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End of Golden Week means time to go back to work :(
It's my birthday (May 7th) in 2 hours here in Japan. Yikes.
For my birthday, I am going to celebrate by... GOING BACK TO WORK!!111!!1!!1
yay.
Uh, so anyway... yesterday, Monday, I went to the Seibu Dump for a Fighters game. Sat in the outfield with a bunch of random people and cheered for the Fighters and they freaking lost the game 8-6 after being up 6-0 in the 5th. I swear to god Toru Hosokawa has hit 3 career grand slams and I have been there for two of them, both against the Fighters. Sheesh. Also learned new chance music. Learning new songs is good.
Afterwards, went to Tokyo Dome, got a ticket to the Fighters-Giants game on 5/26. The sign said, "Visitor's cheering section seats are sold out", so I went up and said "I know the visitor's ouenseki are sold out, but is there anything available near it?" and she says, "How many tickets do you need?" and I said "Just one," and she said "oh, no problem then, we just don't have two seats together" and sold me a ticket for visitor's cheering seats. Apparently they aren't sold out if you are alone. Or something. And afterwards I got some baseball cards because I am a dork, and in 5 packs got TWO signature cards, Takahiro Arai and Kensuke Tanaka. Great pull there. Ate kaitensushi at the semi-expensive place across from Suidobashi station, and then came home.
Watched Ainori for the first time in like two months, but I think I only actually missed like two episodes, but everything changed! They're in Ghana now, and apparently Danny retired and got replaced with some weird dude named Kousuke. And Miya looks like someone gave him a makeover, it's kinda bizarre. At least I find myself not wanting to punch everyone on the show anymore.
Also, I did laundry in the morning AND in the evening on Monday, because my dinner plans got cancelled. I wish I'd known in advance so I could have planned to do laundry that evening, but oh well, that's the way things go.
Tuesday, which is today, I went to Yokohama, and met up with Westbay and his (9-year-old?) son for the Baystars game. It was sunny sunny sunny and I had sunscreen on but I think I got sunburned anyway. Also, for a rare change, the Baystars actually won the game, and I did my "Takuro Ishii's biggest fan" act like I would normally do for Morino at a Dragons game, and then Takuro hit in the go-ahead run and was game hero. Go figure. I bought a Ishii #5 jersey after the game, too, so now I can be even crazier.
I got dinner at Mos Burger with Westbay and his son after the game. Not exactly a big birthday party or anything, but that's ok. Also he gave me the "sine-cosine-tangent" board he got signed by Katsuya Nomura back in March, since this is the first time I'd seen him since then.
I don't even have anywhere appropriate to put it, so it's currently just on top of my big pile of baseball towels. Whee.
The story behind this one is that Katsuya Nomura is a grumpy old man and some kids asked him to sign stuff during Spring Training, and he was like "Sign? Cosine! Tangent!" and they were like "WTF?" and he said "Today's math lesson. Sine, cosine, tangent" and wouldn't sign anything until they repeated it a few times. Anyway, I posted a youtube link to the TV segment with that because I thought it was so funny, and Westbay thought it was so funny that HE went and printed out the sine-cosine diagram from Wikipedia and put it on a signboard. Or more like three signboards. And thus when he got to meet Nomura before a game, he got two of them signed -- one for him, one for me -- and gave the third one to Nomura. I don't really know how to explain to y'all exactly who Nomura is, because there really is no good MLB comparison. He's a 4-decade player (1954-1980) who closed out a career with 657 HR and 2901 hits, and now he manages Rakuten. He's a living legend and the ULTIMATE grumpy old man. I wouldn't ever even have the guts to say anything to him, and here Westbay got him to sign stuff. Crazy.
(Or more like, here's Westbay's version of the story.)
So I guess that was a cool birthday present!
Ugh, now I can't decide if I should go try to find a family restaurant or something open past midnight and go eat cake at midnight... or if I should just try to go to sleep early.
For my birthday, I am going to celebrate by... GOING BACK TO WORK!!111!!1!!1
yay.
Uh, so anyway... yesterday, Monday, I went to the Seibu Dump for a Fighters game. Sat in the outfield with a bunch of random people and cheered for the Fighters and they freaking lost the game 8-6 after being up 6-0 in the 5th. I swear to god Toru Hosokawa has hit 3 career grand slams and I have been there for two of them, both against the Fighters. Sheesh. Also learned new chance music. Learning new songs is good.
Afterwards, went to Tokyo Dome, got a ticket to the Fighters-Giants game on 5/26. The sign said, "Visitor's cheering section seats are sold out", so I went up and said "I know the visitor's ouenseki are sold out, but is there anything available near it?" and she says, "How many tickets do you need?" and I said "Just one," and she said "oh, no problem then, we just don't have two seats together" and sold me a ticket for visitor's cheering seats. Apparently they aren't sold out if you are alone. Or something. And afterwards I got some baseball cards because I am a dork, and in 5 packs got TWO signature cards, Takahiro Arai and Kensuke Tanaka. Great pull there. Ate kaitensushi at the semi-expensive place across from Suidobashi station, and then came home.
Watched Ainori for the first time in like two months, but I think I only actually missed like two episodes, but everything changed! They're in Ghana now, and apparently Danny retired and got replaced with some weird dude named Kousuke. And Miya looks like someone gave him a makeover, it's kinda bizarre. At least I find myself not wanting to punch everyone on the show anymore.
Also, I did laundry in the morning AND in the evening on Monday, because my dinner plans got cancelled. I wish I'd known in advance so I could have planned to do laundry that evening, but oh well, that's the way things go.
Tuesday, which is today, I went to Yokohama, and met up with Westbay and his (9-year-old?) son for the Baystars game. It was sunny sunny sunny and I had sunscreen on but I think I got sunburned anyway. Also, for a rare change, the Baystars actually won the game, and I did my "Takuro Ishii's biggest fan" act like I would normally do for Morino at a Dragons game, and then Takuro hit in the go-ahead run and was game hero. Go figure. I bought a Ishii #5 jersey after the game, too, so now I can be even crazier.
I got dinner at Mos Burger with Westbay and his son after the game. Not exactly a big birthday party or anything, but that's ok. Also he gave me the "sine-cosine-tangent" board he got signed by Katsuya Nomura back in March, since this is the first time I'd seen him since then.
I don't even have anywhere appropriate to put it, so it's currently just on top of my big pile of baseball towels. Whee.
The story behind this one is that Katsuya Nomura is a grumpy old man and some kids asked him to sign stuff during Spring Training, and he was like "Sign? Cosine! Tangent!" and they were like "WTF?" and he said "Today's math lesson. Sine, cosine, tangent" and wouldn't sign anything until they repeated it a few times. Anyway, I posted a youtube link to the TV segment with that because I thought it was so funny, and Westbay thought it was so funny that HE went and printed out the sine-cosine diagram from Wikipedia and put it on a signboard. Or more like three signboards. And thus when he got to meet Nomura before a game, he got two of them signed -- one for him, one for me -- and gave the third one to Nomura. I don't really know how to explain to y'all exactly who Nomura is, because there really is no good MLB comparison. He's a 4-decade player (1954-1980) who closed out a career with 657 HR and 2901 hits, and now he manages Rakuten. He's a living legend and the ULTIMATE grumpy old man. I wouldn't ever even have the guts to say anything to him, and here Westbay got him to sign stuff. Crazy.
(Or more like, here's Westbay's version of the story.)
So I guess that was a cool birthday present!
Ugh, now I can't decide if I should go try to find a family restaurant or something open past midnight and go eat cake at midnight... or if I should just try to go to sleep early.
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Cosine secant tangent sine
3.14159
BURMA SHAVE
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I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only one who started reciting the MIT cheer in my head from reading your post. Looks like someone already partially beat me to it in the comments.
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Love the signed sine sign. heh.
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Are you all primed for your new age?
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Tangent secant cosine sine! 3.14159!
;)
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;)
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I wasn't in Kiltie Band... I forget why I added the above, other than it seemed vaguely cheerful.
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E to the x, dy dx,
E to the y, dy,
Tangent, secant, cosine, sine,
3.14159,
Square root, cube root, log of e,
Water-cooled slipstick, C I T!
I yelled it enough years, I should know :)
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お誕生日おめでとうございます！
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THEN YOU'LL FINALLY GET SOME SLEEP
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I think many schools have versions of that cheer and CMU happens to use one random one.
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