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May. 18th, 2015 11:12 amOn Thursday last week, I spent a few hours visiting in-town friends Todd and Serinthia. We played a game of Power Grid with my new expansion board (Benelux on one side, which we played with, and central Europe on the other), and watched a few more episodes of Star Wars: Rebels (is that what's it's called?). It was nice seeing them after most of a semester without.
Yesterday, I biked the fifteen miles up to Racine (the next town north) to visit a bike shop and get some lunch at one of my favorite Chinese restaurants. They are now serving Mexican as well as Chinese, oddly enough, but the hot and sour soup was still wonderful. It's the major part of why I go; it's some of the best hot and sour soup I've had.
While in Racine, I met up with Dwarf (a long-time family friend) who had lunch with me. Then we walked around downtown Racine talking about land use and development. He's a real estate appraiser and has interesting things to say about how Racine and Kenosha deal with their zoning and development plans. I hadn't spent social time with Dwarf in quite a while, despite that my brother games with he and other friends every Friday so that was really nice.
In not as positive news, after biking the fifteen miles home, I found an email from Dwarf saying that another framily friend, G, was in the hospital here in Kenosha. Dwarf had come down to Kenosha to give him a ride there. After making sure he was settled in, Dwarf came over to the house and picked up most of us here to go visit. G has an upper GI bleed, which he thinks might be caused by his sleep apnea combined with not being able to use his CPAP machine due to a broken mask. He should be getting released today if the endoscopy doesn't show anything very problematic, and he and Dwarf might come by and visit some more.
G was looking pretty good in the hospital, and my mother, brother, and I all hung out there for an hour and a half or so, chatting about all the random things we chat about. I'd brought one of my "This Machine Kills Sprawl" bumper stickers with to show him, and he appreciated the references. He knows an amazing amount of stuff, so I was not surprised that he made the Woody Guthrie connection.
Finally visiting hours ended. We dropped my mother off at home, and the rest of us went out for food. I was getting quite hungry again, which I guess isn't surprising since Fitbit says I used about 1600 calories during my ride. We tried a newish Thai place, Saigon Cafe, that I'd heard good things about, but it was closed at nine o' clock on a Sunday so we went to a Chinese restaurant, Panda, instead. I'm glad we went there. It's an establishment that has been there as long as I can remember. I used to go by it every day when I was on my way to high school and it's at an intersection I travel through all the time, so I can picture the place perfectly in my head. It's kind of a Kenosha fixture. Yet I'd never actually been inside it. It turns out they are closing the place and moving, too, so I'm glad I went when I had the chance. (They're combining with another restaurant they own, they told us. The other restaurant happened to be the place we tried to go first that evening! It's going to be called Saigon Panda. *grins*)
Anyway, we all went home where I met up with my friend M. I met her through the former housemate who was hit by a car and killed on his bicycle years back. It was great to catch up with her a bit; she's doing an accelerated teacher education program over the Summer and hopes to become a teacher; yay! The four of us plus my mother played several games of Coup and Zombie Fluxx before midnight when most folks went off to bed. M and I chatted for a while longer, but I finally went to bed about one in the morning.
I hope more of my Summer is like this. But without the involvement of hospitals. Hopefully we'll hear from G and Dwarf soon on that....
Yesterday, I biked the fifteen miles up to Racine (the next town north) to visit a bike shop and get some lunch at one of my favorite Chinese restaurants. They are now serving Mexican as well as Chinese, oddly enough, but the hot and sour soup was still wonderful. It's the major part of why I go; it's some of the best hot and sour soup I've had.
While in Racine, I met up with Dwarf (a long-time family friend) who had lunch with me. Then we walked around downtown Racine talking about land use and development. He's a real estate appraiser and has interesting things to say about how Racine and Kenosha deal with their zoning and development plans. I hadn't spent social time with Dwarf in quite a while, despite that my brother games with he and other friends every Friday so that was really nice.
In not as positive news, after biking the fifteen miles home, I found an email from Dwarf saying that another framily friend, G, was in the hospital here in Kenosha. Dwarf had come down to Kenosha to give him a ride there. After making sure he was settled in, Dwarf came over to the house and picked up most of us here to go visit. G has an upper GI bleed, which he thinks might be caused by his sleep apnea combined with not being able to use his CPAP machine due to a broken mask. He should be getting released today if the endoscopy doesn't show anything very problematic, and he and Dwarf might come by and visit some more.
G was looking pretty good in the hospital, and my mother, brother, and I all hung out there for an hour and a half or so, chatting about all the random things we chat about. I'd brought one of my "This Machine Kills Sprawl" bumper stickers with to show him, and he appreciated the references. He knows an amazing amount of stuff, so I was not surprised that he made the Woody Guthrie connection.
Finally visiting hours ended. We dropped my mother off at home, and the rest of us went out for food. I was getting quite hungry again, which I guess isn't surprising since Fitbit says I used about 1600 calories during my ride. We tried a newish Thai place, Saigon Cafe, that I'd heard good things about, but it was closed at nine o' clock on a Sunday so we went to a Chinese restaurant, Panda, instead. I'm glad we went there. It's an establishment that has been there as long as I can remember. I used to go by it every day when I was on my way to high school and it's at an intersection I travel through all the time, so I can picture the place perfectly in my head. It's kind of a Kenosha fixture. Yet I'd never actually been inside it. It turns out they are closing the place and moving, too, so I'm glad I went when I had the chance. (They're combining with another restaurant they own, they told us. The other restaurant happened to be the place we tried to go first that evening! It's going to be called Saigon Panda. *grins*)
Anyway, we all went home where I met up with my friend M. I met her through the former housemate who was hit by a car and killed on his bicycle years back. It was great to catch up with her a bit; she's doing an accelerated teacher education program over the Summer and hopes to become a teacher; yay! The four of us plus my mother played several games of Coup and Zombie Fluxx before midnight when most folks went off to bed. M and I chatted for a while longer, but I finally went to bed about one in the morning.
I hope more of my Summer is like this. But without the involvement of hospitals. Hopefully we'll hear from G and Dwarf soon on that....
