Mosque, New Kitty, Movies, Friends
Feb. 20th, 2017 08:48 pmNow it's *three* weeks to catch up on, bad me. But really it's only been the weekends, so we'll pretend it's just a week.
So back on Saturday the 4th we went to lunch at Domo with Stu, which was tasty as always, even low-carbing it. I paid a visit to Grandma that afternoon, and then afterwards Jerry and I went to an open house at a mosque over in Northglenn. I had heard about it from the Inclusivity Board, and we figured it would be good to show up and be supportive. Which it was; they were very appreciative, and we learned some stuff (mosque architecture!) and we helped people feel safer and more welcome just by showing up and saying hi, and that was nice. Plus they were very appreciative of Monkey's beard. :)
Then on Sunday, we drove to Kansas and back! My Mom had called me up and said "do you want another cat?" Because they have three, and a fourth had shown up and adopted them, and four is Too Many (especially for traveling around, as they're now doing now that Larry's hip replacement is all done). We weren't particularly in the market, but we had a friend who'd expressed potential interest, and we figured we could be the backup in case it didn't work out with the friend, and even if it didn't work out with us, it would be much easier for us to find him a new home here in the Denver area than it would be for them to in Middle of Nowhere, Nebraska.
So we headed out early and drove to St. Francis, Kansas, which is about halfway, and met them there for lunch, which gave us a nice chance to visit and catch up. Then we transferred the kitty from their carrier to ours, turned around, and drove back home.
That Tuesday evening, the friend came over to meet the kitty, and after a good visit, concluded (reluctantly) that although he's a very nice cat, he wasn't quite the right cat, and that more importantly, now was not the right time. Which was a bit disappointing for our friend, but okay by us because it meant that we then were able to stop trying not to bond with him, and now we have a new kitty!
He's a soft and floofy gray kitty with a white chest patch. Fairly burly, and still fairly rambunctious because he's only a year and a half old. Although attitude-wise, he's super mellow. Basically nothing upsets or alarms him. He's also very talkative -- he chirps and squeaks at us all the time. Two weeks on, he's starting to get along with the other kitties. He's perfectly content with them and keen to be friends, although they get tired of him from time to time and we put him back in the library when it seems like the playfulness is starting to look more like harassment. His name is Panthro, and he is a very sweet boy (when he's not being a pill).
Let's see, then I had an Inclusivity Board meeting on Wednesday the 8th, and we both went to Games Night at Chris's on Thursday. We played a couple rounds of Nefarious (the mad scientist game) and then a nifty and unusual game called Kodama, which involves placing cards to grow a tree and scoring points based on whether the configuration matches the requirements of different nature spirits.
(Okay, so there was a lot of weekday stuff, too.)
We had Bear D&D on Sunday the 12th, in which we did lots and lots of planning and then fought a 20th-level spellcaster Great Wyrm red dragon. High-level D&D play is weird; we had a bajillion buffs up and crazy things going on like polymorphing everyone in the party to change our types so that she couldn't use anti-humanoid magic on us. But it paid off -- we beat her! Apparently we are getting close to the end of the campaign; hopefully we'll ding 20th level before we get there.
Things more back to normal this last week; just lots of work, mostly, getting things to run fast on the supercomputers. Saturday we went and saw Rogue One finally, which we both enjoyed. The theater was nowhere near as empty as we expected -- there are still plenty of people going to see it! Last night we watched Ant-Man on DVD, which we also liked quite a bit. The two things I really like about the Marvel superhero movies are that, first, they aren't afraid to have fun with them, and second, that they're comfortable mixing in other genres, so that it's not all superhero action all the time. Ant-Man is about 50% a heist movie, and a funny one at that. It's a shame we'll never get to see what Edgar Wright would have directed, but at least we got the script that he and Joe Cornish wrote.
And then today Van (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pink_halen) came over for a visit. We went to a coffeeshop nearby and hung out, chatting, for several hours, then had dinner at Wishbone. It had been too long since we'd seen him, so it was nice to catch up.
