Rally fries of London!
I stayed up too late last night basically speed-re-reading Harry Potter book 5 in about 2 hours (which means I finished at like 4:30am), and then I was going to speed-re-read book 6 sometime this week as well. Despite my better judgment, I ordered a copy of book 7. I figure that if worse comes to worst I'll just bring it with me to Japan.
I got up around noon today and put together another box or two of stuff, then took it all to the post office to mail. I mailed CDs to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
proz, and some stuff I'm lending zqfmbg to him, and some Japanese baseball stuff to Ken from the forums, and then two boxes to my mom. One is a doll that she got me years ago which has always just sat in a box; now it can sit in a box at her house. The other was full of baseball books. I'm sure she'll be overjoyed to hear that when she reads this. There's another box coming that'll be full of bears as well. What's obnoxious is: 4.5 pounds of the doll box, parcel post, cost $10 to ship. 23 pounds of books, media mail, cost $10 to ship. Eh, whatever. The good part is that I'm getting rid of things; the bad part is that I feel like I'm still doomed. I also listed my Dreamcast on Craigslist and might get some takers, yay!
After doing some more stuff-management, I made a sign to bring to the baseball game tonight. We'd been planning today as a Lookout Landing night for a while because it's another BECU night, meaning that it's relatively uncrowded and upper deck seats cost $10. The original plan was to sit in 340 row 15 like we did last time. Except... due to the Mariners not sucking as much, it was actually sort of crowded, and 340 sold most seats up to row 16 or so. Oops. So I figured the best plan was that we'd move back a few rows, and I'd make a silly LL-inside-joke sign so people could find us. Paul suggested I make a Rally Fries sign, so I ended up doing "AH-OOOOO, RAuLLY FRIES OF LONDON", which incorporated in like three separate jokes.
To make a long story short, we had a decent gang of people there (me, Marc W, Matthew, Gomez, Dan-2Rs2Ls, Etowncoug, Bretticus, Graham, PositivePaul, jtopps, and marinerschas2), spread out among three rows, and were just plain loud and obnoxious the entire night, and had a blast doing it. We yelled all kinds of crazy things, from booing Brian Roberts to cheering for George Sherrill to shouting random prospects' names and clapping. Brett had a "FREE ADAM JONES" sign that he brought. We did the Rally Lion Dance a whole lot -- AND we got this group of kids sitting to our right to do it as well! They seemed to think we had the hookup to get on the big screen, so whenever we'd all get up and do something dorky as a group, they would imitate us, much to the parents' chagrin. Pretty awesome.
My sign got on the big screen at the park in the 7th when Raul Ibanez singled, and Brett jumped in front of it with his sign and it immediately went down. Upon watching the mlb.tv broadcast of the game later, I saw that I actually got shown on TV twice!!
This is me in the 2nd or 3rd inning coming back from the break, they were laughing like "Raully fries of London, huh? Haha... that's a play on Ibanez's theme song Werewolves of London, see?"
And again. Bottom of the 5th with Raul up to bat. They really seemed to like the sign! But we didn't win the rally fries...
It went to this cute little girl. I can't feel too bad about losing to a little kid.
The Mariners won 4-2 (bringing my record to 16-4 and my streak to 7), and I had an absolute blast. I sat with Marc and Matthew for the whole game and they put up with me being a complete spaz. Oh, and I brought like 10 books from my baseball bookshelf to the game andfoisted them off gave them away to everyone. Of course, I still have plenty of books left, but I figured that was better than just getting a quarter each or whatever at Half Price. After the game we loitered outside for a while talking in a big group, and eventually people dispersed to buses and cars, and I hugged everyone goodbye, even though I may see some of them again before I leave. I wish I could just go to every game with a big group of people like this. Well, no I don't -- my throat would probably get completely sore from yelling so much.
I got up around noon today and put together another box or two of stuff, then took it all to the post office to mail. I mailed CDs to
proz, and some stuff I'm lending zqfmbg to him, and some Japanese baseball stuff to Ken from the forums, and then two boxes to my mom. One is a doll that she got me years ago which has always just sat in a box; now it can sit in a box at her house. The other was full of baseball books. I'm sure she'll be overjoyed to hear that when she reads this. There's another box coming that'll be full of bears as well. What's obnoxious is: 4.5 pounds of the doll box, parcel post, cost $10 to ship. 23 pounds of books, media mail, cost $10 to ship. Eh, whatever. The good part is that I'm getting rid of things; the bad part is that I feel like I'm still doomed. I also listed my Dreamcast on Craigslist and might get some takers, yay!After doing some more stuff-management, I made a sign to bring to the baseball game tonight. We'd been planning today as a Lookout Landing night for a while because it's another BECU night, meaning that it's relatively uncrowded and upper deck seats cost $10. The original plan was to sit in 340 row 15 like we did last time. Except... due to the Mariners not sucking as much, it was actually sort of crowded, and 340 sold most seats up to row 16 or so. Oops. So I figured the best plan was that we'd move back a few rows, and I'd make a silly LL-inside-joke sign so people could find us. Paul suggested I make a Rally Fries sign, so I ended up doing "AH-OOOOO, RAuLLY FRIES OF LONDON", which incorporated in like three separate jokes.
To make a long story short, we had a decent gang of people there (me, Marc W, Matthew, Gomez, Dan-2Rs2Ls, Etowncoug, Bretticus, Graham, PositivePaul, jtopps, and marinerschas2), spread out among three rows, and were just plain loud and obnoxious the entire night, and had a blast doing it. We yelled all kinds of crazy things, from booing Brian Roberts to cheering for George Sherrill to shouting random prospects' names and clapping. Brett had a "FREE ADAM JONES" sign that he brought. We did the Rally Lion Dance a whole lot -- AND we got this group of kids sitting to our right to do it as well! They seemed to think we had the hookup to get on the big screen, so whenever we'd all get up and do something dorky as a group, they would imitate us, much to the parents' chagrin. Pretty awesome.
My sign got on the big screen at the park in the 7th when Raul Ibanez singled, and Brett jumped in front of it with his sign and it immediately went down. Upon watching the mlb.tv broadcast of the game later, I saw that I actually got shown on TV twice!!
This is me in the 2nd or 3rd inning coming back from the break, they were laughing like "Raully fries of London, huh? Haha... that's a play on Ibanez's theme song Werewolves of London, see?"
And again. Bottom of the 5th with Raul up to bat. They really seemed to like the sign! But we didn't win the rally fries...
It went to this cute little girl. I can't feel too bad about losing to a little kid.
The Mariners won 4-2 (bringing my record to 16-4 and my streak to 7), and I had an absolute blast. I sat with Marc and Matthew for the whole game and they put up with me being a complete spaz. Oh, and I brought like 10 books from my baseball bookshelf to the game and