Life Continues

Weekly recap!


Last weekend was my family getaway extravaganza, starting the day after the previously mentioned S&D, which I've been informed made Todd a smooth $800 (and not a ton of people showed up either, it was mostly family and some friends)
Anyways, the parents picked me up in their nice shiny new car, and it was a smooth ride over to Chatham, which is now referred to as 'the land that time forgot' which is very understandable once you drive through there.. it's not a very happening place. Lots of small, old buildings, and old people. Speaking of old people, we had the reunion thing at my grandpa's retirement village and oh man.. I hope I never get old.

Lots of very, very old people walking around with lots of noting to do. We had it outside, which was nice, because there's a big sitting area next to a fenced in garden and the river is just down the hill.. very nice scenery. And the weather was nice too. So after hanging around there for a few hours munching on snacks and troubleshooting my aunt's laptop (more on that later) I came to the conclusion that old people lead very simple (or boring) lives.

Lots of them kept wandering out slowly.. they'd go walk around (or get pushed) the garden area and then disappear back inside. And there was this one lady that just kept coming back, from one direction or the other.. it was like every 20 mins she'd walk by, maybe go through the garden, then wander off somewhere else. This went on for the whole several hours we were there. And when we were cooking up the burgers on the residential barbecue (that had an empty tank, the wrong size burner, and a guard that actually stopped to burner from working, till we pulled it off) she walked past and looked at the table with all the burger buns still in their bags and said something like "oooh, don't those look good!" before wandering off again. Maybe she hadn't seen bread for years or something, I don't know. Something to look forward to someday, I guess :|

Anyways, about my aunt. She knows nothing about computers, so she bought this laptop based on the fact that the guy at the store said it would take the memory card from her camera (she even told him what camera) and just let her move the pictures over. So she goes for it, and now here I am with it and she wants me to show her how to do it. For anyone who's ever read any story anywhere along these lines, you can guess what happened. The guy at the store was probably just guessing, because the laptop DID have a 4-in-1 card reader built into it... too bad there are like 6 kinds of cards out there, and my aunt's camera uses one of the other 2. So she was gonna go yell at the store or something, oh well.. not my problem anymore!

Afterward, it was off to my cousin's stag and doe which, amazingly enough, was remarkably similar to the one I had been to the day before. Except this one was in a smaller hall, the music was too Lund, and a whole bunch of young (as in not middle aged) people showed up and got drunk. (not much else to do around there I guess) Anyways, I had already had my fill of stag and does when I got there, so it was a less than exciting night. I bet they made a killing off those drunk people though.

Afterwards, we went back to my uncle's place, slept there and came back the next morning. We were hungry when we got to London, so we went out for lunch at Wit's End, the little pub we always go to for no apparent reason. Food is good and pretty cheaply priced though, so I'm not complaining or anything.

Since then it's been pretty uneventful.. I bought some groceries.. cleaned up the place a bit.. and went to work for a few days. I've also got myself hooked on Guild Wars and am enjoying it, so if anyone reading this plays or wants to start, contact me in some way for more info. It's good times, if you like RPGs and stuff.

And so ends another glorious chapter of the world.