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Rainy unpowered quakey days
Went bowling this afternoon with some former students. My top game was 120. Whee!
We dispersed in Oji, so I ended up riding down to the Tokyo Dome for a bit. Got there at 5 though, so pretty much everything was closed, the shops, the ticket offices, etc, etc. Yamashita Books was open though, so I went in there and got a few things, like this year's meikan, and the 2011 Fighters guide, and the Shube Senbatsu book. I asked for a cover for the meikan and they gave me a ridiculous Disney one, so I asked for a normal one. Heh.
It was raining, so I decided that instead of walking towards Jimbocho, I'd just go back home via Ikebukuro and have sushi for dinner.
Also, all the remodelling down there -- what used to be the Carnival arcade is now a Lawson's convenience store, and a post office bank. Sigh.
Tenkazushi for dinner was of course great! Iwamoto, the sushi guy there who actually recognizes me, was on staff this evening, so he kinda nodded hello to me when I came in. It made me have the most curious thought -- the last week I've been here I have been getting very little of the usual "OMG WHITE PERSON TOURIST" treatment now that I think about it. I usually appreciate the staff who recognize me at places specifically because it makes me feel less likely to be treated as a stupid gaijin.
Came home after that via Ito Yokado, where I got taiyaki!!!! and also got a notebook that I'm going to use for a scorebook since I was a moron and didn't order new scorebooks before coming here, whoops.
I've been trying to figure out my Senbatsu trip. I decided that I definitely want to be in Osaka for Thurs-Fri-Sat. So it's just a matter of how to plan the Nagoya trip -- and I'm thinking that basically I'll do it afterwards instead of before... since tomorrow's ni-gun game is actually at the Nagoya Dome, not Nagoya Kyujo, it'd cancel the idea I had to see a game at the latter. Alas. So, I'll be off to Osaka tomorrow sometime, depending on whether I try to see a ballgame in the afternoon here or not. And then I'll probly basically go to Nagoya on Saturday evening, and head back to Tokyo on Sunday evening. Something like that.
Oh yeah -- I don't think it's relevant to anyone on my friends list, but Rocco's NY Pizza in Oji is closed from March 22 to April 7, apparently. I called today to find out their hours and got the machine instead. Doh!
My house has been shaking a LOT this evening, actually. I'm not particularly scared, but it is kind of wacky, almost like clockwork (infact a bunch of the quakes seem to all be in the same spot off the coast of Ibaraki...)
We dispersed in Oji, so I ended up riding down to the Tokyo Dome for a bit. Got there at 5 though, so pretty much everything was closed, the shops, the ticket offices, etc, etc. Yamashita Books was open though, so I went in there and got a few things, like this year's meikan, and the 2011 Fighters guide, and the Shube Senbatsu book. I asked for a cover for the meikan and they gave me a ridiculous Disney one, so I asked for a normal one. Heh.
It was raining, so I decided that instead of walking towards Jimbocho, I'd just go back home via Ikebukuro and have sushi for dinner.
Also, all the remodelling down there -- what used to be the Carnival arcade is now a Lawson's convenience store, and a post office bank. Sigh.
Tenkazushi for dinner was of course great! Iwamoto, the sushi guy there who actually recognizes me, was on staff this evening, so he kinda nodded hello to me when I came in. It made me have the most curious thought -- the last week I've been here I have been getting very little of the usual "OMG WHITE PERSON TOURIST" treatment now that I think about it. I usually appreciate the staff who recognize me at places specifically because it makes me feel less likely to be treated as a stupid gaijin.
Came home after that via Ito Yokado, where I got taiyaki!!!! and also got a notebook that I'm going to use for a scorebook since I was a moron and didn't order new scorebooks before coming here, whoops.
I've been trying to figure out my Senbatsu trip. I decided that I definitely want to be in Osaka for Thurs-Fri-Sat. So it's just a matter of how to plan the Nagoya trip -- and I'm thinking that basically I'll do it afterwards instead of before... since tomorrow's ni-gun game is actually at the Nagoya Dome, not Nagoya Kyujo, it'd cancel the idea I had to see a game at the latter. Alas. So, I'll be off to Osaka tomorrow sometime, depending on whether I try to see a ballgame in the afternoon here or not. And then I'll probly basically go to Nagoya on Saturday evening, and head back to Tokyo on Sunday evening. Something like that.
Oh yeah -- I don't think it's relevant to anyone on my friends list, but Rocco's NY Pizza in Oji is closed from March 22 to April 7, apparently. I called today to find out their hours and got the machine instead. Doh!
My house has been shaking a LOT this evening, actually. I'm not particularly scared, but it is kind of wacky, almost like clockwork (infact a bunch of the quakes seem to all be in the same spot off the coast of Ibaraki...)