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wataru · Dec 24, 2004, 12:16 AM

(That's tonight in my timezone.) The best idea I can think of is going out and getting wasted. Any other suggestions?

Cubeoid · Dec 24, 2004, 12:27 AM

I support your idea.

John H. Smith · Dec 24, 2004, 12:42 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
(That's tonight in my timezone.) The best idea I can think of is going out and getting wasted. Any other suggestions?

no, loozers drink alone

wataru · Dec 24, 2004, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by John H. Smith:
no, loozers drink alone

Look who's talking

So what's your suggestion then?

ringo · Dec 24, 2004, 12:46 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
Any other suggestions?

Yes. Staying in and getting wasted is nice this time of year too.

spiky_dog · Dec 24, 2004, 01:03 AM

read some murakami and/or take some drugs. expand your mind

PurpleGiant · Dec 24, 2004, 01:29 AM

Walk around the streets wishing people you meet a Merry Christmas. As it turns out, it's not a bad pick up line either.

Randman · Dec 24, 2004, 02:04 AM

Get a camera and go out and watch people rushing about doing last-minute Christmas stuff. Then go and have a great dinner and then do whatever you enjoy. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

IceEnclosure · Dec 24, 2004, 02:04 AM

I freakin' work on Christmas Eve. All day till midnight. I'll probably get out a little before that but, eh. I'm gonna want to go out and drink with friends after work, probably a late night.

Thenn, Christmas day, I go into work at 3.30 till 11pm.

My parents, divorced, live locally, and my mom wants me to have Christmas lunch?/dinner with her and grandma and some of their friends, but I don't want to. I'll wake up with a hangover, just to rush to a quick dinner in the middle of the day, and then rush off to work.

Can't I just relax?

kiwibabe · Dec 24, 2004, 02:22 AM

You could try going to Church, we just came back from a Christmas Eve service and got cake and champagne

forkies · Dec 24, 2004, 04:12 AM

come and see me in ise-shi, i'm a few blocks from geku

Super Mario · Dec 24, 2004, 04:23 AM

Read all posts about iPod killars!!!1111!!

wataru · 04:33 AM

Originally posted by spiky_dog:
read some murakami and/or take some drugs. expand your mind

Actually, I could go for that except that I'm all Murakami'd-out after reading both volumes of Dance Dance Dance back-to-back in Japanese. And I don't know where to get drugs here. Except alcohol. It's kind of hard not to find alcohol around here.

Originally posted by forkies:
come and see me in ise-shi, i'm a few blocks from geku

Ise-shi as in 伊勢市 more than an hour from Nagoya? I don't think I could get there tonight even if I wanted to. Thanks, though.

I went to the Chinatown in Yokohama, ate okoge, had a shark-fin dumpling, and came back. Now, since I'm too cheap to get drunk at a bar (would you pay upwards of $7 for a beer?), I'm going to get drunk at home while watching TV.

...and to all a good night!

Super Mario · Dec 24, 2004, 04:31 AM

Originally posted by kiwibabe:
You could try going to Church, we just came back from a Christmas Eve service and got cake and champagne

Eat this cake. It is my body. Drink this champagne. It is my blood.

Judas "I'm gonna cut this guy up and sell him to the poor and hungry!"

OreoCookie · Dec 24, 2004, 05:47 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
Actually, I could go for that except that I'm all Murakami'd-out after reading both volumes of Dance Dance Dance back-to-back in Japanese. And I don't know where to get drugs here. Except alcohol. It's kind of hard not to find alcohol around here.
Ise-shi as in 伊勢市 more than an hour from Nagoya? I don't think I could get there tonight even if I wanted to. Thanks, though.

I went to the Chinatown in Yokohama, ate okoge, had a shark-fin dumpling, and came back. Now, since I'm too cheap to get drunk at a bar (would you pay upwards of $7 for a beer?), I'm going to get drunk at home while watching TV.

...and to all a good night!

I think Ise shi is 45 minutes by train from Nagoya.

BTW, I wish I could read Murakami in Japanese yet ...

Randman · Dec 24, 2004, 05:54 AM

to shark's fin.

Anyway, the power went out in the complex. In the dark for more than hour now, just the light of my PB (and luckily someone nearby with power has an unsecured network). First time doing that, but it is Christmas Eve.

Angus_D · Dec 24, 2004, 06:02 AM

Whip out your credit card and find some porn.

Lancer409 · Dec 24, 2004, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Whip out your credit card and find some porn.

All that free porn out there, and you're still paying for it?!?

Mafia · Dec 24, 2004, 08:40 AM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Whip out your credit card and find some porn.

free porn > pay porn.

