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Friday evening, traffic being light enough, I decided to make pilgrimage into Daly City and check out Daiso Japan. It's not like I had a hot date or anything. Ever.

Daiso is part of a chain of 100 yen stores from Japan. Evidently they have several locations in Washington state and Northern California. Most items are about $1.50. Kitchen implements, hardware, toys, stationery, cheap tea and sake sets, plastic flowers, baskets, knicknacks, etc. They have one entire room that's nothing but plastic containers of every size imaginable. I walked out with three very nice black tea cups (because four would be bad luck), two packages of useful looking S-hooks for the camp box, and a rather hideous little samurai figurine to be inflicted upon an unnamed friend at some future juncture because it made me laugh out loud  - and it was cheap - for under $10.  I looked across the road at the state of the freeway and killed some more time at the Target across the lot before heading back to the East Bay.

Met [profile] vsct_caius Saturday to catch a midday screening of 3:10 to Yuma and have a bite of lunch at the food court at Emery Bay. Crowe and Bale are excellent foils for each other, nothing is ever as black and white as it seems and the rest of the cast is at worst, rock solid. Ben Foster, as Crowe's vicious sidekick, makes up for being wasted in X-Men The Last Stand with the ruthless magnetism of a five car pileup.  If you like Westerns, this is well worth your time. And I'm not just saying that because it's Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.

Hit IKEA as soon as they opened this morning (the ONLY way to deal with Swedish Hell, in my opinion) to pick up a couple more of those folding plant stands. Picked up muslin to line the camp blinds at the Discount Fabric Outlet. Decided to see what the Tokyo Fish Market on San Pablo was like only to discover it was closed.  Ended up at REI, thinking I'd get one of those billy pots for boiling tea water - then was forced to tell the checkout girl who would NOT shut up about their $15 lifetime membership, "If I have to say 'No Thank you, I'm not interested' one more time, I am not going to make this purchase." (I do not consider this being an asshole, it's merely standing up for myself, particularly as I was hungry, thirsty, headachy and in need of a restroom.)

Date: 2007-09-30 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joycebre.livejournal.com
I love Daiso. I got little metal sword toothpicks there to give as thank you gifts to my kitchen helpers. Not practical, but they did look just like swords. With jeweled hilts, no less.

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