But it was fun! This long weekend was filled with food and fun and very much a lack of workiness (take that Stephen Colbert!). Friday night I helped Diane unpack several of her boxes and got her setup so she could actually stay her first night at her new place. Saturday, we headed to Rob Holte's games party which was a lot of fun. There's a new Ticket to Ride game that is, in my opinion, the best in the series! And there's a new blockus game that I rather enjoyed as well.

On Sunday, my family went to Heritage days which was packed this year. They are saying it was record attendance, and I'm really not surprised. The weather was fantabulous and there was a bazillion people out to take in the different cultures of our very multicultural city. Unfortunately, I had two major complaints about the food. First, the food was way too damn expensive to really make me feel comfortable paying to sample. Second, the portions were too large for us to sample many different tastes! The whole idea (I thought) was to offer tastes of the different cultures so you could wander around and taste something from many different booths. But not only could we not afford to do that (at an average ticket price of 5 tickets, with each ticket worth almost $1), there's no way one person could eat that much food! *sigh*.

I ended up not eating very much and let most of the tickets go to the other family members who ate quite a bit. Afterwards, we went to my Aunt's place for dinner where we enjoyed some crab *and* lobster. Sweeeeet! This particular night was very odd because there was games being played. I honestly can't remember a time when I felt more comfortable at my Aunt's place because I was able to do something. We played some frustration rummy and then a poker game broke out that was pretty entertaining. My Uncle Kong is pretty funny when he plays poker even though he doesn't really know how to play.

Yesterday was a rather full day. My mom and dad picked Diane and I up and we went down to Ikea to shop for a bed frame for me and some bookshelves for Diane. I found myself a nice bed frame that wasn't too expensive so I got that. Afterwards, we stopped at memory express to get some computer parts for Diane's new computer. It took a little while, but then we went to my Uncle Kong's place where we had another big BBQ. Mmmm ... food!

Afterwards my mom dropped Diane and I and our day's purchases at my place and I put together Diane's computer. I had forgotten how much fun it was to put together a new computer ... it is oddly entertaining, I'm not too sure why! Maybe that comes from my geeky side.

Today I got quite a bit done on my thesis. Its starting to take some shape, but its really got a ways to go yet before its ready to submit. Hopefully I can make some strides to get the bulk of the writing done in the coming couple weeks. I don't think I have much hope to graduate for this deadline, but if I get as much done as possible, I'll be in good shape to perhaps add some value to my thesis or contribute to the poker group some more!

Heraldk