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this weekend
Sat, October 02, 2004
Flight: United Airlines flight 977
Depart: Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) 7:25am
Arrive: San Francisco, CA (SFO) 9:26am

Mon, October 04, 2004
Flight: United Airlines flight 506
Depart: San Francisco, CA (SFO) 8:23pm
Arrive: Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) 10:18pm

two weekends from now
Fri, October 15, 2004
Flight: US Airways flight 6396
Depart: Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) 8:00am
Arrive: Washington DC-Dulles (IAD) 3:55pm

Mon, October 18, 2004
Flight: US Airways flight 105 (Non-Stop)
Depart: Philadelphia, PA (PHL) 3:55pm
Arrive: Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) 6:49pm



ugh... I have to be on a plane in 6 hours. I have to leave here in 4-4.5 hours. So I have to get up in 3-3.5 hours. I'm afraid to sleep for fear I'll oversleep my alarm, but if I don't sleep I'll be too dead for the blockade... I'll write more about the Mariners game tomorrow, maybe. It really was amazing.

Ichiro 259

Actually, I'll just repost what I posted in a jiffy on USS Mariner:

Amazing game. Left work in Kirkland at 5:30pm. Was 2 miles from the stadium on I-90 at 6:20pm and got stuck in totally stopped traffic. I said to my friend, “If we don’t make it to the stadium in time for Ichiro’s first at bat, I will kill something.” I’m not sure, but somehow I knew it was going to be big. Got to the Seahawks parking lot at 7pm.

Walked by seeing Blalock strike out; heard Teixiera get a home run while I was at Ivar’s. Got to my seat while everyone was standing up waiting for Ichiro’s first at-bat. Convenient – I didn’t have to ask them to stand up to let me by.

And from then on it it was easily the best game I’ve gone to this year. I mean, holy crap, 257. And 258. And 259. The cameras flashing like a flock of fireflies on every pitch. Fireworks, cheering, packed stadium. Man, I miss that. You’d almost think we’d shoved Safeco into a time machine.

Villone got 5 strikeouts in 5 innings. Whoa! Drese will go down in the history books for giving up Ichiro’s 258th. Whee.

I felt kinda bad for Randy Winn – I mean, he’s had to bat behind Ichiro all year, but heh, each time, the entire stadium stood up for Ichiro, sat down for Winn, and he went 3-for-4 too, y’know. Then they’d all stand up for Edgar again. Oh yeah, Ibanez and Boone also got 3 hits each.

But yeah. Ichiro. Amazing. Game, amazing. Traffic, annoying. And much, much, more…

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On another note, if you like USS Mariner like I like USS Mariner you should check out the team meeting thingy he forwarded from Jeff Sullivan's Mariner page.