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Nov. 11th, 2000 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathystLast night was cool.
At Alex's house, we built the second in the line of Cardboard Computers(tm). It's his old celeron, mobo, geforce, and some RAM and an old HD and cd-rom drive in a carefully contrived cardboard box - pictures will come once I remember to bring my laptop to his house with the camera
Then, we went to THE VICON BASEMENT(tm) and annoyed Dan for an hour or three. THE VICON BASEMENT(tm) is the basement of Vicon Computers in Montclair; it's absolutely filled with strange PCs and Macs and associated hardware. Aaaand spinny rolly chairs! That was fun. Although it got a little less fun when Dan's father, who appears to be an exact clone of Josef Stalin, walked in
(Dan's family is from Romania, btw)
(Note: My ritalin wore off around this point, so later events are somewhat incoherent)
We...uh...went to pick up John, another friend, around then. I attempted to take a running jump down the short flight of steps going down to the basement; this was interrupted by the dropped ceiling introducing itself to my skull. It continues to hurt. Anyway, by now, Dan had gone to the mall to buy a birthday gift for an unnamed 'friend', and we had agreed to meet him there and eat dinner.
It was 9:45 by the time we got to the mall. Everything was closing. We wandered around it, laughing at random things, until we found Dan, and then, as the food court was closed, we decided to go elsewhere for food. Which we did.
Over dinner, we discovered these things:
1) John has a date today.
2) That 'Netpliance i-opener' is much more entertaining if it is said as 'Nutpliance leg-opener'.
3) That I am the earthly incarnation of Carl from Johnny Bravo
4) Curly fries are curiously addictive
5) TV commercials are much funnier when you have a shorter attention span than Kiki on a sugar high
It was 11:00 by the time we finished eating. Around this point, Alex realized that he was more than an hour past curfew, and so we dropped the money on the table, decided to let Dan and John handle the check, and ran. When we got back to Alex's house, his parents essentially grounded him, and his father ended up driving me home, which really sucked, because he is....scary. It was 11:50 PM by the time I got home.
Then I collapsed.
I had saturday detention today, in relation to the events of a few weeks ago. It sucked hard - I had to clean blackboards, organize the Lost and Found, and pick up trash from the grounds. All of these needed to be done because apparantly, the school people treat the cleaning staff like such shit that staff turnover is almost weekly. But it ended, and that was good.
Then, Dad took me to get some new jeans (took 5 minutes, shopping with father much less painful than doing so with mother), and then I got home and ate some chicken soup and a burger. Yum.
...Wow, that was long. I should have posted the first part of that last night, but I was exhausted.
At Alex's house, we built the second in the line of Cardboard Computers(tm). It's his old celeron, mobo, geforce, and some RAM and an old HD and cd-rom drive in a carefully contrived cardboard box - pictures will come once I remember to bring my laptop to his house with the camera
Then, we went to THE VICON BASEMENT(tm) and annoyed Dan for an hour or three. THE VICON BASEMENT(tm) is the basement of Vicon Computers in Montclair; it's absolutely filled with strange PCs and Macs and associated hardware. Aaaand spinny rolly chairs! That was fun. Although it got a little less fun when Dan's father, who appears to be an exact clone of Josef Stalin, walked in
(Dan's family is from Romania, btw)
(Note: My ritalin wore off around this point, so later events are somewhat incoherent)
We...uh...went to pick up John, another friend, around then. I attempted to take a running jump down the short flight of steps going down to the basement; this was interrupted by the dropped ceiling introducing itself to my skull. It continues to hurt. Anyway, by now, Dan had gone to the mall to buy a birthday gift for an unnamed 'friend', and we had agreed to meet him there and eat dinner.
It was 9:45 by the time we got to the mall. Everything was closing. We wandered around it, laughing at random things, until we found Dan, and then, as the food court was closed, we decided to go elsewhere for food. Which we did.
Over dinner, we discovered these things:
1) John has a date today.
2) That 'Netpliance i-opener' is much more entertaining if it is said as 'Nutpliance leg-opener'.
3) That I am the earthly incarnation of Carl from Johnny Bravo
4) Curly fries are curiously addictive
5) TV commercials are much funnier when you have a shorter attention span than Kiki on a sugar high
It was 11:00 by the time we finished eating. Around this point, Alex realized that he was more than an hour past curfew, and so we dropped the money on the table, decided to let Dan and John handle the check, and ran. When we got back to Alex's house, his parents essentially grounded him, and his father ended up driving me home, which really sucked, because he is....scary. It was 11:50 PM by the time I got home.
Then I collapsed.
I had saturday detention today, in relation to the events of a few weeks ago. It sucked hard - I had to clean blackboards, organize the Lost and Found, and pick up trash from the grounds. All of these needed to be done because apparantly, the school people treat the cleaning staff like such shit that staff turnover is almost weekly. But it ended, and that was good.
Then, Dad took me to get some new jeans (took 5 minutes, shopping with father much less painful than doing so with mother), and then I got home and ate some chicken soup and a burger. Yum.
...Wow, that was long. I should have posted the first part of that last night, but I was exhausted.
