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Introvert memes no longer apply to me, apparently.
Friday I came home from work, noticed that the clock on the stove wasn't working--this would be important later--and, to pass the time, worked a bit more on my latest coding project, a random quotes page. So far this weekend i've gotten the functionality mostly working, in that it displays random quotes and clicking the bottom calls up a new quote. I haven't yet put in the social media buttons, the fadeout isn't timed right, and it's extremely ugly, so those are the problems to solve next. But it works!
Anyway, after an hour or so I left to catch the bus down to Ms. Murphy and Sons to go to the Starlight Radio Dreams show, the next one after the show I went to in February. I didn't get a picture this time because I was sitting in the back corner of the room, but I did get dinner to go with the performance! Fish and chips and an almond cake for dessert, which I ate while watching the show. The premise this time was that an ordinary suburbanite had won an appearance on the show, much to the surprise and annoyance of the cast, and they had to put up with her while trying to get a show together. Serials this time were NPC, mocking sidequests and NPCs in the town, and one I hadn't seen called Olympic Shore, which was Jersey Shore starring the Dodekatheon. I didn't like it as much as NPC, but it did have the person playing the suburbanite as the show's producer who sung a parody of "Part of Your World" about how rich and morally upright she was. That was enough to carry it by itself, honestly.
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meowtima was there, as was a friend of his that I hadn't met before who was going through some misfortune. When the show ended we briefly talked about doing something else, but tiredness quickly caught up with everyone and meowtima's friend went home. He did as well after a few minutes of standing and chatting at an intersection where the buses we needed to catch both passed, so when they arrived, we caught our respective buses and went home.
Saturday I woke up early, lay in bed for a couple hours, then coded again until lunch time. That's when disaster struck--when I went make miso soup, the oven burners wouldn't spark. Then I checked the oven lights, and they wouldn't turn on. Apparently the electrical work on Friday had done something very unfortunately to the apartment's wiring, since while I made do and ate a good lunch, when I went to do the washing the washing machine wouldn't turn on either.
The fridge, the rice cooker, and the dishwasher all still work and the fuses downstairs are all fine. I have enough clothes clean to last the week and there's a laundromat a block away if it comes to that. But, I'm not looking forward to the food costs...
After fiddling with things and getting nowhere, I left to go to the Japanese Cultural Center's kimono exhibition. I arrived at 4 p.m., not long before it closed, so it was basically empty and I was able to freely look at the kimono. They were all pretty small, some of them seemingly sized for a child or a very petite woman, but beautiful:
That one has 鴛鴦 (oshidori, "mandarin ducks") on it, a symbol of eternal love, but the sleeves are long in the style of an unmarried woman. The accompanying text indicated it might have been for a family event celebrating a relative's anniversary.
The JCC isn't particularly large, so I was only there for a half-hour or so, including the time I spent talking to one of the staff/volunteers/? about the tea ceremony classes they offer. Apparently new ones start in August because the JCC isn't air conditioned and people don't want to sweat sitting in seiza for an hour, which is fair enough. I mentioned that I had been to tea ceremonies before, but only as a participant, not a host, and they suggested the beginner class since it goes into some of the basics. It starts in August, on Saturdays. Maybe I'll take them up on it.
I had put out a call for dinner since I couldn't cook at home and got a response from a friend who was up in Roger's Park with her boyfriend to pick up a board game. So we went to Indie Cafe, ate sushi/poke, and then briefly went back to my apartment to play RoboRally, which I've never heard of but is apparently 24 years old? It involves robots trying to navigate their way around a factory floor filled with obstacles and conveyor belts with all actions needing to be set ahead of time and then playing out sequentially. We didn't have much chaos on our playthrough, since there were three players and we picked an easy board, though there was nearly a situation where someone was shoved off the edge to their doom. After one game taking about an hour, the others were tired and left, and I watched some Hoshi no Kaabi and then went to bed.
