Friday is a long day. After getting to work before 7 am and dealing with model discrepancies, test-tuning models, and preparing for Tuesday's Delta- PDR, I leave work and go to my friends' house where I get to babysit the kids. (Though is it still called babysitting when the kids are 12 and 9?) After eating pizza, finishing up homework, talking about cryogenically freezing our bodies so that we never age, and playing video games over the Internet, Mom and Dad return and I am relieved of my duties. But before leaving, Mom, Dad, and I spend 15 minutes trying to program our phones so that we get different rings from different incoming numbers. We agree to continue later.
I am not in the Frat House for more than 10 minutes before the half Vietnamese crossdresser walks in the club and slowly makes her way over towards me.
She introduces herself to me as Sabrina and after stooping down to put her ear near my mouth so that I can yell my name - she again has a pair of stratospheric heals on - she says that she has a friend who wants to meet me. When she asks if I want to meet her friend, I give a comfortable pause and agree. She walks out of the club and I am at a loss as to whether I am supposed to follow her, so I stay where I am and listen to music. During the seven minutes when Sabrina is outside the club, I start to wonder what kind of a difficult position I have gotten myself in - not knowing whether Sabrina's "friend" is actually Sabrina herself or a girl or a guy or something in-between. Sabrina re-enters the club with, in tow, a fairly normal looking...guy.
And when I respond with "I charge admission", Sabrina loses interest and leaves Toan and I alone.
I get home at 1:30am or so. It has been a long day and I am tired. I flip on the television in order to wind down for a few minutes. USA network is playing a movie called "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity" where the description reads "Two blondes and one brunette crash land on another planet and flee from a hunter with a laser crossbow", 1987. As could be expected, the brunette is dead or vaporized by the time I have tuned in. The best parts of the movie are that the spaceship has leopard or zebra skin covers on the astronaut seats and that the sabers and shields that are used during the fights are obviously cardboard covered with aluminum foil. The best line in the movie, towards the end when the two blondes have stolen a spaceship and are leaving the planet with the hunter, is "You shouldn't have stolen such an expensive spaceship. You know how the expensive ones are always in the shop for repairs".
The Boss shows up at the Ice Dogs game with his wife. As we enter the arena, the person two ahead of the Boss receives the last of the Beanie Baby Spike mascot giveaway dolls. I hope that this is not an omen of the outcome of the game nor an omen of what my raise this year will be - seeing that I held up the Boss and his wife from entering because I was a few minutes late. The Ice Dogs eventually win 7-5 with three late game goals.
On Sunday I have my own ice hockey game. Game three of the best of three finals. We lead 2-0, are tied 2-2, then assert ourselves and end up winning 6-3. I manage to knock two guys down late in the game when the other team is desperately trying to catch up. It feels good! So it turns out that BOTH teams that I played on this season won the championships.
I go home and find another 5 messages on the machine from Toan trying to get hold of me.