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Apr. 18th, 2009 11:14 pmI went to a barbeque today where the main entertainment was beer pong (try to throw a ping pong ball into your opponent's cup of beer across a ping pong table or other lengthy surface - if you succeed, your opponent must drink the beer). I can tell I'm getting too old for these things because my primary thought was, that ball is bouncing all over the driveway and grass and then into the cups and someone has to drink out of them afterwards? Ew! Of course, the players were dipping the balls into cups of water between rounds but still, after a few rounds, those cups of water had all sorts of dirt and leaves and grass floating in them.
It was, as I suspected, a somewhat awkward occasion. Fun, but everyone there was either a grad student or recently graduated, and I only knew the hosts and one other family with a sixteen month old baby. Needless to say, I played with the babies a lot. But since I like playing with babies, it worked out okay, and it was an absolutely gorgeous day for a cookout.
I babysat in the evening, which involved a trip to the playground where I played catch with a five year old. After I put the kids to bed, I watched the Pirates game (played in the afternoon, but aired in the evening, for some reason). The Bucs kicked serious ass to win 10-0 against the Braves. This was the second game in the series and they had a shut-out yesterday as well. After watching Hockey for a while, where I can mostly follow the game but never can pick out the off-sides and icings and penalties, it's nice once in a while to sit back and watch a game that I mostly understand and can easily follow. Listening to the announcers took me back to childhood and listening to the game on the radio in the car on long drives.
And now I'm home again. It was a good day but very little was accomplished. In theory, I should go shopping tomorrow and do housework, etc. It remains to be seen if any of that gets done, or if I just spend another day lazing around.
It was, as I suspected, a somewhat awkward occasion. Fun, but everyone there was either a grad student or recently graduated, and I only knew the hosts and one other family with a sixteen month old baby. Needless to say, I played with the babies a lot. But since I like playing with babies, it worked out okay, and it was an absolutely gorgeous day for a cookout.
I babysat in the evening, which involved a trip to the playground where I played catch with a five year old. After I put the kids to bed, I watched the Pirates game (played in the afternoon, but aired in the evening, for some reason). The Bucs kicked serious ass to win 10-0 against the Braves. This was the second game in the series and they had a shut-out yesterday as well. After watching Hockey for a while, where I can mostly follow the game but never can pick out the off-sides and icings and penalties, it's nice once in a while to sit back and watch a game that I mostly understand and can easily follow. Listening to the announcers took me back to childhood and listening to the game on the radio in the car on long drives.
And now I'm home again. It was a good day but very little was accomplished. In theory, I should go shopping tomorrow and do housework, etc. It remains to be seen if any of that gets done, or if I just spend another day lazing around.
