who’s leaving). Aaron is quite Zombies obsessed. He has everything that they have out and has made up tournament rules and such. Jill pretty much won, although technically she quit before she could. Largely do to my screwing up her final kill efforts. The game lasted 3 hours. I never win.

Then I went to Josh’s for a bit. He was having a bit of a get together w/ people I didn’t know. Met his old bf though. By old I mean old, current but old. He’s like 30.

I’ve almost finished watching Carnivale. As much as is out yet anyway. 😛

The title of this post is a dwarf joke from WoW.

I <3 8 Oo… and dentist appointment tomorrow since I dun have to go in for jury duty. Lucky me.

And so now we’re having the traditional Bob’s gone party. 😛 We had waffles. Pat’s figuring out his parents pension plan for them. I have to call the jury people at 6. Not much happening otherwise.

I’d like to start out and highlight that as I type this post I have not slept for about 31 hours, and that 3 days prior to these 31 hours I got 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night. The following is an attempt at a review of has happened during those 31 hours. Any typos or such should be explained away by lack of sleep.

We watched The Jacket. I liked it ok I guess. I think he actually died and was crazy. 🙂

Then we played a lot of WoW. Pat and I teamed up with a warlock and Aaron to complete about 8 quests. We gained two levels. That kinda took the time until 8:45 AM.

At 8:45 AM I was scheduled to be back in the jury place. I made it w/ a ride from Adam, who slept thru our WoW session but got up and decided to leave around then. At the jury thing they numbered us and then made us go into the courtroom where we were questioned. I didn’t have to say anything, and in a mere 4 hours I was excused. I almost got excused a bunch faster, but they for some reason decided they hated me. I still have to call in on Friday to see if they want to try to put me on another trial, but tomorrow I’m free.

After I got picked up from the jury by Bob, Steve, and Pat we went to Adam’s and got his boat. We took the 5 of us and two of Pat’s sister’s out. Did some knee boarding. After a while Brittany and her friend replaced Pat’s sisters. I knee boarded for the first time. I got up and such, and got some pretty good crashed accomplished, but I haven’t figured out how to strap in yet, and I haven’t done any fancy tricks, like getting out of the wake. 🙂 We might be going tomorrow so I’ll get better.

Once we were done with that we went out and ate at a Mexican restaurant I’ve never been before. Kinda fast foodish. It was good what I got anyway.

We came home and played some pool and now I’m updating the blog. It’s amazing how long I’ve been awake. I’m going to get on WoW and finish a little bit of running that needs to be done. Then we’ll see. 🙂

Bob is leaving tomorrow. So is Steve. Bob sent me those songs. They are soo cool.

I went to court again. The Justice Center. Whatever. They just made us sign in and then gave us a phone number to call after six and then told us to go home. Recently, I called the number. I’m not on the list of people that don’t have to go back for some reason. So to the Justice Center I got at 8:45 am tomorrow. Of all the ridiculous times. The trip will have added interest because I will be relying on friends to get me there and back since Mom and Martha are going to Seattle.

Bob still hasn’t sent me the pictures or the songs mentioned in my previous post. Grr…

Since my courtroom experiences today Pat, Bob and I went to Adam’s. We went to some animal shelter type place and looked at animals for a while cause Adam’s dog got run over a while ago so they’re picking a new one. Then we went to Adam’s house and ate them out of house and home. Pretty decent. Eating Saltenes rapidly is hard.

Bob’s here. We’ve been not sleeping much so I’ve been too tired to update. I’m too tired now too, but it’s been so long I was starting to feel bad. 🙂

The normal WoW playing has been happening. Also, I’ve nearly beaten Ratchet and Clank just from playing randomly when I was a little out of things to do. I’ve been my neglecting my reading, unlike my wonderful partner in blogging. 😛 I shouldn’t, but I have a hard time reading w/ distractions, and there are always distractions lately.

Yesterday I went jet skiing. Never have done that before. I got to drive a bit. The jet ski sorta broke, but I dun think it was my fault. Overheated for a bit. We (Pat, Bob, and I) were an hour late getting there so we ended up only having an hour or so on the water, but since I’d never done it before it’s still worth mentioning. I wasn’t real eager, but I have to admit going fast was pretty fun. I haven’t figured out turning very well yet, maybe next time. 😛

Today I went to the courthouse for jury duty stuff. I am part of a big group all selected for one trial. It’s a big civil suit that they think is going to take 6 to 8 weeks. All I had to do was fill out a questionnaire thing. I have to go back today though. I expect they’ll tell me to leave today though, since I’ll be back in Oregon by then.

Sin City we are to be watching soon. Hopefully the bootleg copy Brittany got will be alright. I’ve seen it already (my gf has good taste) so I’ll be good either way.

The other major time waster has been playing pool at Pat’s neighbor. Today Steve and Scott were over so we were 5. We sorta made up a 5 man cut throat game. It was quite fun in my opinion. We made it so scratches resulted in taking a ball out of the pocket of the number set that had the fewest balls left, not including those of the scratcher. Ties were settled by best 2 of 3 rock-paper-scissors. I am undefeated in the rock-paper-scissors department. It was a good game because skill had little to do with it. 🙂 I think we should patent it or whatever.

Bob bought me ice cream. Actually he bought me a rubber like polymer altered to taste like ice cream, but close enough. He says he’ll send me some pictures of the jet skiing some time so I’ll put a select few up maybe. His friend sent him a bunch of Toy Box. I like their music much for some reason. I’m going to get him to send what he has to me so I can listen on repeat. 🙂 I can’t find a good download of the stuff for some reason.

