...but what is a birthday without a party?
Nov. 9th, 2003 04:02 pmI ought to be working, or at least studying, right now. I have both a QFYC due tomorrow and a history test tomorrow, along with some more minor stuff. I should have had more time, but Thursday and Friday I was away looking at colleges, and Saturday is what I'm about to describe.
Wake up, get dressed, etc, etc, go to SHP. Find out that it's hard to prove things when you're not sure what your definitions are. Or, more accurately, it's easy to prove them, it's just hard to be sure that your proof is not circular.
Go to math team. ARML Power thingy is today (rather, yesterday). Jae isn't there, we do it anyway. Then there's an ATPAC. Whoo-ee.
Get home. Read paper, go on computer, check webcomics, etc. Get bored. Listen to episode 11 of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Right about when the ending credits are beginning...
Joe arrives, slightly early, although mom thinks he is Max, having met neither of them. I finish playing the ending credits and suggest Chu-Chu Rocket. He doesn't know the game. I turn on the system, and, as I'm explaining, Peter arrives. Unfortunately, while controllers 1 and 2 have enough room from the console to be useful, 3 and 4 are hopelessly tangled up. Meanwhile mom calls me upstairs and insists that I put away the clothes on my bed. When I get back downstairs, I find that Peter and Joe and Peter have decided the best way to untangle these is to unplug them and start from the plug end. Peter asks how they got so tangled. I tell him that it's simply their natural state - whether it's low energy or high entropy or what, I don't know, but they seem to do it spontaneously. They want to be tangled. About now Mickey arrives, and we finally untangle them all and start actually playing a 3-point match. During the game, Max gets here and so does Kevin. We then play again, with Max and Kevin now in and I forget who out. We keep playing, and, eventually, Mike arrives. Going upstairs to greet him, I see that it is now 7:20 - we've been playing Chu-Chu Rocket for nearly an hour! After playing a bit more, we're interrupted for dinner. I explain to Max about cow magnets. The Chu-Chu Rocket game is paused, but when we get downstairs, we turn off the system and finally decide to do something else - specifically, those who have not yet seen the Chu-Chu Rocket commercial definitely need to! I can't figure out how to put xine on repeat, so I just add it to the playlist n times instead. TSUBABABABA! Hm... after not being able to decide what to do - Illuminati is suggested, but that would take too long, plus we have 7 people - so is playing SoC in teams (!), but we eventually just end up playing Chrononauts. After 2 games, we disorganize, and, after a while, decide to have a YDKJ tournament, but are interrupted by birthday brownies (I don't like cake). After the eating of the brownies, we all end up upstairs. We decide to play volume 4. Joe complains that this isn't even really "real Jack", but 7 questions is too short and we don't have time to do a whole bunch of 21 question games. First game is Mickey vs Peter vs Max; Mickey wins. Then me vs Mike, which I win. Finally Joe vs Kevin, but Kevin has to go then, so Max takes his place for a second chance, and wins. For the final game, though, we decide to play a different one, and a 21 question game of it. I say volume 2; Mickey says volume 3; Max says volume 2. Volume 2 it is. However, we have less than the required time until 11:30. Mickey's leaving later anyway, and I live here, but Max is leaving with Mike at 11:30. Joe offers to drive Max home instead; this is agreed to, and so we play one last game, during which at 11:30 Mike and Peter leave, and also during which I correctly answer a gibberish question "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with absolutely no hints. I'm slightly behind Max most of the game, but manage to pull ahead at the end and the Jack Attack places me definitely in first. We all get on the highscore board, but, as the host points out, this is because it is, currently, empty. (Funny, I was sure the game was already installed on that computer, but apparently not.) Finally, Joe, Max, and Mickey all leave, and I clean up.
I remain on the computer until well past midnight, and finally go to sleep, which is really obvious, as my parents certainly will not let me stay up all night, especially what with all the work I have to do tomorrow (today). And that's what I'm doing now. Well, no, right now I'm writing this, but mostly...
