Things looking up a little...

Well, today was a much better day. Work went okay (I have this new strategy; any time Mike the Boss apologizes for saying something crude around me, I do something like belch at him a little later). Anyway, I came home, and we went to Megan and Josh's house, and I got to see Jed, a friend of mine from CERT and CMU; he recently moved out to Seattle. The 5 of us ordered indian food for dinner and it was good, and after that we went bowling. Bowling was kinda fun, we all did similarly mediocre or similarly well (Megan won the second game, go Megan!) and then I played two games of DDR 3rd mix; first a 2nd mix set, and then an SSR set. You know, 5 songs per game on a machine set to really high difficulty can take a LOT out of you. I did Wonderland as my first song, then did In the Navy, not expecting to pass it on the high-difficulty machine... but actually, I only missed like one arrow. Heh. So then I did umm.. Silent Hill. And Keep On Movin', because I was trying to recover still. Then I had a 5th song (whee!) so I picked Dead End. I got a 130-something combo and then couldn't breathe, so I gave up. Still, wowie! Since when do I get things like 130-something comboes on Dead End? Improving slowly, day by day, I say... Josh and Megan and Eli and Jed were all nice to humour me while I was doing this. On another note, they now have a Medieval Madness machine next to the 3rd mix, and they say they do NOT shut the arcade machines off at 1am, and the place is open 24 hours a day. 24-hour DDR. Whee! Not that I'll really take advantage of it, but you never know.

Wow, so tomorrow evening I'm going to IZ, most likely dragging aquatwo with me, and going for donuts afterwards with the usual suspects, and Kiefer might show up too so we can finally chat about hanging out sometime, and it's all interesting and it'll be fun and stuff. I hope.

addendum

1) So, I put a webcounter on my DDR Cosplay page last Monday. Since then it's gotten like 330 hits. I had no idea anyone really bothered to look at the page at all... maybe I *should* spend a little more time on it.

2) I finished reading the second KOR manga today and started #3. So, the first one has Madoka looking all cute and innocent on the cover. The second has Hikaru and Madoka messing with Kyosuke's mind. The third... has Madoka in a bathing suit, posed provocatively in the shower. Okay, so I realized it must look a little weird on the bus for a twenty-something female to be reading Japanese comic books with sexy bathing-suit pictures on the cover. So what did I do? Well, I happened to have a Marmalade Boy manga in my bag as well. I swapped the KOR cover with the MB cover, and now I have an innocent picture of Miki on the cover instead of a not-so-innocent picture of Madoka. Whee.

3) Oh yeah, and Bob Rost made my day by IMing me, "hey deanna, if you were any nintendo-type theme arranged for marching band for an alumni's visit, which theme would you be?" and I said "I would be an FF theme... barring that, I'd be Burning Heat, the background music from the second level of Gradius II." he said "cool, I'll look into it," and I sent him a midi and the DDR remix of the song and he said he'd try to get it together for the scatter show! Bob ROCKS! I have to remember to bring a tape recorder to Pittsburgh. :) :) :)