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Things besides DASH
So, after DASH ended, we went to dinner with Jason and Drew at Chinook's. It seems they'd never been there, and after those terrible salmon cakes at Pomegranate, I wanted to justify my existence, I suppose. And sure enough, Chinook's was great.
(Actually, earlier in the afternoon was kinda funny -- I'd gotten Jason and Drew to take me to Zach's house. Which I have a key to. And I'd called Carl, who wasn't home, and tried to call Zach, who didn't answer his phone. So I just kinda burst in there like "Hi! I'm uh, going to use your bathroom, and then Jason and Drew and Mike are going to come here, and uh... sorry?" Zach was playing Dragon Age and not really wanting/expecting guests, but in the end I think it worked out -- we hung out for about half an hour so Jason could eat lunch and we could wait for Seven of Diamonds to finish up DASH so we could usurp Adam and Rehana's place to play games instead.)
So a very Ballard-heavy day.
We went back east-side, to Jen and Chris's house after that, and ate pie and ice cream, and talked about puzzles. Good times. I took photos of their cats to use in my cellphone contacts list. I've managed to get about half of my friends linked to photos of their pets now.
Sunday morning we got up early to meet people for brunch at Pomegranate but then Jen and Chris had to cancel due to a cranky baby. Drew and Jason still came out there, but were later than expected, so Mike and I took a walk around the area there and I figured out where the 269 bus stops around there, so I could theoretically walk the 5 miles there, and take a bus back within a mile of here... if I was feeling crazy and the weather was nice...
Breakfast at Pom was better than dinner at Pom; my chicken'n'waffles were decent. I dunno.
After that we adjourned to Microsoft. Well, kinda. Mike and I went out to the fields near the Studios and played catch for about 30-45 minutes because I want to get my arm back in shape. There was a big group playing cricket; I hope they didn't think we wanted to try out for their team or anything. I mean, we had baseball gloves and a softball and all.
D&J met up with us after an hour or so and we went to a conference room and basically discussed a bunch more puzzle stuff and/or cranked out some details. I was actually pretty productive in working on a puzzle myself, but I'm not going to say anything about it, just that I feel clever.
We did Claim Jumper for dinner. Which was good, but bad in that I became so stuffed that by the time we came home, all I could do was sit in front of my laptop and half zone out, half work on writing DASH, etc. I've still got stuff to actually take care of, but... eh.
So now it's Monday. I dyed my hair this morning, though hopefully nobody should notice. I would have gone for a long walk, but it's raining. And I would have thought about volleyball tonight, but my arm hurts from catch. Whoops. Instead, I am working on Japanese college baseball statistics, which amuses me much more than it should. (But my hunch on EXACTLY how good Hayata Itoh and Koji Fukutani have been this semester so far, along with how Yohei Tachi is actually raking, bizarrely, it's nice to actually have the numbers to back these things up.) I was kinda following the Rikkio-Waseda game over text-only game updates last night, and as Rikkio POUNDED Waseda 13-2, I still felt pretty happy, despite that I'm not there and that undoubtedly the things that made Waseda so annoying these past few years are not there either. It's their own damn fault for only using the Golden Three for so long and not preparing for them graduating.
Hmm.
(Actually, earlier in the afternoon was kinda funny -- I'd gotten Jason and Drew to take me to Zach's house. Which I have a key to. And I'd called Carl, who wasn't home, and tried to call Zach, who didn't answer his phone. So I just kinda burst in there like "Hi! I'm uh, going to use your bathroom, and then Jason and Drew and Mike are going to come here, and uh... sorry?" Zach was playing Dragon Age and not really wanting/expecting guests, but in the end I think it worked out -- we hung out for about half an hour so Jason could eat lunch and we could wait for Seven of Diamonds to finish up DASH so we could usurp Adam and Rehana's place to play games instead.)
So a very Ballard-heavy day.
We went back east-side, to Jen and Chris's house after that, and ate pie and ice cream, and talked about puzzles. Good times. I took photos of their cats to use in my cellphone contacts list. I've managed to get about half of my friends linked to photos of their pets now.
Sunday morning we got up early to meet people for brunch at Pomegranate but then Jen and Chris had to cancel due to a cranky baby. Drew and Jason still came out there, but were later than expected, so Mike and I took a walk around the area there and I figured out where the 269 bus stops around there, so I could theoretically walk the 5 miles there, and take a bus back within a mile of here... if I was feeling crazy and the weather was nice...
Breakfast at Pom was better than dinner at Pom; my chicken'n'waffles were decent. I dunno.
After that we adjourned to Microsoft. Well, kinda. Mike and I went out to the fields near the Studios and played catch for about 30-45 minutes because I want to get my arm back in shape. There was a big group playing cricket; I hope they didn't think we wanted to try out for their team or anything. I mean, we had baseball gloves and a softball and all.
D&J met up with us after an hour or so and we went to a conference room and basically discussed a bunch more puzzle stuff and/or cranked out some details. I was actually pretty productive in working on a puzzle myself, but I'm not going to say anything about it, just that I feel clever.
We did Claim Jumper for dinner. Which was good, but bad in that I became so stuffed that by the time we came home, all I could do was sit in front of my laptop and half zone out, half work on writing DASH, etc. I've still got stuff to actually take care of, but... eh.
So now it's Monday. I dyed my hair this morning, though hopefully nobody should notice. I would have gone for a long walk, but it's raining. And I would have thought about volleyball tonight, but my arm hurts from catch. Whoops. Instead, I am working on Japanese college baseball statistics, which amuses me much more than it should. (But my hunch on EXACTLY how good Hayata Itoh and Koji Fukutani have been this semester so far, along with how Yohei Tachi is actually raking, bizarrely, it's nice to actually have the numbers to back these things up.) I was kinda following the Rikkio-Waseda game over text-only game updates last night, and as Rikkio POUNDED Waseda 13-2, I still felt pretty happy, despite that I'm not there and that undoubtedly the things that made Waseda so annoying these past few years are not there either. It's their own damn fault for only using the Golden Three for so long and not preparing for them graduating.
Hmm.