I'm doing science and I'm still alive
May. 13th, 2010 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geekchickWell, not so much with the science, but I am still alive to the best of my knowledge.
So what's been up? There was the Cheesecake Factory birthday outing wherein we managed to give the manager a bit of a heart attack by coming in with a group of 14 at 7:30 PM on a Saturday. Worked out pretty well though; we waited for far shorter a time than I would've expected. The up-until-now-traditional trip to Malibu Grill was discontinued due to skepticism over recent reviews the place has gotten since it was bought and half the restaurant was converted to a Chinese restaurant. o_O Sounds like service has gone way downhill from its already middle-of-the-road levels. Anyhoo, I am now the owner of a coupon that gets me twelve half-price dinners at Texas de Brazil in Fair Oaks, so I may just propose a "stuff yourself with meat or a decent salad bar dinner" outing soonish.
I've been really enjoying one of my birthday presents: a Sony Reader Touch Edition. I wasn't sure how much I'd really want to read on it given that reading long blocks of text on a screen is usually tiring for me. The E-Ink display is actually really nice; I've been able to read for several hours at a time without any problem. It's been a pleasant surprise. Backlighting might be nice, but it's plenty usable even without.
Speaking of which, I've been working my way through the contents of the Hugo Voter's Packet; I read Boneshaker, The City & The City, and Palimpsest when they came out, and now I've gotten through The Windup Girl, The God Engines and The Women of Nell Gwynne's. Now, will I remember to vote this year?
My present to myself was a used Nikon D50 DSLR. I haven't had much chance to really play around with it yet, but I hope to get around to wading through the manual shortly.
Current obsession: Echo Bazaar, a browser-based game which I was introduced to by @matociquala and @ArachneJericho's Twitter posts. It's crazy addictive. Right,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
datagoddess? ;) I am "geekchick, a [sic] intriguing and devious lady" over there.
So what's been up? There was the Cheesecake Factory birthday outing wherein we managed to give the manager a bit of a heart attack by coming in with a group of 14 at 7:30 PM on a Saturday. Worked out pretty well though; we waited for far shorter a time than I would've expected. The up-until-now-traditional trip to Malibu Grill was discontinued due to skepticism over recent reviews the place has gotten since it was bought and half the restaurant was converted to a Chinese restaurant. o_O Sounds like service has gone way downhill from its already middle-of-the-road levels. Anyhoo, I am now the owner of a coupon that gets me twelve half-price dinners at Texas de Brazil in Fair Oaks, so I may just propose a "stuff yourself with meat or a decent salad bar dinner" outing soonish.
I've been really enjoying one of my birthday presents: a Sony Reader Touch Edition. I wasn't sure how much I'd really want to read on it given that reading long blocks of text on a screen is usually tiring for me. The E-Ink display is actually really nice; I've been able to read for several hours at a time without any problem. It's been a pleasant surprise. Backlighting might be nice, but it's plenty usable even without.
Speaking of which, I've been working my way through the contents of the Hugo Voter's Packet; I read Boneshaker, The City & The City, and Palimpsest when they came out, and now I've gotten through The Windup Girl, The God Engines and The Women of Nell Gwynne's. Now, will I remember to vote this year?
My present to myself was a used Nikon D50 DSLR. I haven't had much chance to really play around with it yet, but I hope to get around to wading through the manual shortly.
Current obsession: Echo Bazaar, a browser-based game which I was introduced to by @matociquala and @ArachneJericho's Twitter posts. It's crazy addictive. Right,
datagoddess? ;) I am "geekchick, a [sic] intriguing and devious lady" over there.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2010-05-13 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-14 12:46 am (UTC)Sorry
Date: 2010-05-14 04:52 pm (UTC)With everything going on over the last couple of months my head has been either in the sand or off.
I'll have to see about coming out to make it up to you this summer.