wednesday - moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work work work work work (and DDR too)
i am writing this on the bus to work on my laptop! how exciting :)
I fell asleep early again yesterday.
so first I need to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWN! (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sk4p)
It's Shawn's 30th birthday today... funny, when I first met Shawn during my bagger weekend, he was 20. What a long strange trip it's been :)
It's also the TOC job fair at CMU. I hope all of my CS/engineering friends find good job prospects today (and I hope they stop by the Amazon booth to say hi to Paul!)
So yesterday I was at work until like 7pm-somethingish. Aaron fixed a config problem for me late in the afternoon and so I was able to do some cool stuff! (Yes, the tech writer is writing C++ code. Ph34r m3.) I wanted to play DDR but had no takers on going anywhere in particular so I just stayed a bit later at work. Eli gave me a ride home.
So I went out a little after 8 to play DDR. First I stopped by Leilani because a guy on the BBS said he'd be there... I got there like 8:15. Nobody was on the DDR machine. I got a bottle of water, and put a quarter in the machine. Nothing happened, the machine didn't register a coin, didn't make a sound, etc. I pushed the button in and the coin came out. Tried the other side... no dice. Tried a different quarter... no dice. It was pretty crowded at Leilani and their machine is in a horrible location anyway (it's on the edge of the arcade, and people have to walk by it to get across the bowling alley, smoking and talking and... yeah, you get the idea). So I figured no big deal, I'd try Sunset. It's 5 mins away.. went there... put in a coin... it didn't register. Tried to get my coin back and then I saw that there was a quarter STUCK IN THE RETURN SLOT that wouldn't come out. Geeeeeeeeeeeez. That sucked.
(haha, I wrote all that this morning and now it's like 3pm and I'm waiting for stuff so I'm going to quickly finish this)
I stopped at home at 8:50-55ish... still wanting to play DDR... so I decided I would go to Kenmore. Asked on IRC if anyone would want to go there and also figured I'd ask Nykkel since he lives up north. He said he would, so whee! I went up to Kenmore, got in like 1.5 games before he got there at 9:30ish. And then we played DDR pretty much for 2 hours straight until 11:30pm or so. Tim/DDRExtremist was there working the food counter and I said hi to him when I went to get water and I complained about the 2P right arrow which is wonky as heck, and he was like "I know about it, I think the arcade people hate me." He brought us water a bit later though.
(The 2P arrow was so wonky it seemed to be blinking when I'd hit other arrows... so I'd get boos and misses on it a LOT, on average 3-4 total per song, especially on anything fast.)
Anyway, playing DDR with Nykkel was awesome for the following reasons:
1) he doesn't use the bar either
2) we both like to play equally dorky songs that nobody ever picks
3) we both hate the same sorts of songs (stomps, pure stamina-busters, anything with "max" in the title, etc)
4) he picked Be In My Paradise ("my" song) as our first extra stage to be a smartass (I can't read it at 1.5 reverse so I just stared at my feet and did it 90% from memory... oddly I nearly FC'ed it, even if I had 50% split P/G). So I picked Graduation ("his" song) next time we got an extra stage to be a double smartass, and I beat him on it because he never plays it on reverse :)
5) he's definitely better than me at DDR but not overwhelmingly better. Sometimes I get scared to play with certain other people (hi Keevon ♥) for fear I'll screw them up, and seeing their scores next to mine is always a little demoralizing ;) Which is silly to worry about anyway, but it's nice not to worry at all.
I really didn't keep track of any of my scores on DDR though because of the gimpy right arrow. All I remember is something like 176/8 on Love Love Sugar (Standard). That song has been going through my head since Sunday.
After DDR I came home, getting a salad from Jack in the Box on the way because I was staaaaarved, and I gobbled it down, and talked to Eli, and fell asleep.
I fell asleep early again yesterday.
so first I need to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWN! (
sk4p)It's Shawn's 30th birthday today... funny, when I first met Shawn during my bagger weekend, he was 20. What a long strange trip it's been :)
It's also the TOC job fair at CMU. I hope all of my CS/engineering friends find good job prospects today (and I hope they stop by the Amazon booth to say hi to Paul!)
So yesterday I was at work until like 7pm-somethingish. Aaron fixed a config problem for me late in the afternoon and so I was able to do some cool stuff! (Yes, the tech writer is writing C++ code. Ph34r m3.) I wanted to play DDR but had no takers on going anywhere in particular so I just stayed a bit later at work. Eli gave me a ride home.
So I went out a little after 8 to play DDR. First I stopped by Leilani because a guy on the BBS said he'd be there... I got there like 8:15. Nobody was on the DDR machine. I got a bottle of water, and put a quarter in the machine. Nothing happened, the machine didn't register a coin, didn't make a sound, etc. I pushed the button in and the coin came out. Tried the other side... no dice. Tried a different quarter... no dice. It was pretty crowded at Leilani and their machine is in a horrible location anyway (it's on the edge of the arcade, and people have to walk by it to get across the bowling alley, smoking and talking and... yeah, you get the idea). So I figured no big deal, I'd try Sunset. It's 5 mins away.. went there... put in a coin... it didn't register. Tried to get my coin back and then I saw that there was a quarter STUCK IN THE RETURN SLOT that wouldn't come out. Geeeeeeeeeeeez. That sucked.
(haha, I wrote all that this morning and now it's like 3pm and I'm waiting for stuff so I'm going to quickly finish this)
I stopped at home at 8:50-55ish... still wanting to play DDR... so I decided I would go to Kenmore. Asked on IRC if anyone would want to go there and also figured I'd ask Nykkel since he lives up north. He said he would, so whee! I went up to Kenmore, got in like 1.5 games before he got there at 9:30ish. And then we played DDR pretty much for 2 hours straight until 11:30pm or so. Tim/DDRExtremist was there working the food counter and I said hi to him when I went to get water and I complained about the 2P right arrow which is wonky as heck, and he was like "I know about it, I think the arcade people hate me." He brought us water a bit later though.
(The 2P arrow was so wonky it seemed to be blinking when I'd hit other arrows... so I'd get boos and misses on it a LOT, on average 3-4 total per song, especially on anything fast.)
Anyway, playing DDR with Nykkel was awesome for the following reasons:
1) he doesn't use the bar either
2) we both like to play equally dorky songs that nobody ever picks
3) we both hate the same sorts of songs (stomps, pure stamina-busters, anything with "max" in the title, etc)
4) he picked Be In My Paradise ("my" song) as our first extra stage to be a smartass (I can't read it at 1.5 reverse so I just stared at my feet and did it 90% from memory... oddly I nearly FC'ed it, even if I had 50% split P/G). So I picked Graduation ("his" song) next time we got an extra stage to be a double smartass, and I beat him on it because he never plays it on reverse :)
5) he's definitely better than me at DDR but not overwhelmingly better. Sometimes I get scared to play with certain other people (hi Keevon ♥) for fear I'll screw them up, and seeing their scores next to mine is always a little demoralizing ;) Which is silly to worry about anyway, but it's nice not to worry at all.
I really didn't keep track of any of my scores on DDR though because of the gimpy right arrow. All I remember is something like 176/8 on Love Love Sugar (Standard). That song has been going through my head since Sunday.
After DDR I came home, getting a salad from Jack in the Box on the way because I was staaaaarved, and I gobbled it down, and talked to Eli, and fell asleep.