I had great intentions for the day, as I wanted to get cranking on a screenplay idea that I have; however, a pizza induced bout of the -itis stopped that could in it’s tracks. Now, after a four hour nap and an ill-advised episode of NCIS, I am sitting in an Okonomiyaki place in Takatsuki checking out the mobile wordpress app.

Never tied this place before, so I am hoping that it is tasty, but regardless, getting up and out makes the day feel a little less wasted. And tonight I am going to get my Left 4 Dead on after Mai goes to bed.

Food is here, so off I go.

Since I only have to wake up in 5 hours and 2am blog posts are de riguer, I suppose I would post about my past two days.

July 11, 2008

Soon to be followed by a new airsoft gun – the Walther P99c Tactical

Now this evening, I have installed the required plug-ins, and have enabled an iPhone friendly version of my blog. You can activate the iPhone/iPod touch version by visiting the blog and clicking the link at the top of the right sidebar. Just visit http://www.technolustomega.net/ from your phone.

Here is what it looks like for those who want a sneak peak:

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Well, off to bed!

So I had another interesting weekend.

It started off with a little drunken debauchery for a co-workers welcome back to drinking party. He was hospitalized with illness for a few weeks, but has since recovered, so we gave him a warm and drunken welcome. This included Ben screaming “WAKAMEZAKE!” quite loudly in the restaurant, to the horror of the surrounding Japanese.

It was funny, because this week, I actually had 3 nomikais. On Monday, I had some food with some ex-coworkers, then Wednesday I got some grub with the localization team to welcome a new member and say goodbye to Eric, then Friday’s fun. I’m kinda nomikai’d out for a while.

How would you like to be that poor girl on Monday?
Too much Yakiniku this week!

On Saturday, I headed to Namba. First, Mai and I picked up 3 Transformers tickets. Then we went to Shisen Ramen, which is a chain of upscale ramen joints, and had some lunch. After that, we walked around Namba for a bit, and then met up with Mikami-san. I took him over to a n import dvd shop, because I wanted to buy the blu-ray version of 300, and he was impressed less with the content than the design sense of American dvd covers. It was interesting how he described things, and I think I learned something. Afterwards, we chatted about the future over coffee and then went to go see Transformers. I cannot recommend Namba Marui Toho Cinema’s screen 2 enough. They have an LED projection system AROUND the theater, which they can project images onto the walls for some of the in-theater commercials. It is an amazing effect. They also use bone crunchingly loud DTS sound, which was incredible, the screen is gigantic for Japanese theaters, and the ambient lighting is actually LED stars embedded into the walls. It was almost something out of a theme park.

Transformers was all sorts of awesome, and we all digged it, especially me because I was able to recognize all the homage to the 80s show. I just wish there was more Prime and Starscream, but they both had really cool scenes nonetheless.

I took this picture for Andrew.

Today, I went out with Brin, Noriko, and her boyfriend to motorcycle shops. Brin, in his silliness, is purchasing an import, full power 2007 Honda CBR600, so we went to find a jacket for when he wont be wearing his full leather racing suit. He settled on the Alpinestars SMX Air Flo jacket, but they didn’t have his size. I’m a big fan of motorcycle clothing (I have an Alpinestars mesh jacket even though I don’t ride) so it was fun to go around with Nori and Brin and see all the bike stuff. I was searching for Brin’s jacket on the net, and I found one I really like as well.

Obviously I’m after the white and red version. 2006 model, so it might sell out before I get the chance to buy it.

This is a sweet jacket too.

In gaming news, I just broke 7 million in Stardust HD, and I’m staying on the ball with Everybody’s Golf 5 (Hot Shots Golf). I find myself playing more games lately, and thinking about more game ideas lately, than I have in months. I think my passion for gaming is slowly being reinvigorated, and it is a wonderful feeling.

I leave you all with this ode to Japanese television: