In the early evening Carrie started cooking up some dinner: onions, cabbage, and kielbasa sausage, plus some noodles. When it was almost done, though, I got a call from Sandy wondering if we could come down to Gateway to India and have dinner there with them? Carrie had to teach in a short bit, but we figured we could just put the food she was cooking in a crock pot and heat it up later, so I was free to join them.
I had to walk, though, because Carrie wanted to take the car to the store to teach her class. It isn't a bad walk at all; in fact, it was the 2nd walk I'd taken that day (earlier in the day I'd walked the mile-long loop up the big hill to the west).
I had chicken vindaloo. So did Mathias, although his was spicier than mine. Man, it was really, really tasty. Afterwards they drove me back to my house and then came in and we all hung out for a while and watched Pleaseeasaur's Action Spectacular
. Afterwards we all went over to Sandy's AC:WW town. Then they left. At that point I decided to finally finish up my Robot painting, which I did. I present it now for your viewing pleasure here:
I like it. I wanted it to have a more "pastel" feel to it. I think it's pretty successful. After I finished with that I watched a couple of episodes of Azumanga Daioh. The first episode was absolutely awful. Horribly disorienting, disjointed, and unfocused. The second episode was great. Much more focused, and a lot funnier.
When I finished up with the 2nd episode Carrie called me to see if I could come pick her and Laura up from the store. "Sure," I said. I put on my shoes and stepped outside only then to remember that Carrie had driven the car to the store. She'd apparently forgotten as well. So I walked the six blocks down to the store instead.
Laura gave me an adorable thank-you card for the painting I'd done for her (WonderBot). We drove her home, and then came back to our own house where we heated up the kielbasa sausage meal and dug into it quite a bit. After that we ate some leftover strawberry shortcake (from Susan's birthday). And then after that we drank some sweet pear wine from Oregon. Good times!
We put on a disc of B:TAS and went to bed.
