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maybe my last post from japan...
maybe not. we'll see. I might post from my phone tomorrow but I doubt I'll be coming back to an internet cafe before I leave the country, unless it's an emergency.
So yeah, my flight is Tuesday at 5:40pm. It's now Monday at 2am. CRAZY. I'll soon go home, do a little more sorting of stuff and packing, and then... go to sleep... tomorrow I'll be bugging Sam to help me get stuff taken care of so the house doesn't fall down while I am away.
I'm at the Aprecio internet cafe. I got a "business chair room", which means I am sitting here with a nice comfy computer chair. It's almost like I'm paying time to sit in a nice chair, haha. But in reality I think next year I might invest in a nice chair at home, along with an internet connection.
Let's see, so I last wrote on Friday night.
I woke up Saturday feeling like CRAP. Seriously. I almost decided to bag going to the Asia Series, but... I wanted to see Westbay one last time. That turned out to be worth it. I found him in left field, Matt joined us a bit later, we watched the Lions CRUSH the Lions (hehe), including an Okawari-kun home run that nearly hit the Tokyo Dome ceiling, and landed in the upper deck in left field and bounced back onto the field. Dang. Westbay left for about 4 innings in the middle of the game -- he had to go talk to some people from a certain MLB team -- but he came back, and after the game we met his other friend Jeff (who is Japanese but grew up in America). Westbay had been worried that I wouldn't get along well with him for some reason, probly just the "we're old guys compared to you" factor, but he was wrong -- Jeff and I were both like "LETS GO TO JIMBOCHO AND LOOK FOR OLD BASEBALL BOOKS WHEEEEE!!" and so that was pretty awesome and he showed us a bunch of stores I had never been to before, including this amazing one with stuff like books full of 1950's Japanese baseball SIGNED cards, baseballs signed by guys like Tetsuharu Kawakami, old menko, old books with things like the entirety of the Tokyo Big 6 league data from the 1930's, koshien scrapbooks from that time period too, stacks of magazines from all sorts of teams and eras, Shukan Baseball issues going back 40 years... YUM. Next year I will go back there and be in heaven for a while I am sure. For the time being it was funny enough just going through the 1990's issues of 大学野球 and being like "look!!! it's nishi! it's iguchi!! it's yoshinobu! it's kenshin!" etc.
Anyway, after they went home, Matt and I headed back to the Tokyo Dome. We sat down in the back behind homeplate/firstbase and watched the first half of the game. I went to take videos of the Taiwanese band cheering for a while, and some photos, but I had no intention of staying for the whole game because I was basically existing on Dayquil and adrenaline at that point and it hurt to swallow. Seriously. I didn't even start keeping a scorecard. I took some photos before the game and that was it.
Funny -- we wondered where the hell Simon was -- we left the game at 7:30 or so to go home. I got home, was starting to get ready to go to sleep, and get an email from Simon like "I'll be at the Dome in 10 mins, where are you guys?" I wrote back "Under my kotatsu. See you tomorrow."
Seriously, I drank a ton of orange juice and went to sleep around 10pm, I felt really godawful.
Woke up around 7am for a variety of reasons, then went back to sleep again, got up for real at more like 11am. I felt a LOT better.
Went back to the Dome, got there like 5 minutes before first pitch, saved some seats in the upper deck... Pau arrived at like the 3rd inning or so. Simon was there with his dad but sitting elsewhere. He joined us for one inning.
Crazy close game, the Seibu Lions beat the Uni-President 7-11 Lions 1-0 on a sayonara double by Tomoaki Satoh, who was voted Series MVP for that. It was nuts.
Pau and I went to karaoke after that, which was pretty awesome, we did a bunch of baseball songs and some other stuff. I failed to do a rumania montevideo song just because I was so surprised it was in there. Singing along to a song and singing it karaoke is very different. Either way this was probly my last time karaokeing for a very long time... unless some people are willing to go to Seattle's Best Karaoke with me... ahem...
We went to an izakaya after that (we were in Jimbocho), Watami, and had a variety of typical izakaya small plates of food. It was all really great except these bizarre homemade pan gyoza which Pau really liked and I didn't.
I really have to go post about the games, it's already getting pretty late and I shouldn't stay here TOO long. Bleh.
Anyway, can't believe it but I will be going back to the US soon. Tuesday morning Seattle time, I will be in Seattle. This is nuts.
