We came home and unpacked the grocery bags (packing the contents into various shelves and compartments and behind doors in the kitchen) and relaxed for a little bit. Carrie was picked up by Viki at 11:00 so the two of them could go to a jewelry show up in Fife. The moment she left I started cooking some potstickers, on account of the tasty.
Well, no sooner had I started the 'stickers than there was a knock on the door. I thought that Carrie might have forgotten something, because it was seriously like a minute or so since she'd left. But to my surprise I saw mine own brother on my front porch, accompanied by Sandy and Mathias!
They had just gone to the Southern Kitchen for breakfast (look for a review of it soon), which is only about half a kilometer from my house, so they decided to pop by. I ate my potstickers and then the four of us piled in Sandy's newly-fixed car and drove out to the Star-Lite Swap Meet at the Star Lite Drive-In.
I'd never been to this one before, but it was pretty cool. It seemed like almost everyone was selling SNES games. I'd have liked to have gotten some, but I don't have a SNES (although I probably could have gotten one there as well). Mathias bought five games, though, including the awexomely awexome Cybernator.
I remember borrowing this game from Ryan back around 1994 or so. It was incredibly kickass, with surprisingly good animation and a lot of variety in gameplay. Mathias also picked up StarFox, Populous, Smart Ball, and one other that I have forgotten. All good, and all for five bucks or less.
I did not leave empty-handed as well. For quite a bargain I picked up the GameCube Namco Museum, which is one of the only places you can actually find the rare Pac-Man Arrangement game.
Michael didn't leave empty-handed either, though much to his chagrin. Sandy bought him this little gem of a wall plaque. We can't figure out exactly what it is, but it looks like some mice playing with a drainpipe and a bathtub:
Loaded up thusly with goodies, we drove south on S. Tacoma Way to an Asian bakery that Sandy really likes. I don't remember the name of it at this time, though. I did buy a "sausage bread," which was basically a hot dog rolled in pastry dough, then sliced up and twisted into an attractive pattern before being baked. It was a tasty li'l lunch.
An exciting event on the way back to my house: there was a pickup truck completely engulfed in flames on S. Tacoma Way. Nobody was in it, but it was really burning like crazy. And it wasn't like it was on the side of the road or anything; it was in the second lane from the curb.
We all came back to my house, where Carrie already was home from the jewelry show. We put my new vid gom into the GameCube and played all the way through Pac Man Arrangement (it isn't very long; only about 20 levels), which was a good deal of fun. The last boss is excellently designed. Mike & I also tried to play through Dig Dug Arrangement, but we found that it didn't hold our attention nearly so well. I played some of Galaga Arrangement, which was actually surprisingly cool.
Later on I made more potstickers, and Sandy helped me eat a few. We ended up all hanging out at my house for the entire afternoon until it was time to leave for Fools Play. Sandy & Mathias went down to Olympia to have dinner; I drove my brother and I down to Olympia to get the show setup and everything.
It was the debut of the newly-revamped Stunt Show format, which we played off much more like an episode of professional wrestling. We even had color and play-by-play announcers for the in-between bits. The "stunt" was that the two of us (we were the only two Fools performing, since Taisha is back across the mountains and Geoff is taking a vacation this weekend) would do a longform scene without ever once interacting with each other.
It was a pretty fun night, but the audience was just dead. They seemed to kind of enjoy it, but it was more like they were watching TV than a live stage show four feet in front of their faces.
The scene that went over the best was probably the Mix Tape scene, with me singing a variety of songs while Mike tried to do a menial task. Highlights included a song in which I sang how I was gonna beat the girl to whom I was singing. With a hammer. And also I was going to beat her in a race. And also in the space race. Then I began belting out "Space Race!" repeatedly at the top of my lungs. There was also a song about a trumpet growing out of my brain, a woman who was made of vegetables, and a hot toddy of a woman I was going to drink with my "ears and nose and throat."
Mathias lost his shit during this scene. He was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe and almost had to use his inhaler. Good times.
The show ran kind of long, and we didn't get out of there until late. We went to Rib Eye aftewrards and I had a roast beef sammitch with gravy and mashed potatoes with gravy, and it came with clam chowder with no gravy. It was extraordinarily filling. I got home well after midnight, and didn't notice until then that there was a phone message from Brandy. Whoops! Sorry!
It was a surprising and fun day, although once again I didn't get anything done. I didn't even write a blog entry (it wasn't until this morning that I wrote the one for what happened on Friday; I edited the date/time).
I think I have an idea for what my next article is going to be about now...
