ABANDON ALL FREE TIME YE WHO ENTER HERE

[dr4b]

Right. So we went to Top Gun for dim sum with Jonathan (jch@CS, for the zephyrati) and Stewart, which was pretty good, even if Stewart insisted on eating chicken feet (ewww). I got milk tea at Gossip afterwards, and we had parked at Uwajimaya so I was like "well, we can pay 10 dollars for parking for two hours, or I can go buy something for 10 dollars and we'll get parking free..." so I went and got a Chococat CD case. It reminded me of cattchan for some reason.

We came home, hung out a little... Stewart took off for Redmond... then Eli went grocery shopping... and I... uhh... yeah.

Short shameful confession:
I started playing that Puzzle Pirates thing.

Sadly, of course, all the games in it are variations on puzzle games I already am pretty good at... Dr. Mario, Alchemy, Bejeweled, Super Puzzle Fighter, Chu Chu Rocket.. so... yeah. I ended up jobbing for the same crew/ship as Nykkel and Thunderbird, which was fun for a while until Nykkel and I both simultaneously lost our connections to the net, at which point I gave up playing for a few hours. Foy told me not to bother coming over, so I didn't... instead, I (man, today is definitely a day of me doing things I say I don't do) cleaned my room. Well, to some extent, at least. I took out the trash, and filled up two more trash bags with junk from my floor, and I swept, and I dusted under my computer table, and... yeah. It looks a lot better than it did before, even if it still looks pretty cluttered.

I uhh.. I assembled the Maison Ikkoku figures I got from the capsule machines in Japan. Now I just need to figure out where to put them. It's so cool, I got the whole set in my first 6 tries. Kyoko, Ichinose & Soichiro, Yotsuya, Godai, Akemi Roppongi, and Yagami. (Yeah, they skipped 3, 7, and 9 for some reason... I guess they consider Mitaka and Kujo secondary characters, although I think Nanao was more important than Yagami!) Hey, raise your hand if you also actually watched all 96 episodes of MI. Yeah, I thought so. Put your hand down if your name is Michael Duggan.

Eli and I ate tortellini for dinner and then I took a nap and then I played more Puzzle Pirates ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH. This does not bode well, me hearties. (I suppose it's not really fair for me to blame it on Nykkel, really. After all, I could just decide not to ever play again. Wouldn't be that hard. If anything, it's a little bit frustrating as a game anyway.)

Anyway, I should go to sleep so I can get up on time for work, and so I'm not in crappy condition to sing tomorrow night... I think I'm going to go ahead and try to join the NW Chorale or whatever with thatmathchick and jeliza... they're singing the Messiah this fall and I haven't been in a Messiah chorus in a billion years. I still know the tenor line to about 1/3 of the choruses though, so hopefully it won't be too hard for me to get up to speed, assuming they're going to let me sing tenor.

Also, atomx just reminded me, but I want to go see Lost in Translation sometime. Dunno where, looks like it's playing at a few of the small theatres in Seattle...

Comments

[zqfmbg.livejournal.com]

Chicken feet aren't that bad. In fact, they're actually quite good.

But I don't believe in making people stomach the idea of things they don't like. ^^

[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

I'm Blackcloud, but I'm not on all that often. Who are ye?

arrrr,
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[dr4b]

Arrrr, I be Janthina on there. Some salty scalawag be takin' my name Deanna, so I chose my alter-ego name until I can find the scurvy dog and steal it back! ARRRRR!

;)

messiah

[thatmathchick.livejournal.com]

I think they will not so much "let" you sing tenor as beg you to sing tenor. We desperately need tenors. Desperately.

And we've only had 2 rehearsals, so there will be no problem getting "up to speed". Everyone will be very happy to have you there, because A) you are cool and B) did I mention that we desperately need tenors?

Also, consider this your reminder to get home by 7pm so that I can pick you up in time to get to rehearsal.

Re: messiah

[dr4b]

Yeah, I should be able to get home in time. If something awful comes up I'll call your cellphone or something, but I am aiming for 7.

I guess by "up to speed" I mean more... remembering how to sing. I haven't been in a real choir since 1994.

[nemesiscw.livejournal.com]

Top Gun is one of the best Dim Sum Places in Seattle, it's great that you went there ;D

[dr4b]

Yah, I go there about once a month with some of my other friends. I really like it, although it's still not as good as my favorite place for dim sum in Chinatown in Philly (Joy Tzin Lau, 1029 Race Street). But hey, at least they do dim sum at Top Gun every day, which is pretty awesome, and the prices are really reasonable for the yummy food. Whee!

[combinator.livejournal.com]

I watched all 96 episodes of MI!!! Some of which were in a painfully low grade .rm format! And I wrote a comic about it!

[msde.livejournal.com]

I think I still have all 96 episodes fansubbed on VHS in a basement 3000 miles from here...

[dr4b]

Oh, right. I guess you, mj2q, and arashink also don't count :)
Wow, we should get Aaron on here. I haven't heard from him in ages...