last minutia

i almost missed the group last night - i kept remembering things once i'd stepped out the door. it's the first time i haven't forgotten my head-lamp, for example. that came in handy.

the leader was dressed up in preparation for purim, and some of the others were carrying balloons, so i whipped out my mask and participated. it was a huge group, and while a lot of people appreciated it some were rather vocal about having been frightened by my speeding menacingly past. again, i used it to effect when idiots held down their horns at us - it bothers me more and more each passing week how aggressive honking at people is.

i got all excited towards the end when it started raining, but after a few of us stopped to help a fallen cyclist we found that the route was far too smooth. i almost took a serious dive on the approach to levontin :/

a few of us sat down together at moses for beers and munchies after the group disbanded, and we had a really good time. it was getting towards 2.30am when we left, and a couple of us stood at the intersection near my place arguing about the most important things to be done when building a start-up: until 3am.

i was in bed by 3.30, and up at 5.30 - although i thought "stuff this" and kipped for another hour. i managed to get to the usual stop on time, and our SC was only about twenty minutes late. i arrived on base at 8am, ate breakfast and went to sleep.

i was woken twice before i left at 3pm: once for cake and coke floats to celebrate a birthday, and again for lunch, which was actually pretty good.

i was fortunate to get a lift all the way back to tel aviv, although it was with someone who didn't understand why i was upset with him for filling up with petrol with his engine still running. i seem to recall that not being entirely safe.

i stopped for a very pleasing cup of coffee on my way to the mall, failed abysmally in my attempts to enter a costume store (they were all so full that there were queues to get in), bought myself a pulse / calorie measuring system (watch and band), and bought a long network cable so that i can use my netbook in bed.

now i'm off to meet up with gn1. she's made me concerned with her attitude towards tonight's zombie march - we'll see how that goes.

chatroulette: how could it be that the first person i connected to was jerking off to his webcam? nasty.
i clicked next, and i think the guy was a bit freaked out by my pre-zombie-walk make-up. i give up.