Went to a housewarming yesterday night for the place Jess and Rae are renting.

The main problem with that idea was that I've got some aches and such from being ill earlier this week that make it uncomfortable to stand or sit in most chairs — the whole thing reminds me of a much more serious medical issue I had last summer, which means I'm not as bothered as I otherwise would be — and so I had to spend a good portion of the night sitting right up against a wall. Luckily we spent most the night hanging out in rooms where I could find a free wall.

In retrospect I complained a bit more than I should have: This was a party and complaining is almost always boring.

Jess had a lot of interesting beers to try from their trip to Oregon; I liked both the Caldera Pale Ale and the Nikasi Tricerahops Double IPA quite a bit.

All in all it was a good time. I talked to Barry or Markie for a good chunk of the night about topics including Lost, and ended up staying up to near the very end of the party even though I knew I'd be getting up early today to drive up north.

(Normally I'd be back at Jess' tonight for Craft Night but it has been a long long day. I brought back 20 or so plants and had to go into emergency gardening mode as soon as I got back to the Cities.)

Tried to describe the Roller Town trailer to Shelley at one point and failed. I like a bunch of the other videos picnicface has done as well.