-Sniffnoy
--
"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to
understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language
devised for telling one another when the best fruit is."
-Terry Pratchett, AFP
Wake up, get dressed, etc, etc, go to SHP. Find out that it's hard to prove things when you're not sure what your definitions are. Or, more accurately, it's easy to prove them, it's just hard to be sure that your proof is not circular.
Go to math team. ARML Power thingy is today (rather, yesterday). Jae isn't there, we do it anyway. Then there's an ATPAC. Whoo-ee.
Get home. Read paper, go on computer, check webcomics, etc. Get bored. Listen to episode 11 of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Right about when the ending credits are beginning...
Joe arrives, slightly early, although mom thinks he is Max, having met neither of them. I finish playing the ending credits and suggest Chu-Chu Rocket. He doesn't know the game. I turn on the system, and, as I'm explaining, Peter arrives. Unfortunately, while controllers 1 and 2 have enough room from the console to be useful, 3 and 4 are hopelessly tangled up. Meanwhile mom calls me upstairs and insists that I put away the clothes on my bed. When I get back downstairs, I find that Peter and Joe and Peter have decided the best way to untangle these is to unplug them and start from the plug end. Peter asks how they got so tangled. I tell him that it's simply their natural state - whether it's low energy or high entropy or what, I don't know, but they seem to do it spontaneously. They want to be tangled. About now Mickey arrives, and we finally untangle them all and start actually playing a 3-point match. During the game, Max gets here and so does Kevin. We then play again, with Max and Kevin now in and I forget who out. We keep playing, and, eventually, Mike arrives. Going upstairs to greet him, I see that it is now 7:20 - we've been playing Chu-Chu Rocket for nearly an hour! After playing a bit more, we're interrupted for dinner. I explain to Max about cow magnets. The Chu-Chu Rocket game is paused, but when we get downstairs, we turn off the system and finally decide to do something else - specifically, those who have not yet seen the Chu-Chu Rocket commercial definitely need to! I can't figure out how to put xine on repeat, so I just add it to the playlist n times instead. TSUBABABABA! Hm... after not being able to decide what to do - Illuminati is suggested, but that would take too long, plus we have 7 people - so is playing SoC in teams (!), but we eventually just end up playing Chrononauts. After 2 games, we disorganize, and, after a while, decide to have a YDKJ tournament, but are interrupted by birthday brownies (I don't like cake). After the eating of the brownies, we all end up upstairs. We decide to play volume 4. Joe complains that this isn't even really "real Jack", but 7 questions is too short and we don't have time to do a whole bunch of 21 question games. First game is Mickey vs Peter vs Max; Mickey wins. Then me vs Mike, which I win. Finally Joe vs Kevin, but Kevin has to go then, so Max takes his place for a second chance, and wins. For the final game, though, we decide to play a different one, and a 21 question game of it. I say volume 2; Mickey says volume 3; Max says volume 2. Volume 2 it is. However, we have less than the required time until 11:30. Mickey's leaving later anyway, and I live here, but Max is leaving with Mike at 11:30. Joe offers to drive Max home instead; this is agreed to, and so we play one last game, during which at 11:30 Mike and Peter leave, and also during which I correctly answer a gibberish question "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with absolutely no hints. I'm slightly behind Max most of the game, but manage to pull ahead at the end and the Jack Attack places me definitely in first. We all get on the highscore board, but, as the host points out, this is because it is, currently, empty. (Funny, I was sure the game was already installed on that computer, but apparently not.) Finally, Joe, Max, and Mickey all leave, and I clean up.
I remain on the computer until well past midnight, and finally go to sleep, which is really obvious, as my parents certainly will not let me stay up all night, especially what with all the work I have to do tomorrow (today). And that's what I'm doing now. Well, no, right now I'm writing this, but mostly...
-Sniffnoy
--
"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to
understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language
devised for telling one another when the best fruit is."
-Terry Pratchett, AFP
