I'll make the most of it

Last night we ate nachos and got drunk. Surprised much?

But last night was Laurel's birthday as well and Wil was determined for her to have an awesome time. Also, Aaron was coming up to drop off stuff and partake in nacho night, there was a running gag to be had there. So I spent many hours yesterday preparing for nacho night when I wasn't working on G/B stuff.

The Laurel things were pretty straightforward. Wrap the presents and make her a shirt to be part of our gang. Hehe.

The BuyOlympia stuff was a different story:

Last month we're all getting ready for MacWorld, and I stencil out these "LL Wil S" shirts (that's another story) for the girlies. Lucas is like, "Hey, that's cool, did you screen those?" and I'm like, "Well, no, I don't know how to do that, isn't it complicated?" and he's like, "No, it's actually really easy, I'll show you sometime." and I'm like, "Cool."

Last week Tuesday Lucas brought over all the stuff to screen. But. We needed a design, duh. So for inspiration, we (well, really, it was his idea) turned to the BuyOlympia.com holiday card. The guys down there sent us a card full of failed holiday card ideas with accompanying clip art (indicated in parentheses) such as:

• (Toilet) Don't flush away the opportunity to have a happy new year
• (T-Rex) Hope your holidays are killer!
• (Computer) You turn me on this holiday season
• (Robot) May you absolutely dominate the new year.

and of course:
• (Harp) Don't harp on the past. Look forward to an exciting new year.


But. Before we can complete the screenmaking process, he goes to the cafe with the rest of the guys, leaving the rest of the process in my novice hands. Of course, it ends up not being exposed for long enough, and more emulsion washes out than really should, almost completely obliterating some of the wording. I forge ahead, using creative masking techniques to create a vaguely acceptable — but puzzling — screen that reads "Harp the Past. Look forward to an exciting new year."

I go ahead and screen the shirts, and we wear them to nacho night. If you recall, we all had a good time. Also, Pat and Aaron thought the shirts were super funny. (note to self: remember to screen out 2 more for those guys — Oly-style!)

Because they're nice boys, they actually sent us a thank you note for showing them a nice night:



* The blurry black text at the bottom reads: "because with friends like you, who needs enemas?"

And we decided (OK, it was Wil's idea, who am I kidding?) to retaliate by making more shirts, since they were coming up again for business/pleasure last night. This time I made two for them as well (and one for Laurel!).



That's right, they say, "we're na'cho friends!" Ha ha!

Ha.

Ha.

Ahem. Anyway, we all went out and had a good time and Laurel had a fabulous birthday, as evidenced here:








And when we got home, we totally partied until, uh. . . actually I think I went to sleep at 11. Some of the other guys stayed up and although it's only 8 a.m. here and everyone but me is still hung over in bed, Dragons and Guillermo have both said the exact same things about the hijinx after I went to bed: "Lucas got so wasted" and "He kept trying to throw up in the sink".

Ha ha!

I mean, uh. . . poor Lucas.

. . .

I passed these chairs on the way home from work on Monday:



The signs on them say "Free" and "Free".