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Still at castle zak, and zadnyl's birthday was busy. We drove up to Ithaca for the grand tour of the back sprawl of Cornell (aaaaaaaaaagh, nature! Hiking... though okay the waterfall and the salamanders were cool, but I really should have had more breakfast and some bike shorts under my skirt and shoes with actual treads before it) We ended it with a bit of ice cream at the Cornell dairy bar (I cheated and had a bit - my it was tasty).

We came home for actual lunch, and I spent a little time nonconsensually performing horrors upon zadnyl's boyfriend six ways from sunday in Tetris DS (I've gotten rather good at that apparently, plus I'm mean with the items - comes of playing with morlock), then went to Time Out at the local mall to play video games, where anzovin has discovered that he likes 1st person shooters, and I discovered that zadnyl's boy is one of those frightening people that's actually good at DDR. Heh. The rest of the family played stuff at the ticket machines and then gave it all to the birthday girl, who ended up with about 650 tickets for prizes. Then Chili's for dinner (C's mom under the influence of margarita is a funny funny thing), and then home for zadnyl's cupcakes iced with (fake) cream cheeze icing.

So right now, believe it or not I'm still working on digesting dinner and we're discussing what time we're all leaving. Meh... I really am kinda sorry we only come out here once a year, the Zakrzewski's is so much fun, not to mention it really is a rare thing to find folks that can have their daughter, her girl and her boy over and not only not blink but pretty much assimilate them into the clan. A true blessing indeed.

I need to go get some semblance of breakfast now.

Home again home again, niggity nigg

Ye gods, I had forgotten how miserable dial-up is. Oh well, it is better than no internets at all, in which case there would probably have been much with the fetal ball curling and whimpering... except I'm kinda too tired and hot to do even that much. Instead, here I sit, enjoying the dappled light of the setting sun (though I could do without the temperature, which is being somewhat mitigated by threeish fans going full blast) and trying not to melt into a small puddle.

Anyway, yes, dialup internets is kinda sad. Not nearly as sad as anzovin's DSL modem which sat blinking forlornly in search of signal since Thursday when the phones finally changed over. I finally put it out of its misery. Ah well. At least this is free, and free is good... definitely going to have to find some other option in the event that morlock succeeds in his quest to get me to play WoW, in which case I need double the RAM I have now anyway. but for indulging livejournal addictions, wikipedia, IM and email, this is fine.

The trip back was relatively uneventful, other than sundart and I getting into a tiff. Well not exactly it was more me getting upset with her because anzovin was clearly getting tired on the road and she's the only other person with a viable document that lets her operate a motor vehicle in our party (I haven't gotten my permit renewed yet) and she did fine driving at the end of the trip there, and yet she seemed more comfy with the idea of me taking over the wheel with my expired bit of paper and just about zero highway experience (freeways still scare me shitless, though due to this incident I find myself willing to brave them) rather than her driving because she's terrified of driving through tollbooths. This of course just boggled my mind. In the end anzovin stuck with it all the way home, but I was royally pissed with her the entire time, and somewhat resolved to be at least repermitted by the time we go to SIGGRAPH so I can do some of the driving there. But yeah, I guess I needed something to annoy myself into getting back into the driving project. I mean for fuck's sake, tollbooths aren't that scary... there's a reason you don't whip through them at 60mph, true... of course, even with my limited road experience I survived driving across the coolidge bridge during construction and across that horrid one lane temporary bridge they had on rt 5, so narrow spaces don't intimidate me. Cars whizzing along on an interstate, yes, but damn it, I was willing to do it today, even though the idea kinda made me sick to my stomach. I mean... I'm going to have to do it sometime, you know?

*sigh* I'm going to stop before this turns into another example of everyone else's hangups piss me off but mine must be pandered to pissfest. Anyway yes. The quest for license is back on.

And now HOLY CRAP I've been craving stuff that exists currently in my fridge. Lemonade. Cherry coke. O'soy. Time for a binge...