solarbird | Busy busy busy

annathepiper and I got in a decent bike ride to Woodinville today, where she picked up a set of DVDs paid for by some of her recent WTF overtime, which we kind of shouldn't spend, but then, on the other hand, she's going to be recovering from surgery for a week, so, well, there you go.

Last night's poker night turned into the single lamest session of poker I personally have ever played, even compared to nights when I've lost more. (This is penny poker, so I lost all of $2.80 over three hours of play, so it's still cheaper than, say, a rental movie.) To give you some idea of how lame it was: the one genuinely good hand I had all night had everyone else folding before I even got to bet after the flop. It was that kind of a night.

The best thing coming out of it, though, was that Anna got talked into being a judge between

spazzkat's and

kathrynt's argument over which movie is worse: Alien Express, a sci-fi channel original starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Todd "Diff'rnt Strokes" Bridges, featuring model helicopters thrown against pictures of buildings, and On Deadly Ground, the two-hour intestinal chokefest environmental anti-oil action film starring, written, and directed by Steven Seagal, spelled like the football team's cheerleaders, only completely, horribly different in every other way.

So. Two more weeks of complete crazy, then a little bit better - at least, for a little while, I hope!

Today's miles: 14.5. Cool troll sculptures. Not as cool as the one under the bridge in Seattle, since they aren't eating a VW, but still pretty cool.
Miles out of Hobbiton: 402.3
Miles to Rivendell: 56

And today's flower picture - always needed after a political post to cleanse the palate: