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Showing posts with label Seattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seattle. Show all posts
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
did you ever know that you're my hero?
OOOOOOOHHHHHHH baby! Did you hear the news? My idol growing up(aside from Edgar Martinez and Steve Largent) has returned! Like Moses! Like N.K.O.T.B.! I'd been following the story for awhile and last I knew he had basically inked the deal with the (hated) Braves... but it's not so now! So here he comes, back to Seattle, bring back memories of the Kingdome, the yellow "S" on the cap, and the '95 miracle season.
Did that 2nd picture make you cry a bit? Oh wait, who dat cheater hanging on my man?
F the Yankees by the way!
Did that 2nd picture make you cry a bit? Oh wait, who dat cheater hanging on my man?F the Yankees by the way!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
you gotta read this!
It's like someone peered into my soul and decided to write an article about it. Read this article about what life has been like for me. On top of all of that, my favorite baseball team here in Japan lead almost the whole year and then fell apart at the end of the season (I blame Hoshino for taking our best players to the stupid Olympics that he lost anyway) and then my favorite soccer team lost out on the title in the last week of the season. We finished second and I was pretty geeked about that, but still...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Sea-town part 2
My second week was mostly uneventful, I was planning on heading up to Kirkland to see my old house and stop by dude?’s parents house to get Mrs. Dude?’s necklace and stop off at the Red Hook brewery on Wednesday, but during the night I was ravaged by the flu! I was ravaged! I spent the night in and out of the bathroom in all sorts of precarious positions… So Wednesday was spent sleeping. All day. But I sucked it up and headed up north on Thursday and did the aforementioned things, see:
My last weekend was spent hanging out with my family and the best part was celebrating an early Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday bar none! I love it, and I was honored this Thanksgiving with the job of carving the turkey! Check it out:
I let my nephew get in on it too:
And here’s the fam:
My last 2 days were just spent hanging out again, doing some errands and getting my stuff together. Then, on Monday, P and I headed out to SeaTac again for my flight home. BUT ONE LAST THING!!! I needed TACO BELL! We stopped at on and found that it didn’t open until 10:00… sad. So we headed off again but stopped at another Bell and just waited in the parking lot until 10 came around, a good 20 min wait. But there I had it! So we swept on over to SeaTac, P dropped me off, and I sat outside and ate my Taco Bell:
All in all it was a good vacation. It was a very strange experience. It had been so long since I had been home, and so many things threw me off. I spent the first week dying to get back to Tokyo, to some sense of normalcy, but by the second week, I felt that it was a good decision going back. It was really nice to see my family again, good to see my kitty, good to see some friends, and good to see my city.
Next time I think I’ll probably be heading down to AZ to see everyone, and not too sure how I’m feeling about that just yet…
One other note: my mac is missing! I had a sweet little macbook that I left in P’s garage in Arizona that has gone missing. It was the one thing that I wanted to bring back to Japan with me and it’s gone… It was in a black briefcase with a sweet, old school Seahawks helmet sticker on it. Let me know if you’ve seen it…
My last weekend was spent hanging out with my family and the best part was celebrating an early Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday bar none! I love it, and I was honored this Thanksgiving with the job of carving the turkey! Check it out:
I let my nephew get in on it too:
And here’s the fam:
My last 2 days were just spent hanging out again, doing some errands and getting my stuff together. Then, on Monday, P and I headed out to SeaTac again for my flight home. BUT ONE LAST THING!!! I needed TACO BELL! We stopped at on and found that it didn’t open until 10:00… sad. So we headed off again but stopped at another Bell and just waited in the parking lot until 10 came around, a good 20 min wait. But there I had it! So we swept on over to SeaTac, P dropped me off, and I sat outside and ate my Taco Bell:
All in all it was a good vacation. It was a very strange experience. It had been so long since I had been home, and so many things threw me off. I spent the first week dying to get back to Tokyo, to some sense of normalcy, but by the second week, I felt that it was a good decision going back. It was really nice to see my family again, good to see my kitty, good to see some friends, and good to see my city.
Next time I think I’ll probably be heading down to AZ to see everyone, and not too sure how I’m feeling about that just yet… One other note: my mac is missing! I had a sweet little macbook that I left in P’s garage in Arizona that has gone missing. It was the one thing that I wanted to bring back to Japan with me and it’s gone… It was in a black briefcase with a sweet, old school Seahawks helmet sticker on it. Let me know if you’ve seen it…
no airplay winter vol. 1!
Who new this would ever happen? Well, it did. I talked a bit about my trip home, what's been going down, how I've disappointed myself this year, what I'm planning on next year and games I bought... maybe that's it. I had the recorder set on high sensitivity which was a mistake maybe, a ton of background noize! feel it!
Sea-town part 1
before you read this, you should go back and check out the updated "Rocktober" post, it's probably one page back, so just click the "older posts" link, do it!
So here's the deal. I’ve got hold of mornin’s old computer, a little Panasonic “let’s note” that she doesn’t need anymore, after she got her new one. Man, this thing is tiny! But I figure if I lug it around and I can stop hitting the f’n “s” button instead of the “a” button I will be able to keep this blog up and running a bit better on my down time here at work. Sounds like a good idea, but practice is a whole ‘nother animal…
So the first thing I want to put up is an account of my trip back home to the great city of Seattle.
