High Karate

Originally published at Sasha's Den of Iniquity. You can comment here or there.

Where to begin? This has been a pretty eventful week, all-told. On Wednesday Elizebeth and I finally got around to getting some new bookshelves from IKEA. (Big thanks to Jerry for the truckage.) Now I can put my gaming books and a big chunk of my other books out where people can actually see (and borrow) them.

Thursday and Friday at work were absolutely insane. It was the first real rain of the season and everyone who'd been putting off repairs wanted leaks patched at the same time. I also got my raise straightened out. 10% more than I started at 6 months ago, and in another 6 months I'll be due for another 8-10%.

Friday after work I didn't do much aside from shelve a few books, but I had some more of the pork chow fun from Wakano Ura. Just enough ginger and clove that my tongue was slightly numb by the end of the meal - perfect.

We had some more good food Saturday. We headed out to Trails with Jerry, Terry, and James. I continued my pork-flavored weekend by choosing the chops with apple sauce, which was as tasty as I could have asked for. Our plans to see The Prestige were foiled by a delayed start, and then when we went to see Borat, it was sold out for more than an hour.

Luckily we could smell horse shit from the parking lot of the theater so on a whim we headed over to Cal Expo for the horse racing. Harness racing, to be precise. We spent a few hours hanging around with degenerates and wagering on the ponies. I didn't win anything until I switched from my "Dumbest Name" strategy and bet $1 on Commence Fire in the last race. It was a blast, and you should join us when we go there again.

Today we wrapped it all up by heading out to get the wife some new shoes, a new filter for out HVAC and a small air cleaner for the apartment. I also picked up the new
GURPS Space
, which looks tasty so far.