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hm, the randoms
So yeah, Monday involved a walk to the Safeway shopping area because that's all I can walk to. I had Thai food at Lamponi, which, as mentioned, was the worst soup ever but fairly decent noodles and stuff. On the other hand, once you do tax and tip and all on a $8.50 meal with a $1.75 thai iced tea, it ends up being like $15 and completely not worth it. I am really missing that aspect of being in Japan, that eating out is so easy because it's just one cheap price for whatever. At least food courts here are slightly more reasonable in that there's no tipping.
At the shopping center, I went to the Bartell's and used their photo printers. It's vaguely like in Japan where you put in your card and all, but unfortunately it's not like Japan in that the photos don't come out of a machine next to you, but instead, you put in the order for it, and the store clerk takes your money and gets your photos out of the machine. I hate that aspect of it because I don't like that someone else has to see my photos... also I don't like the US 4"x6" photos anymore, I want L or 2L size like in Japan dammit! But, hey, whatever, I got photos printed. I also stopped in at Safeway for a bit, and then walked home.
In the evening Mike and I tried to go to Ruby's for dinner, but we got there at like 8:30pm and they were already closing despite a closing time posted of 9pm. WTF? So we ended up at Claim Jumper and split a tri-tip, which was good.
Tuesday, since Mike had D&D in theory, I planned to hang out with the Django collective in the evening. I went to Crossroads for lunch because I wanted to go to the crafts store, and ended up getting lunch from the BBQ place, which was actually really freaking good IMO, I had a brisket sandwich and baked beans. Of course, I'm not Texan, so who knows. I got what I was looking for at the crafts store too.
While getting ready to go north, though, it turned out that Mike's D&D got cancelled, so instead I picked him up at MS and drove him north too.
Dinner ended up being at a Japanese food place called Take, where 99% of the stuff there is in English, which didn't bode well, but the staff actually are Japanese. I got katsudon, which was actually reasonably authentic, aside from the $12.50 price OMG. I mean seriously -- I got a bowl of katsudon that would have cost me about 500 yen in Japan. Yes, it came with a bowl of miso soup... which would have been free in Japan. What the hell, so in the end I spent $16. I dunno, it's funny, people talk all the time about how "oh, Japan's so expensive", but in reality, it really is nowhere near as expensive as the US for just about anything.
Then Django and Dave and Mike and I played a board game called Metro, which was like Tsuro On Crack. I liked it, you have to make a series of twisty little passages, all different. No, not exactly, it's making train tracks. Django won, Mike was close behind. I dunno. Then we just hung out for a while talking about stuff.
Whee.
At the shopping center, I went to the Bartell's and used their photo printers. It's vaguely like in Japan where you put in your card and all, but unfortunately it's not like Japan in that the photos don't come out of a machine next to you, but instead, you put in the order for it, and the store clerk takes your money and gets your photos out of the machine. I hate that aspect of it because I don't like that someone else has to see my photos... also I don't like the US 4"x6" photos anymore, I want L or 2L size like in Japan dammit! But, hey, whatever, I got photos printed. I also stopped in at Safeway for a bit, and then walked home.
In the evening Mike and I tried to go to Ruby's for dinner, but we got there at like 8:30pm and they were already closing despite a closing time posted of 9pm. WTF? So we ended up at Claim Jumper and split a tri-tip, which was good.
Tuesday, since Mike had D&D in theory, I planned to hang out with the Django collective in the evening. I went to Crossroads for lunch because I wanted to go to the crafts store, and ended up getting lunch from the BBQ place, which was actually really freaking good IMO, I had a brisket sandwich and baked beans. Of course, I'm not Texan, so who knows. I got what I was looking for at the crafts store too.
While getting ready to go north, though, it turned out that Mike's D&D got cancelled, so instead I picked him up at MS and drove him north too.
Dinner ended up being at a Japanese food place called Take, where 99% of the stuff there is in English, which didn't bode well, but the staff actually are Japanese. I got katsudon, which was actually reasonably authentic, aside from the $12.50 price OMG. I mean seriously -- I got a bowl of katsudon that would have cost me about 500 yen in Japan. Yes, it came with a bowl of miso soup... which would have been free in Japan. What the hell, so in the end I spent $16. I dunno, it's funny, people talk all the time about how "oh, Japan's so expensive", but in reality, it really is nowhere near as expensive as the US for just about anything.
Then Django and Dave and Mike and I played a board game called Metro, which was like Tsuro On Crack. I liked it, you have to make a series of twisty little passages, all different. No, not exactly, it's making train tracks. Django won, Mike was close behind. I dunno. Then we just hung out for a while talking about stuff.
Whee.
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