The Daily Sabs

Well, at least chris, jessi, and wee Desmond are. I am just a robot
fan who showed up for the wee robot's second birthday. We played robo
ball, but Desmond's cousin made up the rules as we went along. Somehow
I needed 38 points to win and he only needed 4. These robots sure are
tricky.

Ps. Andy won for creepiest robo-mask ever.

Pps. The glowing shaking ghost toy was a big hit with the kids and
Karina.

This evening Randall and I braved the bay bridge to head over to jessi
and chris's house for game night. There were 10 of us there and so we
had two rooms for gaming. In room one was the ever popular settlers of
catan (you know, the one rock for a sheep game). In room two was risk.
I ended up conceding my catan spot (there were a bunch of n00bs who
wanted to check it out and I'd played before), so I joined team risk.
Fun fact: I don't know if I'd ever played risk before. I didn't win,
but came in second. I had no idea what I was doing at first, so I'm
sure that's why I didn't win. I'm sure it had nothing to do with
cyrus's world domination skills. Nothing at all.

Ps. For dinner jessi made us a delicious tomato and goat cheese tart.
Nom!

i am so glad i took today off of work (it technically wasn't a real holiday at sugar, but a "float" one). in addition to getting a lot of pesky chores done (i hadn't been home for anything longer than a sleeping spell since last monday night), i was able to head over to the east bay for a bit of pie tasting. you see, my pal jessi (the award-winning piemaker) is gearing up for the national pie championships and wanted her friends' opinions on a few of her creations. so naturally, randall and i complied. (although i should point out, randall doesn't even like pie.)

there were three creations (all variations of apple-huckleberry) and twelve people. we judged each pie on looks, flavor, creativity, crust, and anything else we could think of. essentially jessi just wanted us to give constructive criticism and metaphorically tear each pie apart.

we did one better than that. as you can see, we literally tore them apart too.

Meet Logan, he's jessi's nephew and a little heartbreaker in training.
All evening long he'd walk up to ladies, grab their hands and say
enchante (all frenchy ennchanntaay style). After we both won prizes
for our sweet cookie decorating skillz, I asked Logan if he wanted to
take a picture with me. He was a little shy at first but soon warmed
up to the idea. However he needed to be the art director and posed us
in this fashion. Seriously folks. He's gonna break some hearts someday.

Today was one of those perfect days of nothing. I woke up around 11,
invited anneh over for lunch, and then Randall and I headed over to
jessi and chris's house for tasty foods, bad YouTube videos, cartoons,
peechees, dance party, and some Alan partridge. It was a nice day
indeed.

geoloc

today we slathered on the sunscreen, packed up the cooler and crossed the bridge to frolic at joaquin miller park for jessi's birthday. i had never been there before, and had no idea that there was such an amazing huge park in oakland. there were so many picnic tables and bbq pits, we had a huge clearing all to ourselves. it was the perfect party setting (complete with balloons and streamers) and it was also the perfect day for such an event (although i honestly could have used a little less sun).

everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, including all the kids and dogs. however it's events like these that make me feel older. when did i know more people with babies (or baby fever, there are a lot of baby fever folks) than without? although the guy at safeway did say i looked like a teenager and needed to card me when i was buying beer, so that should cancel the baby party feelings out, right?

ps. this lil' cutie is desmond, proud baby (that's what his sweet leather bracelet says) of jessi and chris. i think he looks like a tough guy, but is a big ol' sweetie, not to mention a drool beast.

pps. once we got home, i passed out and napped for over 2 hours. kele would've been proud.