sunny day sunday - ducks and downtime

Erm, so there was a party here last night. I'm slowly editing details into my last post as I think of them. I guess I can also go back and edit that post from two weeks ago where I said "I did something really funny after Applebee's" to be "I stole the moose! Whee!"

Uh, today was downtime mostly. Woke up early 'cause I heard Cory playing IIDX... ended up staying up for an hour or three hanging out playing IIDX 3rd Style with Fuj and Cory... eventually they hit the road to go home. Then I ended up taking a nap.

Took a walk around part of the lake with Eli. Watched ducks, took pictures of ducks and squirrels. Quack. It was cold, so we came home. The party for Aaron's birthday got cancelled, so I needed to find something else exciting to do. I really wanted Indian food and was talking to Drew online anyway, so we decided we'd hang out for dinner. Ended up being Drew and Matt and Eli and me. (For those playing the home game, Drew and Matt are two of my good friends from CMU that also moved out to Seattle at the end of last summer, that I only see like once or twice a month because they're Microsoftees.) We ate a lot of chicken tikka masala and some other stuff and had fun talking. Matt's gonna go to Sakuracon with me too! Yay!

Came home, played some KBM 2/3. I'm really depressed, it seems like my KBM keyboard is munged. The high E flat doesn't like to register a lot. Other than that it's all good, but sometimes it's frustrating to have scores where I *know* that all of my misses were that particular key... and trying hard to hit that key harder also isn't good. I'm not sure what to do about it though. I just got this keyboard in the mail from Toys'n'Joys like 3 weeks ago, but as you'll recall, they left it outside in the rain for three days. It *seemed* okay when I was just playing KBM 1 a week or two ago though... I don't know if I should take it apart, or yell at Toys'n'Joys, or what -- I doubt it's covered under any warranty, and it took so long for TnJ to get me a keyboard in the first place that I'm really worried about how long it'd take to get a new one if I *did* send it back to them. BLEH.

This week seems like it'll probably be pretty low-key, which I guess I kind of need... time to think about stuff and sleep and sew and play KBM and IIDX and whatever. But who knows. And we need to reschedule celebrating Aaron's birthday sometime. :P

Sometimes I wish I could tell if I'm the same on the outside as the inside. I think I've been *really* obnoxious this weekend, especially swearing a lot, which is kind of out of character for me. I'm not sure. Umm... yeah. Sleep.

More DDR filky stuff

Um, I came up with this idea this morning (I really wanted to write a song like "It's a Crutch!" somehow in Keevon's honor, but I couldn't come up with anything good), and the lyrics have been slowly filling my head all day.

To the tune of "Can't Stop Falling In Love (Speed Mix)", by Naoki feat. Paula Terry, I bring you...

Can't Stop Holding the Bar (Speed Mod Mix)
by Deanna "Auto-bass isn't a crutch, it's a WHEELCHAIR" Rubin

My scores
Were C's D's and E's
Then a thing like this came along

Now my feet
Are moving so fast
I'll never fail another damn song

Heavy songs are easy
'Cause I can always use this crutch
Flying through the 10-foot songs now
Makes me feel like - I rule so much!

Can't stop holding the bar
Or setting scroll speed to 2 (Speed 1 is stupid!)
I just can't take my hands off it
every day, (Anyway...)

It's a crutch, sure, maybe
But bar rape will always be fine
'Cause Maxx is really hard,

Just can't stop holding the bar
Don't tell me it's lame
Playin' Highs Off U
Is all I wanna do, (wanna do),

Can't stop holding the bar
When doing S4R
Play with me this time
And we'll get AAA's, on Aaron's page!

Or am I just dreaming?

I was thinking about writing a long entry with lots of random thoughts but I'm not sure I feel like it anymore. I might just add some rants to my webpage when I get a chance instead. So um. Monday, meetings, chow fun, all the normal stuff. Beautiful weather today... I could see Rainier from the bus, over Lake Union, from 99, etc.

I got a burrito the size of my head from Gordito's for dinner. It was good, but WAY too much food for me. Eli cooked some filet mignon and veggies and stuff for himself. I tried a little, it was very good, maybe he'll cook more for me sometime. Or not. I've eaten a LOT of food recently. Too many Timbits, at any rate. I should try to bring them to work tomorrow or something, to get rid of them. Not that I don't LOVE Timbits but Fuj got me a few too many. :)

I've been doing laundry and stuff this evening, and I played some Word Racer with people... I think crackoon and I have to play Boggle sometime in real life. (STOMP.) I actually brought home some files from work to edit this evening but I've been slow on actually doing it. Hm. Given certain other recent events I've been meaning to call my family members for the past few days, and I finally kind of got around to it today.. sent email to my brother, and I called my dad this evening, but I mostly ended up listening to him talk about stuff. ("What are you up to these days?" "Uhh... I go to arcades a lot... and work... and bowling... Umm... no, I still haven't lost any weight playing that Dance Dance game...") I think it made him happy anyway, he's always complaining that I never ever call. I would call my mom and stepfather too, but to be honest, I'm not sure where the heck they are right now. I got a postcard from my mom from England a few days ago though.

I guess I'm going to go play some KBM or something while waiting for laundry to dry. Let's see if the keyboard is still broken. Bleh. And another funny thing is, yesterday I worried about being too divergent between outside self and inside self, and now today I'm back to worrying about being transparent. Kinda cool, if you amortize it out, I'll be normal, right?