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A Full Driveway

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I had quite a few friends over last night. We all came together to play Rock Band 2. Anthony (Codex) brought Andrew (Trewr). I had to pick up Tim, so I got a chance to use the GPS on my phone. Renee was holding it and it worked like a charm. It said “destination arrived” when we were exactly in front of his house. I know that’s what it is supposed to do, but I am always surprised when things work that way. Derek came over after work.

We played Rock Band 2 almost the entire night. There are so many songs to choose from. We ended up trying to do every song that everyone had to do. Everyone has a song some where in that game that they just have to do. Derek has to do a Coheed and Cambria song. Anthony had to do a Disturbed song. I needed to do something from the early 90’s. Jo doesn’t even play and he needed us to do “Girls on Film” by Duran Duran.

It was some fun. We had plenty to eat. We had pizza, beer, and chips. I ordered the pizza using Google 411, which is a free service where you call the number and you put in the zip code where you are and then you can ask for a specific business or you can get suggestions by saying something like “pizza”. It’s pretty neat I think everyone should try it just for fun. I know that there are new home phones that are coming out that actually have a button for the Google 411.

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Cooking

I have been trying to make waffles with some advice from Rick’s mom. Not Rick, like Rombus, but Rick who we usually call Private Rick, so we can keep them apart. We have three or four Tim’s so that gets more complicated.

Back to trying to cook waffles. I got myself a waffle iron from Target, because Wal-Mart doesn’t sell waffle irons that would be worth it, and every other place is ridiculously expensive, so I got that. Then Rick’s mom told me to get pancake mix from the grocery store, but you have to get the one with waffle mix recipe. I got a generic box, because while I’m practicing I don’t want to ruin anything expensive. I have everything I need, but I keep managing to screw it up.

Some day I want to get good enough that I can make blueberry waffles and maybe ones with apples. I think you can use muffin mix as well, but I think that’s too sweet. Plus it feels like cheating.

Speaking of cooking…

Renee can cook. She made chicken and shrimp burritos. They were fantastic. There was also a fried rice and cheese side. She even bought all the ingredients. I have been able to give her a hard time and tease her about being able to cook, but now she actually did and it was awesome. Even better? There are leftovers in the fridge so I can have another one tomorrow.

LAN Party

I went to a LAN over at a friend of Jo’s house. It’s a really nice house on the west side of Akron. He lives at the end of a circle and that creates ample parking space as you can just line cars up in front of his house along the circle.

Tim, Codex, Jo, Trewr, Renee and I were there. There were of course Jo’s friend and his friends. Everyone seemed pretty cool.

We played some pretty old games, which was fine, because I brought my laptop, and honestly have no intention of ever lugging my desktop over there. The games were fun, but I’m absolutely horrible at most of them. I’m really out of practice with those sorts of things.

I guess he holds these once a month so I’ll be sure to go again next time.