Weekend Update

So, I spent Friday at work rebuilding my computer. My hard drive appears to be really dead, which sucks, because I had some files on it I hadn't checked in, but ah well. After work I got together with ayndin again, and took him to Uwajimaya. We went around Kinokuniya, where I failed to find anything I wanted (even the latest issue of ベースボール wasn't that interesting to me), but Evan picked up a bunch of manga. Then we decided to get non-sushi Japanese food... I remembered that Fuji Sushi had exceptionally good tempura, so we went there. It had a long wait relatively but it was WORTH IT because I got the tempura/tonkatsu dinner bento and I swear to god, it is definitely the best tempura I've ever had in Seattle. Just exceptionally perfect -- next time Carl visits I have to remember to drag him there.

After dinner we went back to Uwajimaya and raided the snack section and I bought a ton of きのこの山 and たけのこの里 (which I still blame alibash for getting me addicted to). Then we went to Illusionz since I was supposed to show up for kieferskunk's birthday party part 2, and Evan wanted to see it since he'd heard about it from me and Mark and Dave and Steve and whoever else was out here last summer. Unfortunately since I was there super-late I missed most of the people, I only saw Nykkel and Kiefer there. And since IZ sucks most of the machines are... gone or whatnot. KBM is gone. DM has a broken cymbal. The entire graveyard is gone. PPP had a wonky sensor. At least Pop'n'Music seemed reasonable. But, what sucks is that the place was packed with 16-year-olds, and not like, the Bemani BBS type. More like, as Nykkel pointed out, the "COME SEE ME FAIL!!!" airhead girls on Guitar Freaks. Ah well. I played 2 games of Para Para, 2 games of Pop'n'Music, and decided to leave. On the way back to Kirkland I said to Evan, "Hmm, good thing I didn't mention World of Warcraft in front of you and Nykkel or we'd still be there."

I spent a decent chunk of time on Friday floating ships to Nu for the Fandango blockade. Woke up Saturday, got showered and changed, and then actually took part IN the Fandango blockade. And oh man, we CRUSHED them. Misery put up some pictures of it, it's really kinda scary to see round 3 where we just have a literal wall of ships waiting to blow apart any entering enemy ship. Wheeeeee. Blam blam.

After that I went out to Redmond to hang out with Brian (not Railing) for a few hours. We went to Claim Jumper, had dinner, then wandered over to Borders and sat in the cafe playing Ricochet Robot and Lost Cities for a while. Good times.

Today I got up and did some errands.. I finally took two boxes of clothes over to Goodwill, that had been sitting by my apartment door for like a month. Oddly, the guy at Goodwill saw my jacket and was like "You went to Carnegie Mellon?" and started asking me all these questions about CS and stuff, which was sort of odd. He had a thick Indian accent, which was hard to understand. I guess that's about as blunt a statement as I could make as his statement of "Wow, I guess you didn't want to take compilers classes because you're a girl."

I stopped by Blue C, had sushi for dinner, mmmmmmm, then got groceries, also stopped in a used bookstore by Ken's Market that I forget the name of, where I picked up a really good condition copy of one of Jim Brosnan's books from like 1966.

Then I sat at home the whole night playing PP because I am stupid. I mean, really stupid. I pillaged with Carl, under one of our alt crews, which was a ton of fun, and then pillaged with my normal crew, which was also fun. Then I got really grumpy because it felt like everyone was picking on me. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. It's a lousy note to end the night on, but oh well.

Oh, uh, I have yet another PP icon of me and chirik wearing inverted outfits. Cute huh?