Shopping trip of doom for some people, but not us.

We had a session of Tom's D+D game today. It turned out that they'd neither played during the session I missed (because Tom found a buyer for his house, and was closing) nor finished doing the shopping trip in e-mail (for the same reason), so we did the shopping trip in-game instead, played out day by day.

Right in the middle, the buyers came by to talk with Tom about something or other, so we had some time to chat and hang out... we didn't even end up finishing our shopping trip, and two weeks from now Tom'll still be moving, so we won't play. Sigh.

( shopping trip summary )

After the game, I decided to head down to Legend's because I was pretty sure that people would be there -- and I was right. I got to cuddle with Slox, play some magic (although I'd forgotten to bring my own decks), and watch 'Naqoyqatsi', which seemed utterly pointless to me.

Me: "I didn't get that at all."
Legend: "It was a condemnation of how artificial everything in the world is -- did you see how fake they made the nature scenes look?"
Me: "I thought the first half was a celebration of modern society, but then there was that scene with the gun and the nuclear bombs and then... they just showed random pointless stuff with no pattern after that."
Someone: "It's abstract art. It's not supposed to have a plot!"
Someone else: "Celebration? How do you figure? It was a HORROR movie!"
Me: "They showed all this wonderful technology and then a bunch of happy smiling people."
Legend: "Those smiles were so artificial, it made me sick just to look at them."

The conversation continued without me.