Isaacal weekend
After the tatting party, Isaac followed me home and hung out for the weekend. Right before the turn to get to out place, on a busy street, Isaac pulled into the turn lane and his motorcycle died. I was behind him and slammed on my brakes and almost got rear-ended by a police car. It was apparently stuck in third gear. He eventually got it going again.
When we got into the apartment, we looked up some stuff for the University of Iowa where he wants to go so he can get a certificate in book binding and a degree in math, but I showed him it is about 4x the cost to go to school out of state. He still wants to go, I think. Then we spent an hour looking at comedians on You Tube and left to pick up Abe from work. THEN we bought some beer (I got the Elysian Night Owl pumpkin ale). THEN we went to Dick’s and ate it back at the apartment. I had some ice cream right before my beer which was stupid. It was okay. I did manage to finish the whole 22oz bottle while I watched You Tube some more. First we all watched corgis and then some other dogs. Cute but not very funny. Then Isaac started watching Abe play EQ2 while I watched bloopers on You Tube and laughed my head off. Eventually, we went out to watch Cowboy BeBop, which of course Isaac had never seen. We only watched a couple episodes and we were all pretty drunk. But Isaac will be coming down the next time he has a weekend off to watch all of Cowboy BeBop. I helped Isaac finish off his last beer while we played a little Soul Calibur. I kicked Abe’s ass.
The next morning we all split a dutch pancake, so yummy. I wish I could eat that every morning, but they are not that good for you. Then I wrote down for Isaac how to do the magic cast on for socks. I can never remember so it was interesting writing it down. Abe and Isaac played EQ2 together while I did that. Big mistake. I thought they would stop when I was done, but they played until 1 in the afternoon. Jerks. I guess they tie for jerk of the week for making me wait for 2 hours for lunch.
Made up for it by getting to go to Luisa’s, though. So good. Of course, I had chicken sopes. Isaac just had a taco (he at about 7 pieces of pizza at grandma’s for lunch the previous day and was merely satiated) because he had to leave for home in a few hours and didn’t want to ride the bike that far with a full stomach.
Anyways, after lunch, Isaac showed me a song he plays on the violin that he made up. We wrote it down and now I will have to practice it. Both on the piano and the violin. He plays it so fast. I like it. The song is interesting. I really need to practice Abe’s piece, too. Anyways, at 3, when Isaac was supposed to leave, we realized I had forgotten to show Isaac how to cast on for the sock toe. So I showed him that (which took about half an hour) and sent him on his way. We printed up University of Iowa applications for him earlier and sent him with those and I gave him the orange skien of 3-ply yarn I had dyed and spun, but I forgot to give him the yarn for a surprise thing we are knitting for someone. I will see him this weekend for something else, though so I can give it to him then.
Then he called when he got home. Turns out that right when he got on the freeway and started to merge, the visor flew off his helmet and he had to drive from Seattle to Kendal (I would guess 100 miles) with no face plate on his helmet. And it was already a chilly day. He said he could barely feel his nose by the time he got home.
And while he had watched Cowboy BeBop while totally shnockered, I tried to knit a very simple basketweave (also in the dark). This did not work out well and I may need to rip it out. Frown.
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