For Dad’s birthday we went out to dinner at Goin’ Coastal. It had a very California feeling to it, but many of the places close to Piedmont Park have that feeling. The food was pretty good, but I realized while looking at the menu; I’m not really a fan of seafood. The thing I like most about seafood restaurants is that they usually have really tasty rolls.
One of the things I helped my dad with was getting his Corvette smog tested. There were all sorts of issues that we had to overcome. First was the driveway. There was a large angle at the top of the driveway that made the bottom of the Corvette scrape pretty badly. We got 2×6’s so that we could put them under the tires as it went over that little bump. When we first went to get it out the battery was dead. That meant that the data on the computer wasn’t there for the smog test, and we had to reset the computer. To do the reset, Jeff and I took the Corvette out for about a 60 mile drive. He had to go through a full routine of acceleration, deceleration, and restarting the car. It took a couple of hours and Jeff had lots of fun with it.
Nick, Kim, and I drove up to Jekyl Brewery in Alpharetta to meet up with Chris and Chelsea. We had some beer at the brewery and had a good tour of it. They had a large Jenga set made of 2×4’s set up. We got it on some really precarious base, and Nick ended up knocking it over.
After that we went to the closeby La Parilla for dinner. During dinner I got a call from Steph about Leopold missing since the plumber came into the apartment. She ended up finding Leopold, but he was really upset by the incident.
Jeff and Leslie came over around 11:15 Christmas morning and we started opening presents. There were lots of great presents to go around, and I got some really nice ones. Jeff game me a really nice messenger bag that has a battery in it for charging devices. I got lots of the things I had asked for as well. Kim got me a really nice fedora. Mom and dad got me some books, socks, gloves, shoes, and other useful things. We had a big dinner and the food was delicious. Like any good holiday dinner there was way too much food and a good bit of leftovers for eating over the following days. We played some Cards Against Humanity, since I had gotten the rest of the set for Jeff. As expected Dad really liked the game, and Mom was appalled at some of the answers. Mom still liked it more than expected. After that, Jeff and Leslie left. I then got my parents and Kim to play some of the games I had made. They had some good feedback.
This was a really nice alternative look at Ender’s Game. I really like the character Bean, and did in the original book as well. I’m looking forward to reading more about him in the next books.
Dad, Mom, and I went to the Ru San’s near little 5. We stopped by the Best Buy beforehand. Kim joined us, but Jeff and Lesley weren’t able to. Dad was strange and said I could only order one thing, so I ordered a three course dinner with a huge sushi plate as the third course. It was all tasty, and dad picked at the first two courses. I ate all of it and I really liked it.
I had a nice walk to lunch with Brian and Brittany. We ate burgers at a place called Farm Burger, that gets lots of it’s food from local sources. I got some tasty sweet potato fries, and they got some homemade root beer. We went back to my parent’s place and I showed them my Thailand photos. Brian and Brittany were kind enough to try out my game. They seemed to like it and I’ll have to push it out more widely once I get a little bit further in the game development.
This was a good Diskworld book. I prefer the other’s I’ve ready, but I’m still to run across a Diskworld book I don’t like. The story in this was a bit more coherent, with more of a point and purpose. I think that took away from it a bit, with the writing style not lending itself to serious stories well. I’m going to wait for a while before continuing on the Diskworld books, and it will be nice.
This was a pretty good movie, and they went way off the path of the book in this one. I was a little upset at how small a part Beorn played, but I suppose he doesn’t really fit in too much to the rest of the story, or the Middle Earth mythos. I hope they still have him as one of the epic fighters in the final battle sequence. I really like the parts they added in with Gandalf, as it is really cool to see a lot more of something that was only vaguely referred to in the book. I went with Jeff and his friends, and enjoyed the experience.
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