Sunday: Baseball, and Foy's party, volleyball like what!

Today started off with the intention of going to work and doing the half hour more I really needed to do Friday. But, despite leaving the house at like 11:30 and not having to meet up with Farren until 12:30... I took 99, that was dumb. Had to circle around the stadium, and since I'd intended to park near Uwajimaya, finally found a space like a block away in a lot that took credit cards (I had no small cash on me), ended up paying like $11 for parking AND it was 12:15 by the time I found the spot, so I had to pretty much run down to the stadium. Met up with Farren, went into the stadium, got lunch, got a scorecard, and we were in our seats by like 12:50! Wowie.

It was an AWESOME game. The Mariners rallied the 1st and 7th innings, for an eventual score of 13-2. ( game details... WHEE )

Anyway, it was exciting, and except for getting sunburnt I think Farren and I had a pretty good time there. After that we had to coordinate meeting up with Edgars going to Foy's...
( Foy's Graduation Party 〜それぞれの明日〜 )

I have this sort of rant/personal essay in me about baseball, but I'll save it for another time. Suffice it to say, when Josh accidentally gave me tickets to the whole weekend of games and people were like "you're going to all three?" and I said "HELL YEAH!" there was a twinge of doubt that I would overbaseball myself out and be fed up by the end of the weekend. Well, no such luck. I love baseball, I love the Mariners, and I was SO happy to be at all the games this weekend. So there. :) If anyone ever wants to go to a game with me, just let me know, 'cause I'll pretty much always be up for it.

work, IZ, sushi, etc

Work was okay today. I decided to get lunch up in Pacmed instead of going down to the ID, mostly because my 1-1 meeting got cancelled. Of course, then my linux box crashed and I had to go down to reboot the thing anyway :( I tried to catch Mike the ex-boss but still haven't! Sigh. So I went back up to pacmed and did work and hung out. Took a bunch of pictures from the 8th floor, I'll have to dump them soon. I haven't had any time to work on pictures lately at all. Bleh.

Michelle (elphie) picked me up from work and we went to Illusionz because she wanted to see some of the Seattle Bemani scene before she moves here next month. (Although for the record, the people I really need to introduce her to are jeliza, drakemonger, rubylou, etc.) IZ was of course totally dead... there were some other people playing Bemani games there but I didn't recognize any of them. I *think* Cracker was there, actually, since his card somehow got up on the DDR machine, but I never actually *saw* him! And I did see Ryan and Becky for like, 2 minutes when we first got there, but by the time I was done showing Pop'n'Music to Michelle, they were gone. Doh! So we played a bunch of Bemani games... we played some DDR together, some separate, some drummania, I did some KBM too, and of course PNM. Hopefully I have another PNM addict - when Michelle moves here we'll have to get her up to speed on 9-line :)

KBM was on Fuwa Fuwa mode - like it was skipping, so the lines would freeze and then move fast to catch up, but the sound wouldn't stop. It was weird. I still got "Good play" on Massara Long though. OH! I got my 6th Heavy SDG on DDR, Kind Lady (8). And I got 4 greats on Sung Suk Trick on the 4th+ machine. RAWR! Stupid gimp left foot, I couldn't play anything hard at DDR :(

We left around 8:45 out of hunger. I was trying to think of somewhere cool to show Michelle for dinner so we went to Sushi Express (the kaiten sushi train place down at 50th and the Ave). It was a little late so the train was mostly empty but I think we had decent food anyway. I only got 7 plates, I could have easily eaten more, but they were closing up at that point :) Then she dropped me off at home, and I've been goofing off online since. I should try to sleep early... we'll see if it actually happens or if I go down and play IIDX/PPL instead.