Fuji Sushi, and other fun
Jan. 26th, 2006 01:28 amToday was pretty good. I got a ticket to Mariners Fan Fest for Saturday, so I'll be there then, if anyone else is going (which I doubt, but it never hurts to say) and wants to hang out there. (Speaking of the Mariners, I found out today that one of the current players on the team has actually seen my Marinerds blog. I nearly fell off my chair.)
After work, I went to Fuji Sushi to celebrate![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
papertygre's birthday. I feel pretty guilty that Ratha moved here like four months ago and this was the first time I saw her. There were eight people there in total, none of whom I thought I'd met before except Ratha. I am aware that some of them were fallenpegasus, tanjent, and ivolucien, two were guys whose names I have sadly already forgotten, one with long hair and one with short, and one was David Lockhart. I didn't think I remembered who he was at all, but a conversation later revealed that I did infact meet him at CMU a billion years ago through Connie. I also didn't realize I vaguely knew who Mark was, but it turns out that he works at Digeo, where I was a contractor for a few months. Small world, I guess.
Dinner was pretty good, as it always is there. I had the tempura-tonkatsu dinner bento - yum! The conversation was also pretty good, and I found myself feeling surprisingly not shy, despite that it was a big group of mostly strangers. After dinner, Mark and David and myself and Ratha and Austin all ferried back to Ratha's apartment in Redmond and played games. We played Set, Zendo, and Speed Scrabble. Since the last time I played Set was basically the time Charlie swept the floor with me, I was still in my jumpy "must find and call sets QUICK QUICK QUICK!" Set mode, and proceeded to do so. Zendo was a lot more mellow, although David came up with a very difficult rule involving opaque pieces which we never got. The rest were pretty normal. I came up with one that was way too simple. Oops.
Speed Scrabble is something I had never played before. You dump out the entire bag of Scrabble pieces on the table, everyone takes seven tiles, and the rule is -- make your own Scrabble board (ie, arrange the tiles you have so that they would be valid if you put them on a real Scrabble board). When you do that, call out "Dig", and then everybody takes another tile and makes a valid board or tries -- when someone does, they call it out again. Repeat until all the pieces are gone, and the first person to have a full valid Scrabble board wins. Despite having never played before I did pretty well, but since I'm a word geek and hyperkinetic gamer who thrives on speed games, that shouldn't be too surprising.
Ratha gave me and David rides back to this side of the lake afterwards, and now I am home, not feeling tired, despite that it is almost 2am. I'm so broken. It was good to hang out though. Hopefully we'll hang out sometime again!
After work, I went to Fuji Sushi to celebrate
papertygre's birthday. I feel pretty guilty that Ratha moved here like four months ago and this was the first time I saw her. There were eight people there in total, none of whom I thought I'd met before except Ratha. I am aware that some of them were fallenpegasus, tanjent, and ivolucien, two were guys whose names I have sadly already forgotten, one with long hair and one with short, and one was David Lockhart. I didn't think I remembered who he was at all, but a conversation later revealed that I did infact meet him at CMU a billion years ago through Connie. I also didn't realize I vaguely knew who Mark was, but it turns out that he works at Digeo, where I was a contractor for a few months. Small world, I guess.Dinner was pretty good, as it always is there. I had the tempura-tonkatsu dinner bento - yum! The conversation was also pretty good, and I found myself feeling surprisingly not shy, despite that it was a big group of mostly strangers. After dinner, Mark and David and myself and Ratha and Austin all ferried back to Ratha's apartment in Redmond and played games. We played Set, Zendo, and Speed Scrabble. Since the last time I played Set was basically the time Charlie swept the floor with me, I was still in my jumpy "must find and call sets QUICK QUICK QUICK!" Set mode, and proceeded to do so. Zendo was a lot more mellow, although David came up with a very difficult rule involving opaque pieces which we never got. The rest were pretty normal. I came up with one that was way too simple. Oops.
Speed Scrabble is something I had never played before. You dump out the entire bag of Scrabble pieces on the table, everyone takes seven tiles, and the rule is -- make your own Scrabble board (ie, arrange the tiles you have so that they would be valid if you put them on a real Scrabble board). When you do that, call out "Dig", and then everybody takes another tile and makes a valid board or tries -- when someone does, they call it out again. Repeat until all the pieces are gone, and the first person to have a full valid Scrabble board wins. Despite having never played before I did pretty well, but since I'm a word geek and hyperkinetic gamer who thrives on speed games, that shouldn't be too surprising.
Ratha gave me and David rides back to this side of the lake afterwards, and now I am home, not feeling tired, despite that it is almost 2am. I'm so broken. It was good to hang out though. Hopefully we'll hang out sometime again!
