{"id":204,"date":"2004-04-04T23:31:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2004-04-04T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T04:31:28","slug":"a-grand-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/204","title":{"rendered":"A grand night out"},"content":{"rendered":"

WELL WELL WELL. It’s been a long-ass time since I last wrote an entry with actual large photos instead of small mobile phone photos. The simple reason for this was that my digital camera batteries
\n were dead. My rechargable batteries had been dying for a while, so that they lasted not very long at all on
\n a charge. I decided it was time to pony up and buy some new rechargable batteries. I paid 30 bucks or so and
\n got a really nice set of 2200mah batteries with new charger. I took them home, charged them up, and dropped
\n them in my camera.<\/p>\n

And nothing happened. The camera didn’t turn on. I have since tried the batteries in other devices, and
\n they work fine. But for some reason my camera just refuses to acknowledge their existence. I don’t get it at
\n all. I thought perhaps it had something to do with the voltage of the rechargables, which is 1.2v, whereas
\n normal AA batteries are 1.5v. But my old rechargable batteries were 1.2 volt too.<\/p>\n

So, I had spent a ton of money on batteries that didn’t work, and I still had no batteries for my camera. And
\n that’s how I’ve left it since December 6th. It’s amazing how frustration over nonfunctional batteries has
\n kept my nice digital camera in its bag for four months, a third of a year. Eventually I decided I had to get
\n new batteries, and I picked up some heavy-duty CR-V3 batteries at a local shop. We’ll see how long they last<\/p>\n

So last night Char and I hung out with Mike, Char’s friend that she met on an airplane from Chicago; Jesi and Ragnar, two of Mike’s friends; and Marissa, our roommate. Mike, Jesi, Ragnar and I started the night off by playing some bridge (not photographed, except maybe Ragnar has a picture). Ragnar was apparently on the Icelandic national bridge team, so he’s a much better tutor to us than I was to my friends at school. While we were nerding it up, Char and Marissa went to a local bar\/club\/bowling alley for salsa night. They came back quite quickly, saying it was lame. Apparently the club was overrun with strange guys that weren’t worth picking up, or something.<\/p>\n

After a few more hands of bridge, someone got the idea that we should all go back to the club and go bowling.<\/p>\n

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Take the lamers bowling, take them bowling.<\/span>
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But let’s not jump ahead! On the way to the bowling alley, we saw the most nerdy graffiti ever.<\/p>\n

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WGBH graffiti<\/span>
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WGBH is the local public television station<\/i> in Boston, if you didn’t know. Why anyone would scrawl
\n their callsign on a bus seat is a mystery to me, although the other marks may be a clue. I can’t read them.<\/p>\n

So we went bowling! Here’s me:<\/p>\n

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I spent the first 7 frames of the night trying to figure out how to bowl straight, and in the last
\n two I finally felt like I had figured it out. Unfortunately by then it was too late. Marissa, with her
\n classic between-the-legs consistancy style, had bowled her way to a close victory over Jesi.<\/p>\n

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Char<\/span>
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Mike, Jesi, and Ragnar havin’ fun<\/span>
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Char gets unwanted affection from Mike<\/span>
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I should mention that bowling was not cheap. There was a ten dollar cover at the door, and it was twenty-five dollars an hour<\/i> to bowl. So it came out to about 75$ for six people for one hour of bowling. Of
\n course there was more in the club than just bowling. It was salsa night! Everyone (minus me) danced a bit,
\n and when it was over, the DJ mentioned that it wasn’t 1:30, it was actually 2:30. Ho ho daylight savings! (Astute readers will note that daylight savings doesn’t really come into effect until 2:00am, but whatever.)
\n So we left the club, and walked back to the bus stop. We waited for the bus, wondering if the bus was running as if it were 1:45 or 2:45. We waited a while. We were getting bored, and everyone was talking about how they
\n were’nt tired, and then Ragnar mentioned there was a Japanese restaurant in Chinatown that is open til 3:30 or
\n later. We got the number thanks to my little phone, and called them up. Thanks to daylight savings, they were
\n staying open to 4:30 that night. Score!<\/p>\n

We did some gymnastics involving my taking a cab home to get a map and the car and packing everyone into my
\n tiny acura, and then we were off to Ginza in chinatown. I made many amazing maneuvers avoiding potholes and
\n cutting people off necessarily. We got a great parking space.<\/p>\n

And so, we had Sushi in Boston at four in the morning<\/p>\n

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Char, me, Mike, Ragnar, Marissa, and Jesi<\/span>
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Mike always makes faces<\/span>
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Beware if you are playing bridge with this man<\/span>
\n<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

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I also took some stupid movies with my camera. They are about 4 megs each, and use some form of quicktime.
\n They work on linux (Fedora is what I have), so if they don’t work for you you have no excuse.<\/p>\n

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We had an awesome time, and even though it was expensive and I didn’t get to bed until around six it was
\n totally worth it. I have photos around my room of my old group of friends, like Nick and Grant and Alex and
\n Meaghan, and I was looking at them the other day wistfully. I don’t know if we’ll ever be all together like
\n that again. Probably not. That group had its moment, and its unlikely it will ever be reformed. I look at the group photo I took last night, and I see that although my friends from college have
\n spread out, I have a new group of buddies to play bridge with and eat sushi with — at least for now. College students will graduate, people will move on, but at least right now I have mike and jesi and ragnar and marissa. Thanks guys.<\/p>\n

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