Had myself a rubusto-sized madura AVO cigar tonight, along with a Rolling Rock. Sometimes it's just good to take an easy Sunday evening chatting it up with friends. Eric and Katie's backyard is really, really nice - they've put a lot of effort changing a square of grass into a sweet backyard. And if you douse yourself in bug repellant, you don't get eaten! I think what helped make it really enjoyable was the neighbor that was playing some Johnny Cash in his garage. Good stuff.

I did some cleaning and maintenance stuff around the apartment, so this weekend I kind of made a point to enjoy my clean apartment, clean clothes, clean dishes, clean car... it's good being clean. :)

Oh, and on a trip to Sam's club, I picked up a giant pack of Terriyaki beef jerky, 2 giants multi-packs of chewing gum, two bed pillows (had to throw out my old saliva-stained pillows from college a while ago), and a Yamaha keyboard. Something I've wanted for a long time, but never really had the chance to get... I've been messing with it for a while now. It's totally sweet. The clincher was that it came with a nice folding keyboard stand, what's more, it's Sam's, so it's $20 cheaper even than Amazon... More on that later.

In other news, I'm about 90% sure that I'm going to be getting a snake for the apartment. It hit me the other day - I've wanted a pet for a while, something that you can actually play around with. Naturally I wanted a dog, but they can be smelly, ill-behaved, and are pretty time-intensive. A snake would be sweet because you can get it out when you want to, but it's totally fine if you ignore it for a few days (you know, making sure it's got water, etc). So... gonna find out about that.

I'm thinking about either a ball python or a corn snake. Both are very docile and make robust pets.

Well, I think it would be sweet. :)