So i started an entry yesterday but then i lost it and i no longer really know what it is that i wanted to say.  This past weekend was a marvellous one though.  What was it that i did you might ask. Feel free, ask.

Friday night i went to dinner, a movie and then to the chinese night market downtown.  yes, as you recall i went to another one of these last weekend.  this weekend it was more fun.  in part because it was after dark and silly things are always more fun after dark.  in another part because the company i was with was more in tune with the silliness that i find more fun. 

Saturday was busy and fun all at the same time.  I went and dripped my blood into a plastic sack (mmmmmmmm, blood) in the morning and then headed to a friends place to play some board games for the remainder of the afternoon.
then i did something really fun.  loads of fun. although apparently i was kind of stupid.

   there is a lantern festival at a place we call trout lake, which is here in the city in a park. i think it's called the illuminara here.  anyways it's a pretty cool thing.  you get there in the evening while it is still light out.  there are all sorts of people wandering around with lanterns that they have made for themselves.  (we, being bumpkins had none of our own of course).  all over the place are performers, singing, juggling, fire dancing, making music, choralling.  practically everywhere.  all you do is wander around and look at things. 
   at one point just after it started to get dark there was a fire dancing exposition, of one dancer. we rushed over and watched this.  she finished soon and then we saw, a hundred yards further on or so, two fire dancers.  we hurried in that direction.  seconds after we arrived there they finished up.  but then this loud drumming, music parade started and the entire crowd began to follow it.  like sheep we were.  if there was a slaughter, we would have been led right into it, i tell you.  But then we arrive.  There were hundreds of people around this huge circle and in the circle were about 50 people doing a huge fire dance. they were all scantily clad, all had torches or staffs and some were on stilts.  it was so bloody cool.
    many people were dressed up, some medieval, some quirky, some just plain weird.  but most of it was very cool.  eventually we found a spot under some trees and sat down to watch the fireworks when they started.  there were a few people there that i did not know, although they knew others that we were with.  they were nice enough although i didn't really get to know any one of them very well. you know, it being pitch black out, there being no light except from very small lanterns and it being very busy all around us. 
   But i did manage to spend some time flirting with one woman. quite a bit, i guess. i made her laugh a lot.  i love making women laugh.  i didn't much about it other than liking that i was getting her to laugh.  well as the evening dragged one she asked for directions to get back to the skytrain.  i didn't have any clue where that was, as i was completely and utterly lost.  so i flirted some more with her about getting lost.  then she left.
   now during my time flirting with her, i noticed that she was flirting with the guy beside me as well (my friend, which was perfectly ok, i was even dragging him into the conversation).  i thought she was sending him signals, trying to draw him out.  after she left i was called stupid by all of my friends.  apparently she had been sending me a raft of signals, i was supposed to offer to walk her to the skytrain.
   i kid you not when i tell you that i had not noticed any signals that had been sent to me.  i flirted with her, sure but that's all it was.  she was just being nice and flirting back.  signals? where, what, huh?  i suppose they might have been there, my friends were likely right.  but, i didn't get them. i never get them.
   there are stumps with more chance of mating than i.
   nice stumps, maybe, but stumps none-the-less.

then yesterday i went to two more movies, and hung out with a grand friend. not to mention a trip to the super special candy store. mmmmmm.

tired now.
Night.