Every Day an Adventure

Today I went to the Angels-Mariners game with Oren. We saw jcreed playing center field and kicking butt! He was really good. You should have seen this awesome running catch he made in the 6th inning.



The Mariners at least only lost this game by one run. I'll spare you guys the details; it'll be in the usual spot if you want to read my baseball writing, as you know. Though, I will link for the benefit of Bayani and Megan, the coolest picture of Jason Kendall ever.

After the game, Oren and I hung out and watched the Cardinals-Cubs game on TV for a while, and then decided to go up to Taste of India for dinner, where I discovered something super-awesome: TOI UNLIMITED ICED CHAI! Holy crap, as if it wasn't awesome enough when they have normal hot unlimited chai, they have iced unlimited chai too! Woo.

I was supposed to pick up Josh and Megan from the airport tonight, but they appear to be stranded in Las Vegas. Maybe that means I'll actually go to sleep soon instead, once I finish writing up the game.

I feel very braindead, which sucks. I want to write about tonight's Mariners-Orioles game, where Oren and I saw Rafael Palmeiro get his 2999th career hit (but not his 3000th), and about a conspiracy theory on starters and closers that I thought of today, and post some trivia and a bit of cool stuff from a new baseball site I found today.

But instead I'm just going to say: who syndicated marinerd_feed? Well -- I guess for those of you wondering where you can read my Seattle Marinerds baseball blog syndicated -- that'd be your answer.

(also, I wrote a rant about Eric Byrnes getting traded to Colorado today. I saw Chad Bradford, who was traded to the Red Sox, pitch against the Yankees on the big screen at Safeco before the game. I was really excited, but nobody around me seemed to understand why. I mean, a submarine pitcher is COOL. Why is that so hard to understand?)

I have a great idea for a parody song too which maaaaaybe I'll crank out here while it's on my mind, but don't count on it.

Seriously, though, I am incredibly mentally shot. I don't know why. bhudson shows up tomorrow night though, and it'll be fun to hang out with him again. Raar. But my apartment is still a mess because I've been so dead tired all week. Bleh.

I always get oren and shandrew's birthdays backwards in my head, doh. And I didn't even know today was Rome's birthday too. Oops.

Oh! I made three new LJ icons when I got home tonight, on a whim. "quixotic" is the one I am posting this with. There is also "abstract" and "phantom camera". I decided I needed more emotions and random images, that weren't PP-related, since I had like 25 PP icons alone.

oh -- and this morning's chai was from Specialty's, which was a good call since it's such a good bakery too, so I got a yummy muffin, too. was probly the best chai of the coffeehouses so far but still pretty generic.

yeah. mentally gone. 'night.

I wore the outfit I bought yesterday to work today! It actually looked very good and is very comfortable. Dammit, Megan's always right.

This morning's chai came from Seattle's Best Coffee at 4th and whatever. The chai was just as generic as every other coffee shop, which isn't entirely unexpected. The guy who took my order said, "Can I have a name for your order?" and I said "er, Deanna," and he goes "Huh... what's your last name? I swear to god, you're a dead ringer for my ex-girlfriend." I told him my name, then said "If you were from Pittsburgh, you'd know who I was."

Hm, after work I walked down to Safeco Field to see the results of our deBooneification. It's surprisingly small, actually:

- Pokey Reese's face is now on Player's Row on the stadium side instead of Boone
- All the Boone merchandise in the team store is 50% off (which is still gratuitously expensive, I'd buy a Boone t-shirt if it was $5, not $10)
- Hahahahahahaha, the June 2005 issue of Mariners Magazine has him on the cover and they seem to be hiding the issues. Cover boy in June, DFA'ed in July. Nice going.

(Oh yeah, and he's been traded to the Twins for a PTBNL. Can we PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE have Joe Mauer? Or Justin Morneau? Please? I swear I'll be very very good and attend every game and never wear an opposing team t-shirt again. I'll clean the stadium after class and write "I will not make fun of Willie Bloomquist" on the board a hundred times.)

I'm a lot less bitter over this than I was when they DFA'ed Olerud last year. That SUCKED. Especially the part where he went on to kick our butts while playing on the Yankees later in the year.

Anyway, um, I walked uptown from the stadium and caught the 5 bus. I decided I would stop off at Red Mill for dinner, except, oops, it's Monday, so they're closed. Ah well, it was nice out and an excuse to walk another mile home. So I called Mori to order dinner from there, except, crap, they're ALSO closed on Monday! Dammit. I ended up stopping in at Olive You, the mediterranean place a block from here, which I'd never had an excuse to go in before, but at least it's open on Mondays. All I got was some pitas and hummus, because I wasn't really in a decisive mood... it was pretty damn tasty though.

Where'd the evening go? Crap... all I think I accomplished was building my last bookcase, fighting some skellies on PP, and chatting with Charlie for a while. Grrr.

I really want to write an article about baseball for Marinerds, but I'm just feeling creatively shot lately for some reason. I did finish reading my other library book today, and they're due on the 15th, so go me -- I can return them tomorrow and get back to my queue, in theory.

D&D lasted way too long tonight. We basically played one battle from 8pm until 12:30am. That was just... bad. I lost interest about 2 hours in... well, really, I just got tired.

It was good to see people though, we had a whole buncha people hangin' out at the House of Slack for a while there. We listened to the Mariners game, which sounded fun.

I went to the gym after work and before D&D. I swam for half an hour. It felt really good, what with being sunburnt, but it felt really bad, what with being somewhat sore still. Walked to the HoS from the gym, which is also good exercise.

I left work right after getting a script to work. That was pretty satisfying. It's nicer to leave on an accomplished note than a "dammit, I'll figure it out in the morning" note.

Work was pretty good, too. I feel like I am getting more into the "how to sp34k p3rl" mindset every day. It's cool when I figure out the "right" way to write stuff the first time.

This morning, chai from Torrefazione Italia or however you spell it. Still generic, just like yesterday's chai from Tully's. I'm going to try chai from every coffee shop between 4th & Union and 4th & Madison, since I walk that every morning from the bus to work.

I'm sorry about London. I wish I knew if rkane was okay, since I know he's there for some Magic tourney that was starting today, but other than that I don't think I know anyone currently in London. It's very sad. Bad people suck.