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I took Friday off to go to the Friends School Plant Sale with iraunink. We got a rhododendron, some hosta, a couple of daylilies, a bunch of marigolds, some basil, and a mint. She's trying to get a bunch of that in the ground today - the rhododendron is apparently seriously root-bound, so she's dealing with that.

Don & Margo are moving to Washington state, leaving later this week. We'll miss them - they've been our Thursday night dinner companions for many years now. Saturday he came over for games - we were joined by Pat B., John S., David & Erin, and Peer. Don, Peer & I played a game of Quarriors while waiting for everyone else to show up, then we played RoboRally. It was fun, if longer than we initially planned. We declared Peer the winner. Margo came over before we were done, but after she was done playing duplicate bridge - we ordered Chinese delivered for dinner.

As previously mentioned, iraunink is planting today. She's currently off trying to find her notebook - she thinks she maybe left it at the Baker's Square she had lunch at yesterday. I'm doing laundry and will be doing dishes later.

pgdudda, sevenmpls, quility, trochai and I were playing Corsari at the Minn-StF Pool Party. A discussion of MMORPGs came up.

pgdudda tried to pronounce MMORPG. It came out something like MORE PORG.

My reply was "I will have to call them Ankhs from now on.

I got several confused looks. quility said, "Angsts?". "No, Ankhs - A N K H."

There was a pause of several seconds.

And then much groaning. And congratulations, and claiming that it had to go up on LJ, Facebook, and Diaspora.

( Explanation, in case you haven't figured it out yet )

ETA: put in forgotten LJ handle

Monday I agreed to temporarily work the graveyard shift. This is Tuesday through Saturday, 10pm to 8:30am, except Wednesday I start at 12:00am Thursday. This is until he gets more head-count, so he can hire people who want a graveyard shift. This could be anywhere between a couple of weeks, and around late May.

I'll have to get a new watch - I'll need one has day-of-the-week on it. I know this from past experience - graveyard shift rapidly destroys all my sense of what day it is, and it will take me years to recover - it took somewhere between 10 and 15 years last time.

Wednesday was gaming - we rescued a bunch of IB's, but not all of them, and two of the three big bad guys got away. Along with a number of their nefarious experiments.

Thursday we went to Thanksgiving at Don & Margo's (WANOLJ). Also in attendance were fmsv, cowfan, jolest, Jeanne, Gin, Julie, and Deanna (WAANOLJ).

Friday we made Turkey with 4+ Heads of Garlic. A 13 lb. bird, put about 2/3rds of the garlic inside and the rest outside, rubbed down with olive oil, sprinkled with thyme, kosher salt, and fresh-ground black pepper. Baked until it was falling-off-the-bones. We ate 2/3rds of a baguette, cut in about 1/4" slices, liberally smeared with the roasted garlic; and the drumsticks and thighs. The rest went into the refrigerator or freezer to be left-over turkey or stock-starter.

Then we went to ambartil's birthday party, where much fun was had by all. (Hey, ambartil - you promised to update your bio!)

I bought the DriveThruRPG Gamers-for-Haiti bundle last Friday. I got an e-mail Tuesday that it was available for download now.

I started in on it yesterday afternoon, and finished earlier this afternoon. 201 items, about 2.5gb of data. Wheee! I'll be a while going through it!