Weekend with Friends from Rochester

April 25th, 2010
Posted in Fun . Social
By joshbruning
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I had a couple of good friends from my time in Rochester, Minnesota, down to stay the weekend at my place. They got here Friday evening and left this afternoon.

We went out to see the movie, The Losers (Trailer), Friday night. It was an average movie, I thought. It was entertaining, but sometimes it seemed that the characters’ actions were a step removed from their apparent motivations. Sometimes, there would be a small skip in time that wouldn’t have seemed possible under normal conditions; for example, the enemies often seemed to give up way too easily. They’ll stand and shoot, but they won’t chase. Considering the power that the bad guy is supposed to have at his fingertips, it sometimes seems implausible that the good guys could get away and stay hidden so well. Entertaining all around, but not one of my favorites.

Yesterday, we went to the half-price bookstore in town, which was a lot of fun as well. I picked up a copy of Freakonomics. I’ve already read it, but it was dirt cheap, and I already owned the second book in the series. I also picked up a copy of People Before Profit, which I haven’t read yet. It looks like a book about the future of globalization. I just thought it looked interesting – I suppose I’ll find out soon! I decided to pass up a book about stem cell research for now. It looked like a scientific and historical view of stem cell research (both adult and embryonic). Maybe one day I’ll pick it up as it has the potential to become such a salient issue in the future.

We went to Hu Hot at the Lindale Mall yesterday. It was pretty good; however, it was more pricey than the other Mongolian grill place I went to recently. Granted, it’s all-you-can-eat. However, I was pretty stuffed after the first time through. The guys sang me Happy Birthday. It gave another group enough courage to sing Happy Birthday to their mom, too. (My actual birthday is May 1).

After that, we headed over to another friends house yesterday night and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I found myself laughing a lot! That friend has a pretty sweet home theater projection set up in his basement and has over 350 DVDs! So I know where I’m going when I want to watch a movie. It was the first time I’d been over to his house since I got here, so I got to meet his pet rabbit and check out his wood carving project as well.

Fun times.