So back on Saturday the 4th we went to lunch at Domo with Stu, which was tasty as always, even low-carbing it. I paid a visit to Grandma that afternoon, and then afterwards Jerry and I went to an open house at a mosque over in Northglenn. I had heard about it from the Inclusivity Board, and we figured it would be good to show up and be supportive. Which it was; they were very appreciative, and we learned some stuff (mosque architecture!) and we helped people feel safer and more welcome just by showing up and saying hi, and that was nice. Plus they were very appreciative of Monkey's beard. :)
Then on Sunday, we drove to Kansas and back! My Mom had called me up and said "do you want another cat?" Because they have three, and a fourth had shown up and adopted them, and four is Too Many (especially for traveling around, as they're now doing now that Larry's hip replacement is all done). We weren't particularly in the market, but we had a friend who'd expressed potential interest, and we figured we could be the backup in case it didn't work out with the friend, and even if it didn't work out with us, it would be much easier for us to find him a new home here in the Denver area than it would be for them to in Middle of Nowhere, Nebraska.
So we headed out early and drove to St. Francis, Kansas, which is about halfway, and met them there for lunch, which gave us a nice chance to visit and catch up. Then we transferred the kitty from their carrier to ours, turned around, and drove back home.
That Tuesday evening, the friend came over to meet the kitty, and after a good visit, concluded (reluctantly) that although he's a very nice cat, he wasn't quite the right cat, and that more importantly, now was not the right time. Which was a bit disappointing for our friend, but okay by us because it meant that we then were able to stop trying not to bond with him, and now we have a new kitty!
He's a soft and floofy gray kitty with a white chest patch. Fairly burly, and still fairly rambunctious because he's only a year and a half old. Although attitude-wise, he's super mellow. Basically nothing upsets or alarms him. He's also very talkative -- he chirps and squeaks at us all the time. Two weeks on, he's starting to get along with the other kitties. He's perfectly content with them and keen to be friends, although they get tired of him from time to time and we put him back in the library when it seems like the playfulness is starting to look more like harassment. His name is Panthro, and he is a very sweet boy (when he's not being a pill).
Let's see, then I had an Inclusivity Board meeting on Wednesday the 8th, and we both went to Games Night at Chris's on Thursday. We played a couple rounds of Nefarious (the mad scientist game) and then a nifty and unusual game called Kodama, which involves placing cards to grow a tree and scoring points based on whether the configuration matches the requirements of different nature spirits.
(Okay, so there was a lot of weekday stuff, too.)
We had Bear D&D on Sunday the 12th, in which we did lots and lots of planning and then fought a 20th-level spellcaster Great Wyrm red dragon. High-level D&D play is weird; we had a bajillion buffs up and crazy things going on like polymorphing everyone in the party to change our types so that she couldn't use anti-humanoid magic on us. But it paid off -- we beat her! Apparently we are getting close to the end of the campaign; hopefully we'll ding 20th level before we get there.
Things more back to normal this last week; just lots of work, mostly, getting things to run fast on the supercomputers. Saturday we went and saw Rogue One finally, which we both enjoyed. The theater was nowhere near as empty as we expected -- there are still plenty of people going to see it! Last night we watched Ant-Man on DVD, which we also liked quite a bit. The two things I really like about the Marvel superhero movies are that, first, they aren't afraid to have fun with them, and second, that they're comfortable mixing in other genres, so that it's not all superhero action all the time. Ant-Man is about 50% a heist movie, and a funny one at that. It's a shame we'll never get to see what Edgar Wright would have directed, but at least we got the script that he and Joe Cornish wrote.
And then today Van (
pink_halen) came over for a visit. We went to a coffeeshop nearby and hung out, chatting, for several hours, then had dinner at Wishbone. It had been too long since we'd seen him, so it was nice to catch up.
