16. Go to the San Diego Comic-Con, 26. Donate blood

16. Go to the San Diego Comic-Con,
26. Donate blood

Man, San Diego sure is hot this time of year. Maybe more writing over on the other journal later. For now, suffice to say, two more down. :)

47. Go to a soccer/football match

47. Go to a soccer/football match

Okay, so I'm a little late on posting this one. Such is life. So, on the 8th of July, a contingency of us went to see an exhibition game played between the Seattle Sounders and Club America. Well, not so much a game as a brutal, savage beat-down.

To my reasonably untrained eye, it seemed like about the first 30 minutes or so represented a fairly solid matchup. The Sounders were moving the ball around a lot, spent a decent amount of time on the offensive. In retrospect, Club America may have just been toying with them, like a cat with a mouse. A sort of, "Oh isn't it cute, they think they can play this game" type thing. Final score was only 2-0, which I s'pose is somewhat respectable, but it really didn't feel like a close matchup.

Plus, with an attendance of 10,000 people, I'd guess about 85-90% of them were there supporting Club America. After all, what's not to like about a team that has "BIMBO" printed on the front of their jerseys?

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56. Go to a shooting range, shoot guns

Went to Wade's over in Bellevue last Saturday with Jason and Paul. They've got a large range of weapons for rental; we ended up shooting a 9mm, a .45 and a .357. The above target was my first round with the .45; not at all impressive. Yes, there are five holes on the paper. Yes, there are eight rounds in the clip. S'nice.

Anyway, of the three guns, the 9mm was definitely the easiest to shoot. But over an hour, I think I'd ultimately prefer the .45, with practice. Although the .357 kicked out quite a nice little fireball with each shot.

Here's the last target shot with the .45, by the way (two clips, thus the large volume of bullet holes--we were running low on targets):


77. Go to a fancy fireworks show
It's been a long time since I went to a big fancypants fireworks show. Tuesday, after getting off work, Mike and I headed down to Gasworks Park for Washington Mutual's Red White and WaMu show.

Aside from being just generally pretty to look at, it just boggles the mind, the science and physics behind designing the fireworks themselves, and choreographing a show like that. I'd seen the "smiley face" fireworks and the heart shaped ones, but I'd never seen the three dimensional cube shaped ones. Highly impressive.

One week, another two down. Not doing too bad for July, I think.