DAMMIT. I just had a

DAMMIT. I just had a whole entry written and lost it. Stupid backspace serving as “back” button.
GRRRRRRR.
I mentioned last week that I have started getting a fair amount of comment spam, to the tune of maybe a dozen a day. More on my photoblog than here, but still. Last night I finally got around to correctly installing MT-Blackist. (I say “correctly installing” because I tried once before but used the old installation instructions with the new version and it didn’t work. Oops.) MT-Blacklist is a Movable Type plugin that blocks comment spam and it is awesome. In little more than 12 hours, it has already blocked 8 comment spams! Hooray.
On to the weekend recap. Friday night was the “Management Shuffle” party after work. There was a smaller crowd that left earlier, a departure from the usual work party modus operandi, though it probably has something to do with the fact that the party wasn’t announced until like Wednesday or something. We all left around 7:30 for dinner (Mexican) at Anita’s. I hadn’t been there in at least a year. It was pretty good; I had shrimp enchiladas and a margarita and both were ok. Not fantastic, but not bad.
Saturday morning was the hot and humid 5K, and Saturday evening a bunch of us celebrated Paul’s birthday at Putt-Putt. Imagine our amusement when Sonia, who had told Paul they were going out to a nice restaurant, walked up with Paul, dressed in a nice shirt and tie and blindfolded. Needless to say, he was not expecting Putt-Putt. We all played a round and then decided that it was absolutely necessary that all 14 of us play a round of bumper boats. It turns out that you get a lot wetter doing bumper boats than one would think, probably because we’re heavier than little kids and thus displace more water. By the time I got out of my boat I was soaked and dripping water everywhere. I dried out a little while hitting a few balls at the batting cages with Debbie and Cari while the rest played Laser Tag, then stopped by the apartment to change into drier clothes before dinner at Angelo’s.
I came home and started the US-Costa Rica World Cup qualifier that I’d Tivoed. I love Tivo! Landon Donovan scored two goals, Kasey Keller made at least three amazing saves, and Brian McBride nabbed a rebound at the end of the game to make it a 3-0 win for the USA. I celebrated by going to bed immediately and sleeping for 12 hours. I don’t know what’s with my insane sleeping habits lately, but I must be catching up for something.
Yesterday went by quickly, which usually happens when I sleep until noon. I went geocaching with Debbie and we found six caches in 2.5 hours — talk about efficiency! I don’t think we spent more than 30 seconds looking for any of them, though one was quite tricky and I likely never would have found it without Debbie. She knows all the tricks though, and spotted it immediately. It was hot out, but not too bad.
I followed geocaching with a trip to get a pedicure with Becca. This pedicure place is not so good at keeping people who walk in together next to each other, or even on the same schedule, so I didn’t really get to talk to Becca since that would have involved shouting across the room. Instead, I read Elle Girl, a version of Elle aimed at teenagers. It was very entertaining, both in subject matter (such as: “Name Your iPOD. Instead of ‘Where’s my iPod?’ doesn’t ‘Mom, have you seen Bob?’ sound better?”) and in writing style (“for reals” and “We don’t mention basics like jeans and Converse because, well, obviously.”). There was even an interview with Captain Oats (Seth’s toy horse on the O.C.) and a featured t-shirt emblazoned with “If Found, Please Return Me To Orlando Bloom”.
It was very amusing.