Cubeoid · Dec 24, 2004, 08:50 AM

aLcohol + mAcNN .. is there evar a sweiter combinatION...////////??? love the skyline.

wdlove · Dec 24, 2004, 09:43 AM

My wife is working today.

You might want to attend a Christmas Eve Service at your local church.

It is also a time to spend with family. To setup memories and traditions to remember for a lifetime.

budster101 · Dec 24, 2004, 10:25 AM

Originally posted by wataru:
(That's tonight in my timezone.) The best idea I can think of is going out and getting wasted. Any other suggestions?

You have nobody? I might then suggest going out and finding someone to help. Buy dinner for a family in need. Go to your nearest church and ask them for a family you can help or *spend* dinner with. Buy some gifts for the children, and enjoy the conpany of some good people in need.

Or, you could go out and buy some gifts for children in need and hand them out. Don't be destructive on this occasion, make it a joyous time for others, and yourself. In the coming years you will find these memories will make the next one more fulfilling and you will feel the strong desire to return that experience. Get drunk of giving.

IceEnclosure · Dec 24, 2004, 11:15 AM

Originally posted by budster101:
You have nobody? I might then suggest going out and finding someone to help. Buy dinner for a family in need. Go to your nearest church and ask them for a family you can help or *spend* dinner with. Buy some gifts for the children, and enjoy the conpany of some good people in need.

Or, you could go out and buy some gifts for children in need and hand them out. Don't be destructive on this occasion, make it a joyous time for others, and yourself. In the coming years you will find these memories will make the next one more fulfilling and you will feel the strong desire to return that experience. Get drunk of giving.

dude's not gonna do that! c'mon.

i say, when you're done with that bottle you're drinkin', throw it far so the glass explodes into a thousand tiny pieces. like snowflakes

IceEnclosure · Dec 24, 2004, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by wdlove:
To setup memories and traditions to remember for a lifetime.

Ha!, I knew it was a setup.

ReggieX · Dec 24, 2004, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by IceEnclosure:
Then, Christmas day, I go into work at 3.30 till 11pm.

That sucks giant donkey balls. What do you do that you're forced to work Christmas?

IceEnclosure · Dec 24, 2004, 11:58 AM

Originally posted by ReggieX:
That sucks giant donkey balls. What do you do that you're forced to work Christmas?

I'm a waiter. Not all restaurants are open on Christmas. Mine is tho.

OHHH, and..

I went to work this morning. WHOOPS - wasn't scheduled. drove home. locked my keys in the car. scaled the outside of my apartment to the second floor like spiderman. weaseled my way in the small open window. now sittin' here listening to Outkast.

wataru · Dec 24, 2004, 07:54 PM

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
I think Ise shi is 45 minutes by train from Nagoya.

BTW, I wish I could read Murakami in Japanese yet ...

Yahoo! Transit claims 81 minutes between Kintetsu Nagoya and Iseshi, but I just noticed it lists the total travel time as over 2 hours. And again, that's just from Nagoya to Iseshi, not from where I am.

spiky_dog · Dec 24, 2004, 07:59 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
Actually, I could go for that except that I'm all Murakami'd-out after reading both volumes of Dance Dance Dance back-to-back in Japanese. And I don't know where to get drugs here. Except alcohol. It's kind of hard not to find alcohol around here.

wow. even my mother, a native Japanese person/speaker, prefers to read murakami in english.

wataru · Dec 24, 2004, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by spiky_dog:
wow. even my mother, a native Japanese person/speaker, prefers to read murakami in english.

I've actually never read his stuff in English. Don't ask me why.

Oh, and thanks to all the people who suggested I do something constructive or helpful for society last night. Unfortunately, I'm in Japan, and Christmas is not that kind of thing over here. It's a couples' holiday, so the best charity I could possibly do would be to hand out condoms and KY in Shibuya or something. Frankly, I'm not interested in helping strangers get laid.

ironknee · Dec 24, 2004, 08:21 PM

take the pressure off...think of it ...like...a friday

wataru · Dec 24, 2004, 08:28 PM

Originally posted by ironknee:
take the pressure off...think of it ...like...a friday

It's Saturday now here. Christmas Eve was last night on this side of the world.

Cap'n Hector · Dec 24, 2004, 08:42 PM

Bah, humbug!

I'll stay home and surf the Mac fora, fix my PowerBook, and finish making a CD that boots to Finder/Dock.

Komisar · Dec 24, 2004, 08:58 PM

Eat lots of cheetos after that microwave the marshmellow chickens "peeps" and watch them explode... remember eat lots of cheetos (warning: they are dangerously cheesy)