Saturdays with Joel

For the first time since I was a single guy, I spent the better part of today with my best friend, Joel. We got some work done here at the house (dismantling some furniture for transport to the dump), then it was off to the dump. After that, we hit the Games Workshop battle bunker (i.e. a big store) just a little further around the beltway and met up with our fellow gamer buddy (and colleague of mine), Kyle. We wondered around there for a while and then, seeing as it was past 1pm and none of us had eaten much of anything yet, we decided to go get some lunch. Joel wanted to go to Outback Steakhouse; he had never been to one before, and I was treating him to lunch, so we headed down the road. Turns out that Outback does not open until 2pm. Of course, I had heard that Outback was not open for lunch before, but managed to bury that deep enough in the great chasm that is my mind that I did not remember until we actually arrived at around 1:30. So, we ended up killing time by wandering around in the horribly crappy department store across the parking lot. Lunch was good, and Joel discovered a new purpose in life: to acquire more bloomin' onions.

After lunch, Kyle broke off to go back to his place to get some homework done. Joel and I headed back to the house and spent the rest of the afternoon and some of the evening watching Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Gallactica on TiVo and a couple episodes of Deadwood (which is also when I discovered that the new season of that starts tomorrow night, at which point I nearly broke into a happy dance). All the while, we were gluing together little bits of plastic and metal for my Tyranid army. I finally got my lictor put together. What a spiffy looking figure that is; I will have to get some more from Neal at TheWarStore. It will be fun to paint, assuming I can get into all the nooks and crannies that thing has.

Our little group's next game is looking to be on the 20th. Maybe I will finally get to play more than one or two turns (last game was cut short on account of hordes of fricken snow falling). If I can get any painting done before then, I will try and post some pictures if anybody is interested.