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Card bored
Jan. 14th, 2008 01:21 amI can't wait for real baseball to start again so I can stop being a ridiculous card geek.
Okay, so this morning I met up with Carl and Oren for about two hours before they had to go get on a plane to go back to America and all. We ended up going back to Namjatown for lunch, getting some crazy-ass gyoza at the Osaka gyoza stand, then wandering around for a while and finding some ice cream. Despite the obvious temptation, we didn't eat any of the crazy flavors we found in the Cup Ice Cream Museum, like the miso ramen flavor, and instead got "normal" flavors like "black sesame gelato". Yeah. Anyway, they had to go catch the Narita Express after that, so I accompanied Carl back to the lockers and then walked with him to the train and said goodbye. Oh, we passed an "American Pharmacy" on the way which I will go back to someday for soap, I think. Anyway.
Since I had to pay to get into the train station in the first place, I figured I might as well actually GO somewhere, so I went one stop to Mejiro and went to the Book-Off there, which I hadn't been to since 2001 I think. I found a lot of interesting stuff but didn't buy any of it except for finding the Gwashi album with the song c-r-a-c-k-ER on it for 250 yen, which uh, I used to be totally sick of, but that was like 5 years ago when some Seattle Bemani people sang it ALL THE TIME ahem. I haven't listened to the CD yet but I'm sure it'll be all full of laughs. Nunununununununnunu.
Then I... went back to east Ikebukuro and found the Mint card/memorabilia branch that I'd spotted when we were walking to/from Sunshine. And I went in. ( Masahiro Tanaka is an expensive boy. And Morino is cute. )
Then I went and looked around Bic Camera for a while for fun. I found some camera bags I might be interested in, but I'm still thinking about it. And I drooled over the 18-200 VR lens again (but still can't bring myself to drop the 80,000 yen on it).
Stopped by Akabane and my key was in the GEOS mailbox so I am happy and less worried now.
I went to Urawa after that. Keep in mind that it was around 4:30pm by this point, and starting to get dark. But I found the Urawa branch of Mint as well. This one was a LOT quieter than the Ikebukuro ones, also a lot smaller. ( I looked through a whole lot of awesome cards and even bought a few. Rick Schu! Dave Hansen! And Fighters-era Ochiai, heh. )
Anyway, by the time I got out of the Urawa store, it was like 6:30pm. Which meant not only that it was dark, but that it was REALLY FUCKING COLD. So rather than do anything else at ALL, I decided to just head home. It was so so so so so cold. SO COLD. I came home and turned on my heat and just sort of huddled in front of my space heater for like 30 minutes, no joke.
I realized I should probably do laundry if I was going to just be hanging around home catatonic-like, except that since the temperature was below freezing I couldn't use my own laundry machine (it's outdoors on the balcony and only uses cold water so I worried it might actually freeze). I did laundry at the laundromat and did grocery shopping in the meantime as well, and also got dinner at Katsuya, and it was super-hot and warmed me up wonderfully but by the time I rode my bike the 3-4 blocks back from there I was already freezing again. Argh. Fortunately, laundrying went pretty smoothly overall, just took longer than usual because I was splitting things into "dryer" and "non-dryer" and that required more trips back and forth.
OH, I finally kind of met my next-door neighbor for the first time! I was going back to the laundromat to put things in the dryer, so as I'm locking my door I hear someone coming up the steps. So I said "Konbanwa," and he answered "Konbanwa," and I started down the steps, and then I turned and asked in Japanese, "Errr, are you my neighbor?" and he said "Yeah, I am," so I said "Oh! Nice to meet you!" And he answered "Nice to meet you too," yoroshiku, etc, and then I smiled and went down the stairs and all, because it was COLD out. Anyway, he seems to be in his mid-to-late 30's. I wonder what his story is. Wonder if I'll ever find out.
