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[stormdog]

I went to karaoke last night with wooisme to meet up with mocha_mephooki, his partner, and a friend of his. I'd like to see more of Mocha, so I thought I'd take the presented opportunity. Unfortunately, it did not go so well as I might have hoped. Andrea asked on the way home if I'd had a good time. After a couple of abortive attempts at the beginning of an answer, I finally just said 'no'. It wasn't anybody's fault; It's just too loud and smoky for me in a place like a karaoke bar. The earplugs I wore actually helped a great deal and I was ok staying inside at first. Then the smoke got worse, and I decided I had to go. I was thinking about driving around Milwaukee at night and taking some pictures, but instead I ended up lying down in the back of the truck and sleeping for three hours. It was fun to see Mocha and Zanny for a bit, but I have to admit that I'd be better off just passing on the event next time. There are a few things that I would enjoy singing if I ever did karaoke, but it would have to a different environment for to be able to sing them. Someday though, I would kind of like to go to an event like this in a smoke-free bar (not that there are any) in Boystown in Chicago. I kept thinking that that would be lots of fun.

I was planning to go out to Bristol for the last day of faire with my sweetie, where we were to meet up with posicat, tybis, jimcyl, and daveqat. However, I'm still feeling a little bit sick from the smoke, and I'm kind of peopled out. I wish I could go and get flirted with by the gorgeous man who braided my hair last year, or by Felix, or by megmoves if she's there, but I have to be much more on top of my game than I feel right now to enjoy flirting. That makes me a little sad, but that's the way it is.

Instead, I'm going to do the finishing touches on the front porch, clean up the living room (it's full of debris from yesterday's cleaning), possibly sort through tech in the basement and put stuff for the upcoming tech-swap on the porch now that I have it clear as a staging area, and possibly even down my server, clean it (it's seriously dusty on the front and I can only imagine what the inside looks like), and install the 20/40GB DAT drive. Maybe I'll go over by my parents place and drop off the old 500Mhz laptop that I prepped with Windows XP and AVG anti-virus to give to my dad for one of his students who can't afford one. I may end up relieving myself of some older PIII desktops via that channel too. It would please me to see them going to people who really need them and can use them, since by the time I ever got around to setting up a test lab as I'd been planning, the things will be even more obsolete than they already are. I just need to see if I can get a tax write off for them....

And later on tonight, I'll see the aforementioned group for dinner at Little Europe on the highway, so I'll at least get to see them for a while. I miss Dave and Jim and don't get to see them as much as I'd like. And, almost as good as seeing friends again would be the chance to have another cream cheese blintz or two.... *woofs*