So, had a pretty laid-back but productive weekend. Friday night after work, Ei-Nyung & I moved into the room that Joe moved out of. We ended up hanging up a curtain, and moving the large furnitures around to try to find some sort of optimal layout.

We ended up going with a sort of oddball arrangement, but I think it works pretty well – the room’s sort of divided into two parts – an “office-lite” arrangement and the bed. I’ll post a picture at some point or another. Saturday, we got some stuff to “round out” the room – Ei-Nyung got an end-table for her side of the bed – something she’s been wanting in forever, and we got another curtain for the small window on the side. Ended up merging all the curtains in a bit J-shaped arrangement, which is sort of weird because one window’s only bordered on one side by a curtain, but it actually works out for the best. If that window was symmetric, the curtain would hang behind the bed and be a giant pain in the butt.

Okay, I’ll just take a picture now. Sheesh.

Anyway, also got some shadow-boxes to put the various games I’ve worked on in, as a little weird thematic thing for the walls, but I’ve been thinking about getting some really tall, narrow canvases and doing a sort of Mark Rothko rip-off thing for the area above the ottoman.

That was the better part of Friday night and Saturday, and Sunday was spent just hanging out with friends, playing games, and going food shopping. It’s been a while since I’ve done any cooking, ’cause I get home from work a little on the late-ish side. So, I ended up getting some salmon, and making salmon with a lemon-cranberry relish for dinner.

Gotta go back to IKEA to get some longer curtain rods, Ei-Nyung’s cut and is hemming some curtains for the narrow downstairs window, and that should take care of things.

Oh – I’m cleaning out the garage slowly – probably cleared out about eight square feet (Lame, I know. Shut up.) in an effort to be able to get the Mini into the garage. Why? ’cause of this. I figure I have to repair one small rust spot on the roof, then roller-ing the paint on the roof seems like a relatively straightforward thing to do. I mean, you couldn’t really ask for a more featureless, flat expanse of sheetmetal than the roof of a Mini. Why not give it a go?

We also bought some interlocking foam tiles online to temporarily re-floor the room that was our bedroom, and use it as an exercise area. Basically we can bring up the rowing machine, the treadmill and the weights, and use it as a workout room – it’s already got a great mirror, and the room gets a lot of sun.

It’s actually sort of weird, now that our one housemate’s moved out – we’ve got more space than we reasonably know what to do with. I’ve spent most of the evening in one room, but we have essentially five that I could have just casually hung out in. It’s weird. I suppose I can’t complain – we got a good place at a good time for a good price. Though the remodeling process has been incredibly stressful at times, there’s no way we’d have been able to get a place this nice in a neighborhood this nice (and friendly) any other way. Thanks in large part to my parents. Don’t think I’ve forgotten. 😉

Anyway. It was a really good weekend.

One more thing: (and no, that’s not a nod to the impending WWDC, though I suppose now it is) Anyone out there in the tubes play Arkham Horror? I’ve heard good things from various ex-coworkers, and was talking with a friend a couple nights ago about how we miss the days of long-assed games where you’d get a bunch of people together in the *real world* and spend a day gaming. I keep teetering on the edge of getting it, but not pulling the trigger. For those who have played it – worth it? If not, can you recommend something else? For the locals – any interest?