I sent my phone in for repairs earlier this month, and it was quite the experience getting by without it. If I couldn’t text/call from my computer I’d’ve been in a much tougher spot. But it was nice to disconnect from everything when my laptop closed.
I delayed sending my phone in as long as I could so I could take pics at the fair, but the unfortunate consequence is that I couldn’t take any at the Lindsey Stirling / Evanescence concert. Thankfully Mary’s phone filled in.
First some preambles. Earlier last this month Mary and I went to a married friend’s place to have dinner and play Joker’s Wild, a.k.a. Jokers and Marbles a.k.a. Pegs and Jokers. He built his own board and I’ve been itching to play for over a year. They trounced us the first round but we came back and took home the win in the second.
On a Saturday Mary and I went on a double-date with my old roommate Michael Shomler and his new girlfriend (and now fiancée…). We went to Subway and swapped “origin” stories, then went to Value Village to buy something silly for the other couple.
Then we busted out some paper and fuzz balls to play Poor Man’s Joker’s Wild under the gazebo.
So that was fun.
I interrupt this regularly organized post with some random goings-on.
…And back to the titular events.
We went to the fair!
So that was a ton of fun. The other big thing was the Lindsey Stirling / Evanescence concert! We figured we’d get there just before it started, at 7pm. By 6:45 we were about a mile away from the venue. We parked around 8:30pm. It. was. insane. Those country roads were not designed to handle the influx in vehicles, and I feel very sorry for anyone who was just trying to drive through that mess.
But the concert was great! As I said earlier, at this point my phone was in for repairs so I fell back to using Mary’s phone.
All up I think we spent like seven hours in the car that evening. Phew.
Other random happenings included a triple-date where we played Settlers of Catan and had bagel-bites
Randomly went to Mary’s ten-year high school reunion at a brewery.
Acted as ushers for the President Nelson visit.
Had a Latin night this last Friday. I made up for not dancing by helping to heat up some food and do dishes afterwards.
The next day I went on a day trip with Mary to the Columbia River Temple, about 3.5 hours’ drive east. Made it to the 2pm session, then did a bit of sight seeing before having dinner at Mary’s friend’s place, after which we played a round each of Resistance and Dominion. Got back around 12:30am.
Yesterday I had dinner at Mary’s folks’ place, as they were pretty exhausted looking after their grandkids while the parents were off to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding.
And that catches me up to now where I’m still at work. We’ve hit a few snags that’ll make my life annoying for the next while. No chance of running out of things to do around here, though, that’s for sure.
Cannot wait for Thanksgiving! I’d love to hike Donut Falls and then have lunch/dinner at Silver Fork like we did that one time. But whatever goes down it’ll be awesome. See ya then!