Day 3, and the mariners game, and whatnot
Aug. 26th, 2004 01:02 pmIn Day 3 of Deanna's Employment adventures (SO tempted to call it "Deanna Does Digeo", but I digress), she finally gets her Linux box working, and Perforce, and pulls down some code and builds it! Except, as she finds out later, the build doesn't work due to DNS issues. Doh.
For lunch yesterday I tried "Tommy's Restaurant" which is a little Japanese place down the block. I had tonkatsu/tempura lunch special which cost like $8.50. The miso soup was good, the katsu was good (but they didn't give me enough sauce) and the tempura was okay but not great. It came with sushi rolls but they were mediocre. I think I should just get a sushi lunch sometime to truly evaluate.
Well, anyway. I left a build going and left work at 5:35 to go to the Mariners game with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genericman. (Yes, sylffor did stop by around 5 with the tickets his roomate had failed to sell. Thanks!)
Bleh I *HATE* rush hour traffic here. I left the parking lot at 5:40 or so. It's pretty much exactly 15 miles from here to Safeco. Guess when I got there? 7:05. IT TOOK ME AN HOUR AND A HALF TO GO 15 FUCKING MILES. Poor Jason, he was waiting for me in the rain outside the stadium -- and the rest of his family had gone and gotten the 4-person 4-ticket-4-hotdogs-4-sodas deal so they were all inside the stadium without him. I felt really bad. I had figured if I left work around 5:30 I'd get there at 6:30. ("Let's meet in front of Shiggy at 6:30" was our plan.) Ugh. It really sucked. I parked at the Seahawks lot (which is only $15 -- I figured it'd be like $20-25 but I was in a hurry) and ran to the stadium and met Jason and we went in through the team store and grabbed food and got to our seats around 7:15 - we missed the top of the first inning and it was 1-2-3 anyway.
I kinda said something like "Well, the bad news is we're gonna miss the first few minutes. The GOOD news is that my friend Jeff gave me AWESOME tickets, so we don't have to sit up in the 300 level." Well... they WERE awesome seats. 25 rows behind home plate. About 15 rows back from where I sat for that Red Sox afternoon game. The funny thing is, I honestly didn't notice 90% of the game going on, because I don't think I've actually sat down and talked to Jason in about 2 years (since like Capture the Flag or so?), so we basically spent the entire game just talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. Occasionally exciting things would happen like Bucky Jacobsen's 3-run homer which brought the game to 5-4, and about 5 foul balls landed within 15-20 feet of us, and there were some awesome plays and whatnot, but overall I honestly truly don't really remember much of what happened at the game.
Afterwards we took a brief detour through the team store (It's ilke $8 for the Jay Buhner book... I have to ponder that more) and I went and said hi to Jason's parents and siblings briefly and then I ran off to my car and drove home.
I then spent about 4 hours in PP. Kept one client open chatting with Looterati folks, while the other was spent doing work -- had to sort out a bunch of tailor/weavery stuff, and then I also spent a bunch of time sorting out the Turtle Navy. Turned out there was a dead navy ship in port still called Hades' Perjorative or something. It had no maps on it. I put a map on it and it set out. Whoa. So I got Eris to rename it to "Coral Carp", which is going to be my mark on the Turtle Navy... put my duplicate Coral maps from my map hunting expeditions on it. Whee!!! Anyway, so the thing is, since that ship had been docked due to lack of maps I figured navy ship maps must crumble. Oh no! So I went around getting a list of which maps were on which navy ships, and their conditions, and whatnot, trying to figure out which were purchaseable, etc. Hung out on the forage boat with Chernabog while doing so (because, man, foraging is boring, so it's so much more interesting if you sit around and talk about economics and the state of the world), also putting together my tailor rack orders and whatnot. Caught Cioj to just talk to him a bit about the state of Turtle and some suggestions I've gotten (and we agree on all the issues, so it's all good), and finally got to sleep at like 4am. Suddenly I totally have an appreciation for whatattesmythe was going through back when he was swamped with all the island stuff.
I had posted my list of the Turtle Navy and a call for maps. I woke up this morning and got a bunch of "Dude. Your maps won't crumble, never fear." messages. So that makes my job a LOT easier -- I thought I was going to have to go find new maps for all the ships! Boy was that going to suck. I posted a "Whoops, I'm an idiot" reply, and also entered the story in the Dimwit Lit competition. So, hehe.
