The end of Happy Week.

[lance_sibley]

I seem to have made it through eight days with something to post about every day. Who'd've thunk it?

Today we had our Polaris holiday gathering. It was small, because of the bad weather (while I was waiting for a bus, there were times when I couldn't see the stoplights one block to the west - not just the housing of the stoplights, the lights themselves), but the 20 or so who showed up had a lot of fun.

The gathering was an afternoon of bowling - this might be the first time I've ever bowled four games in a single day, not to mention seven in a weekend. My legs are going to be killing me tomorrow. I did manage not to embarrass myself too badly - after all, I'm expected to be good at this game. (No pressure.) Though I think bnddbl07 managed to beat me in one game, and Declan almost beat me in another. (My excuse is that the lanes hadn't been oiled, and I'm sticking to that. :P )

Because we went to the same bowling alley where I have my Friday night league, and my league has a Sunday session as well, there were several people there whom I know. They all thought I was there to bowl off for some future date. (And apparently I wasn't the only one having trouble with the lanes today - one guy, whose average is something like 195, bowled a 136 in his first game.) Only a couple of people came over and said hi (on their way to the washrooms, presumably), saving me from more "Lance knows everyone" cracks.

Afterwards, a smaller group of us went to Swiss Chalet across the street for dinner. (That's a chicken-and-ribs place, for my non-Canadian friends.)

I got home to find a voicemail from my father - it's been decided that he, my mother and I are going to get together for lunch next Saturday to exchange Christmas gifts. Which reminds me, I still have to wrap theirs... I'll probably do that on Friday night. ;)

And the third thing that made me happy today was finding that I'd gotten an email from Eric - I'm meeting his family tomorrow night. *gulp* Wish me luck. :)

I suspect that I'll be told to work from home tomorrow, given the weather we had this weekend. I certainly hope that my remote access will be set up - I don't want to spend another 5 hours in transit like I did on Friday. But just in case, I should probably get to bed early tonight...

Comments

[jag-trek.livejournal.com]

uh oh! meeting the parents!!!!

You will be great.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just finished chatting with them - they're very nice, and I think they liked me. We'll see what Eric reports later. :)

[gnumoose.livejournal.com]

hey I know Swiss Chalet. Boston Pizza. Pizza Pizza. Tim Hortons. Metro. Roots.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I would be shocked if you didn't recognize it. Though you're faster than me to adapt to the name "Metro" - I still call it "Dominion" about half the time. :)

(I have to admit, though, that I had always assumed that Boston Pizza was an American chain. If there were a chain called "Chicago Pizza", OTOH, I would assume that it was a Canadian chain specializing in deep-dish pizza.)