Badger Basketball and Mr. Icon's Birthday Party

I hope my readers had a good weekend. Friday night Travalon and I went to Mamastep's rescheduled birthday party; her actual birthday was Tuesday, but there was a lot of snow that night so she canceled. We went to a fish fry with her and some other very entertaining friends of hers.

Saturday Travalon and I went to the Badger men's basketball game, stopping for lunch at a ramen restaurant a block away from the Kohl Center. The game was great: Trice and Davison both got a lot of points, and Happ got a triple double. The Badgers beat Northwestern 62-46, so afterwards Travalon and I went back to the ramen restaurant to celebrate by having mochis. We were planning to have green tea-flavored ones, but they were out of those, so we had red bean-flavored ones, and they were really good. Mochi is a Japanese ice cream ball inside a sort of rice paste skin. They are so good! In the evening we went to Rich's house for a birthday party for Mr. Icon. We didn't know most of the people there, and in fact they mostly looked like Mr. Icon, with big beards. Late in the evening they started to have a deep conversation about what consciousness is, but unfortunately we had to leave partway through because it was getting so late. Why don't people have deep conversations at two in the afternoon?

Yesterday Travalon and I picked up the red panda tile we made at Fired Up, which turned out well, then we went back to Sauk and saw plenty of eagles. The colder the day, the more we see, it seems. There was supposed to be a big snowstorm, so we stayed at home and watched another episode of the baseball documentary. The snow didn't really materialize, so today I went into work, but Travalon drove me. He hung out at the Union until it started to snow, then we came home. However, the snow doesn't seem that bad. I never know what to think because all the area schools are closed, and a bunch of restaurants, and everyone seems to be expecting the Storm of the Century. I will feel like a fool if the bad weather never materializes!

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