I forget where the rest of the evening went; I've been so lethargic due to cold. I cleaned up stuff here a bit, while watching Pop'n'Music concert DVDs. Also I was looking through maps and whatnot. I'm going to try to go down to Enoshima/Fujisawa tomorrow maybe, unless I get apathetic due to the cold. I'll ride the monorail and visit some more baseball card stores most likely :)
Okay, so this morning I met up with Carl and Oren for about two hours before they had to go get on a plane to go back to America and all. We ended up going back to Namjatown for lunch, getting some crazy-ass gyoza at the Osaka gyoza stand, then wandering around for a while and finding some ice cream. Despite the obvious temptation, we didn't eat any of the crazy flavors we found in the Cup Ice Cream Museum, like the miso ramen flavor, and instead got "normal" flavors like "black sesame gelato". Yeah. Anyway, they had to go catch the Narita Express after that, so I accompanied Carl back to the lockers and then walked with him to the train and said goodbye. Oh, we passed an "American Pharmacy" on the way which I will go back to someday for soap, I think. Anyway.
Since I had to pay to get into the train station in the first place, I figured I might as well actually GO somewhere, so I went one stop to Mejiro and went to the Book-Off there, which I hadn't been to since 2001 I think. I found a lot of interesting stuff but didn't buy any of it except for finding the Gwashi album with the song c-r-a-c-k-ER on it for 250 yen, which uh, I used to be totally sick of, but that was like 5 years ago when some Seattle Bemani people sang it ALL THE TIME ahem. I haven't listened to the CD yet but I'm sure it'll be all full of laughs. Nunununununununnunu.
Then I... went back to east Ikebukuro and found the Mint card/memorabilia branch that I'd spotted when we were walking to/from Sunshine. And I went in. ( Masahiro Tanaka is an expensive boy. And Morino is cute. )
Then I went and looked around Bic Camera for a while for fun. I found some camera bags I might be interested in, but I'm still thinking about it. And I drooled over the 18-200 VR lens again (but still can't bring myself to drop the 80,000 yen on it).
Stopped by Akabane and my key was in the GEOS mailbox so I am happy and less worried now.
I went to Urawa after that. Keep in mind that it was around 4:30pm by this point, and starting to get dark. But I found the Urawa branch of Mint as well. This one was a LOT quieter than the Ikebukuro ones, also a lot smaller. ( I looked through a whole lot of awesome cards and even bought a few. Rick Schu! Dave Hansen! And Fighters-era Ochiai, heh. )
Anyway, by the time I got out of the Urawa store, it was like 6:30pm. Which meant not only that it was dark, but that it was REALLY FUCKING COLD. So rather than do anything else at ALL, I decided to just head home. It was so so so so so cold. SO COLD. I came home and turned on my heat and just sort of huddled in front of my space heater for like 30 minutes, no joke.
I realized I should probably do laundry if I was going to just be hanging around home catatonic-like, except that since the temperature was below freezing I couldn't use my own laundry machine (it's outdoors on the balcony and only uses cold water so I worried it might actually freeze). I did laundry at the laundromat and did grocery shopping in the meantime as well, and also got dinner at Katsuya, and it was super-hot and warmed me up wonderfully but by the time I rode my bike the 3-4 blocks back from there I was already freezing again. Argh. Fortunately, laundrying went pretty smoothly overall, just took longer than usual because I was splitting things into "dryer" and "non-dryer" and that required more trips back and forth.
OH, I finally kind of met my next-door neighbor for the first time! I was going back to the laundromat to put things in the dryer, so as I'm locking my door I hear someone coming up the steps. So I said "Konbanwa," and he answered "Konbanwa," and I started down the steps, and then I turned and asked in Japanese, "Errr, are you my neighbor?" and he said "Yeah, I am," so I said "Oh! Nice to meet you!" And he answered "Nice to meet you too," yoroshiku, etc, and then I smiled and went down the stairs and all, because it was COLD out. Anyway, he seems to be in his mid-to-late 30's. I wonder what his story is. Wonder if I'll ever find out.
I forget where the rest of the evening went; I've been so lethargic due to cold. I cleaned up stuff here a bit, while watching Pop'n'Music concert DVDs. Also I was looking through maps and whatnot. I'm going to try to go down to Enoshima/Fujisawa tomorrow maybe, unless I get apathetic due to the cold. I'll ride the monorail and visit some more baseball card stores most likely :)