So yeah, my flight is Tuesday at 5:40pm. It's now Monday at 2am. CRAZY. I'll soon go home, do a little more sorting of stuff and packing, and then... go to sleep... tomorrow I'll be bugging Sam to help me get stuff taken care of so the house doesn't fall down while I am away.
I'm at the Aprecio internet cafe. I got a "business chair room", which means I am sitting here with a nice comfy computer chair. It's almost like I'm paying time to sit in a nice chair, haha. But in reality I think next year I might invest in a nice chair at home, along with an internet connection.
Let's see, so I last wrote on Friday night.
I woke up Saturday feeling like CRAP. Seriously. I almost decided to bag going to the Asia Series, but... I wanted to see Westbay one last time. That turned out to be worth it. I found him in left field, Matt joined us a bit later, we watched the Lions CRUSH the Lions (hehe), including an Okawari-kun home run that nearly hit the Tokyo Dome ceiling, and landed in the upper deck in left field and bounced back onto the field. Dang. Westbay left for about 4 innings in the middle of the game -- he had to go talk to some people from a certain MLB team -- but he came back, and after the game we met his other friend Jeff (who is Japanese but grew up in America). Westbay had been worried that I wouldn't get along well with him for some reason, probly just the "we're old guys compared to you" factor, but he was wrong -- Jeff and I were both like "LETS GO TO JIMBOCHO AND LOOK FOR OLD BASEBALL BOOKS WHEEEEE!!" and so that was pretty awesome and he showed us a bunch of stores I had never been to before, including this amazing one with stuff like books full of 1950's Japanese baseball SIGNED cards, baseballs signed by guys like Tetsuharu Kawakami, old menko, old books with things like the entirety of the Tokyo Big 6 league data from the 1930's, koshien scrapbooks from that time period too, stacks of magazines from all sorts of teams and eras, Shukan Baseball issues going back 40 years... YUM. Next year I will go back there and be in heaven for a while I am sure. For the time being it was funny enough just going through the 1990's issues of 大学野球 and being like "look!!! it's nishi! it's iguchi!! it's yoshinobu! it's kenshin!" etc.
Anyway, after they went home, Matt and I headed back to the Tokyo Dome. We sat down in the back behind homeplate/firstbase and watched the first half of the game. I went to take videos of the Taiwanese band cheering for a while, and some photos, but I had no intention of staying for the whole game because I was basically existing on Dayquil and adrenaline at that point and it hurt to swallow. Seriously. I didn't even start keeping a scorecard. I took some photos before the game and that was it.
Funny -- we wondered where the hell Simon was -- we left the game at 7:30 or so to go home. I got home, was starting to get ready to go to sleep, and get an email from Simon like "I'll be at the Dome in 10 mins, where are you guys?" I wrote back "Under my kotatsu. See you tomorrow."
Seriously, I drank a ton of orange juice and went to sleep around 10pm, I felt really godawful.
Woke up around 7am for a variety of reasons, then went back to sleep again, got up for real at more like 11am. I felt a LOT better.
Went back to the Dome, got there like 5 minutes before first pitch, saved some seats in the upper deck... Pau arrived at like the 3rd inning or so. Simon was there with his dad but sitting elsewhere. He joined us for one inning.
Crazy close game, the Seibu Lions beat the Uni-President 7-11 Lions 1-0 on a sayonara double by Tomoaki Satoh, who was voted Series MVP for that. It was nuts.
Pau and I went to karaoke after that, which was pretty awesome, we did a bunch of baseball songs and some other stuff. I failed to do a rumania montevideo song just because I was so surprised it was in there. Singing along to a song and singing it karaoke is very different. Either way this was probly my last time karaokeing for a very long time... unless some people are willing to go to Seattle's Best Karaoke with me... ahem...
We went to an izakaya after that (we were in Jimbocho), Watami, and had a variety of typical izakaya small plates of food. It was all really great except these bizarre homemade pan gyoza which Pau really liked and I didn't.
I really have to go post about the games, it's already getting pretty late and I shouldn't stay here TOO long. Bleh.
Anyway, can't believe it but I will be going back to the US soon. Tuesday morning Seattle time, I will be in Seattle. This is nuts.
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Is there a such thing as bad gyoza aside from the contaminated ones from a while back?
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