Best Gathering in Ages

Last week we did something we haven't done in a long time, hold a Guitar Hero gathering at my place. It was modestly attended, but totally excellent.




Mindy played for the first time and we all beheld a true love for Guitar Hero blossoming in her heart.


First time attender Amanda showed she had what it took to rock to the top.






Hey, look! It's Abby!


Over the months, as I've looked at other blogs and Facebook albums featuring people playing Guitar Hero I've realized how boring these pictures are to the people who weren't there. In fact, they're awful boring to the people that were there a lot of the time.

For example, the gathering was so boring that Matt thought the time would be better spent explaining population growth over the last two centuries to Emily. Yawners!


And then the Kansas City girls got caught up on the town gossip.


But then something happened that made the party exciting for us and for the internet, a superhero appeared!


There was something about him that seemed familiar, but we would never learn his secret identity.


Oh, wait. Nevermind.


Epilogue Jeff come over later that night. Are you ready for a t-shirt situation that will blow your mind?

Best "This meter had THIRTY minutes on it!"

Best Weekends are Your Reward

Now that I work a grueling 45/hr-a-week-ish work week I've truly begun to appreciate weekends and all they can be for you. If you're not a worker, you need to realize that when you have a job that means you can't do what you want all the time, but when it's the weekend, that's the time when you can either (A) Do what you want and not accomplish any of the things you Need to Do or (B) Do the things you Need To but not get to do anything that you want.

This weekend I had an (A) weekend. As you have been told previously, Matt is back in town again and this time I had to wait for the weekend to really get stuff done.

Friday night (among other things) we went to Don Cannon's going away party. Don is such a great dude, I couldn't imagine missing his going away party. Turns out he leaves at the end of May, or maybe even June, so this going away party was to, like, help us ease into the idea of him being gone.

I took no pictures of Don.

But I took a picture of how Matt and Ellie kind of matched.


And here's Mindy!


Saturday Kristin stopped by and showed off one of her Graphic Design School projects.


The Good News is I'm on the list for the Marshall Islands Film Festival, the Bad News is it turns out there isn't a Marshall Islands Film Festival. Then Kristin made us eat Pinkberry because one opened up a block from my house (some people would be going out of there brain with excitement about this sort of thing). This is what I know about Pinkberry: for me to eat it, it better have chocolate chips on it. And if invited to take a spoonful here and there from someone's Pinkberry, I'll eat about two thirds of the Pinkberry, but very absentmindedly.

After Pinkberry something very special happened: Matt and I went back to Momofuku to get some more pork!

This is me and my delicious pork. I wanted to post a video of me eating my delicious pork, but YouTube is such a pain. For me. It always gives up on me. Maybe I'll try DailyMotion instead?


Ok, I did try DailyMotion and it worked. Here's a video of what it looks like to be happy in case you never saw a happy person in your life before:

Yummy Pork!
Uploaded by layupjones

Here's a pork bowl (plus egg) before being attacked.


To spice things up (not literally) we had a side of ham. Momofuku has four different kinds of sliced ham, I don't know the difference and I don't know which kind this was and it seemed so pedestrian to order a plate of thinly sliced ham but My Goodness! What a treat!


With pork in our bellies we met up with Emily and went and saw Speed Racer. I posted about how great it was after I saw it, so I won't say that again.

After Speed Racer we went to Keila's Annual Mexican Food party.


Delicious Mexican Food! Mole and Tinga and Taquitos, how can you beat that? You can't!


You really don't know how much I love Tinga. (I love it the most)

This is to give you an idea of what the party looked like. I could have tried harder to get this idea across to you.



And this is to give you an idea of what it would be like to be married to Collin: You would be bored and he would be trying to show you a funny video (funny to him).


After the party we went to Emily's and some people played Ticket to Ride and other people (the me and Abby kind of people) played Mario Kart Wii. My friends, they all love to play Ticket to Ride so much!



