cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (Gray)
I am trying very hard to get an upper respiratory/sinus infection (thank you air flight) so I've been slow.

Mom and I went to the casino and that went as well as my flight did. Snort. At least the buffet was delicious as usual.

Came home to find Dad in an emotional state. His SiL said something hurtful about us being 'rich' and rubbing it in everyone's face. The one thing I can say is that is one thing my dad has never done. We're not rich. We're middle class. His brother and his wife have spent most of their adult life on SSI (and hers was dubious at best. His is quite real). But they also have the mineral rights money too. They're not poor b ut she is very resentful some times so now I'm either going to have to sneak down there to say good bye in a day or so or she apologizes.

And while I was gone Mom's lap top bit the dust. Now I'm trying to teach her to use Windows 10 and either there is something wrong with the new lappie or the shitty wireless or both so that wasn't going well.

So everyone was snappish and crabby so I just didn't feel like the travel stuff but I will. I wish I could show everyone the fantastic job the Lan Su Chinese gardens did with their visitor info. It's beautiful. I'm keeping it. I need to get a scrap book.

I've also started my copy of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. So far I'm not that impressed but it's early days.

And oh I go back to OH this weekend.
cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (Gokuloveme)
I won 20$ of free play at the casino which was necessary because when I was using my own money I was stinking like Florida roadkill in August. DIdn't win much off the free play but it's 20$ I didn't have to come up with.

Also excellent was the BBQ buffet. The ribs were good but they had fork tender brisket and something I've never had before, beef ribs. I might have embarrassed myself with how many of those I ate, looked like something out of The Flintstones.

I had computer issues yesterday, another damn piece of malware that shut down log ins. It corrupted ADW cleaner (ELD, Silvrethorn and my friend Chriiiiisss suggested that one). Luckily I was able to put it on my flash and run it from there. It worked! That's a fantastic cleaner, gets a lot of PUPs.

Still not writing, still doing mostly nothing other than being shocked I've been here nearly a month and haven't contacted a single friend or gone into Pittsburgh. It's been big on the depression meter I guess.

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cornerofmadness: shirtless spock (shirtless spock)
Lucky Uncle, his wife, Mom and I went to the meadows race track and casino tonight for the St. Paddy's day blow out. Only platinum players get to go (mom and I were guests. We dont' gamble that heavily). The buffet was amazing. I ate so much shrimp cocktail. There were bangers and mash and salmon and a pork loin with guinness sauce none of which I touched. Ate damn near everything else though, pickled beets/eggs (love pickled eggs), a sweet potato/apple/raisin 'Waldorf' type salad that was fantastic, shepherd's pie, corned beef with grainy mustard and a huge cheese spread that I could have eaten in it's entirety. Also had some sugar cookies, an Irish take on tiramisu using Bailey's Irish cream served in a shot glass (I had two) and mom and I split the huge Bailey's Irish cream cheesecake slice. So. Much. Food.

However before the food, Mom and I sat down at the Gold progressive we like. I put in twenty and it was gone in a few spins and on the last spin, the machine game to life. I won 135$. I played around after dinner and I hit bonuses on every machine. Mom spotted a new game and pointed, "There, Dana, go there!" It was a Dungeons and Dragons game complete with male or femal avatars. Won more there then lost part of it on the Walking Dead (though I got the best bonus there).

There was a bizarre new machine that was huge, a cylinder about 8-9 feet in diameter and the top of it was like a roulette wheel. If you hit that bonus the ball drops and you get whatever slot it goes in (10$ only in my case but it was fun). I hit a great bonus on my last machine, 11 free spins then hit the other bonus in the middle of those. Won50$ on that. I came home 120$ richer.

Good night.

I forgot to mention yesterday that Dad and I went out to my car. I did notice in the last few rains that the corner on the driver's side tail light the trunk is wet. I couldnt' see where it was coming in. We investigated and it was worse than I thought. When we took out the spare the well was filled with about an inch or more of water. We had to drain it. We pulled out all the upholstry in the back. What a pain in the ass (and I'd have to do that to change out a tail light). No where was a leak. Everything was dry and dusty except that corner. it's like it's raining inside the damn trunk. We couldn't figure it out but at least we buffed out the huge scratch I made scraping that 18 inches of snow off the damn car. I never have easy problems.
cornerofmadness: husk and angel eat popcorn (halloween Lavi)
In a word: traffic but more on that in a moment.

I had to get up before the sun to drive to Columbus for a convention on "Valuing Veterans." And I woke up from a weird dream. I was in my parent's basement workshop and someone (I think my brother) wanted me to get our pet...a golden teddy bear hamster (I have never had one or even really wanted one). Just as I got to the cage, it got the door open and I had to chase it all around the basement. Finally I caught him and went to stuff him in the cage but it was now in a hole in the wall. Inside the hole was a pixie-sized snow white woman and a bunch of heaving nether regions (also dead white) grinding away. No clue. Don't want to know. Brain, you suck.

