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weekend of the two minute, 8 dollar taxi ride

The weekend was pretty good.  I hung out with Nathan and Leah at their new place on Friday where we spent most of our time playing "Wise or Otherwise".  It's pretty much like Balderdash except all the statements begin with something like, "There's an old Danish saying that when the butcher is out of meat..." and you have to complete the sentence with something convincing enough that everyone thinks your answer is correct.  Well, the ends of these statements were all so crazy that after a while it was just more fun to see who could come up with the most ridiculous answer.  I think the end of my example phrase was something like "... bacon and eggs are just as good."  What?  Isn't bacon a meat?  I think even the guys answers involving their private parts were better than that.  Anyway, it was a good time.

Saturday I had double friend duty.  A house party in Wentzville/O'Fallon, followed by Michael's birthday drunkenness in the Loop, specifically Cicero's and the Pin-Up Bowl.  Probably my favorite part of the evening was sitting in the little lounge area at the Pin-Up watching this guy through the window. 



He spent the majority of the night dancing there right outside the window and trying to get the attention of people both inside and out.  Right after I took this picture he kept pointing at me and shouting something (I think).  I would have taken a picture of that, but I didn't want to egg him on anymore than I already had.

Once outside, Sarah took this picture of us that I think is pretty good.  We had my camera on the snow setting so it was able to capture the snowflakes as they fell.



Aw... pretty.  Although, I wish the pictures didn't look so grainy when I size them smaller.  How do I fix that anyway?  Do I just use a smaller resolution when I take them in the first place?  The original takes up most of the monitor I think. 

Good times were had by all, and it was back to work yesterday.  I dislike my job more and more by the day, and yet I just found out that I got "Successful" on my rating.  Too bad that doesn't mean that I get a raise.  If I knew a good rating meant better pay I'd probably work so hard that they'd have to create a category called "Super Awesome" just for me.  But no.  If The Man is content with what he's paying me, then I'm content with spending a large part of my day trying to keep my head off of my desk.  Whatev.

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