How much does it weigh on its own once you've placed it in someone else's hands to hold?

As usual, always late to throw my thoughts up here. Let's recap Thanksgiving before America gets theirs.

Thursday - Just a random hangout night with Willio and Wes. Went up to meet them at Yorkdale and bummed for a bit before we all decided to head up to D&B for a couple hours. We ended up staying for more than a couple hours. We played NASCAR quite a few times, I'm perpetually in 2nd place to either of them. Dang it! I'm supposed to be the car/racing expert here! Also played Deal or no Deal, a few random shooters but the highlights had to be Monopoly, NX Absolute, and Skee Ball. Skee Ball is the game where you roll a ball up a ramp and try to get it into different holes with point values on them. I claimed ultimate victory as the undisputed winner of that game. On to Monopoly, wow what a credit-sucking game. One of those coin-drop type games where the player hopes that by putting in money, more will come out at the bottom. That's rarely the case but it also had a bonus feature. Light up the Monopoly lights by timing your drops and you get to be a witness as the computer plays Monopoly for you and watch how many or how few reward tickets come your way. Once Willio got on that one, it was over. He ended up playing that machine for the whole night. Bye bye money! Was able to pull him away for a few rounds of NX Absolute, a Korean version of DDR, and destroyed him in that. Victory once again! He went back to Monopoly shortly thereafter. All the while, Wes was on a game called Stomp Troopers. A game that tests your ability to time yourself and hit a button when a circle of individually-lighting lightbulbs lights up in front of you. If you time it right and stop the light at the lightbulb directly in front of you, you win 300 reward tickets. For everytime you fail and stop the light on a lightbulb to either side of the one in front of you, you get the number of tickets written in front of that bulb. It ranges from 2 tickets to 8 and that count adds itself to the prize total. So say it lands on a 2, then the total ticket prize total becomes 302. Well, he won 10,000+ reward tickets... Yeah I think he totally broke the system and can now milk it for points. Sick! I did not manage to win once. Lame! Eventually called it a night.

Friday - After work and class, got home to prep for Amy's b-day party. Where was it? D&B! So up to D&B I went again for a night of partying and silly gaming. The night was made more awesome when Priscilla decided to have her b-day bash at D&B as well. Ended up spending a lot of time floating back and forth between both groups. I think I spent more time searching for b-day girls than I did playing games. Good times! Also saw Erica there for another b-day party. Floated towards her too. Ha! One of the best parts of the night was buying credits. Yeah buying credits doesn't sound like much fun but paying $50 and getting $300 worth of credits is pretty win! Haha! With the money "saved" I bought a couple rounds of drinks for both groups. Fun times.

Saturday - Uneventful day but had a few friends come over and spent the latter half of the day goofing off. Settlers Cities & Knights online for a while before moving onto video games. I should have been working on a paper but hey that's what tomorrow is for! Baked a pie and it blew up in my face. Enough said!

Sunday - Failed pie and missed service. Ah well. Caught up with Wes after he got out of church and went for lunch. Got called up by Pris and Sam and picked them up for lunch part 2 at Popeye's. Went over to Fairview together and went for a walk to digest the greasy chicken. Caught up with a few ET'ers too. Apparently they were still hungry after Thanksgiving tri-congregational lunch. The same lunch my 4 failed pies were meant for. Ha..ha..! No one has to know! Getting kind of late and so we went to drop off Pris and Sam at home. Got back, got prepped and out the door for TG dinner with extended family. Got there late and wound up at the far end of the long table. Good food at 369 and went to Grandpa's house afterwards with everyone for fruits. Good night.

Monday - Out again! This time to watch Toy Story 1 + 2 in 3D at Fairview. The usual suspects; Wes, Pris, Sam and I met up and wow, TS1+2 was awesomely good! It's a lot different watching it as an adult compared to when I was watching as a kid. Go watch it for yourselves. You'll understand. Went home after to get ready to go back out again. This time for hot pot with old Mitsubishi coworkers. Good times bashing the managers and recounting stories about how much we hate the company. Glad to be out of there! Finished up and headed uptown to meet up with the Super Apostles and play board games for the night. Apples to Apples for the win! Too bad the long weekend was coming to a close. Went home again to get ready for work the next day. Boo.

What a long Thanksgiving weekend! Thanks...

Today my water heater and furnace died on me. Simultaneously. I have no hot water and I have no heat. It's -10 degrees celsius tonight. I hope 20 blankets will do the trick.