2 Bit Hacker

So, another birthday come and gone. Nothing terribly eventful this year. Delia gave me a tool bag along with an RJ-45 crimper and a Cat5 stripper, so I can finally make my own cables without having to use tools at work. She also picked up a business card holder for my desk at work, and some additional coasters for the apartment.

I’ve also been on a bit of a spending spree lately, picking up some new shoes from Zappos (online shoe buying is so much easier than offline), a new mouse and laptop AC/DC adapter from Woot, and a new 2007 Toyota Prius which should arrive on Monday or Tuesday.

Well, I’m officially a year older now. My birthday was on Saturday, and I woke up to find a cryptic note on my chair; the start of a scavanger hunt of sorts around Manchester. Delia set it up for me, running around Manchester finding clues, eventually leading to her and a bunch of friends down by the river behind UNHM. I’ll be scanning the hints at some point and putting them in my gallery sometime soon. From the river, we went over to Bickford’s for breakfast, then the group broke up, since lithiumlilly had to go to work, and angry_amy had some other things to attend to. So the remaining group (myself, Delia, Dan, Dave, and Tim) made our way down to the Loop to catch Spider-Man 2 with a bunch of FoR. This was my second time seeing it, as we caught the 11:59 showing on Tuesday, when it opened as well. It’s a great movie, as good as the first one, and certainly among the best comic book movies ever (X-Men being the only other good series that comes to mind.)

After the movie we wandered back to my apartment to play some SC2 before wandering off to dinner at La Carreta, perhaps the best Mexican food place in the area. Then we caught some of the fireworks, and went back to my place to play Apples to Apples until far into the night. Oh, and somewhere in there Matt gave me a call, which was cool, since I hadn’t heard from him in a while. Overall, I think the day went very well, and I’m still amazed at how much Delia did for me. It’s certainly the best birthday I’ve had in recent memory.

Oh right, the booty list: Delia got me DVD’s of The Two Towers and Invader Zim, a ton of red pens, a bunch of graph paper (my favorite kind of paper), a fishie (from last month, but he’s still a birthday gift), and some other stuff once she finds it. Amanda gave me a gorilla keychain with an LED in the mouth that lights up. Dan claims my gift isn’t here yet. Tim or Amanda (I’m sure one of them will correct me if I’m wrong) gave me a Dogma inaction figure of Silent Bob wielding a golf club. absinthexl and shiftless put together a poster of p4t images, which is really cool, I should get it framed. My grandma and grandpa Nixon sent some money, as did my mom and Ralph. My dad is making me drive out there to get my gift. I think that’s everything, but I’m sure I’m forgetting something or someone, I always do.

On with the weekend. On Sunday, Delia and I went to her aunt and uncle’s house in New Boston for breakfast and to watch the parade. We hung out there for a bit before heading over to kyotemusings’s house for a party. There was a lot of food (which I ate too much of), and a lot of drink (which I drank very little of) and we managed to get some new people to play Apples to Apples. We left kindof early from there and met up with darkenna and theglitterfades for dinner at Denny’s (a Sunday night tradition) before finally wandering home to collapse.

Just writing to wish Delia a Happy Birthday! We went out to see Kill Bill: Vol. 2 last night after a dinner with some of her family and friends at Shorty’s. Today it looks like we’ll be having lunch at Bickford’s with some more of her friends, then wandering over to get her a car stereo (a fancy MP3 playing one, no less) then onward to go play games at The Dan’s house. A good time will be had by all (or else.)