Weekend Recap: 2 Parties & 1 Aching Back

The Die Hard Party

I was invited to this party being thrown in an office building in the city. I basically knew two people there: my brother and his fiancee. The party was being thrown by the company that employs my brother.

I arrived there later than I would have hoped for. Upon entering the party, the gunplay had already begun…

Okay, it was only Nerf dart guns and other such weaponry but still. I was thinking of Die Hard and I got something pretty close to it. I got Sponge Hard.

I knew my brother worked for some wacky IT company, but I had no idea he worked for the company that made the Angry Dad internet cartoons. Some office this place turned out to be. Hmm… there was the Nintendo Wii in one room, a foozball table in another. Then there was the Nerf room. Little suction cup Nerf darts stuck to everything. I’m really glad to see my brother can earn a living by playing with toys.

The Baseball Party

Bob invited me to a little party he was throwing for his baseball team. It was a fun night out with some pizza and poker. Basically a lazy Saturday night out with the guys.

Apparently, this party is an annual thing. At each party, the first baseman breaks out an instrumental rap loop and comes up with a rap about the season passed. Interesting. that’s what I’ll say, interesting.

The Aching Back

I spent both afternoons this weekend Christmas shopping. Good news is that I’m done. And I only wimped out on six people with either gift cards or bottles. And, even better, I came in under budget this year. I did however have to carry a lot of this stuff back to the car. That, combined with the snow shovelling I had to do, has aggravated my back.

After the first shovelling my back was pretty sore. But I went out shopping anyway. When I got home, the street had been plowed and the snow was piled so high in front of the driveway, there’d be no way I could get the car through it. So, parked on the road and I got shovelling.

As I was shovelling the driveway, I noticed two seperate neighbours come out and shovel their driveways as well. Both of these guys have male children over the age of ten. Why weren’t the sons helping? Kids today, sheesh!

Tags: General