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Friday:
Work was excellent, very productive, we got a ton of stuff built, I've got a group of folks doing implementation work for me (yay corrupting CS folks and turning them into baby designers) and trying to come up with process steps for them to follow to create large swaths of items for me was interesting. :) It has proven very effective in generating a ton of items quickly, with any luck a bunch of crafting recipes will go in this week. :) Next I've got the algorithmic redesign to set them on, I've got the bones fleshed out for them to duplicate from.
After work I went and climbed at the gym, had some good climbs and enjoyed myself despite being a bit worn out from Thursday already. Climbing multiple days in a row is still fairly hard, but I do feel like I am getting stronger. :) Afterwards I went over to Alpine Butterfly Lodge (ABL) to hang out with Dawn, we stayed up way too late chatting but it was really fun. I'm a bad influence, I keep getting her to stay up WAY past her bedtime.
Saturday:
Saturday morning I was up mildly bright and early and met up at CDC (Casa de CuPanda, no we don't have a website, though I really should, wonder if we should just do that on Facebook to gain all the benefit of a social networking site...) with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) calyel to go ATVing. Her friend Crutch was a neat guy, a systems engineer at a defense contractor, works on one-off radar acquisition and identification hardware, which seemed like a pretty neat space. His ATVs were big, and cool, and fun to ride.
We went up and down some cool trails, the park at Hollister is pretty neat. calyel and I went on a ride that was meant to be 20 minutes, but on our way back down we hit a section of trail that had been closed because a dirtbiker was down with a broken femur. The emergency medical patrol guy sent us back a different way, which ended up being VERY long. It was a ton of fun, and we want to buy an SUV, trailer and ATVs... :) I like the idea, something with 4wd so we can use it for going snowboarding as well. :)
After we got back I had dinner with Leyla, we watched some NCIS, then we watched Real Genius while she braided my hair, she did a great job which made me really happy, yay for friends being willing to help maintain my hairstyle! :) While we were watching Real Genius, Dawn called to invite me over to ABL to watch Bones with her and her sister. Real Genius was fun, and I realized that while I was never the caricature either character was, I was indeed more Mitch when I started college and more Chris Knight these days. :) Fun fun. So late at night I drove over to ABL, watched some Bones with Dawn and her sister, then kept her up talking and hanging out till way late at night again.
Sunday:
Sunday midday calyel met a group of friends for dim sum and Joy Luck Palace in Cupertino, a short drive from home. It was delicious and fun, and I showed pictures of Dawn to my friends and generally enjoyed myself. Afterwards I dropped calyel home, then went over to Planet Granite to go climbing with my friend Nija, and her friends. Turned out both her boyfriends knew people I know from work, though to be honest at this point I'm expecting I'm just 2 degrees of separation from anybody I am likely to meet in the techie/gamer/geek bay area crowds.
After climbing finished, Dawn came over for dinner with calyel and I, and we actually got to hang out at a reasonable time of night! The food was good, the hanging out was fun. Dawn and I had serious relationship discussions, talked about our selves, wrestled (calyel misinterpreted the sounds and we were amused), talked more, spent time together, and ended up agreeing that we were dating. :D
So yeah, I've got an awesome girlfriend who is smart, beautiful, sweet, strong, playful, silly, sensuous and wonderful. I wasn't expecting it, and I'm really excited. I want to see how things unfold. Getting to know her better should be a fascinating journey. I hope that my bad aspects don't mesh poorly with hers, hopefully I can defuse my own negative behaviours. I know that her and my good aspects go together well so far. :)
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