| It's been a billion years since I've posted about my life. Here are some things that have happened.
In December, I hung out with Lea. I went to NYC; hung out with Akiva and other people. I had Christmas at my parents house in New Jersey.
For New Years, I went first to DC, then to Charlottesville, both times hanging out with CTYers.
After New Years, I visited my sister in DC for a couple days.
In Februaryish, I went to Seattle. Then my parents came to visit. We drove around town with my dad's college roommate. Then I turned 28.
Somewhere in there I strained some muscles or something in my leg or groin, so I haven't really been able to get any exercise :-( I recently finally got hardcore about not using it a lot, and now it's almost better!
Dannel came to visit thereafter.
Four weeks ago, I went to Carnival (and a 7 party and an 8 party.)
Two weeks ago, I went to my 10 year high school reunion. It was pretty excellent, actually. Some of my high school acquaintances are doing awesome things. Relatedly, I hung out with Granger in NJ and Philadelphia.
A week ago, I went to my sister Kat's graduation in Poultney, Vermont, which is very small. I pet a cow, and she graduated.
I was mildly sick from Tuesday to about Saturday, but it was not too bad.
This weekend, my sister Emily came to visit. She and her boyfriend Bill got kicked out of my house into a hotel because I was sick. However, Sunday morning, we went to Bay to Breakers, which was great, and to get Mexican food. Then they left for Yosemite, and I lay around a lot in the sun and went to the beach. There was also a solar eclipse. Then Game of Thrones with Tom and Alice.
My social life has consisted mostly of Tom, Alice, ChrisPride, Zoe and Kempy. These are good people.
(Also another exciting thing is happening but it is a secret. I will tell you soon.) | comments: 27 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Appstagram is done. It has a much nicer installation method and no longer uses SIMBL. I am kind of hesitating releasing it because the filters aren't that great. Anyone want to make a filter/overlay thing?
Also releasing things is scary. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| Well, I guess I should have EXPECTED to get delayed? 8:15am flight is now "maybe" departing at 10am. Goddamnit I forgot how much I hate this part of the Seattle->SF thing.
Anyway, so Sunday started off with lunch at Ivar's, and then we took the bus downtown. I stopped off in the Mariners team store (where there were, as always, Japanese tourists) and got an Iwakuma #18 t-shirt. Thought about getting a Munerin one too but they only had it in XL and XXL and that won't fly anymore, plus I still feel silly for not getting one from when he was with the Hawks.
Then we went to see Damn Yankees at the 5th Avenue Theater. Bizarrely I just realized this marks the 10th anniversary of last time I saw it (the May 2002 production at the Walnut Street Theater in Philly), but I guess I've gotten a little more jaded about musicals since then, since my opinion this time around was basically that this show starts off strong and then really just kinda falls on its face. The scenes with the baseball players are great and I thought they did a good job with all the dancing numbers, but just as before I just find the entire goody-two-shoes plotline with Joe and his wife to be unbelievable. (I even commented to Carl after the show how a lot of the storylines have not changed significantly since the 1950's -- Washington DC even has a team again AND lots of people would still sell their soul to defeat the Yankees -- but the one storyline that is truly no longer believable IMO is that a hot young 22-year-old rookie baseball player would be faithful to his 45-year-old wife, especially when confronted with someone like Lola.)
Whatever, their sets were FANTASTIC, I was really impressed by how they handled a lot of the "special effects" in this musical too. And they added a few little Seattle baseball shoutouts, like Gloria doing an Ichiro imitation and then when Applegate is introducing Joe to the team during his tryout and Joe is hitting homeruns left and right, he yells "GET OUT THE RYE AND MUSTARD, IT'S GONNA BE A GRAND SALAMI!"
Afterwards I took a bus out to Redmond so I could help my team apply for the Wartron game, except, I literally arrived JUST as they finished their final puzzle. Oops. I feel bad, but I had bought these tickets to Damn Yankees back at Thanksgiving, before I'd even moved to San Francisco or heard about Wartron. So... yeah. But the team managed to get into the 12th slot out of 20, so that was good. I hear the application process was pretty hellish for a lot of teams because the site kept going down. Christine is leading this one, not me, though we called the team Lavacatipu (because Christine and Jon and Greg played their last two events as "Lava Hoedown" and the other half of the team is me and Lahut and Mike from Liboncatipu)
So instead I hung out to help talk about logistics and stuff instead, and share puzzle hunt stories and whatnot.
Eventually I took the bus back to Ballard, met up with Carl at Cupcake Royale, and came home.
Of course, we woke up at like 5:30 so I could get to the airport for this stupid 8:15 flight which is now never ever going to depart. SO tired. I wonder if I could somehow nap here and not miss my flight. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Having fun hanging out with Carl, basically, though I probably shouldn't be taking him away from his actual homework so much. Also hanging out with Adam and Rehana a surprising amount because they live upstairs from Carl, and so last night when I heard them come in I burst into the hall like "hi guys!" so they came down to hang out here for a bit, and then tonight when we got home they invited us upstairs and we hung out there for a while.
But anyway, today we went to Chinook's for lunch, walking there, and on the way back we had a bunch of adventures, including running into the Ballard Bridge being raised, and then when we got to the corner of 22nd and Market, we ran into Carl's old boss or grandboss or whoever from Mayaviz/GD, Werner, who even I vaguely recognized since I think I interviewed there once too. And worse, they were both wearing t-shirts from old Viz products (Commotion?). After that we stopped in Bartell's and then walked by Zach's house to see what the current construction looks like. It's huge! I'm really curious to see the inside someday since right now it's like "I lived in this house for 2 years but I totally don't recognize it at all!"
We went to Rock Box so we could sing a ton of enka or something, though the discovery of the day was actually Carl finding a ton of Disney songs translated into Japanese, so we sang those together; that along with actually doing an Ishikawa Sayuri medley pretty much sums up the time. Then I called jweill, and Carl and I walked to Half Price Books, where I found a whole ton of D&D books that we'd been hoping to find in SF and bought too many of them, and then the three of us ended up at Oddfellows Cafe for dinner (it was pretty late by then). I had a porchetta sandwich which was tasty but way too fatty, go figure. Then we came home.
Carl points out that I never update LJ or G+ or anything like that because I've become a Facebook dweeb, so here you go. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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shaktool's suggestion of a colorblind filter.
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