I headed over to Narita on the 11th of November to catch a Northwest Airlines flight back to SeaTac for my first visit to Sea-town in over 3 years. The last time I was there was when dude? And Mrs. Dude? got married. After their wedding I hauled myself and all my stuff down to Arizona to meet up with my family for 6 months before I came over here to J-pan. Another reason I headed down there was to have a place to leave all of my aforementioned “stuff” while I was over here. Little did I know that they would move about 3 times while I was here, one of which lead them back to the Seattle area. Well, news is that they are heading back to the AZ, in fact today, as I write this, I think they are probably around Utah… Oh well, I got to them before they headed out and got to spend 2 weeks kicking it in the beautiful state of Washington! 
Man this keyboard is tiny!!!!
So I arrived butt ass early at SeaTac international airport, so early in fact that immigration hadn’t even opened and we had to sit in the plane for about 30 mins waiting for someone to show up so that we could officially be welcomed into the country. Who knew that immigration closed? Not this guy. I headed outside after quickly picking up my bags and eventually saw my grandma’s car come around the arrival area loaded with my sister, and her 3 girls. My nephew was at home sick with the flu (more on that later). The kids were all out of school because it was Veteran’s day, and so we were off to live through my second Tuesday the 11th of November. We arrived back at my sister’s house after a brief stop off at my g-ma’s to switch cars (she used g-ma’s Honda to pick me up because it has much better gas millage than her giant suburban) and say hi to my pretty kitty, Ms. Hana Banana.
The first couple of days I spent in town were pretty uneventful, mostly just hanging out around the house with one kid after another that fell victim to the dreaded “flu” and doing some shopping. I picked up a ton of Xbox 360 games while I was back because they are nearly $30 cheaper a pop! I also picked up a few t-shirts, man I love t-shirts, and some sauce packets, like ranch dressing, country gravy and enchilada sauce, so I could mix them up when I got back here. It wasn’t until my first weekend in town that I really got out much. Deuce and his lady, Ms. Kao, came down from Vancouver to visit and the first day we grabbed P’s (grandma) car and drove up to the big city of Seattle, see some beautiful pictures here:
Where we met my friend Cass-a-roll and hit up a couple of bars. It was good to see all of them, and it was really nice to enjoy some good beer that didn’t come from a can and didn’t have 3 inches of head on it! After a few beers, we decided it was time to get some eats so we hit up a Seattle legend, Dick’s!
We all had a couple of burgers and a shake and then headed back down to my sister’s in Gig Harbor for the night. Now one thing that really made my trip home strange was that I was staying in a very unfamiliar place. I grew up in a city called Kirkland and I know that area very well. Kirkland is about an hour and a half north of Gig Harbor, an area that I know very little, and so driving around I got lost a few times, and it made me feel very uncomfortable, it is not something I am used to and I don’t like it very much. The city itself is very pretty, very small, but it’s not my home…
The 2nd day that the deuce was in town we got up and headed over to Bremerton to catch a ferry over to Seattle. The ride was beautiful but because of some construction going on around the dock we missed the ferry we wanted and ended up taking one about an hour later, this messed up our plans for the day a bit, but not too bad. We rode over and it takes about an hour to get to Seattle, I was able to get a bunch of great pics on the ride, here are some: actually, check this link son!
After arriving in Seattle we hooved it over to Qwest Field to take in the 2nd half of the Seahawks game vs. the hated Arizona Cardinals. We lost… and the worst part is that we had a chance… a really good chance. Hasselbeck threw a crappy interception (as he did the following week against the Redskins) that cost us the game. What a terrible year for the Hawks, and Seattle sports in general…
Oh, and we saw some dude getting tasered!
After the game we walked up town through Pioneer Square and headed to Pike’s Place Market as it was closing, but we did manage to get some good shots of the famous sign, the famous fish market, and of course the famous 1st Starbucks! I hate Starbucks, but that’s not part of the story.
After a quick tour of the market we walked over to Westlake Center and hopped on the monorail for my first ride on it, and went over to the Seattle Center to check out the Space Needle, see:
We were looking around for a “Seattle restaurant” and I wanted to take them to Ivar’s for some clam chowder, but we couldn’t find anything “Seattley” so we settled for some decent Thai food. With dinner taken care of, we jumped back on the monorail and made our way back to the ferry and headed back across the sound, I took a bunch of pics from the ferry, none of them turned out very well, but here’s one:
Thanks for coming Deuce and Ms. Kao!
So here's the deal. I’ve got hold of mornin’s old computer, a little Panasonic “let’s note” that she doesn’t need anymore, after she got her new one. Man, this thing is tiny! But I figure if I lug it around and I can stop hitting the f’n “s” button instead of the “a” button I will be able to keep this blog up and running a bit better on my down time here at work. Sounds like a good idea, but practice is a whole ‘nother animal…
So the first thing I want to put up is an account of my trip back home to the great city of Seattle.
