Salsa and a Meteor Shower

Had a wonderful evening last night. Ran a few errands on my way to class, found some very nice yarn for a crochet project, since I needed something to keep me busy in the evenings, stopped by Best Buy, then headed to class. Realized I forgot my backpack at home, but fortunately, I didn't really need it specifically. Class was actually one of the better ones I've had, so that went well, we got out around 7, then went over to a friend's place to cook dinner. Made an absolutely delightful butternut squash soup, I'm going to steal the recipe, it is definitely going into my collection of recipes. Afterwards, we headed out to the Davis Graduate for salsa dancing. After a bit of see-sawing, Ben finally gave in and joined us. I'm glad he did, gave me someone to sit and chat with when I wasn't dancing. The Grad was tons of fun as always, had an absolutely fantastic time, and really enjoyed the evening overall. Dancing with Sara was a lot of fun, and met a couple of new people, spent a fair amount of time watching. I really need to get some practice time in, there are a ton of things that I want to try, but don't want to start out at full speed, I need to break it down more so I don't hurt the follow... So hopefully will have an opportunity to do that in the future. We'll see.
So we'd planned on making it an early night, but decided to stay till close, so we left at 1, walked back to Ben's dorms, and then headed back to Sac around 1:30, got there just before 2. So I left Sac at right around the beginning of the peak of the meteor shower. Drove up to Shingle Springs, went to a nice dark overlook that I'd found, and sat and watched the meteor shower for about an hour. It was really fantastic. Having the moon dark made the stars absolutely amazing. Beyond amazing, stunning, overwhelming. Saw a ton of shooting stars, weren't quite as many as I'd hoped, but it was very, very impressive.
So, around 3:30ish, finally headed home, got in just before 4. Spent about 20 minutes assembling my mom's computer before I realized that the one thing that I -really- need to assemble the computer, and is only a $5 part, I'd forgotten to get. No thermal paste for me. Sooo annoyed at myself. So, need to make a trip to Best Buy or Fry's before class today, then will finish it up tonight. Just kind of annoying to have everything at hand, and then to realize you're missing the one thing that prevents me from assembling everything else. Heh.
Slept well, woke up around 7 when people started coming downstairs. Started working on some crochet, had a great breakfast, and will be shortly heading down into the shop. Lots of fun.