Sunday Down South, Again
May. 31st, 2004 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothYesterday I went to the crossroads gathering, again, and after playing a few games of magic with Blake, I headed with a couple other people to watch 'The Day After Tomorrow', which was very very COLD. I think the movie people might have turned up the air conditioner to help set the atmosphere for the movie, which is about a sudden ice age brought on by -150F supercooled air brought down from the troposphere by land-based hurricanes. Or, rather, it's about people dying because of this.
I think everyone pretty much liked it -- I thought it was decent. The main plot-holes pointed out were that the air in the troposphere would actually be 600F by the time it reached the ground, since the individual molecules are high-energy, and compressing a gas make it heat up, and that there's no way gray wolves (that live in temperate forests) who'd lived their whole life in a zoo would be able to run at full speed down an icy stairwell. I don't know about the first, but having seen dogs negotiate stairs, the second seems pretty true.
After the movie, I met up with the people who hadn't wandered away from the meet yet -- the movie happened really early, so it let out by 4:30pm. Zir and Teeka and company were there, as well as Lex etc. I went with Lex, because he wanted to play more magic, and I wanted to play more magic, and the other place people were going was a birthday party for someone I don't know.
Lots of magic was played, and I did some trading (I traded away a pair of rares I was using, but wasn't *that* attacked to, for a bunch of uncommons I thought would be useful), and people played through the entirety of Starfox Adventures in one sitting, and of course it was eventually 3am... but Skye -- who'd borrowed $20 from me that he promised to pay back that night after getting the money from Cal over at Legends, where they were watching the Lord of the Rings extended version trilogy -- wasn't back yet. At 4am, I was still kind of awake, but everyone else was basically sleeping, and they *still* weren't back, and when Lex called to check they said they were just leaving. Oof.
So I guess I'll get paid back some other time. Maybe. Lex said he'd get the money from Skye and give it to me eventually. Or maybe spend it on food.
I had to drive people home, again... this time to somewhere 'just north of the U-District', which turned out to be outside of Seattle entirely, although it wasn't nearly as much of a detour as Auburn was, and had better signage (and a navigator going to Northgate) to get me back to the freeway without getting lost.
Got home around five thirty, and went to bed at six. But I'm okay now.
I think everyone pretty much liked it -- I thought it was decent. The main plot-holes pointed out were that the air in the troposphere would actually be 600F by the time it reached the ground, since the individual molecules are high-energy, and compressing a gas make it heat up, and that there's no way gray wolves (that live in temperate forests) who'd lived their whole life in a zoo would be able to run at full speed down an icy stairwell. I don't know about the first, but having seen dogs negotiate stairs, the second seems pretty true.
After the movie, I met up with the people who hadn't wandered away from the meet yet -- the movie happened really early, so it let out by 4:30pm. Zir and Teeka and company were there, as well as Lex etc. I went with Lex, because he wanted to play more magic, and I wanted to play more magic, and the other place people were going was a birthday party for someone I don't know.
Lots of magic was played, and I did some trading (I traded away a pair of rares I was using, but wasn't *that* attacked to, for a bunch of uncommons I thought would be useful), and people played through the entirety of Starfox Adventures in one sitting, and of course it was eventually 3am... but Skye -- who'd borrowed $20 from me that he promised to pay back that night after getting the money from Cal over at Legends, where they were watching the Lord of the Rings extended version trilogy -- wasn't back yet. At 4am, I was still kind of awake, but everyone else was basically sleeping, and they *still* weren't back, and when Lex called to check they said they were just leaving. Oof.
So I guess I'll get paid back some other time. Maybe. Lex said he'd get the money from Skye and give it to me eventually. Or maybe spend it on food.
I had to drive people home, again... this time to somewhere 'just north of the U-District', which turned out to be outside of Seattle entirely, although it wasn't nearly as much of a detour as Auburn was, and had better signage (and a navigator going to Northgate) to get me back to the freeway without getting lost.
Got home around five thirty, and went to bed at six. But I'm okay now.