I headed over to Narita on the 11th of November to catch a Northwest Airlines flight back to SeaTac for my first visit to Sea-town in over 3 years. The last time I was there was when dude? And Mrs. Dude? got married. After their wedding I hauled myself and all my stuff down to Arizona to meet up with my family for 6 months before I came over here to J-pan. Another reason I headed down there was to have a place to leave all of my aforementioned “stuff” while I was over here. Little did I know that they would move about 3 times while I was here, one of which lead them back to the Seattle area. Well, news is that they are heading back to the AZ, in fact today, as I write this, I think they are probably around Utah… Oh well, I got to them before they headed out and got to spend 2 weeks kicking it in the beautiful state of Washington! 
Man this keyboard is tiny!!!!So I arrived butt ass early at SeaTac international airport, so early in fact that immigration hadn’t even opened and we had to sit in the plane for about 30 mins waiting for someone to show up so that we could officially be welcomed into the country. Who knew that immigration closed? Not this guy. I headed outside after quickly picking up my bags and eventually saw my grandma’s car come around the arrival area loaded with my sister, and her 3 girls. My nephew was at home sick with the flu (more on that later). The kids were all out of school because it was Veteran’s day, and so we were off to live through my second Tuesday the 11th of November. We arrived back at my sister’s house after a brief stop off at my g-ma’s to switch cars (she used g-ma’s Honda to pick me up because it has much better gas millage than her giant suburban) and say hi to my pretty kitty, Ms. Hana Banana.
The first couple of days I spent in town were pretty uneventful, mostly just hanging out around the house with one kid after another that fell victim to the dreaded “flu” and doing some shopping. I picked up a ton of Xbox 360 games while I was back because they are nearly $30 cheaper a pop! I also picked up a few t-shirts, man I love t-shirts, and some sauce packets, like ranch dressing, country gravy and enchilada sauce, so I could mix them up when I got back here. It wasn’t until my first weekend in town that I really got out much. Deuce and his lady, Ms. Kao, came down from Vancouver to visit and the first day we grabbed P’s (grandma) car and drove up to the big city of Seattle, see some beautiful pictures here:
Where we met my friend Cass-a-roll and hit up a couple of bars. It was good to see all of them, and it was really nice to enjoy some good beer that didn’t come from a can and didn’t have 3 inches of head on it! After a few beers, we decided it was time to get some eats so we hit up a Seattle legend, Dick’s!
We all had a couple of burgers and a shake and then headed back down to my sister’s in Gig Harbor for the night. Now one thing that really made my trip home strange was that I was staying in a very unfamiliar place. I grew up in a city called Kirkland and I know that area very well. Kirkland is about an hour and a half north of Gig Harbor, an area that I know very little, and so driving around I got lost a few times, and it made me feel very uncomfortable, it is not something I am used to and I don’t like it very much. The city itself is very pretty, very small, but it’s not my home…
The 2nd day that the deuce was in town we got up and headed over to Bremerton to catch a ferry over to Seattle. The ride was beautiful but because of some construction going on around the dock we missed the ferry we wanted and ended up taking one about an hour later, this messed up our plans for the day a bit, but not too bad. We rode over and it takes about an hour to get to Seattle, I was able to get a bunch of great pics on the ride, here are some: actually, check this link son!
After arriving in Seattle we hooved it over to Qwest Field to take in the 2nd half of the Seahawks game vs. the hated Arizona Cardinals. We lost… and the worst part is that we had a chance… a really good chance. Hasselbeck threw a crappy interception (as he did the following week against the Redskins) that cost us the game. What a terrible year for the Hawks, and Seattle sports in general…
Oh, and we saw some dude getting tasered!After the game we walked up town through Pioneer Square and headed to Pike’s Place Market as it was closing, but we did manage to get some good shots of the famous sign, the famous fish market, and of course the famous 1st Starbucks! I hate Starbucks, but that’s not part of the story.
After a quick tour of the market we walked over to Westlake Center and hopped on the monorail for my first ride on it, and went over to the Seattle Center to check out the Space Needle, see:
We were looking around for a “Seattle restaurant” and I wanted to take them to Ivar’s for some clam chowder, but we couldn’t find anything “Seattley” so we settled for some decent Thai food. With dinner taken care of, we jumped back on the monorail and made our way back to the ferry and headed back across the sound, I took a bunch of pics from the ferry, none of them turned out very well, but here’s one:
Thanks for coming Deuce and Ms. Kao!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Moma, I'm coming home!
That's right, for the first time in over 3 years I will be back in my home town of "Seattle". Of course I use "" because I'm not actually from Seattle, but you've probably never heard of my town unless you shop at Costco, but I digress... Seattle! Before I came to Japan I moved to Arizona for about 6 months because that's where my sister and g-ma were living and I wanted to hang out with the whole family before, and leave all my stuff after, I left. They have since moved back to the Great Northwest! I'm dealing with some mixed emotions at this point. I'm excited to visit the US, visit Seattle, see the family, see some friends, and maybe see the Seahawks, but I am also thinking that I will be very busy "seeing" all those things... Anywho, for now I'm off... in November. That's right, I'll be gone from the 11th until the 25th of November. See you in "Seattle"!
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