Back Again...

It never rains but it pours eh?

So, it's (basically) Memorial Day Weekend already. One of the ladies I work with asked me on Monday what I had planns for this weekend, and - not realizing we were up to Memorial Day already - I said "not really", which is so far from the truth as to require a press release from the White House clarifying what I really meant to say, with supporting bullshit to "prove" that what I said was kinda sorta true, in spite of everyone knowing that it is actually false.

For instance even tonight, Thursday, not even Memorial Day Weekend quite yet, I went out to Arlington to the Capitol City Brewery to celebrate the end of Joe's Army Reserve Commitment. No more one weekends a month for him! If the invasion of Iran is postponed another 10 days or so, Joe won't have to participate! Exciting! Especially for the Iranians. Joe is crazy.

Then tomorrow I'm going to try to juggle my schedule around enough to allow me to see Pirates of the Carribean 3 and also attend Jon Lim's Battle of the Bands. Well, it's not HIS Battle of the Bands, but his band is in it. Saturday Matt is having a Memorial Day Barbecue complete with special guests here all the way from Finnland. I'm planning on making Chicken Enchilada Soup, but we'll see whether I can actually put it together. Then hopefully Sunday and Monday I'll get a chance to relax. Whew. I'm already exhausted and all I've really done is enjoy a Fish and Chips dinner and berate Joe and Mike Reid for their cynical views on foreign policy. Cynical but common, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I guess now I just have to bring this more or less up to date with the big events of the past few months. Well, from my perspective, I'm sure I'm going to forget something super important that happened to someone else.

Bold headline, big type - I managed to track down a Nintendo Wii! The thing is freakin' awesome! Just playing the pack in sports sim is fun! But the Legend of Zelda is probably the coolest thing I've ever played. Swinging the controller to swing your sword... it shouldn't make such a big difference, but it does. I can't really express it. Then Pokemon Diamond came out. Actually I think that happened first... but anyway Pokemon Diamond is out and it's really good. The pokemon games are similar enought that if you like one you'll like all of them. Silver and Gold are still my favorite, but this one is very good too.

In job related news, I've been switched from the busiest section in the office to the least busy. It's technically a promotion I suppose, as I'm essentially running the section myself, since I'm the only one in it. But when the section gets three cases on a busy day... it doesn't leave much to do. And no one's mentioned a raise... or a company car. Haha.

Well, I guess I need to get some sleep, I've got another busy day tomorrow, waiting to see if tomorrow is the first day that I get no cases at all to work on.


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