hey, how are you? long time no see. how was your thanksgiving? yeah? glad to hear it. mine was filled with familial warmfuzziness, maybe a bit too much wine, some tekken tag tournament on my brother’s playstation 2, and yes, hepkitten, with pie. three kinds, even! normally the mere thought of such ritual clan gatherings, especially those lumped under the horrific heading of ‘the holidays’, is enough to fill me with the direst of dread. but this year wasn’t that bad - everyone seemed significantly less stressy and self-conscious than they usually are. my aunt, upon whom the burden of orchestrating the event fell, was a little frazzled but even she seemed to at least be able to enjoy the bountiful feast she prepared. and bountiful it was - the sheer quantity of tubers that died for our pleasure is awe-inspiring, to say the least. i’m not even going to mention the yams.

jim and i ventured out to batcave on saturday. i had intended to wear my new geek shirt, but i ended up being in more of a vinyl mood. and when the vinyl begins its siren song, there’s just no denying it. i ended up spending more time at the downstairs dancefloor than i usually do - while i’m not a fan of his, hellraver’s spinning wasn’t half bad. after getting immediately and thoroughly drunk, i danced till closing and had a damn good time. also livening up the evening was the fact that two members of depeche mode - andy and martin - were present for the night’s festivities, which threw the promoter into a positive tizzy and resulted in all three dj’s playing an absolutely obscene quantity of depeche. not that i’m complaining - i got to hear some mixes and covers and older songs that aren’t played as much.

sunday passed in bouts of napping and gaming. lots of tekken 3 on my part, while jim was consumed with a star-trek-related title he acquired last week. i now have fully developed playstation thumb callouses, heh. and i have word from the boy that our household will soon have another addition - a little baby dreamcast to call our own.

my apartment is slowly undergoing a remarkable metamorphosis - spencer came over last night to pick up the last of his stuff that he wanted to save. there’s a lot of trash that needs to be gotten rid of, and i have to finish fixing up the bedroom, but my place is actually getting to be rather homey. the kitchen is usable, the table accessible, the tv functional. we’ve got multiple machines [and multiple operating systems] going in the bedroom and a hefty stack of technical books just waiting for some shelving [it's on my list].

um… so yeah. right.