my year, short short version

Once again, being encouraged to summarize myself in a sentence or two to people I haven't seen in a year or more forces clarity on some things.

Last year this happened and my dissatisfaction with my former job was made abundantly clear.

This year the summary is: moved to Boston in July, seems like my kind of town (old town/job inferior), wish I had a girlfriend, actively shopping to buy a house, lots of swing dancing lately.

Spring!

My mood has definitely been improved by experiencing four days of wonderful spring, and being out in them more than usual has been good too.

On the down side, it's Earth Day and my bicycle is broken. :-(

Carnival of lj

Thursday night through Monday morning in Pittsburgh during which I saw:
blk
chamois
cheerfulchaotic
devreux
genuinekfc
klari
mygrane
qiika
rehana
rmitz
rupes
sheenaqotj

And those are just the ones I remember because they're on my profile page.

Mobot was exciting because a new course record was set at 50.71 seconds, down from a previous 1:01.43 from 2004, which beat 2000's 1:14.90. Mobot is also still the premier event at which to see a good set of my geeky alumni friends for the first time for the weekend. Who wouldn't want to come out and see the robot races?

And then there was the ritual feasting. Thursday night mexican. Friday noon bbq. Friday night pizza and geek-classic junkfood. Saturday brunch. Saturday early-afternoon beers. Saturday hours-dourves. Saturday afternoon bbq. Saturday night leftover pizza from Friday. Sunday morning bulk pie. Sunday afternoon lovingly-homemade pie. Sunday afternoon beers. More pie, and misc snacking. Uf.

And of course there was the gaming. Bridge. Bohnanza. Settlers. Race for the Galaxy. Elfenland. And a couple more that were new to me which I forget.

It was a good vacation. :-)