So I get out of here without a hitch. It was a nice easy drive to Columbus to the Polaris mall area (100 miles almost exactly). I got off on N. 23 above the belt loop and it was 9:25. I was so proud of myself. I was going to be early because it was only 2.3 miles to the hotel. I would schmooze and have coffee and muffins. FORTY-FIVE fucking minutes later, I'm now 15 minutes late and frustrated. thank you construction traffic. I had to sit with the press. My provost probably thinks I stood him up.

Later I did learn he got stuck in that mess too. I went to all the break out sessions, 98% of which are all on the administrative end and very little applies to faculty until the last one where it was about becoming a faculty evaluator of military programs for credit (meaning you have to go out to the bases etc). And I actually caught myself LOOKING for the email to sign up. WTF. Seriously? Must I always make more work for myself. And sadly I know if they'll pay me and my travel, I'll probably sign up.

Lunch was good, rosemary chicken, three salads and veggies. I drove myself up there because I knew we were getting done at 15:30 so I wanted to go to the mall (I drove 100 miles one way at dawn, dammit I'm going shopping and to the casino). Turns out it's only 1.8 miles from the damn Polaris Mall. If I had known that, I would have gone there and avoided that traffic (My GPS isn't pricey enough to tell me traffic snarls).

I haven't been to Polaris in years because it is so far and higher end. It has a Saks. It also has outside strip malls and I went there first. By now it's POURING. I went to party city to look at halloween stuff. I loved the masks but bought nothing. Bought a damn umbrella at TJ Maxx (and some mustard) because it was raining and mine had broken.

In the mall, I found SPirit Halloween. I could have run thru there throwing money in the air. They has tons of very pricy (100-180$) animated ghouls. I particularly wanted the nurse (19th cen. garb) amputated trans-humeral on both sides with hooks and chains in the meat of her arms. SHe shook and moaned. The zombie kid gnawing an arm and the graveside lifesize Angel that did things also needed to come home with me. I bought nothing.

Headed to hot topics. I was THRILLED. anime t-shirts, buy one get one half off. AND they had ghibili studio stuff including My Neighbor Tortoro, a nice Attack on Titan shirt, the Blue Exorcist shirt of Rin I've been wanting and one with Winry resting her arms/head on Ed's. I'm like SCORE. Then think...these seem small. I grab two for me and two for [livejournal.com profile] evil_little_dog thinking Yule is done. ...I can't get my left boob into this thing let alone the rest of me and it's my size. (they were also thin as tissue paper).

Finally I ask the girls (I think I scared them to be honest since I was truly annoyed) WHY are these so small? I used to get my anime stuff here all the time. They said 'we had so many little kids and nothing fit them so they went smaller.' I said 'no, you introduce a junior line but you don't REMOVE the adult line.' No offense, but the average gamer/anime geek is about my size. Seriously in my anime club here on campus only TWO of them could possibly have fit. One girl did say they were going to change again (No shit, I'm sure you've had a string of complaints). I was afraid even the 2XX wouldn't fit ELD (who isn't anywhere near that size actually but trust me, her size would go on a 7 year old child). I bought myself weeping angel earrings and left. At least I can still fit into those. I figure if ELD goes to her own Hot Topics and those shirts fit, I'll send her the damn visa gift card and she can buy it herself for the holidays.

I went to Macy's to get my clinique bonus. Of course the blush I want was 6$ too cheap so I said let me look at the eyeshadows. In the mean time she waited on THREE other people. I wouldn't have minded one. I left her. bite me.

It was still raining and I wanted to go to the high end Asian place. I couldn't find it. my GPS wanted me to walk there as it was in an alley (they have some outbuildings that you can only get to on foot). I tried. I couldn't find it. I ducked into Barnes and Nobles and reminded myself why I buy my manga online through Books a Million because there is no deals at B&N and holy hell manga is now 12-15$ a pop.

I give up on Molly Woo's and go to the brewpub across the street. The pumpkin ale was good. The roast beef sandwich was good but not great and by now it's 6:30. I thought great. Rush hour is over. WRONG. All I wanted to do was get on 71-S to the beltloop and go over to 315 S (word of warning if you're ever in Columbus avoid I-71 it is nothing but traffic). Well I couldn't have gotten onto 71 proper anyhow because it was a solid line of cars. It took THIRTY minutes to get to the belt loop ONE mile away and a full hour to get to the casino 15 miles away. I wasn't even going to stop because of the weather but by now I had to pee.

I'm glad I stopped. I won 10$ on the Iron Man game but then it cheated me on two bonuses in a row so I went elsewhere, lost 15 and in the last minute found a haunted house slot that I loved and got it all back. By then the rain had stopped and I made it home without incident.

Kanda was beside himself because I'd been gone 13 hours and was very obviously never coming home.


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