Smarter Than the Average Squirrel

Happy Christmas Eve to all those on my flist who celebrate!

The past few days have been super awesome. thesecondbatgirl came to visit and occupied my couch all weekend, during which time we drank a bunch of wine, ate a bunch of junk food, hung out with all the rest of my favorite nerds, played D&D, engaged in an epic 5-hour marathon game of Cards Against Humanity, watched Carranger until it threatened to break our brains, managed to find ACTUALFAX SUPER MEGAFORCE TOYS on sale at the Toys R Us, exchanged gifts, and outlined what will ultimately become about 50,000 words worth of a very large and profoundly self-indulgent AU fanfic.

And it was good.

El Husbando and I exchanged gifts early, mainly because I got him a Nintendo 3DS and have reason to believe that his family will be getting him games for it. Since we're going to see them this afternoon, it would make very little sense to give him games without giving him the system for it first. So he's now happily puttering with his 3DS, while I happily putter with my own new toy.

You guys, Xyc got me a NEW LAPTOP for Christmas. BEST HUSBAND. BEST.

New Laptop, from which I am presently posting, is a shiny happy Asus with a huge keyboard that I'm still getting used to, and I've decided to name him Tensou. After I get all my files and whatnot transferred over, Pippin the Epileptic Laptop will take a well-earned retirement after nearly five years of faithful service.

Now if I could just get motivated to set down and write my Alpha fic, all would be right with the world.

Two things learned from the weekend:

1) Don't go to gaming cons when you're not a gamer.
2) Nerds throw the best parties.

Basically, the entire reason this happened was because a very old and presently Boston-dwelling friend of mine decided to gift the Yeti and I PAX passes for Christmas and offered up her house for us to crash at. To make a long story short: Biggest fucking con ever. HORDES of nerds the likes of which I've never seen before. Custom-painting D&D minis and playing vintage arcade games = fun. Burning all my spoons by hustling through crowds and hanging around with a bunch of people I don't know = tiring. And as I said, I'm not a gamer, so a lot of what was going on didn't hold my interest. Xyc entered a Magic: The Gathering tournament and had a blast, though, so I suppose overall it was a worthwhile endeavor. And then there was a spectacularly bitchin' afterparty that involved a disco basement, the worst video games I've ever seen, horse masks, giant foam hands, cornhole, guys rubbing butts, obscure British drinking games, a booty-drop competition, and me being a classy mofo by not only killing an entire bottle of cheap terrible wine by myself, but also drinking said wine out of a red Solo cup.

Nerds definitely throw the best parties. And speaking of...next stop, COUCHCON!!!! Cannot freaking wait!