I helped Mom get the items that they no longer needed out of the attic. There wasn’t too much that came down, but it looked like a lot when it was all piled up in Kim’s room. There was a lot of old stuff that seemed like it should have sentimental value, but we would never use it again, and it was easy to replace. I also went through my room and found only a few things that I’d want to keep. Most of the things were puzzle boxes and it was really nice to go through them, with all the memories they contained.
Steph and I took a nice bike ride to the Cal Ave Farmer’s Market on Sunday Morning. The people I normally get my Samosa from were out, so I just grabbed a Mango Lassi. I then went to the other Indian place and I got a really tasty chicken tikka masala naan wrap. Steph got some Bolani and Tofu, and then she went back to her place and I headed over to 906 for the last time.
Nick was moving the last of his stuff out of 906 and into a storage unit, since he was renting a furnished place in SF for a bit. I helped him get ready for the moving van, and then got the first load moved into the storage unit, but hurt my wrist and wanted to get back to let Candice into my place. She is staying there to take care of my kitties before she moves into her new place.
Sunday Night we hung out at Beachhead and had lots of things covered in Orange Sauce that Candice got for us.
Yesterday morning I took the kitties over to one of the offices Steph’s company operates out of and introduced the kitties to the robots that Steph is working on. The owner of the company wanted to get videos of the cats riding the robots. He didn’t quite understand how one interacts with cats, or how hard cats are to control. There is the phrase ‘herding cats’ after all, which is not about how easy cats are to control. Archer and Lana were doing really well with the robots, and we got them to play on/with the robots as Steph drove them around. Archer went after the pink furry tail plaything when we taped that to the robot, and when we taped on the laser pointer Lana went after the dot. They got more comfortable with the robots, but wouldn’t put up with the robots driving while they were on top. We tried putting them on top of the robots and then driving it off really quickly for a bit of video, but even that didn’t work. We stopped that when Archer had his foot run over. He was fine, but didn’t want to go close to the robot after that. One thing that I found very strange is that they weren’t interested in the treats while they were at the office. Even when I tried to make them eat a few, they wouldn’t have any of it. It was a big adventure for the kitties, and me. We cuddled a lot afterwards as I worked on the games.
This lecture series I finished a while ago and never got around to posting about it since I was getting busy and distracted. I enjoyed most of what was said in this book. The series of books I’ve read have built up well, with logic, argumentation, and communication. There was a lot of repitition of concepts from the other books in this one, but it was taken in a new light. Instead of trying to win arguments you were trying to steer conversations. I like this approach much better than the previous ones, and I think it is more applicable in everyday situations. A lot of what is described can be summmarized as just talking to persons, not talking to people.
Friday night Jimmy, Riley, and David were hanging out at Beachhead. David was just moving in and the others were sitting around the living room smoking hookah. David’s stuff was everywhere, but the TV was set up and he had his PS3 going. It looked almost exactly like the previous setup. It was interesting to see Riley back at Beachhead since he is so against going anywhere.
Robert and I just put live the kickstarter campaign for the game we’ve been working on for the last 2 months.
Take a look and share it with your friends!
Friday afternoon I took a long bike ride to go fix the wall when I removed the mirrors. I found out that paint matching is a tough process, since you can’t bring the wall to the store very easily, and bringing samples to the wall doesn’t work very well. There are just too many samples to bring them all reasonably. I got lucky in that I was fixing a wall that I had ripped a few pieces out of, so I just took the wall pieces for matching. It was hard to find a really good match even with the wall piece there, but I got one that was really close. I went back and painted over the spots that I had already spackled over. Then I biked back to my place. The whole trip to nearly 3 hours and I had biked at least 25 miles on the trip at a good pace. I think I am finished with the things I need to do at 906, unless I want to go back for the Olives next week. It seems like it would be nice, but it would be a good chunk of time that I just don’t have right now.
I put a little bit of effort into personalizing my side tables, They turned out decently well.
One is a work in progress and will continue to get more and more on it. It is my sticker table. I expect to get a lot of stickers when going to PAX and I’ll put all of those on this table.
The other is the bottle caps table. I’ve been gathering these for a while. It is not finished either. Only the outer edge of the table is glued down. It is rainbow in color, and I can replace the duplicates as I drink more different beer.
Today I had dinner with my housemate, Randee. She is a really nice woman, and we talked about our jobs, our hobbies, and our habits. She is very down to earth, which is nice. We had some pasta and meatballs, as a simple dinner that can’t really be messed up, and isn’t terribly offensive to anyone. I got the ingredients at Milk Pail, so they were tasty and healthier (I hope). She brought over some sides, and a bottle of wine. We each only had half a glass of wine, and it was quite tasty. I think things will go well living with her upstairs.
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