Wherein Harry uses the "Certainly!" away message again

We can always count on Steph to do something when I put it up:

(21:15:31) Sol Invictus171: make me cookies!
(21:15:31) Tavgfrg <AUTO-REPLY>: Certainly!
(21:15:34) Sol Invictus171: yipee!

This is probably the most interesting one I've gotten so far:

(22:18:38) mikey068: in my opinion, the infested terran is a completely useless unit in any melee game ... due to their nature of being kamikazi units, you would need large numbers of them in order to do any damage whatsoever, and given the rarity of getting even one infested command center and the cost and time needed to produce just one lowly infested terran, massing any large quantity of them seems improbable. i mean, if you are able to get close enough to a player to bring their command center into the red zone, infest it with a queen, lift it off and fly out of there, it probably means that you're kicking their ass anyways. in fact, their only redeeming quality is the fact that they can burrow, which makes for rather nasty traps when an unsuspecting land unit crosses, but that hardly justifies using them ... do you agree?
(22:18:38) Sniffnoy <AUTO-REPLY>: Certainly!

Several weeks ago I saw a car whose license plate read "MJOLNIR".

-Sniffnoy

Surprise is a good thing

I'm putting on my clothes today, and I hear voices outside. My mom, and... Nick? And Jeremy? And Kevin? Well, yes. The garage opens. "Harry, you dressed?" my mom calls. "No!" I shout back, quickly grabbing a shirt and coming down. "Harry, you're coming bike-riding with us," says Nick. "...OK."

Of course, in order to do that, we have to

1. Open the bike shed. Now, I should note here that my mom used to force me to go out and ride my bike every now and then so I would actually get some exercise. However, there would always be a first one of the season, when the bike shed had not been opened in quite some time, and you didn't know what you would find inside. Usually just lots of spiders and their egg sacs, but once I opened it to find a hive of yellow jackets and two stings on my body. My dad had to go in and bug-spray it. So I was understandably nervous about opening it, especially as I'm not really a big fan of spiderweb either. But, I opened it, and not even spiders were there. Yay.

2. "Wasn't there something about the bike having a flat tire?" Mom still tried to make me get out occasionally in the past few years. Last time, though, the bike had a flat tire, and, well, we just left it at that. So we had to put air in the tires. Problem was, the pump itself was leaky. Some duct tape, though, took care of most of that. And off we went.

I should note that my bike is, by most people's standards, too small. It's several years old, after all, and that's a large "several". Still, it is, strictly speaking, usable, so I did.

And so we rode around, and we picked up Pavel, and we went to the playground at Coleman and tried all the equipment designed for people half our size (swings still work fine, though :D ), and then we got Ben, whose mom gave me a water bottle (I hadn't thought to bring one, at first... but now I realize how useful they are. I also relearned the importance of the gearshift.), and we rode into Fair Lawn and got ice cream, and then stopped at the gas station nearby to *really* refill my tires (the air is free! I had no idea) and then Ben and Jeremy left, and we went to go get Mike, and we stopped at his house for a while, and then Kevin left and the four remaining of us came back to my house and we started a game of Crimelords (finally!) which didn't work too well because I decided that, for once, I didn't want to explain all the rules beforehand, which resulted in much confusion, and we were playing on the dinner table, too, so dinner came and we decided to just stop the game (it would probably be good if we actually knew how to play, but as it was, it was kind of bleh), and everyone else left.

So today was very yay.

I came up with the title of this entry after writing the above, and then, of course, I remembered what happened yesterday: surprise birthday party for petmar! Unfortunately, I misread my map and arrived just a bit too late for the surprise. :P Others arrived much too late. :P We played a game of Puerto Rico, where Harry left during the middle. His strategy is always the same - monopolize corn - so we were able to play for him on autopilot after he left. :P He actually ended up coming in second. :P (Nick won with 59 points.) I don't really remember enough to write a whole entry about it, though.

So the past two days were very yay.

-Sniffnoy