Things I discovered today
In no particular order:
1) Apple ice cream is really fucking weird (but not weird enough that I won't eat it)
2) Omiya is awesome! Well, for Saitama, anyway. There are stores and restaurants and a gigantic Book-Off and whatnot. (I found one of the arcades![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seishinbyou told me about but I got lost trying to find the others. Oh well.)
2a) In true Konami style, they apparently have a Japan Series or some sort of nationwide arcade competition for Baseball Heroes. And said arcade -- Big Apple in Omiya -- has a pennant flag from said championship. Holy shit.
3) Spitz is awesome (well, I knew that, but I know that even more now. Carl would be all like "omg! polyphonic harmony!")
4) Lotteria apparently only had the Bobby Burger as a limited time item :(
5) I am the only person living in my apartment building currently... of the four units, mine is the only one with the gas currently turned on, anyway.
6) The Omiya Book-Off closes at 10pm, not 11 as listed on the website.
7) Sitting at GEOS all day by myself sort of sucks :(
I have hot water again. Thank god. The repairman showed me how to reset it if it's just a simple issue of the gas being turned off. I hope that never happens again though.
Omiya Book-Off is huge. I saw many things I'd consider getting before I heard them suddenly saying things like "We're closing in 10 minutes, so buy your crap and leave", or the polite equivalent thereof in Japanese. I got the Spitz 1991-1997 singles album I wanted to get in the first place, AND I got the Nippon Ham Fighters 2006 Championship DVD! For 1500 yen! I knew that if I waited long enough I wouldn't regret not spending $50 on it last year. I also got the Chunichi Dragons 2006 DVD for 500 yen :)
I ended up getting a burger and fries at Lotteria. There was a Bobby Valentine placemat about some Marines-Lotteria deal. So that made me decide to check tomorrow's starting pitchers and the Marines starter is SHUNSUKE WATANABE :( I had sort of decided not to do baseball tomorrow -- Tokyo Dome and Jingu are sold out, and Chiba is at 1pm, AND the Tokyo Game Show is going on right near the stadium, so I figure it'd be a nightmare going around there, but... but... Shunsuke Watanabe! Waaaaaah. I have no right to whine that I never see him pitch live if I don't go to the game when he's the starter, but... I really feel like it's a bad idea to go to Chiba tomorrow, it'd essentially shoot the entire day and I am going there next week anyway.
I sort of want to go somewhere tomorrow. I am seriously considering Odaiba, just because I've never been there. I also sort of want to go watch Hero, but I'm a little scared of riding my bike down Sangyo Doro, and a little bit scared of my Japanese listening ability. Maybe I can see it at Odaiba if I go. Eh, we'll see.
1) Apple ice cream is really fucking weird (but not weird enough that I won't eat it)
2) Omiya is awesome! Well, for Saitama, anyway. There are stores and restaurants and a gigantic Book-Off and whatnot. (I found one of the arcades
seishinbyou told me about but I got lost trying to find the others. Oh well.)2a) In true Konami style, they apparently have a Japan Series or some sort of nationwide arcade competition for Baseball Heroes. And said arcade -- Big Apple in Omiya -- has a pennant flag from said championship. Holy shit.
3) Spitz is awesome (well, I knew that, but I know that even more now. Carl would be all like "omg! polyphonic harmony!")
4) Lotteria apparently only had the Bobby Burger as a limited time item :(
5) I am the only person living in my apartment building currently... of the four units, mine is the only one with the gas currently turned on, anyway.
6) The Omiya Book-Off closes at 10pm, not 11 as listed on the website.
7) Sitting at GEOS all day by myself sort of sucks :(
I have hot water again. Thank god. The repairman showed me how to reset it if it's just a simple issue of the gas being turned off. I hope that never happens again though.
Omiya Book-Off is huge. I saw many things I'd consider getting before I heard them suddenly saying things like "We're closing in 10 minutes, so buy your crap and leave", or the polite equivalent thereof in Japanese. I got the Spitz 1991-1997 singles album I wanted to get in the first place, AND I got the Nippon Ham Fighters 2006 Championship DVD! For 1500 yen! I knew that if I waited long enough I wouldn't regret not spending $50 on it last year. I also got the Chunichi Dragons 2006 DVD for 500 yen :)
I ended up getting a burger and fries at Lotteria. There was a Bobby Valentine placemat about some Marines-Lotteria deal. So that made me decide to check tomorrow's starting pitchers and the Marines starter is SHUNSUKE WATANABE :( I had sort of decided not to do baseball tomorrow -- Tokyo Dome and Jingu are sold out, and Chiba is at 1pm, AND the Tokyo Game Show is going on right near the stadium, so I figure it'd be a nightmare going around there, but... but... Shunsuke Watanabe! Waaaaaah. I have no right to whine that I never see him pitch live if I don't go to the game when he's the starter, but... I really feel like it's a bad idea to go to Chiba tomorrow, it'd essentially shoot the entire day and I am going there next week anyway.
I sort of want to go somewhere tomorrow. I am seriously considering Odaiba, just because I've never been there. I also sort of want to go watch Hero, but I'm a little scared of riding my bike down Sangyo Doro, and a little bit scared of my Japanese listening ability. Maybe I can see it at Odaiba if I go. Eh, we'll see.
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Not really a place I can imagine spending a whole day in though. Yet I can imagine myself spending a whole day in the same game center. I once spent 5 straight hours playing Fortune Orb, without even going to the bathroom or buying more medals. o_o
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The bicycle-riding-near-speed-of-light simulator was cool too.
Hm...Odaiba:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shandrew/103768989/in/set-72057594069526766/
Odaiba itself appeared to be an urban wasteland. There were very few people outside. We checked out the mall there, and it was as empty as the streets. In any other country an area like that would be littered with trash and crime.