I know Reno is a desert, but geez is the climate bipolar. I still remember one day about ten years ago when I was wearing shorts and working in my backyard, it was probably a nice twenty-five degress outside. Two hours later, the temperature plummets to a few degrees above zero and it starts snowing! A similar thing just happened to me again. I’m in Reno, the weather is a bit chilly, but nothing extreme. I check the weather in the morning and all of a sudden I see snow forecasted for the next thirty-six hours! ARGH!!! But anyways, onto the weekly recap:
Monday I watched Rachel’s football team’s final game. They did alright, but were outdone unfortunately. I got a few pictures and some videos, though not much is really worth showing. Here are some of the better ones.
Tuesday rang in a lot of frisbee, YAY! I also had my VR lab meeting early in the week (and early in time, 14:00). Dan and I had to readjust some of the projects to get a single eye working on the wall. It took enough time that I ended up staying for the talk by Michael Garland. The talk was about quadrangulating meshes, and it was (for some strange reason) hosted by the math department. The talk was interesting though, and afterwards Dan, Sung, and I went to the MU to play pool. We did that for an hour or so, then Dan and I went to grab dinner before I went to a poetry reading. As it would turn out, Chiara, Sunny, and Sara also showed up, and Grinil was one of the hosts. The event turned out to be a lot of fun, and Dan ended up staying for the entire thing. Afterwards, I rode back a bit with Sunny, then finished the trek home and went to sleep.
I learned the difference between checking and picking in Lacrosse on Wednesday. And I also learned that people need to calm the heck down sometimes. Oh well, nothing too bad happened, so it isn’t a big deal. We had a late GI meeting today, and now that G80 has finally launched, I don’t have to be so careful about details I mention. I caught up with Brothers & Sisters, and if it was already obvious, yes I’m addicted. Did you catch the election results? I’m suddenly reminded of a line from Liar Liar, “The pen is blue… the god damn pen is blue…” And to that, all I have to say is hw00t!!!1! After the GI meeting Tony, Sung, Shubho, Brian, Meike, and I went to some faculty awards ceremony in Kemper. Props to Professor Owens for telling us where to snag the free food and al-key-hol. I would also like to take this time to say that MPI needs some good examples online, like how to create a new communicator.
Thursday in Davis was alright, I was having a bad frisbee day, so I wasn’t too upset that I had to leave early to catch the talk by James O’Brien. Something about him though, I thought he would be both tall and imposing, when in reality he’s maybe 1.75 meters. His talk was good though, lots of cool examples done by his grad students. After his talk I hurried home, packed up, and drove to Reno. Sebastian and I went to go see Anberlin in concert. We had to endure through two other crappy emo bands, but it was worth it. Anberlin was good, and they were freaking awesome in comparison to the previous bands. I ended up running into Jason Stern, and old friend from IGT, while at the concert. He’s now working full-time at IGT.
After the concert, a ton of us went to the Little Waldorf Saloon to get some drinks and hang out. It was five and seven dollar pitcher night, so after we did a round of Irish Car Bombs, shout out to Carl and Sean by the way ; ), some of the guys just ordered themselves pitchers of beer, like Fat Tire (another shout out to you Carl). Bei wanted to be able to drive home, so we (as in a bunch of us) ended up going back to her place to have some more drinks so she could get socially lubricated (and then some).
The roll call for Bei’s place was me, Bei, Nick, Sebastian, Penick, Smith, Stanhope, Alicia, Tunya, and Peter. The night was really fun, if you want the details you can always inquire to me personally ; ) Here’s some photographic evidence for those interested.
Friday wasn’t too terribly exciting. I had brunch with the folks and dinner with them, Mike, Bei, Nick, and Sebastian. After dinner, Bei and I went to a Nevada basketball game (GO PACK!). After the game (the pack won of course), Bei and I got some Cold Stone, then went back to my place. We were both tired, and Brian’s flight got delayed until after midnight, so we just crashed on my parent’s very comfortable sectional until Bei had to leave to pick up her hubby.
Remember what I said about the weather? That’s why I had to leave Reno so early. Well, that and I had a bunch of work I had to get done. I got in around 11:00, and ended up going to lunch with Dan and Meike around 13:30. After lunch, Meike and I walked around downtown until 15:30 or so, then we went home. I made half of the ClubI Thanksgiving flyer while watching Kansas State beat the Longhorns (HA! Take that you Trojan killing bitches!). Saturday was also Brian’s birthday, so we met a bunch of people at Ben & Jerry’s for ice cream. Everyone else ran off to go see BORAT! while I went to Sophia’s with Cathy. We played “Liar’s Die” for awhile, and ended up meeting the owner of Crepeville (it’s a chain… never woulda thought…). I dropped Cathy off and got to sleep around 01:00.
I didn’t get a lot of sleep Sunday morning. I woke up around 08:00 for no reason, so I just decided to get up and work. I took a break around 14:00 and went shopping at the Co-op and Safeway. Sara emailed me around 16:00 with a computer problem. I went over to her place for awhle trying to help her. Turns out her problem wasn’t an easy fix. We then went out to dinner at Crepeville with Sunny and Chiara. Somehow I ended up staying there until 22:15, then I had to go home to get my car and pick up Rachel. Right as I was about to leave I checked the flight status, and for some reason, it wasn’t scheduled to get in until 23:30. I waited around for a little while longer, then took off. I didn’t end up getting home until 00:30, hence why I didn’t get to sleep until 01:00!
