Got to hang out a fair bit with Ulysses and Carol - I'd been missing them, it was good to get back in touch. We had an impromptu reading party with selections from A Primate's Memoir and the Character of Cats and played Scrabble - house rules being use of the OED as the standard, but no obsolete or archaic words allowed. Highlight of the game was the challenge of WERE by a somewhat cold-befuddled player. "It's a prefix!" Carol won, of course - I have a kick-ass vocabulary but tend to get caught up in making cool words with low point values; Carol is a master at making squares of multiple words for upwards of 50 points or so. I refuse to memorize lists of words or word-stems, so I'll never be more than a 'living-room' player. Then we watched some Monty Python because the 'splunge' skit had come up during play, and a couple of us had not seen that particular episode.
Talking computer shit with Ulysses reminded me that I've been reading a book on Data Communications at work (hey, at least it's vaguely work related; moreso than some) and really enjoying it. Makes me wonder if I shouldn't give the whole programming thing a miss and see how I like the hardware end of things. Not that I really have to do one or the other right this minute...
Now it's time for another exciting work day - relieved only by a dental appointment in the afternoon. Teeth cleaning and the presentation of my proposed course of treatment - including (I hope) how many zillions of dollars I'm going to be spending on crowns.