If I dun get kicked off the jury process tomorrow I’ll be sure and let you know. 🙂 I’ll prolly let you know “irregardless” as the chief commissioner would say. Blah.

8’s been doing lots of updates. Creative ones too. I’m just boring old me though.

I saw Fantastic 4 a while ago w/ Aaron, Pat, and Brittany. (That’s 3 boys and 1 girl going to see the Fantastic 4, interesting) I thought the movie was pretty cheesy, and the science didn’t make any sense at all, but it was based off an old comic, so I suppose that’s what it was supposed to be. I didn’t not enjoy it.

Mooched food off Pat since then.

We’re definitely living in the reds. I tried to call and get off the meal plan, but nobody is there, at least not today. I’ll try more later.

8 has been playing more WoW. Makes me happy.

Bob has reported that he plans to come down for a weak or so. Makes 8 unhappy.

Went swimming.

Part of my hand was kinda asleep for like hours. I dunno what’s up w/ that. Maybe a mild heart attack. 😛

8’s unhappy. Pat’s a poker loser. *sigh*

here’s the infamous swollen eye. It got worse in the morning but there’s no good picture of that. Dun really know why it happened. Mosquitoes and Afterbite are the main suspects. 

I went to the dentist. They took pictures of my teeth. They say I have 6 cavities. 2 aren’t my fault. Apparently I’m flawed like all u other mortals. Gone are the days of lording my perfect teeth over my gf and family. Oh well. I knew this day would come. 7-11-5 will be a day of imfamy.

Might go see Fantastic 4 today.

Got lots to talk about. See if I can get any of it down. I just woke up so I’m doing this now when I have the most energy, supposedly. 😛

My family piled a bunch of hiking and camping stuff in the car and then drove down to Newport. Along the way I had a really poorly constructed chocolate dip cone from McDonald’s and finished reading Ender’s Shadow (good book). After some problems contacting 8 we managed to get in touch when she saw our car drive by. So we met up soon enough at the yurt we had gotten ($29) at South Beach. 8 came w/ pizza. I was supposed to hug 8’s mom but I didn’t do a very good job. The yurt was fun and we had a kick reading what was written on the bottom of the bunk beds. Apparently Jonny Depp slept there and has a big sword. Arg.

The next day we drove to Mt. Jefferson (took about 4 hours) and started hiking. There were some excitements along the way. Like we forgot the salami so we had to buy new but the store didn’t have the best kind, and mom left the lid to our carrying case open so we lost a backpack of stuff before we figured that one out. But we all made it to the trailhead. Then we hiked. 8 had some trouble with backpacks but after a bit of switching and playing with straps we got her set up in such a way that she could survive. She didn’t dare cross a river once that had no bridge but only stepping stones. She took off her shoes and waded. 🙂 After around 6 miles or so we got to where we were going. Big lakes and a meadow and mountains all around. About 10 trillion mosquitoes as well, but we found a spot and put up camp. My rents were kind enough to serve 8 and I dinner (even if it wasn’t very good) while we sat in the tent. 🙂

The next day we hiked up to a ridge and back. Only my sister carried a pack (she insisted). It took us about 3 hours to get up but only about 1.5 hours to get back. 🙂 There were lots of bridgeless streams to cross, but 8 managed. There was also some snow that needed negotiating, but it was even less difficult than the streams. There were some good views and 8 and I kissed at 7010 ft. That’s the record for highest kiss for us. By the time we were going back down 8 had gained enough confidence to cross the streams w/o going off trail. We got home and hid in the tents and played Yatzee (we made a travel size one that fits in a film container) and some card games. Then we did the eat and sleep thing. There was some rain but that’s part of hiking. 8 got to experience pretty much everything on one trip, but nothing to extremes.

The next day we hiked down the mountain. Easier than going up. 8 crossed the stream she had waded through before by using the stepping stones. Mom got her foot a little wet crossing the same stream. We ate lunch on the way down and lightened the load some. We drove back to Newport and set up our tents in a different camp ground. This time it was the weekend and the camp ground was filled with dogs and little kids. It was a pretty big contrast to the mountain, where we had seen nobody else’s tents the whole time, and only come across 2 people when were up there at all. We went out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Food was good, although some of it was kinda weird. We all passed out after that. I at least was pretty tired. After the car alarms and wailing kids stopped I couldn’t keep awake.

The next day was the day of goodbye for me and 8. That was sad. 8’s mom came and got her. Then my family did the long drive back home. We stopped at El Primo (it’s across the street from Linfield) on the way for lunch. I read about half of Shadow of the Hegemon which is very good so far. Martha’s friend came up and took me and her to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I guess it was ok, but I didn’t like it as much as the girls seemed too. Apparently one of the girls mutual friends is engaged now.

Today I got word that we can get bumped to the Reds. That means I’d be living in an apartment instead of a dorm and could be off the meal plan. My roommates and I have to make sure we’re all down and then we’ll confirm it. So that’s neat. Also, I’m going to the dentist. New dentist, never been, and I haven’t been in for a check up in about a year, so it’s kinda exciting. Maybe I’ll have a cavity or something.

Ok, that’s about all I can say right now. I suppose I’m missing a lot of stuff. Hopefully 8 will fill some in. I’ll add some more w/ pictures later on. We dun wanna flood you with the pics all at once though.

I made it home. Looks like I’ll be joining Martha and her friend Adrianne to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Figure I might as well go while I can. I’ll update w/ pictures and news of the trip and such sometime when I get back. I feel like I’m coming down w/ some illness maybe. Kinda odd. 😛