Code Moniker

Got my Criterion flash sale contents in the mail yesterday. I was happy 'cuz it came quite earlier than expected (though it probably tends to when it comes from them). Anyway, so I got some blu rays: Eraserhead, The Silence of the Lambs, Throne of Blood, Videodrome, and Dressed to Kill (the Lynch and Cronenberg once again being blu ray upgrades). Mary Beth and I watched or tried to watch the season finale of Crazy Ex Girlfriend. We got close to the end and the browser crashed or something. Okay, so we try to go and pick it back up and it won't fast forward, it'd only let us start from the beginning. So that was annoying as hell. Maybe we can try again successfully later. I did a good bit of hanging out last night. First I met Josh and Molly for dinner up at the Dirty Crow Inn. So we hung out and the food was pretty good. I had some panchos cheese fries (which probably have my butt going a little crazy) and some wings (sriracha honey, trendy-sounding, I know). It's definitely going for the dive bar vibe, but it was a pretty good eat. After that I went to meet Nate and April over at Ben (Bauermeister) and Ashley's house, which I'd never been to (really, only met Ben a few times but he's always been nice and he continued to be nice). We played a few games. First was Codenames and I think I like that game a lot now. Though in the first round, we kept getting hints and I was suggesting "box" as the word it was for (though I didn't feel strongly about it). And at one point Nate got all threatening like, there's no way, if you pick "box" I'm deleting you from my contacts. (Oh, guess what one of the words ended up being? Yeah, "box.") After that we played Monikers. It's more of a party game (Codenames kind of is too, but it's somewhere between party and strategy). You get a bunch of names of famous people or characters or whatever on cards and you go around with a timer trying to get people to guess as many as you can. The first round you can say whatever. Then the next round you have the same cards reshuffled but you can only say one word. The last round is charades and no words. It was fun. Usually you play with teams, but since we had an odd number and they were small enough we just did it for funsies as one group. Also got to see Ben's nice little studio. Yeah, anyway so that was my event-filled night. It was a pretty fun ol' time.