Well, late on Friday night I went and picked up Nik from the airport. He’s over from Melbourne for a couple of weeks or so since he has a bunch of time off. This means I’m going to spend a lot more time gaming and screwing around, if this weekend is any indication. After picking Nik up from the airport I took him around to Ian’s where Ian finally got to meet Nik in person and realised that yes, he does talk as much as he IMs! ^^ Anyway, we talked crap for a while, did a pie run since we were a bit hungry, then I left Nik with Ian for the night, as I had Japanese class in the morning and I figured Nik and Ian would want to have a bit of a catch-up anyway. Turns out they were up until 5am making music and talking crap. Yesterday afternoon they both came over to Dad’s and we sorted some stuff out before going and picking up some computers from Ian’s, then coming back to Dad’s to play a whole lot of StarCraft (are you psyched about StarCraft II? I am!) for the rest of the evening, barring a break to watch Office Space (has anyone seen my Swingline stapler?) and eat some pizza. Today I dropped them back to Ian’s so I could go and see Hera play in the Arts Centre again (yay!), then picked them both up afterwards to go do some grocery shopping, then back to Dad’s again. I managed to actually do some emails and stuff for a bit while Nik and Ian were gaming (there was a very long list of things that needed to be done), then dropped Ian back at his place while Nik and I went to Mum’s for tea. Mum hadn’t actually remembered who Nik was in context until he stepped out of the car… I think she’s like me (or I’m like her?) in that we remember faces pretty well, but not so much with the names. It’s a problem sometimes. Anyway, after that we picked up Ian again, mucked about playing games again, then watched The Princess Bride, as Ian said he hadn’t seen it before. I ended up crashing on the couch while Nik and Ian took the beds.

In other news these past few days, I still have no laptop – they projected Monday for when the part was due to arrive for my old laptop, and I had a phone call to confirm the order of my new one, which means it isn’t going to arrive until next week either. I also went over a lot of documents from the mail on going to Japan (that took a while) and made a tentative budget for living in Japan in yen, based on what little figures I have. I’m sure I’ll be updating that quite a bit as I go along.

I went and had a drink with Michael and some people from Dad’s office on Friday, which was nice. Just sit around and talk crap for a while. I also got to have a bit of a work catch-up with Michael afterwards, which I’ve been needing to do for a little while.

I’ve been able to see a bit of Dace as well. I spent quite a bit of time with him on Friday, we played some games in the afternoon and then had tea together later and talked crap until he went to bed and I went to the airport to pick up Nik. I know I’ve said it before, but it’s been great being able to see him as much as I have been, he’s someone I miss a lot when I’m overseas.