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Last week I was in Salt Lake City, all in all it was a good week full of glow in the dark mini-golf, good food, better beer and catching up with some friends from the area... And an Arts Festival..
I saw a comedy show at the Arts Festival, it was interesting to hear all the Mormon related jokes and jokes about the SLC area in general. One guy was pretty racist, calling the black people in the crowd "the dark ones" and going on about how their neighbors must be happy they're at the Arts Festival because they can finally relax.. :/ The only really funny bit was one guy talking about being "alone" was a put down minority, I've heard that kind of thing before but he really brought it home saying that the diamond symbol for the car-pool lane was the symbol of his segregation..
The rest of the Arts Festival was pretty cool, but holy crap was stuff expensive! I saw a bunch of stuff that would have been cool in my yard, but not for those prices.. They did have Unita beer and very good food at the festival, so all in all it was a good time. Oh, speaking of beer.. One of the other one-liners in the comedy show.. A comedian told a bad joke and the audience was just looking at him instead of laughing.. His come back was "you're staring at me like a Mormon stares at a beer".. lol
Me and my friend Bill went to a place called Copper Creek which was half way between his house and the hotel. I got there a few minutes early (I know, shock..) and found that they had the Mets game on the TV! Score.. :) I had a steak over a really good mushroom risotto..
In the food porn category.. I went to Squatters Brewery with my friend Kristina and had a wonderful bacon covered meatloaf! If you're ever in SLC I recommend two places very highly; Gracies and Squatters. Gracies is a jazz bar which has live music almost every night and some very good food, it's in the same parking lot as Squatters which is a local micro-brew; home of the Polygamy Porter and a few other SLC staples.
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Other news around the realm?
I no longer own or am affiliated with the running of Future Imperfect. Future Imperfect closed and Future Imperfect II started. While I still own the old rules-set for Future Imperfect I am happy to see the 2nd FI alive and running. I decided to take a small break from the game, which then turned into a long break.. Sorry FI'ers, I wasn't planning to be gone for more than one or two events, if you're reading this and wondering when/if I'll be back; the answer is yes, just not sure when yet. I actually purchased some new gear for Laal so I will certainly be back at some point.
In the meantime, last year, I started going back to Laire full-time. I started a new character there and am really loving it. I still hold to my statement that there is no better LARP than Laire. Just wish it was closer or I could somehow remove the smeggin' traffic on rte 84 through CT!
In September I moved from the castle, I bought a new house here in the quiet corner.. It's not a castle, but I also don't have neighbors.. Well, I have one but there not in the same building.. We share a private wooded road and I have lots of woods (and a river) to call my own.. Home ownership came with three inherited cats.. My mom needed to find a new home for her cats so, with all the new room, I took them in.. Btw - Anyone want a cat? I'm not kidding.. She is an older cat and is SUPER affectionate, the problem is that she really needs to be an only cat. She would be fine with dogs, but not-so-much other cats..
"Buy a house, you'll save money" they said... This winter was ROUGH in terms of snow and bad weather. I ended up having massive ice dams and had to have a lot of work on my house to fix all the water damage.. Yay, insurance!
Well, that's it for me for now.. Hopefully I'll be back here more often..
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