This morning I ate a TV dinner for lunch and otherwise have done nothing. Have to go shopping now and maybe go out to dinner, since the oven still doesn't work. Hopefully it's fixed tomorrow and I can make lunches for the rest of the week, otherwise this week will be pretty expensive...
Friday I came home from work, noticed that the clock on the stove wasn't working--this would be important later--and, to pass the time, worked a bit more on my latest coding project, a random quotes page. So far this weekend i've gotten the functionality mostly working, in that it displays random quotes and clicking the bottom calls up a new quote. I haven't yet put in the social media buttons, the fadeout isn't timed right, and it's extremely ugly, so those are the problems to solve next. But it works!
Anyway, after an hour or so I left to catch the bus down to Ms. Murphy and Sons to go to the Starlight Radio Dreams show, the next one after the show I went to in February. I didn't get a picture this time because I was sitting in the back corner of the room, but I did get dinner to go with the performance! Fish and chips and an almond cake for dessert, which I ate while watching the show. The premise this time was that an ordinary suburbanite had won an appearance on the show, much to the surprise and annoyance of the cast, and they had to put up with her while trying to get a show together. Serials this time were NPC, mocking sidequests and NPCs in the town, and one I hadn't seen called Olympic Shore, which was Jersey Shore starring the Dodekatheon. I didn't like it as much as NPC, but it did have the person playing the suburbanite as the show's producer who sung a parody of "Part of Your World" about how rich and morally upright she was. That was enough to carry it by itself, honestly.
Saturday I woke up early, lay in bed for a couple hours, then coded again until lunch time. That's when disaster struck--when I went make miso soup, the oven burners wouldn't spark. Then I checked the oven lights, and they wouldn't turn on. Apparently the electrical work on Friday had done something very unfortunately to the apartment's wiring, since while I made do and ate a good lunch, when I went to do the washing the washing machine wouldn't turn on either.
The fridge, the rice cooker, and the dishwasher all still work and the fuses downstairs are all fine. I have enough clothes clean to last the week and there's a laundromat a block away if it comes to that. But, I'm not looking forward to the food costs...
After fiddling with things and getting nowhere, I left to go to the Japanese Cultural Center's kimono exhibition. I arrived at 4 p.m., not long before it closed, so it was basically empty and I was able to freely look at the kimono. They were all pretty small, some of them seemingly sized for a child or a very petite woman, but beautiful:
That one has 鴛鴦 (oshidori, "mandarin ducks") on it, a symbol of eternal love, but the sleeves are long in the style of an unmarried woman. The accompanying text indicated it might have been for a family event celebrating a relative's anniversary.
The JCC isn't particularly large, so I was only there for a half-hour or so, including the time I spent talking to one of the staff/volunteers/? about the tea ceremony classes they offer. Apparently new ones start in August because the JCC isn't air conditioned and people don't want to sweat sitting in seiza for an hour, which is fair enough. I mentioned that I had been to tea ceremonies before, but only as a participant, not a host, and they suggested the beginner class since it goes into some of the basics. It starts in August, on Saturdays. Maybe I'll take them up on it.
I had put out a call for dinner since I couldn't cook at home and got a response from a friend who was up in Roger's Park with her boyfriend to pick up a board game. So we went to Indie Cafe, ate sushi/poke, and then briefly went back to my apartment to play RoboRally, which I've never heard of but is apparently 24 years old? It involves robots trying to navigate their way around a factory floor filled with obstacles and conveyor belts with all actions needing to be set ahead of time and then playing out sequentially. We didn't have much chaos on our playthrough, since there were three players and we picked an easy board, though there was nearly a situation where someone was shoved off the edge to their doom. After one game taking about an hour, the others were tired and left, and I watched some Hoshi no Kaabi and then went to bed.
This morning I ate a TV dinner for lunch and otherwise have done nothing. Have to go shopping now and maybe go out to dinner, since the oven still doesn't work. Hopefully it's fixed tomorrow and I can make lunches for the rest of the week, otherwise this week will be pretty expensive...
