Good times

I guess I should have prefaced that last post with “For all you eBayers out there”. It was largely about the scams that occur on that system. For those of you not so familiar with eBay (and for the conclusion, not in the PDF file), have a peek at this link.
Well, for what it’s worth, the weekend was good to me.
Friday night, ended up going for sushi at this tiny little hole-in-the-wall called “Wasabi”, down south near the Sarasota/Venice border. Eric J and Sonia drove me in their tiny “tin can” 2004 Ford Focus — a rental car while they find something to replace the ’95 Nissan Pathfinder Sonia totaled a few weeks back. We met Eric G and Angela, as well as a bunch of Eric J’s friends from the local Linux user group. It got pretty nerdy pretty quick. Soon the group was up to 17 people. It was weird being out-geeked. Most of the time the discussion was very detailed. Lots of talk about the different Linux variants and what mental defectives their different champions are. You must really love pain if you like Debian. Etc. Not being a Linux user, I couldn’t contribute much. Most of the time I talked with my little group. I will say that when I was introduced as a Mac OS X user to Austin — one of the Linux kru — there was a positive reaction, which was a pleasant change of pace. The rolls were okay, not anything to write home about though. In particular the Spicy Tuna was pretty tasteless. But it looked nice. And the atmosphere was very nice, I would have never guessed by looking at its outside. But as far as the actual food goes, I think I’ll stick with Kyoshi’s on Main Street. Better miso there too.
Saturday I helped Eric G help his new g/f Angela move out of her old place. She collects antique furniture, boy did she have a lot. They bought me lunch and they’re going to buy me dinner and move me entirely if I ever need to (“You won’t have to lift a finger!”); I think that’s fair. 🙂 Angela moved into a tiny little shack on Casey Key. After we unloaded we took a short stroll (try 20 meters) down to the beach, which is entirely private. The water was the most beautiful combination of blue and green. I now understand why people retire here. Wow.
Saturday night I actually ended up making dinner around midnight and then putting on The Last Samurai, which Jeff loaned me. Thanks Jeff — I thoroughly enjoyed it. I now have to go out and purchase it.
Today I popped by Cam’s to carpool for frisbee — Melissa is back after spending six weeks in Canada! That’s great news, maybe Cam will be more organized now 😉
[Warning — this paragraph discusses mild sports injuries, if this bothers you, skip down to the next clump of words] Speaking of frisbee, my left thumbnail had a wickedfast throw bounce off it today, and instead of just bruising, it actually started bleeding, which was kind of scary. At first I thought my nail had broken right off because there’s a white line where it bent back, but it turns out it was cut just under the tip. I iced it and thankfully it stopped bleeding after about 15 minutes or so. That was three hours ago; now it’s just comfortably numb. A little hot too.
Cam and Melissa are having a movie night tomorrow (that didn’t take long), so we’ll be watching School of Rock then. I hope Amy shows up, I miss hanging with her. Which reminds me — don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here yet, but just in case: Erik and Amy are four months pregnant! Crazy! Cool! So that’s why she’s been conspicuously absent from practice this year. I think she’ll make an excellent mom. 🙂
How was your weekend?