Shenanigans

Maybe it’s the fact that I love green, or it’s another reason to drink beer and be mischievous, but I love St. Patrick’s Day. I wore my green suit slacks and tie with a green shirt, but best of all, my emerald green Doc Martins. I only break those bad boys out once a year. I got quite a few odd glances and fielded some jokes, even did a little bit of an Irish jig once or twice. Fun times at the office – sure does help a Monday go by!

When I got home, I had to get on Colin’s case to get the dishes done. Both his mother and I made it quite clear that we expected his chores to be done, just as if it were a regular day for him. Not only were things not done, but the house was starting to get a bad case of Colin mess. Paper plates and crumbs all over the kitchen, with jelly smears on the counter and not a flushed toilet in the house. When I asked him if he had taken his medication, he looked at me in a way that said “No,” then told me he had just before breakfast. D quickly saw through that, because she called after breakfast and he hadn’t yet. Since I can’t prove it, I’m not going to do anything this time, but I have a little surprise for him tonight if he pulls the same thing again…

Despite his behavior, I still decided to take him to the game that night. After spending nearly an hour navigating construction in downtown San Antonio and dodging East Side pedestrians, we got to the AT&T Center. Now I had two choices for parking: option A would put us in the boondocks of the regular parking lot and cost $15. Option B would put us in an abandoned gas station parking lot commandeered by a hobo and cost half as much. As averse as I was to dropping that much change for parking, I wanted to make sure my car was still there when we were ready to go home. I waved to the hobos on my way to the expensive parking.

We were up in the nosebleed section, but Colin loved it. He could see everything: the megatron, the scoreboard, the whole court and all the heavily sponsored timeout games. In particular, he really liked the RC blimp with the San Antonio Express-News logo tattooed on the side, flying and dodging around. The Spurs lost, but we had fun together, that was what was really important.

Finished the night with an expensive jaunt in game. I’d been tracking the price of Flood scrolls. They’ve been plummeting lately, and tonight there were six of them on the auction block. I got one for 150k – about 200k less than they were not even a month ago. I also finally bit the bullet and bought a water scroll. Used a little over half my gil, but I have a complete library ready for me until my BLM reaches Lv69, and I’m over 78% done with the Lu Shang’s quest.