Evening w/Laura&Mike, Chick Halloween, voting fraud, license plates, PvP, motoGearStuff

[skreidle]

So yesterday afternoon I was chatting with Laura (French girl from Mike Hedrick's birthday party) and she mentioned she and Mike were meeting for dinner in the evening, and invited me to join them. I called Mike to verify that this was okay, and it turned out to be quite welcome--his long-time girlfriend was feeling a little jealous, see. So I met them at Ballston Common Mall (which I'd previously never been to)--which, incidentally, has the most reasonable parking fee I've ever seen in Arlington, at $1 for all evening--and found them outside Starbucks, whence we got into Mike's car and headed to Shirlington. We went to a very tasty Thai place, cleverly yet nonsensically named T.H.A.I., then walked over to Maggie Moo's for ice cream. (I had Cinnamöö!)

Mm, cute French girl. ;)

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Chick Tract: The Devil's Night. Ah, if only it were intended as satire..

Via sebatical: Problems that have already been reported to the state of Florida regarding the upcoming election, including thousands of undesired party affiliation changes (to R), registrations to addresses that don't exist, forged signatures, undesired registrations.. (and this (bad ballots), and this (RNC-funded registration fraud..)

While out yesterday, I saw some clever license plates:
MSOFT SUX
ERUDITE (on a pickup truck)
END SIEG
I CODE
CAZPER
RED RCR (on a red sports car)

But by far, the winners:
KAFKA (on a VW Beetle)
NUPRIN (on a little, yellow, Audi)

PvP: Metaphorically, our relationship is pre-warp technology.

Why wear a full-face helmet? (Not graphic, but makes its point well.)
Riding Without Gear is a Personal Choice

Comments

[steffykitty.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had quite a blast.

Arlington.
Virginia?

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

That's the one. I'm in Lorton, about 30 miles north of you. :)

[steffykitty.livejournal.com]

-nod- very cool.

My mom used to work near Lorton.
Some friends of mine and I were going to break in and spend the night at the Lorton prison cause we thought it was haunted. XD

And then we found out that it's still guarded so we just talked to one of the guards for a few hours.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'd never heard anything about Lorton being haunted.. it doesn't seem old enough for that! :)


Figures it's still guarded, eh?

[steffykitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we were just bored though. XD

But yeah, it's still guarded.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Parking in a Metro garage is $3.75 with only a "<24hrs" limit, and I already have to drive 10-15 minutes to get to the closest station--so that's what I generally use if I need to go into DC by Metro. :) (Or Dunn Loring, if I'm coming from work.)

There's still a tapas place there, probably the same one.