Leah picked up Brandy and two others at the airport last night and then drove them to Decatur for dinner. Our first choice was the Brick Store Pub - but it was Friday night and damn, we just weren’t up for waiting 45 minutes - so… we walked across the square and since they were in the mood for thai food, we stopped at Siam (which is alright Americanized thai food - however, they could at least turn up the heat a few notches - I asked for my red curry chicken to be spicy… I got taco bell mild.)
Still, dinner was good and it’s always nice to talk and have some conversation with visitors from Phoenix.
We did pass by where I think Wordsmith’s Books is moving to (?) on the corner of the square and last night they had a ummm… Harry Potter Gathering… well, actually it was a performance by these two - a Wizard Rock-Super-Group named Accio Bodyguard. Which may reference something HP but having never read ANY of the books - I have no idea - but it was still nice to witness geeky fandom happening.
When I got to my car after dinner - I thought about going back and sitting in on the group - but then I realized… I’m into geeky fandoms - but I’m just not… I’ve never read ANY of the books so I can’t really justify this. Plus - it was close to the end of their show anyways. So I went home and did homework.
AND I talked to some people in China. Thanks to our friend MelissaMaples.com who let us know about LiveMocha.com - a language learning website with the skype/myspace communication component thrown in - we signed up and people from China have been adding us as friends - well last night I ‘typed’ for a while with two guys, one living in Wuxi just north of Shanghai, and the other just north of Hong Kong - I need a headset/mic so that it’s not just typing and I can actually learn how to speak mandarin - of course… I need to go through the actual lessons they have and get some basics brushed up and learned. But still… it sounds promising - like everything else, it’ll just take the time to do the stuff. Obviously, we’ll see.
Leah made an awesome pizza the other night. See?
And now - my newest favorite show is coming back on for the 2nd season on July 10th - Burn Notice.
It’s so awesomely great - like a summer paperback - what other show has spies, guns, spies, and actually TEACHES you stuff - like how to build bombs, tactics, AND it has Bruce Campbell - From Evil Dead I, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness - AND the Adventures of Brisco County Junior! (And also Spiderman I) - And ANY show that has him just has to rock ya know?But I really do learn so much from this show - much more than I ever learned from Sesame Street.
They have answers to questions like:
How do I break out of prison, in say, Turkmenistan?
It’s Saturday and we’re checking out IKEA because there’s never a bad time to check out IKEA.
