Morning, Noone, and Night
Nov. 28th, 2016 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatIf I had to choose my top five holidays based around eating turkey, then Thanksgiving would definitely be in there somewhere. It's never been a particularly exciting holiday for me, but I had fun spending it with Beth's family this year.
People always joke about how much they eat at Thanksgiving dinner, and while I generally get full, I have other preferences for overeating. The breadsticks at the Olive Garden, for instance. Beth and I have been wanting to go there for our birthdays, which were almost two weeks ago now, but we didn't have the chance when we were in New Jersey. A lot of people would probably consider it gauche, but it's still my favorite restaurant. I've had better Italian food, sure, but usually for much higher prices and without the breadsticks. I had work on Friday, and then returned to South Jersey on Saturday to see Herman's Hermits in Atlantic City with Beth, her mom, and her cousin Marji. Peter Noone still tours under that name, but I don't know if any of the other original band members are still active.
At sixty-nine years old, he's still a very entertaining performer, joking around with the crowd and playing a mix of Herman's Hermits songs and others from the same era. Beth and I might well have been the youngest people in the audience. Okay, maybe not, since there are usually a few children, but I didn't notice any. It's basically the opposite of when I saw the Decemberists and felt like the oldest person there. I have noticed that concerts at casinos tend to be short compared to those at other venues, I guess in hopes that the audience will have more time to spend gambling. After the show, we ate at Denny's, another much-maligned restaurant that I like. They undercooked my pancakes, but they replaced them, so that turned out all right.
I haven't done much Christmas shopping yet, just a little for Beth. I did buy myself some things, a 3DS XL and a copy of Dragon Quest VII, but I haven't played it yet. Well, this version, anyway; I did play DQ7 on my brother's PlayStation years ago, and couldn't get past the 3D maze. I remember the beginning of the game being pretty boring.
The system also comes with Super Mario World pre-installed, and I'm still terrible at it. It doesn't help that I'm not yet used to the controls, which are basically the same as on the Super NES but feel a bit different. I did manage to finish World 1 and save my game. In retrospect, it's weird how SMW was the first Mario game with battery backup. Woe betide you if you managed to get through most of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES and then the power went out. I believe the reissues of the early Mario games do allow for saving, though. SMB3 actually kind of felt bigger than SMW, although I don't think it was in terms of actual gameplay. There were more levels, and eight worlds instead of seven, but the levels tended to be much shorter and lacked the hidden exits.
People always joke about how much they eat at Thanksgiving dinner, and while I generally get full, I have other preferences for overeating. The breadsticks at the Olive Garden, for instance. Beth and I have been wanting to go there for our birthdays, which were almost two weeks ago now, but we didn't have the chance when we were in New Jersey. A lot of people would probably consider it gauche, but it's still my favorite restaurant. I've had better Italian food, sure, but usually for much higher prices and without the breadsticks. I had work on Friday, and then returned to South Jersey on Saturday to see Herman's Hermits in Atlantic City with Beth, her mom, and her cousin Marji. Peter Noone still tours under that name, but I don't know if any of the other original band members are still active.
At sixty-nine years old, he's still a very entertaining performer, joking around with the crowd and playing a mix of Herman's Hermits songs and others from the same era. Beth and I might well have been the youngest people in the audience. Okay, maybe not, since there are usually a few children, but I didn't notice any. It's basically the opposite of when I saw the Decemberists and felt like the oldest person there. I have noticed that concerts at casinos tend to be short compared to those at other venues, I guess in hopes that the audience will have more time to spend gambling. After the show, we ate at Denny's, another much-maligned restaurant that I like. They undercooked my pancakes, but they replaced them, so that turned out all right.
I haven't done much Christmas shopping yet, just a little for Beth. I did buy myself some things, a 3DS XL and a copy of Dragon Quest VII, but I haven't played it yet. Well, this version, anyway; I did play DQ7 on my brother's PlayStation years ago, and couldn't get past the 3D maze. I remember the beginning of the game being pretty boring.
The system also comes with Super Mario World pre-installed, and I'm still terrible at it. It doesn't help that I'm not yet used to the controls, which are basically the same as on the Super NES but feel a bit different. I did manage to finish World 1 and save my game. In retrospect, it's weird how SMW was the first Mario game with battery backup. Woe betide you if you managed to get through most of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES and then the power went out. I believe the reissues of the early Mario games do allow for saving, though. SMB3 actually kind of felt bigger than SMW, although I don't think it was in terms of actual gameplay. There were more levels, and eight worlds instead of seven, but the levels tended to be much shorter and lacked the hidden exits.
