Outrage Fatigue

This is mostly for Jenny.

EDIT: Because I know Fro is going to have no idea what that is in reference to…

Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug

Under normal circumstances I probably would have correctly deciphered Charle’s invitation to “go get Jucy Lucys” as “go get Jucy Lucys and then drink all night”, but in my defense I was loaded up on cold medicine.  I probably would have still done it anyway, because I love Jucy Lucys.  Not that I got one.  By the time we picked up Jenny and Nicole and got to Matt’s (5:30-ish) it was already overflowing outside.  Thai was a welcome replacement…but not really the same.

After that we headed to the Blue Nile, which is fast becoming one of my favorite places to drink.  Most of the night went pretty well.  After getting a few beers in me, my sinus and chest congestion shit went away, or at least weren’t noticable anymore.  I smoked a lot of Jenny’s cigarettes, drank a lot of beer, and met several new people.  At some point during the night an old woman decided to sit at our table.  My understanding is that it’s because it was “her spot”.  Anyway she started up a conversation with Charles and apparently let him know that while she looked like an old woman, she in fact had several super powers (super strength and teleportation among others) and was abducted by aliens.

That was pretty funny.  Even funnier was when Turbo apparently used her to score some prescription medication, and went with her back to her place.  He was gone for like an hour…doing whatever.  Someone mentioned they had never seen a walker being used to openly flirt before.  Hilarious first impression.

So, I’m feeling pretty good but tired by the time we leave Blue Nile, and Charles decides that we should go over to Pieplow’s for some after-drinking substance abuse.  That was not a great idea.  It was touch-and-go for several minutes there as everything just started to hit me all at once.  It took a large amount of willpower not to throw up all over Pieplow’s place (and Charles’ car later).  I’m not really sure how long I was at Pieplow’s…I may have fallen asleep.

The next day, I woke up feeling like complete ass with a terrible headache at around 3:00pm in the afternoon…which is about 12 hours of sleep.  My cold was worse than it was, and while I feel better today, the whole night probably delayed my recovery by at least a couple of days.

I’m getting too old for this shit.

So I had been sitting on around $300 of unused amazon.com gift certificates via a merit bonus program from work.  I had debated using it in the last couple of months for little things I might like, but as is my nature I opted instead to spend it on something big (in terms of cost) and mostly unnecessary.  But what?

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