Every Day an Adventure

Friday night I went to ballroom. As usual, it was a weird mix of people there. There were only one or two people there of my "I dance with these people" group, though one of them was a fellow I used to refer to on here as Awesome Waltz Guy, and sadly, we waltzed together and it wasn't awesome. I think he is out of practice, maybe, having not been to ballroom in several weeks. The Foxtrot mixer was so full of girls and so not full of guys that I actually dropped out of it after twice around the room. I never do that.

I ended up leading E in a couple of dances, mostly foxtrot. I still remain convinced that the problem isn't that I'm a bad leader but that he's not a great follower. (I'll have to test that with someone, maybe Rehana.) I tried to leave early but then ended up dancing the last few dances in sneakers, which was actually a lot better than I thought it'd be, I just couldn't spin well. Afterwards, E asked if I'd want to go get something to eat, and I wasn't hungry, but figured what the hell, so we went to B&O up in Cap Hill, where he got real food and I got a chai milkshake (which was pretty good). We sat around talking about stuff like videogames and such, and I tried to get a straight answer on "am I helpful or obnoxious when I try to 'help out' by backleading and overexplaining stuff at ballroom?", but mostly failed.

Saturday, we had D&D in the afternoon. Thanks to 520 being closed, we were a little bit late having taken 90, but still beat Pete there. In the adventure, our party went and hunted down and killed this traitor/trader. It was exciting for me since I rolled three critical sneak attacks and did a metric fuckton of damage. The downside is that we know this guy should have been at an event that is still in the future... in this timeline... or the other timeline? We don't know. It's sort of messed up. Jason says he'd like to have one more session with me there before I go to Japan, so hopefully we can work out some time to play in the next two weeks.

In the evening, Zach and Oren and Carl and I saw the Mariners game from the Hit it Here Cafe (a restaurant above the rightfield stands at Safeco Field), which I had never seen a game from before, so that was exciting. I took a ton of pictures and the Mariners won, as expected since I always see them win these days. We're not so sure the table seating was really worth it, though I think it was fun anyway for a new experience. Also, I had steak and it was actually good, and amazingly, refills on iced tea were free. We had a big slice of chocolate cake for Oren's birthday. Kenji Johjima did hit a grand slam, but it was not hit to the cafe.

Today (Sunday), in the afternoon, Zach and Carl and I picked up Mindy and went down to Kent Station to meet up with Oren, whose birthday was actually today. We all went to see Harry Potter and the Fifth Movie at a matinee 1pm show. I guess it was good, but I didn't love it as much as half of my friendslist seemed to, and I hated Book Five too. I have no particular spoilers to talk about. The girl playing Luna was really good, and the DA scenes were remarkably well-done, probably the best-brought-to-life part of the book. Also, it's funny seeing how the actors have all gotten so much older. I thought they really should have gotten a few more 21-year-old actors around so that the Weasley twins didn't stand out so much.

After that we went to the Ram for lunch/dinner. We happened to be there just as the Seafair Pirates were stumbling in and going over to tables and messing with patrons and stuff, and occasionally striking up various songs in the bar. I realized that 2-3 years ago I would have thought this was really cool and started talking piratey to them and singing along to the songs, but now, I couldn't really muster much enthusiasm, plus I was really tired. I couldn't help but hum along to "South Australia", but that was about it.

I spent the evening getting some things ready to ship to people. I also went through my video game collection and distilled out more stuff I don't want. To be honest I'm thinking of just taking it all to Game Stop or something -- it's another stack of old PS1 games, and then my Dreamcast and 7 games and Samba de Amigo and the maracas. Basically, it seems like it'll be too much effort to find a local buyer on CL or wherever and shipping is a pain. But when I realized that I hadn't even actually ever turned the Dreamcast on since we moved into this house 14 months ago, I realized that I don't need to keep it if it's just a paperweight, and I just have to accept that I will not get much money for it.

I still feel doomed about all the things I have to do, though maybe not having to go to work will help me have more time to do them. We'll see.

Another thing is that I'm debating not having a going-away party. Do you think I'll regret it if I don't? I'm worried I'll be too depressed if I do.