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It started out innocently enough. The Girl and i trucked up to Hot Doug’s for some fine encased meats and to meet up with Scott & Leighanthrax. Made our way through the line and I ordered the game of the week, a three-chili wild boar sausage with lemon pepper dijonaise and pepper jack cheese and a side of duck fries. Yes, fries fried in duck fat. God, it was fucking delicious.

Afterwards, we headed back to S & L’s for some drinks and hanging out. It’d been since the wedding that we’d seen them and we spent the afternoon talking and drinking. Scott & i drank an entire bottle of Jameson (slowly, in lo-ball glasses with a bit of ice) and we all went to go see Walk The Line in Evanston. Evanston is a very strange place… it’s akin to Chicago Lite, but with half the good stuff and four times the tax. Even though we sat in the very front row and Leighanthrax had to shush some mouthy bitch behind her, the movie was fantastic and i highly recommend it to anyone else that vaguely likes the man in black or at least a good story. Whats-his-name Phoenix was suprisingly good as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon’s acting was commendable – it didn’t make me want to beat her in the face with a shovel (a first, congratulations).

Afterwards, we went to this crazy ethiopian restaurant and ordered some beers, some honey wine & a giant platter full of meat and vegetarian dishes. We scarfed down everything very quickly and i momentarily felt very hot and as if i might barf, but it passed and we trucked back down to the south side as we were both starting to fade.

Other than that, i’m down ten pounds, not going to georgia for thanksgiving, still plotting the purchase of a turkey fryer (looks doubtful this year, so i’ll prolly resort to grilling the massive 15.5 pound bird with some wood chips to smoke it), thankful we finally got some snow last week and finally got my goddamn ibook put back together. Replacing the reed switch cable (to solve backlight intermittance issues) is a royal pain in the ass and basically entails disassembling the computer down to components. It’s a 4 hour dis|reassembly to replace a $20 part which only takes 5 minutes of the ordeal. While doing so i took the time to strip the cases of their “snow” paint and give it a coat of medium grey with an off-center black stripe. After much worrying and masking and cutting myself with the razor accidently and breathing paint fumes and cursing, it’s back together and works, well, just like it should. Pictures to come later.