Clearing the Backlog - Part 2.

Between my last post and this one, I tried playing Civilization III on "Emperor" level as I recently managed to beat the game on the next lowest level, "Monarch". I think I just have to resign myself to being happy as a Monarch, cuz that Emperor shit is impossible. Maybe one of these days I'll get Civilization IV.

Anyway, I thought that I might get Part 2 done and maybe that will be the end of the backlog. Some of you may remember that really warm weekend we had here in the mid-Atlantic last month, maybe the second week of January? Anyway, my wife and her friend Jen managed to rouse their lazy significant others (me and Tom) up for a really nice bike ride along the paths winding out of central DC to Old Town Alexandria over the Potomac. I couldn't believe how warm it was that day, it felt like any other day in the spring (definitely not winter). Along the way we decided that this day would be the day that we started our awesome hipster bike gang. Chris dressed in some electric blue dress with a matching tiara and Jen had a devil's tail poking out of her waistband and some clip-on horns. Many heads were turned along the bike path.


Chris, Casey, Jen, Tom - the bike gang

The three of them each had decent bikes. I on the other hand had a real heavy POS I picked up for $75 from Toys 'R' Us, with knobby dirt tires. Needless to say I had to work pretty damn hard to keep up with everybody. Thank goodness Tom agreed to take the Metro back with me to DC from Old Town, because I'm certain I wouldn't have made it.



Okay on to the next topic.

In a previous post I made brief mention of Christmas without actually saying anything. So, just so you know, Chris and I spent the holiday at Chris' folks house in Long Island (as we do every year). It was nice and relaxing (as it is every year) and Ollie came with us to keep us walking around. I ate alot, gained some weight, and picked up some nice loot. The best of which was a new cookware set to replace our old shit, particularly the frying pans.


Guess which ones are old and which are new...

The interesting part of the trip for me though was the half day we spent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day before and after Christmas (we did one floor one day and the other floor the next). I had never been to this museum before and was therefore totally unprepared for all the amazingly cool shit there was to see. I only have a very small sample of the pix we took up on the old Flickr photo dump. I thought I should leave you with at least one thing to look at though. So here's a picture of a goofy looking Japanese Emperor. Maybe he just beat Civilization III.