Awesome day

Well the last two days were great.

Jagushes got in from Texas on Monday, and spent the last two nights at Augusta's house. Yesterday night, Augusta and her family picked me up, and we went to Mama's Pizza for dinner, where we met the four Jagushes, as well as Maxine and the Aichems. Last night was a lot of fun, then, but today was a blast. Augusta picked me up again somewhere between ten and eleven this morning (I wasn't really paying attention; I was still a bit out of it), and took me back to her house for a grand old party with everyone who was at dinner last night plus Maxine's mother, sister, and brother, and about a dozen other people that I've never really met before. We played a lot of video games, and chatted, and hung out, and ate, and just generally hung out.

Video gaming took place on Augusta and Wes' Xbox 360, and included Soul Calibur II (Gabe is crazy as Voldo), Halo 3 (which I can finally play well with the two thumbsticks on a controller setup), and Unreal Tournament 3 (which I've never played before, but will now have to get the PC version of). Everybody got involved; relentless matches in Soul Calibur, team games with a 100-kill limit in Unreal Tournament, and crazy controller-swapping in Halo. It was a lot like one of the LGN parties, really, and just... a ton of fun.

It was great to see Gabe and Adrian and Julian again, too... I didn't realize how much I missed them. I wish they still lived around here, instead of halfway across the country. Hanging out with everybody all together was just really awesome. The three of them are so much more... mature? Something like that. I guess just older. But all three of them are fun to talk to and game with and just hang out with. I hope they plan on more trips back "home" in the future, because if they don't, I might just do it for them!

So yeah. Great day. I'd have liked to have seen the Jagushes off tomorrow morning before they leave the Anderson household, but unfortunately, it's not going to work out. I said goodbye to them all tonight, though, and I'm hoping to keep in a little better touch with them than I have in the past.

Tomorrow's my last day in a row off before another weekend of work, so I might do something with Augusta, who also has off from work, after Gabe and company leave tomorrow morning, but other than that, I've got nothing planned. Right now, I'm exhausted, so I'm going to vent off my last little bit of energy and then head for bed.