hmm

[dr4b]

I can't think of anything to say about today, except that I have still not started packing at all, and now it's like TWO DAYS until I go back.

I put my big set of photos from Sunday's Marines-Hawks game online.

I'm thinking of adding a Nagoya/Gifu trip into my Golden Week plans, going down for the 4/29 Chunichi Dragons baseball game in Gifu, assuming Jeff can get tickets. I think it might be fun to take either local trains or a kodama down on that Monday (local trains take 7 hours, woohoo), stay somewhere, go around Nagoya or Gifu Tuesday afternoon, go to game Tuesday night, and try to take back that Moonlight train thingy teravell always talks about. Then I will hit a new stadium and like ninety new kinds of trains in one trip! Wheeee! Then a day later I'd be off to Hokkaido! Travel is fun!

Comments

[shoebox-bird.livejournal.com]

Nice photos! I love the ones of Shunsuke, they're unbelievable.

[dr4b]

Really? The Shunsuke pictures make me feel all like "If only I had a better lens... or further... or faster... with better depth of field so the audience would be more blurry and he'd be more clear... and maybe some photo software... and..."

I guess everyone always wishes they had better stuff though -- which is why the companies get away with selling lenses for $100,000 and whatever.

[shoebox-bird.livejournal.com]

omg, are you kidding? This is art. It's beautiful, makes you feel like you're right there on the field.

I just told A what you said and he chuckled, because I always say the same things. ("this sucks, i need a faster lens")

Sometimes I wonder if our viewpoints are skewed from being inundated with advertising photography that is overly saturated / depth of field-y.

[firearmofmutiny.livejournal.com]

hopefully they actually PLAY in Gifu this year. (Last year's game in Gifu got rained out.)

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

SSHH DON'T MENTION THE R-WORD

[dr4b]

yeah, I pointed that out to Jeff too -- I was going to try to check the attendance last year to get an idea of the capacity of the stadium in Gifu, and sure enough I couldn't find it, because it was a rainout. On July 4th!

oddly, I am looking forward to getting a shopping trip at the Nagoya Dome for all of my Dragons needs ;) (I am aware I do not technically NEED any Dragons stuff but I would like to, at the very least, replace the Morino keychain I lost last year. And I kind of want Doala ears to wear. And of course I can just get the new Moeyo Dragons CD there...)

[oren.livejournal.com]

Just because I was interested and didn't know if you found it already.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%89%AF%E5%B7%9D%E7%90%83%E5%A0%B4

[tg2k.livejournal.com]

You're in good company. I've hardly done any packing for my camping trip in Arizona, and I leave in 2 days as well.

I attribute part of this to starherd not having cleared out the luggage I need (she's been home for two weeks so...), but I gotta get cracking on this soon.

[kamendae.livejournal.com]

Packing is overrated. Just get a big ol' suitcase, stuff a bunch of random clothes in, you're good.

('course, this is coming from a generally rumpled guy, so take with a grain or ten of salt >;) )

[dr4b]

Heh, I think it's a little bit different for an inter-continental trip -- gotta pack all the things I want to bring back to America, plus plan to have enough room to bring NEW stuff back to Japan with me...

[tadzilla.livejournal.com]

I usually don't pack until the night before (and really can't; both my Japan trips were on days immediately after I had finals, and I use my backpack for traveling too). Just make a checklist, follow it, and you should be good.

Reminds me, I better get around to planning my most likely last Japan trip before attempting to move.