Detroit, the week so far

[dagibbs]

It's been a pretty good week. The training has been going well, and I've been social 3 out of 5 evenings.

Sunday was arrival, finding hotel, and getting settled. Sadly the first restaurant I tried for dinner was closed, so had to bail to a chain.

Lunches have mostly been pretty good, Thai twice, middle eastern and fast-food Cal-Mex the 4th.

Monday night, met up with Caryn for tea and dinner, had a good meal at The Melting Pot, a fondue restaurant, and had a wonderful time catching up with her and just talking.

Tuesday night I took it easy, since Wednesday and Thursday were going to be busy.

Wednesday night I had arranged to meet up with jeffreyab at my hotel between 4:30 and 5pm, then we'd drive over to eviljohn's for some gaming. Jeff still hadn't arrived by 5:30, nor had he called or emailed to say he would be late, so I stuck up a note and was just about to head out without him when he pulled up. We survived traffic to make it to eviljohn's around 7pm. I got to play (the hot new game) Agricola, then a game of Relationship Tightrope (which has horrible theme, but decent game play). Agricola was interesting. I'm not sure it lives up to the hype, but it does seem to be a good game. Also, I got a copy of Leonardo Da Vinci that eviljohn bought for me.

Thursday night was dinner then climbing with Bella and Amy, though Bella wasn't able to climb since she'd hurt a finger. It was a good time, though I chased more challenging routes than I often do when down here. I can't work a tough route the same way as I would at home, over several weeks, so I often leave really tough stuff. I managed, though, to bruise my knuckles -- something I don't think I've ever done before while climbing.

And, tomorrow I return home. Well, for two weeks that is.

Comments

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

YOU GOT TO PLAY AGRICOLA AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME?!?!?!?!

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Well, when I was talking to you I'd just been climbing, so that was what I talked about. Agricola was so "last-day" by then. :)

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

and you bought a copy of Leonardo DaVinci without telling me???? I think I remember being excited about that one too.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Uh...maybe? You told me I had enough new games, so I was going to sneak it onto the shelves and hope you didn't notice. Yeah, that's the ticket. ;)

I played it, and I think I mentioned at the time that eviljohn was going to get me a copy if he could, since he got a discount for being associated with the company.

I did buy it thinking there was a good chance you'd like it.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Apparently the bridge slowdown I ran into on the way to meet you was the reaction to a bomb threat.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. Unusually bad, rather than just usually bad.