dr4b: (nippon ham fighters series champs!)
Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2006-11-12 10:50 pm

Weekend, mostly in Redmond

Saturday, we had Iron Heroes. Unfortunately just as I was heading out there, the 520 bridge decided it was closing for boats to go through. Doh. So after a huge reroute I was over an hour late. Oops. Session went okay, I just feel bad for being late (though Pete was later and Drew is out of town) and ending early. We need more plot movement and everyone's weekends are so full.

Saturday evening, we met up with [personal profile] cheerfulchaotic for dinner. Mindy had come over, so Zach and I and her picked up Carl and headed to the Broadway Grill, where I had another installment of my "investigating the phenomenon of Chicken Fried Chicken" kick, with their chipotle buttermilk fried chicken. It was tasty enough but later on in the evening my stomach really hurt. After dinner, we all walked over to Twice Sold Tales, where Stevie bought a whole buncha books, Carl nearly did, and the other three of us wandered around the shop petting the cats.

I stayed up all night following the last game of the Asia Series / Konami Cup, as the Fighters beat the La New Bears, the champion team from Taiwan. It was actually a very scary close game, the final score being 1-0 and that run being unearned. Darvish struck out 10 though, and it was actually 9 in the first 4 innings, the first 5 batters he faced in a row, even.

The network flaked out several times between 2-4am though -- it completely went out at 3:30am and I gave up and went to sleep at 4am. It's been flaky the last few days, so I called Comcast and they said a tech would come out.

Today, a tech did come out, and he's like "wtf, your modem is fine, the signal is fine, the splitter is fine, the only thing I see that's not fine is this awful crunched cord coming through your window," so he replaced the cable coming in and we'll see if it makes any difference.

In the evening, we headed to Redmond again, where Jason had made a huge Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sprouts, cornbread, I forget what else, capped off eventually with pumpkin cheesecake. We had a group of 8 in all, between Jason, his friend Kirby, Zach and Mindy, Jeff and Jonobie, and Pete from D&D, and myself. There were a ton of leftovers, which I guess is the other typical part of Thanksgiving dinner, but everything was very good. I'm not sure what I'll do for Thanksgiving day itself, actually, though I will be in Seattle (planning to not be here over Christmas, I think).

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations to the Ham Fi-- uh, 2006 JAPAN SERIES CHAMPION HAM FIGHTERS, for winning just about every goddamned thing they come across this season. It's a shame they didn't get to go up against the major leaguers instead of the friggin' Giants (a phenomenon even my wife, as a Giants fan, doesn't even understand; hell, they were almost in the Central League basement this year. WTF.).

Also, Ogasawara has filed for free a}"*#+"#{$`+%{ (here I am shot)

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Also OMG YANKEES NO WAIT THE RED SOX NO WAIT THE RANGERS PAY A FEE ONLY SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OF PERU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO MATSUZAKA FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES STARTING *NOW* urrggh. I've since stopped watching the sports news.

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you have more important things to do than watch the sports news, like play with your new computer.

So now you know why I missed the last game of the Asia Series. Mheh.

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I SAW HIM DO THAT QUITE ENOUGH TIMES IN THE JAPAN SERIES, THANKS VERY MUCH.

Also at the time I was busy installing several terabytes of crap on my new pc. :D

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I was somehow able to remain an Orioles fan, although at a greatly reduced capacity, after Peter Angelos completely alienated Mike Mussina and caused him to leave in disgust. The front office/owners can really be dicks, huh.

[identity profile] the2belo.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think you should start following Rakuten unless you've gone masochistic. It's almost painful to watch those guys. I've since started calling them the Rakuten Expos.

You could always go Orix, you know. :D MUHAHAHAHAHA

[identity profile] dvarin.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
It might be the router. Definitely the wireless half is flaky, possibly the wired is now also going.