"Gives new meaning to 'Oral Tradition', right?" -- Me, to Roni.

I have had one busy busy week! Let me fill you in with a little background info.

The house the next door is rented. There have been some LOUSY tenants over there. The guys who beat each other with bottles in the back street, the twenty immigrant families with the mean dogs, etc. But for about the last two years four really nice guys have been living over there. Nice guys who don't scare us. "Three brothers and a friend" is the simplest way to say it. I've said hi to them in the past but I never really made the effort to get to know them before. Possibly because they moved in just as I headed off to Binghamton and I've been around a total of about eight very busy months since they moved in...but the "friend", Dan, found my webpage and we started chatting online a little while ago.

So when I got home I started hanging out over there with them. Yes, I met my next door neighbor ONLINE. Freaky.

Starting last week I hung out with Joslyn, and the neighbors quite a bit. Especially with Dan. We spent a few days sitting up to unnatural hours chatting about all kinds of stuff. He's a fellow nerd and he showed me some of his wicked cool graphical abilities and all I could do was gaze in wonder. Then I was stuck. HTML isn't all that cool to look at, and C++ isn't very impressive to watch either but I felt the need to show him that my PC was just as cool as his Mac, if not cooler simply because it IS a PC afterall. (I'm so gonna get my booty kicked for that, aren't I?) Hmm...what's cool? "Hey...I have the Star Wars trailer.."

He mentioned that he hadn't seen Star Wars yet.

After I picked myself up off the floor I pulled out a newspaper and we made plans to catch a late showing of Star Wars that night. Some wrongs must be righted, and quickly.

Okay, not seeing Star Wars isn't a big crime, but come on people! Seriously here! It was an opening for going out somewhere! But I love the drama. Wait until I get to the sword fights, and the explosions, and...

Ahem. I'm better now. Movie went well, all parties involved had fun. Except George Lucas, perhaps...after all the Jar Jar Binks bashing anyway. Ah...he's getting so much money it doesn't matter, does it?

On Saturday, The Neighbors had a huge party. Loud music, dancing, loud music, booze, loud music, and jello shots. Jello shots bounce in your stomach while you dance, making you think you may barf until they dissolve, or digest or do whatever it is they do down there.

Making Jello shots was fun. Dan came over and brought banana rum...which smelled AMAZING with the strawberry kiwi jello...try it sometime. We made at least a hundred of the things. My mother didn't know what they were at first. I really shouldn't have made a point of telling my parents they were alcoholic. It had the potential to be very very funny. Actually, they would have said "These taste funny" and thrown them out, thinking them spoiled. Jello doesn't go bad, does it? It just grows stuff, but the alcohol might have stopped that. Hmmm...I sense an experiment.

Ah...point, I know. Devoted Reader...can you see it coming? All this mention of Dan must have tipped off some of you by now. Anyone?

Fools. All of you. We had nice drunk conversations and we both admitted to being sweet on the other and I'm pretty sure we kicked off a relationship. ;) I need sober confirmation and all, but it was really sweet!

Stay tuned for sober confirmations...

Jos and I left for Binghamton that next morning. I was SO tired...not that I expected any less after a night of drinking and dancing, but I just wanted to sleep. I got to Bing and slept and slept and slept. Sunday night when I got there, it started pouring. When I got tired of the rain on Wednesday, it stopped and I drove home. And it started raining at home. Grrr.

I had fun despite the rain. I woke up and felt refreshed on Monday...sat up, stretched, and the power went out. I wasn't surprised...I just showered by flashlight and got out to run some errands. Hung with my friends up there, watched some TV, and relaxed after my busy week.

I love Binghamton. I can sleep there.