For lunch yesterday I tried "Tommy's Restaurant" which is a little Japanese place down the block. I had tonkatsu/tempura lunch special which cost like $8.50. The miso soup was good, the katsu was good (but they didn't give me enough sauce) and the tempura was okay but not great. It came with sushi rolls but they were mediocre. I think I should just get a sushi lunch sometime to truly evaluate.
Well, anyway. I left a build going and left work at 5:35 to go to the Mariners game with
genericman. (Yes, sylffor did stop by around 5 with the tickets his roomate had failed to sell. Thanks!) Bleh I *HATE* rush hour traffic here. I left the parking lot at 5:40 or so. It's pretty much exactly 15 miles from here to Safeco. Guess when I got there? 7:05. IT TOOK ME AN HOUR AND A HALF TO GO 15 FUCKING MILES. Poor Jason, he was waiting for me in the rain outside the stadium -- and the rest of his family had gone and gotten the 4-person 4-ticket-4-hotdogs-4-sodas deal so they were all inside the stadium without him. I felt really bad. I had figured if I left work around 5:30 I'd get there at 6:30. ("Let's meet in front of Shiggy at 6:30" was our plan.) Ugh. It really sucked. I parked at the Seahawks lot (which is only $15 -- I figured it'd be like $20-25 but I was in a hurry) and ran to the stadium and met Jason and we went in through the team store and grabbed food and got to our seats around 7:15 - we missed the top of the first inning and it was 1-2-3 anyway.
I kinda said something like "Well, the bad news is we're gonna miss the first few minutes. The GOOD news is that my friend Jeff gave me AWESOME tickets, so we don't have to sit up in the 300 level." Well... they WERE awesome seats. 25 rows behind home plate. About 15 rows back from where I sat for that Red Sox afternoon game. The funny thing is, I honestly didn't notice 90% of the game going on, because I don't think I've actually sat down and talked to Jason in about 2 years (since like Capture the Flag or so?), so we basically spent the entire game just talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. Occasionally exciting things would happen like Bucky Jacobsen's 3-run homer which brought the game to 5-4, and about 5 foul balls landed within 15-20 feet of us, and there were some awesome plays and whatnot, but overall I honestly truly don't really remember much of what happened at the game.
Afterwards we took a brief detour through the team store (It's ilke $8 for the Jay Buhner book... I have to ponder that more) and I went and said hi to Jason's parents and siblings briefly and then I ran off to my car and drove home.
I then spent about 4 hours in PP. Kept one client open chatting with Looterati folks, while the other was spent doing work -- had to sort out a bunch of tailor/weavery stuff, and then I also spent a bunch of time sorting out the Turtle Navy. Turned out there was a dead navy ship in port still called Hades' Perjorative or something. It had no maps on it. I put a map on it and it set out. Whoa. So I got Eris to rename it to "Coral Carp", which is going to be my mark on the Turtle Navy... put my duplicate Coral maps from my map hunting expeditions on it. Whee!!! Anyway, so the thing is, since that ship had been docked due to lack of maps I figured navy ship maps must crumble. Oh no! So I went around getting a list of which maps were on which navy ships, and their conditions, and whatnot, trying to figure out which were purchaseable, etc. Hung out on the forage boat with Chernabog while doing so (because, man, foraging is boring, so it's so much more interesting if you sit around and talk about economics and the state of the world), also putting together my tailor rack orders and whatnot. Caught Cioj to just talk to him a bit about the state of Turtle and some suggestions I've gotten (and we agree on all the issues, so it's all good), and finally got to sleep at like 4am. Suddenly I totally have an appreciation for what
attesmythe was going through back when he was swamped with all the island stuff. I had posted my list of the Turtle Navy and a call for maps. I woke up this morning and got a bunch of "Dude. Your maps won't crumble, never fear." messages. So that makes my job a LOT easier -- I thought I was going to have to go find new maps for all the ships! Boy was that going to suck. I posted a "Whoops, I'm an idiot" reply, and also entered the story in the Dimwit Lit competition. So, hehe.
