Bay Area Christmas 2014

[Drunk Monk]

tg & DM have connected. You'll see us soon.

BTW, I gotz new digitz. iPhone 6 baybee! I'll be texting y'all my new # soon.

Greg, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, WellGo has this special pro online screening room function that won't register with my vimeo account. There are only two possible functions - play and pause. :x So I'm watchin it now on the Mac.

CF, no worries on the vimeo streaming - this film, while interesting to me, is way too involved for a DOOM screening. It's the new Tsui Hark and it would be much better viewed they way it was intended to be watching - in 3D on the big screen.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Depending on the day and the time, Bruce Lee might be an option. Just as long as Angus skips his Bobble Head.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Did it happen? Any casualties? Must everything be communicated in "hypotheticals" for legal reasons? I want details, dammit!

[Drunk Monk]

You can also deliver some stuff he has for me - the earheadspay, the iskywhay and the plosivesexay.

The earheadspay & the iskywhay received. Many thanks! DM officially pardons PPFY for his absence.

Greg stole the plosivesexay.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I'm still debating on the placement of the pics.

[Drunk Monk]

BTW, that CF Kahlua kept me up most of the night.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Okay, this happened on my Bay Trip but it's now been moved to gatherings so I don't know where to post this story.

A mutual friend of my mom's and DM's mom has now decided that it would be a good idea to come over to the Saratoga castle and take things while they are gone. On several occasions my parents have returned home to find this woman in the house. So, after decades of not doing it, my parents are now locking the front door. Damn.

This causes a tremendous problem in my world view. Whenever my mother has complained about stuff being stolen in the past (Book tapes,anyone?) I have just put it down to my mother's paranoia. Actual theft throws that all out of whack. I'm very disappointed that I can no longer dismiss my mother's theft claims out of hand. Curse you, LW!

[Drunk Monk]

wait....what? I can only think of one mutual friend of our moms. Her name begins with an L? It's someone I haven't seen in years and my mom is out-of-touch with. I grew up with her daughter. That's really weird.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

She has a daughter?!?!? Louise . . . .

[Drunk Monk]

Yep, that's her. She was a good friend of my mom's when I was in elementary school. Her daughter Patty is around my age, so we hung out a lot as kids. But I haven't heard from them at all in decades. I think my mom might have heard from her over the holidays. Trip out man. How the heck could your 'rents even tell that something was missing from their horde?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

There is this packed bookcase in the laundry room, one of two. Come on, everyone had two book cases in their laundry rooms.

I took a book out of the packed case, thinking this was the place books went to be forgotten.

When I talked to mom after returning from Los Angeles, she asked me if I had taken one of the books from the bookcase.

[Drunk Monk]

Strangely, I only have only one outstanding odd memory of Louise. She was always dieting and one time when we were visiting, we went to Taco Bell (note - this was long before my fascination with nachos - in fact, it was prior to the invention of the nacho bellgrande). She decided she wouldn't order anything. Instead she would just eat whatever we didn't eat. At that time, I just ate meat, and discarded all of the lettuce and tomatoes. She made some odd comment that I had provided her with a 'feast' and that memory has remained with me for way too long.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Just saw an article about people snapping pictures of a brand new product appearing on employees of a famous Cupertino Companies wrists before it's big launch date. Had to check the pictures to make sure it hadn't appeared at the party and I missed it.

[thatguy]

No fruity products on my person....

My team decided to go out for food for once and ended up at the Pho place in the Oaks (formerly the Potato Patch and a million other restaurants). There were a ton of trailers in the parking lot and I assumed they were for contractors for some construction project in the declining mall, but no, I saw on Facebook (the "you know you're from cupertino" group) that they are filming a Steve Jobs biopic and using the Flint Center that right now, so we walked over after lunch just as the extras were all told to go back to the trailers and drop off their props and break for lunch. We took a group shot in front with all the old-style Apple banners hanging on the Flint center and then walking back, I think I saw Seth Rogan (Steve Wozniak) being driven in an SUV back to the trailers at the Oaks. Weird...

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[Drunk Monk]

...and saw a billboard posted on the stoplight that said "Be in a movie" or something to that effect, pointing towards Apple.

Rogen as Woz just does not work for me. I've met Woz a few times. He was a regular at MQ6 whenever we had discount tickets.