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Yesterday was a long day. Spent the morning cleaning up the house a bit (I am very happy we picked up an air conditioner for the computer room on Friday), then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tpau and I picked up kromagg and doozer4200 from the train station. We all went to a Brandeis friend's engagement party, which was a nice chance to catch up with various people who live far away. The event itself was very tasteful, although it reminded me oddly of a mini-wedding, with a cake-cutting and toasts, etc. I'm not sure if all engagement parties are like that, but I sort of got the impression that their families wanted to make sure they got all the traditional elements they wanted done now, in case the couple decided to elope or something.
Anyway, thence we droppeddoozer4200 and kromagg at Riverside and headed over the Dorchester for the Buttery Birthday Party. That was a lot of fun, and I spent much of the party playing for the first time Cosmic Encounter (the mindbending basis for most modern simple-rules-which-are-broken-by-various-cards games) and XXXenophile (although I've played The Works, which is a streamlined version of the same thing). Oddly, when we abandoned the latter game at 1am it turned out that we were the last people left at the party, a realization that surprised me given the usual Buttery party-until-the-next-morning sort of style. It may be that our circle is now sufficiently responsible to not do that anymore. I hope it's just a fluke.
After that we went home and collapsed. A very fun day.
tpau and I picked up kromagg and doozer4200 from the train station. We all went to a Brandeis friend's engagement party, which was a nice chance to catch up with various people who live far away. The event itself was very tasteful, although it reminded me oddly of a mini-wedding, with a cake-cutting and toasts, etc. I'm not sure if all engagement parties are like that, but I sort of got the impression that their families wanted to make sure they got all the traditional elements they wanted done now, in case the couple decided to elope or something.Anyway, thence we dropped
doozer4200 and kromagg at Riverside and headed over the Dorchester for the Buttery Birthday Party. That was a lot of fun, and I spent much of the party playing for the first time Cosmic Encounter (the mindbending basis for most modern simple-rules-which-are-broken-by-various-cards games) and XXXenophile (although I've played The Works, which is a streamlined version of the same thing). Oddly, when we abandoned the latter game at 1am it turned out that we were the last people left at the party, a realization that surprised me given the usual Buttery party-until-the-next-morning sort of style. It may be that our circle is now sufficiently responsible to not do that anymore. I hope it's just a fluke.After that we went home and collapsed. A very fun day.