Sunday there was a picnic in the park but Collin and Matt and I didn't have much as far as picnic food goes. So I dug through my cabinets (and my brain) and invented a magical sandwich called "The Sabbath Keeper." A Sabbath Keeper has peanut butter, apple (cut thin with my new slicer so that it looks like radishes), and bacon on it. Knock it off. It is delicious and it is awesome. Needs a little work, actually, but well on its way.


And here we are at the park with Sabbath Keepers in hand. Some people persecuted us because of our sandwiches, but we were happy.


At the park? Mindy.


Collin and stick, as per the usual.


Collin and stick vs. the Frisbee

Stick vs Frisbee
Uploaded by layupjones

Collin and stick vs. Impromptu Relief Society Presidency Meeting

Collin Attacks
Uploaded by layupjones

Matt and Natural Selection Argument vs. Unwitting Victim


Matt vs. Tree



Matt vs. the Chilliness


Very Hot Right now? Man wraps.



Post-Picnic we went to Liz and Ali's house. For what purpose? To play Ticket to Ride!


It is a misconception that I never play Ticket to Ride. I just play it every few weeks, I don't play it every night (If you were wondering, Ticket to Ride was also played Monday night. No by me, though.) Like some of you do. That night I got to be teammates with Liz. It was a great team that we had.


Ali, having a laugh, before she called me to tell me to take this picture down.

Best I am a Terrible Man

When you have a blog you all your comments emailed to you. Generally comments are made on posts from the last couple days, sometimes you get a comment on a post from years and years ago. For example, I got this anonymous comment in my inbox:

How can you sleep on that baby seal fur pelt? That is so inhumane and I don't know how you can live with knowing that, that baby seal was tortured for your comfort!!!!!

It was on a post I made in 2006 when Jenna gave me her Ikea skin and I called it a baby seal pelt and took my picture sleeping on it for everyone to see.

At first I was thinking "This must be a joke...which of my joker friends was going through my archives?" I went to investigate the situation with my sitemeter. This is what I found:


Someone had Googled "baby arctic seal photo" and they found me! And then they taught me a lesson!

This internet is going to get me into so much trouble.

Best Little Thursday

First, if you hadn't already heard, Matt is back in town.
Second, if you hadn't already heard, I'm sort of working.
Third, and this is what I want to talk about, my work is across the street from a Houston's and Matt came up last Thursday to get a little lunch at that Houston's. Thursday is an important day to go to Houston's, and if you don't know why, don't worry, I'll tell you soon.

Matt.


Me. (Houston's napkins have special button holes so you can hang them from your shirt, not stuff them into your collar like an animal)


We both had the Hickory Burger. Man, that's some burger!


And Thursday is Tortilla Soup day at Houston's. They make a magnificent Tortilla Soup and after a long time spent debating between a burger or the soup I decided I'd just need to get both. I regret nothing about that decision.


Thursday night Liz, Ali, Ace and I were supposed to have pizza together on my roof. Unfortunately, Ace didn't make it. Fortunately, Jared, Tracy, and Matt did.





Collin's umbrella has a problem. Can you figure out what it is? Or do I have to make a "boing" sound effect for you?


Ok, that was our little Thursday.

Today at work I think I fell asleep at least 5 times. This is especially bad when you work sitting around a table with a bunch of people whose assignments are just as boring as yours. Sorry team! I'll do better tomorrow.

Best Minority View

Apparently Speed Racer is awful and Speed Racer is a bomb, but I went and saw it in IMAX with Matt and Emily Saturday afternoon and had a great time. When I read terrible reviews of this movie I cannot relate to anything the critics are saying, I simply feel the opposite about whatever they say. I thought it was exciting, I thought it was cool, I thought it was creative, I thought it was fun. I loved the races, I loved the not races, I loved the fights, I loved the characters, I loved the cast, I loved the snippet of Freebird, I dug it all. I'm definitely more amped about Speed Racer than I was about Iron Man. That's just how it is. I cannot explain it.

I also really liked Daredevil. Go figure.