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Weekend of Cake, Part 1? 2?
Mike introduced me to a puzzle game for the phone called Drop7, and I haven't been blogging for days because it's taking all my spare braincycles.
So yeah, Saturday was my actual birthday. Mike said in the morning, "How about since it's your birthday, we'll do bagels, batting cages, Ballard, and baseball?" We ended up doing 3 out of the 4 -- first a trip to Blazing Bagels for lunch, although I ruined that by eating my leftover cheesecake for breakfast first. The memorable thing there was that my BB Fighters bear mascot keychain plushie fell off my bag there (guess it's a B thing); we went to a nearby store to look for some books, and then went back to the bagel place, where I found BB on the ground by our table. Whew.
Onwards to batting cages. We drove up to Lynnwood. Funtasia has annoyingly changed their rates in the last year or two from $1 per token for 15 pitches to $3 per token for 25 pitches. We were debating getting about 7 tokens -- so we could each take 3-4 games -- and the guy's like "It's $20 to rent the cage for 30 minutes and $21 for 7 tokens -- why don't you just rent the cage and switch in and out as you like?"
We did that. I'm not sure whether it's a better deal or not, but, whatever, so, batting. I even brought my gloves this time, hooray, so my hands didn't hurt afterwards. Got some good swings in, though it kept pitching inside to me since I'm lefty. Shrug.
By then it was 4pm so we just drove to Safeco Field and skipped Ballard. It took about 45 minutes anyway; we found a lot, parked, and wandered into the field. I was sad because the giveaway for the game was a Justin Smoak poster but only for kids 14 and younger. (It was Little League and Girl Scout night.) I was even wearing a #17 shirt... well... a Chiba Lotte Marines one... Naruse... I realized that both games this week I wore #17 shirts to Safeco. Once was Hasegawa, once was Naruse. Yeah.
We got to our seats in the Hit it Here Cafe and noticed one pretty big issue... the foul pole was RIGHT in front of us. I'd had a choice of getting either front row indoors or 3rd row outdoors. I shoulda gone for the outdoors one. Note to self: never sit close to the foul pole in the HIHC. Hell, never sit indoors. It's really weird because you can see the game but you can't REALLY hear it. The back rows would have been better too so you could see the TV screens inside the place too -- and the view is fine, really. So, whoops.
Though the food in the HIHC has really gone downhill these last few years and has turned into just bar food, ie, which sandwich and fries do you want. We got Philly cheesesteaks, which of course were idiotic because they put the cheese on LAST instead of first, so the roll, which WAS Amoroso, fell apart. Sheesh.
The Mariners lost the game, unfortunately. The only major thing I remember is that OMG MILTON BRADLEY SUCKS. I mean seriously, he was just phoning it in the entire game, with a cup-and-string phone at that. So it was kinda funny when he got released two days later :) The White Sox are still largely the team I remember from 2006ish, which is kinda funny, but kinda cool. Though Gavin Floyd pitched for them and last I saw him he was a Phillie.
I ordered a brownie with ice cream thingy for my Weekend of Cake OMG continuation and asked the waitress to specifically bring it in the 7th inning, which she did (7th on the 7th, see).
We went to Ballard after the game, since it was over by 9pm. Only thing is... I FORGOT MY KEYS :(
Carl wasn't home and Z&J were out of town for the weekend, so... it sucked but we drove back to Sammamish, got my keys, and went back to Ballard and grabbed 11 of my "last" boxes from Carl's closet. I say "last" because it later turned out they weren't. Oops. But they did empty out that one closet, at least. We got home at like 1am in the end. Long birthday.
Okay, that's Saturday. Now I'm only what, 4 days behind?
So yeah, Saturday was my actual birthday. Mike said in the morning, "How about since it's your birthday, we'll do bagels, batting cages, Ballard, and baseball?" We ended up doing 3 out of the 4 -- first a trip to Blazing Bagels for lunch, although I ruined that by eating my leftover cheesecake for breakfast first. The memorable thing there was that my BB Fighters bear mascot keychain plushie fell off my bag there (guess it's a B thing); we went to a nearby store to look for some books, and then went back to the bagel place, where I found BB on the ground by our table. Whew.
Onwards to batting cages. We drove up to Lynnwood. Funtasia has annoyingly changed their rates in the last year or two from $1 per token for 15 pitches to $3 per token for 25 pitches. We were debating getting about 7 tokens -- so we could each take 3-4 games -- and the guy's like "It's $20 to rent the cage for 30 minutes and $21 for 7 tokens -- why don't you just rent the cage and switch in and out as you like?"
We did that. I'm not sure whether it's a better deal or not, but, whatever, so, batting. I even brought my gloves this time, hooray, so my hands didn't hurt afterwards. Got some good swings in, though it kept pitching inside to me since I'm lefty. Shrug.
By then it was 4pm so we just drove to Safeco Field and skipped Ballard. It took about 45 minutes anyway; we found a lot, parked, and wandered into the field. I was sad because the giveaway for the game was a Justin Smoak poster but only for kids 14 and younger. (It was Little League and Girl Scout night.) I was even wearing a #17 shirt... well... a Chiba Lotte Marines one... Naruse... I realized that both games this week I wore #17 shirts to Safeco. Once was Hasegawa, once was Naruse. Yeah.
We got to our seats in the Hit it Here Cafe and noticed one pretty big issue... the foul pole was RIGHT in front of us. I'd had a choice of getting either front row indoors or 3rd row outdoors. I shoulda gone for the outdoors one. Note to self: never sit close to the foul pole in the HIHC. Hell, never sit indoors. It's really weird because you can see the game but you can't REALLY hear it. The back rows would have been better too so you could see the TV screens inside the place too -- and the view is fine, really. So, whoops.
Though the food in the HIHC has really gone downhill these last few years and has turned into just bar food, ie, which sandwich and fries do you want. We got Philly cheesesteaks, which of course were idiotic because they put the cheese on LAST instead of first, so the roll, which WAS Amoroso, fell apart. Sheesh.
The Mariners lost the game, unfortunately. The only major thing I remember is that OMG MILTON BRADLEY SUCKS. I mean seriously, he was just phoning it in the entire game, with a cup-and-string phone at that. So it was kinda funny when he got released two days later :) The White Sox are still largely the team I remember from 2006ish, which is kinda funny, but kinda cool. Though Gavin Floyd pitched for them and last I saw him he was a Phillie.
I ordered a brownie with ice cream thingy for my Weekend of Cake OMG continuation and asked the waitress to specifically bring it in the 7th inning, which she did (7th on the 7th, see).
We went to Ballard after the game, since it was over by 9pm. Only thing is... I FORGOT MY KEYS :(
Carl wasn't home and Z&J were out of town for the weekend, so... it sucked but we drove back to Sammamish, got my keys, and went back to Ballard and grabbed 11 of my "last" boxes from Carl's closet. I say "last" because it later turned out they weren't. Oops. But they did empty out that one closet, at least. We got home at like 1am in the end. Long birthday.
Okay, that's Saturday. Now I'm only what, 4 days behind?