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Sunday in Ikebukuro
My gratuitous thing I ended up doing today was eating Mexican food.
I went to Ikebukuro in the late afternoon and went to El Torito and had an enchilada-taco combo dinner. Yummmmm! I know it's not all that particularly good in the grand scheme of mexican food, but when you live in a country that doesn't really HAVE mexican food, you deal with what you have.
Looked around Sunshine City a bit after that, and then went to St. Tropez, where I played Pop'n'Music and Block People. By myself. So, as it turns out, I can now do the entirety of Easy Mode on Block People by myself. Normal mode took me about 5 continues to do the entire thing, but I could do all of IT by myself too. How scary is THAT? It's been a few weeks since I played... funny part is that by the end of finishing Normal mode, I was sweating! It was a pretty good workout to keep lifting the lego blocks and rearrange them and all, lots of ground to cover.
Stopped by Mint and looked at baseball cards and didn't spend any money. I could have actually gotten the Rookie Premium Edition box set for 1050 yen (it's normally much more expensive but this is without the insert cards), and they had the Fighting Spirit 2009 box set too, but that's like 3500 yen, even though it is a NICE Fighters set and I looked through it as well. Sigh. Soooo tempting, but.. no.
By the way, there's going to be an ACTUAL Ikebukuro Book-Off opening on the 20th! It's where the HMV used to be, across from Club Sega on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the movie theater building. Crazy! I walked in by accident and the guy's like "We're not open yet, we're just taking people's stuff to buy for stock. Come back on the 20th, here are some coupons!"
I went to Bic Camera to see what their photo printing machines are like. I still don't know where to print photos in Akabane, but... anyway, Bic has a decent bunch of machines, so that was good to find out. ALSO I played with some SLR cameras as usual and found a Tamron lens I actually really liked, a AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC lens that actually felt comfortable for once -- usually my problem with non-Nikon lenses is that they feel weird, but this one felt really good in my hands and it seemed fairly reasonable in terms of being wide-and-zoom. And now that Nikon made a new 18-200 VR which just costs more than the original, so I am even less likely to afford it, an alternative would be nice. (I still don't have anything working that's wider than 50mm.)
Whee.
Wow, up late again. Sunday nights are always tough.
I went to Ikebukuro in the late afternoon and went to El Torito and had an enchilada-taco combo dinner. Yummmmm! I know it's not all that particularly good in the grand scheme of mexican food, but when you live in a country that doesn't really HAVE mexican food, you deal with what you have.
Looked around Sunshine City a bit after that, and then went to St. Tropez, where I played Pop'n'Music and Block People. By myself. So, as it turns out, I can now do the entirety of Easy Mode on Block People by myself. Normal mode took me about 5 continues to do the entire thing, but I could do all of IT by myself too. How scary is THAT? It's been a few weeks since I played... funny part is that by the end of finishing Normal mode, I was sweating! It was a pretty good workout to keep lifting the lego blocks and rearrange them and all, lots of ground to cover.
Stopped by Mint and looked at baseball cards and didn't spend any money. I could have actually gotten the Rookie Premium Edition box set for 1050 yen (it's normally much more expensive but this is without the insert cards), and they had the Fighting Spirit 2009 box set too, but that's like 3500 yen, even though it is a NICE Fighters set and I looked through it as well. Sigh. Soooo tempting, but.. no.
By the way, there's going to be an ACTUAL Ikebukuro Book-Off opening on the 20th! It's where the HMV used to be, across from Club Sega on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the movie theater building. Crazy! I walked in by accident and the guy's like "We're not open yet, we're just taking people's stuff to buy for stock. Come back on the 20th, here are some coupons!"
I went to Bic Camera to see what their photo printing machines are like. I still don't know where to print photos in Akabane, but... anyway, Bic has a decent bunch of machines, so that was good to find out. ALSO I played with some SLR cameras as usual and found a Tamron lens I actually really liked, a AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC lens that actually felt comfortable for once -- usually my problem with non-Nikon lenses is that they feel weird, but this one felt really good in my hands and it seemed fairly reasonable in terms of being wide-and-zoom. And now that Nikon made a new 18-200 VR which just costs more than the original, so I am even less likely to afford it, an alternative would be nice. (I still don't have anything working that's wider than 50mm.)
Whee.
Wow, up late again. Sunday nights are always tough.
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