Procrastination reconciliation

* rain_herself's birthday weekend was pretty close to ideal. (Since I don't think I mentioned it here: Happy birthday, Andrea! Love you!) Plans to hit the beach were scrapped on account of didn't wanna, but we had shrimp scampi and fettuccine Alfredo and too much wine and cake and cookies that she baked because birthday that's why, which we ate while cuddling on the couch and enjoying a Commercial Sex Transactions for Better or Worse Film Festival (that'd be Pretty Woman followed by Wayne Wang's The Center of the World, a.k.a. Bizarro Pretty Woman). On Sunday for her birthday proper we hit Bocado, the local tapas place (courtesy of Chaos), and engaged in more couch citizenship largely because the couch is right under the AC window unit. Good times!

* Speaking of international food options, we finally found a triple-threat Thai carryout place in Worcester that is (a) cheap, (b) tasty, and (c) on the way home from work (essential in a town that doesn't believe in non-pizza delivery). On the downside, their Web menu has what has to be the most unfortunate typo I've ever witnessed:

Chicken Steamed Dumpling $4.95
Minced chicken with onion and scallion raped with flour serve with ginger sauce

Um. Really, thanks, guys, but I'm just looking for some noodles, not a Dusan Makavejev movie. (Oh, for Crying out loud, Adam, when your snotty film references get so obscure that even you don't actually get them without an IMDb lookup, it's time to quit. Sorry. *sigh*)

* CNBC filmed an interview in my building the other day, close enough to my desk that we couldn't use the photocopier for a half-hour. I gave serious consideration to screaming, "NO! NOT THE TASER AGAIN! I'LL BE GOOD! I PROMISE! AIEEEEE!"

* Don't promise me rain if you're not going to deliver. That's a warning, meteorologists.

Missed it by that much

I just realized that yesterday was my 12-year LJ-iversary. (!!!) Ye gods, I can't think of anything else I've done for 12 years with relative consistency, give or take an apathy year or so. I've blather-wanked here on many occasions about how LJ has Changed My Life, so I'll spare you all this go-around, but I'm trying to recall who my first LJ friends were (without hitting the comment sections of the early ones, which would be cheating) and my brain is cramping. I know no-longer-here Odhierre was the very first because he was my one real-life chum who was already on here, and I remember kimberly_a and spoothbrush were fairly early on as well, but let me open the question up: When did we meet, assuming we met here in Bloggyland? And while we're at it, how did your LJ stint begin?

Meanwhile, I've got a three-day weekend burning a hole in my pocket. Gonna finish up with work and hit the pavement, if'n you don't mind. Ciao.