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November 11, 2005Oh, yeah...I have a blog.
So, here's the problem with blogs. When something noteworthy is going on, either it's nothing I can't comment on and/or I'm too busy to sit down and make an entry. And I don't hate my friends enough to bludgeon them with the minutiae of the boring times.
That said, I'm about to regale you with the details of my marginally interesting day. I had breakfast at Griddles, about which I'd heard much but in which I'd never actually been. When my apple-cinnamon pancakes arrived, I wasn't sure if I should eat them or flag down a low-flying chopper and have it try to make a landing. They were that huge.
Griddles is the place to eat, judging from the packed dining room and the crowd waiting to be seated. I had Ian Ziering (Steve from "90210") pointed out to me, which prompted two memories--the first two measures of the show's theme song, and when my host family in Fukuyama asked if I liked Kelly or Brenda better and I wondered to myself why it had taken over half my lifetime for the show to migrate to Japan. I didn't realize until I checked out his IMDB page just now that he was doing VO work. Shoulda given him the secret handshake.
I followed breakfast with a hike in Runyon Canyon, along the tougher of the two paths. It kicked my ass but proper, but nothing like how it would have punished me 25 pounds ago. There were a few really steep, really iffy spots near the top, but I managed not to hurt myself--my right ankle, again--until we were on completely level, paved terrain, some 30 feet away from the exit to the hiking area. I'm hoping it's just sprained, but given that ankle's unfortunate history, nothing would surprise me.
The big news these days is that I'm eyeing apartments, hoping to move out of my current ghetto-fabulousness before the end of the year. I've narrowed it down to two finalists, both of which I'm giving a second look tomorrow afternoon: A studio apartment in a beautiful complex packed to the gills with amenities that's probably just too small for me, and a much larger one-bedroom apartment in a much more run-of-the-mill complex. I'll probably opt for the latter, which is fine, as it's still worlds better than my current pad. The one-bedroom might win out just by virtue of it having central air-conditioning, the importance of which during the hot months can't be overemphasized.
I still haven't beaten "Romancing SaGa," and I've got a hunch I'm nowhere close to the end. I keep having to refer to walkthroughs and the like for quests--not because I want to know how to solve them, but because I sometimes can't figure out how to activate them in the first place.
Posted by patrick at November 11, 2005 09:43 PM
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