Just stuff
Jan. 29th, 2017 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicLots of people were out of the office attending AMS, so I had a nice productive week because there were no meetings and I was all alone and could just code code code. I think I would start to feel lonely if it were that way all the time, but it's nice when it happens.
Although current events are awful, I feel heartened to see so many people coming together to protest and oppose them. Of course I have lots of thoughts and feelings about the state of the world, but that's all the oomph I've got for talking about it.
Friday before last was Jerry's last day of work, because the company he was working for let all their contractors go. Which is somewhat disappointing, but he's got other things in the works and is not unhappy about taking some time off to focus on wedding prep. And it sounds like there's further turmoil happening there that he doesn't mind missing. We went out to dinner at Dae Gee with Bob & Jeff & Douglas that night, and it was nice to see them, since it had been a while.
We played Descent last Saturday and I made the crockpot chicken tikka masala again for everyone. Again I was happy with the flavor profile, but it was still basically soup. I have some fixes I'll try next time, like pureeing the onion, but if they don't pan out, I may have to abandon the recipe.
Thursday I went to the circus! The Phantom Circus at the Oriental Theater, down in Arvada, which I didn't even know was there. My friend Ronco (MIT, obvs) has taken up acrobatics the last few years, moved to Denver at some point, and posted on FB that he was performing, so I thought what the heck and went to see it. I really enjoyed it. It was mostly aerial acrobatics (silks, straps, hoops, trapeze, etc.), with a handful of other things like tumbling, fire-eating, belly-dancing, and sword dancing. The performances were all set to music and had cool video projected on the screen behind them. The show ran a bit long, partly because they had to change the rigging for each act. It could've stood to be tightened up, but I was definitely happy I went. And Ronco's act (partner acrobatics with straps) was amazing - one of the best!
We had a lovely bear dinner at Matt & Jason's last night, a belated birthday celebration for Jason. Tasty food, lots of good friends. Today was D&D (fought a dragon/displacer beast hybrid underwater), grocery shopping, putting off bills until tomorrow, that kind of thing.
Although current events are awful, I feel heartened to see so many people coming together to protest and oppose them. Of course I have lots of thoughts and feelings about the state of the world, but that's all the oomph I've got for talking about it.
Friday before last was Jerry's last day of work, because the company he was working for let all their contractors go. Which is somewhat disappointing, but he's got other things in the works and is not unhappy about taking some time off to focus on wedding prep. And it sounds like there's further turmoil happening there that he doesn't mind missing. We went out to dinner at Dae Gee with Bob & Jeff & Douglas that night, and it was nice to see them, since it had been a while.
We played Descent last Saturday and I made the crockpot chicken tikka masala again for everyone. Again I was happy with the flavor profile, but it was still basically soup. I have some fixes I'll try next time, like pureeing the onion, but if they don't pan out, I may have to abandon the recipe.
Thursday I went to the circus! The Phantom Circus at the Oriental Theater, down in Arvada, which I didn't even know was there. My friend Ronco (MIT, obvs) has taken up acrobatics the last few years, moved to Denver at some point, and posted on FB that he was performing, so I thought what the heck and went to see it. I really enjoyed it. It was mostly aerial acrobatics (silks, straps, hoops, trapeze, etc.), with a handful of other things like tumbling, fire-eating, belly-dancing, and sword dancing. The performances were all set to music and had cool video projected on the screen behind them. The show ran a bit long, partly because they had to change the rigging for each act. It could've stood to be tightened up, but I was definitely happy I went. And Ronco's act (partner acrobatics with straps) was amazing - one of the best!
We had a lovely bear dinner at Matt & Jason's last night, a belated birthday celebration for Jason. Tasty food, lots of good friends. Today was D&D (fought a dragon/displacer beast hybrid underwater), grocery shopping, putting off bills until tomorrow, that kind of thing.
