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Hello from US1 230.07
So I got to work and there was no sign of any moving happening. Whew. I hadn't actually labelled all my stuff so I was a little paranoid. I found labels, labelled stuff, and then tried to do work while wondering when the movers would show up. Got lunch across the street at Uwajimaya and brought it back... the movers showed up right when I finished eating.
Took 'em like 20 minutes to move my stuff and reassemble it, and now here I am. Guido and I have cubes near the northeast corner of the building, which means that if anyone wants to meet me down here for lunch or a Mariners game or whatever, I can see the fountain thingie from my cube, which is really convenient. Yay. All the other guys in the group have offices. I didn't actually ask for an office, and maybe I could, but eh, it's nice to be able to see outside, which I couldn't with an office.
I hadn't been in the cafeteria here in ages. One benefit of this building is that it will reunite me with my first love: pinball. The PacMed building used to have a game room in it, but they took it out to make more office space, and the pinball machines and game tables just disappeared (Which sucked, because they had Getaway and Dr. Who). So the US1 cafeteria currently has two pinball machines, Cactus Canyon and Big Guns. I'd never played CC before today but I really like it, I got multiballs pretty easily and I think the game mechanics are pretty fun. Big Guns, I think I'd played it in high school a bit. It's an older machine but it has really sweet gameplay including two "sections" of the machine with four flippers and all. Unfortunately, the skill shot seems to be broken, because I got it on my second ball and then the machine had to sit there for two minutes until it finally unjammed it.
Took 'em like 20 minutes to move my stuff and reassemble it, and now here I am. Guido and I have cubes near the northeast corner of the building, which means that if anyone wants to meet me down here for lunch or a Mariners game or whatever, I can see the fountain thingie from my cube, which is really convenient. Yay. All the other guys in the group have offices. I didn't actually ask for an office, and maybe I could, but eh, it's nice to be able to see outside, which I couldn't with an office.
I hadn't been in the cafeteria here in ages. One benefit of this building is that it will reunite me with my first love: pinball. The PacMed building used to have a game room in it, but they took it out to make more office space, and the pinball machines and game tables just disappeared (Which sucked, because they had Getaway and Dr. Who). So the US1 cafeteria currently has two pinball machines, Cactus Canyon and Big Guns. I'd never played CC before today but I really like it, I got multiballs pretty easily and I think the game mechanics are pretty fun. Big Guns, I think I'd played it in high school a bit. It's an older machine but it has really sweet gameplay including two "sections" of the machine with four flippers and all. Unfortunately, the skill shot seems to be broken, because I got it on my second ball and then the machine had to sit there for two minutes until it finally unjammed it.
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4 flippers, oooh *drool*
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We'd had the Dr. Who down here in US1 for a while, along with a Monster Bash, but they both went away.
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/pinball geek
I remember playing a lot of Funhouse at the HUB's arcade during college. And Addams Family at an arcade that used to be just south of 45th and University. The WotC game center that used to be just north of 45th (but closed several years ago) had a fair number of pins, too.
Favorites are probably Addams Family, Monster Bash, and definitely Attack From Mars. Functioning 'Whitewater' machines were fun too. I should go to that bar-like place in Seattle that supposedly has a bunch of pins, though I don't remember where it is.
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I love Attack From Mars, but I love Medieval Madness about ninety times more. They have such similar gameplay, but the ramps in MM are just so much more fun. CMU's student center had an ATM (the pin) and an MM next to each other, and I really only played Mars when waiting for Medieval to be untaken. Plus, the tilt on our Medieval was crazy lenient -- I once moved that machine a good 6-8 inches to the left to avoid a drain, and didn't even get a "DANGER!" Or once during a multiball I got two caught in the catapult and I *picked up* front of the machine the machine so it'd be able to launch them out, and it only went into danger, not tilt :)
Monster Bash is great fun, though I like Addams Family better of those two. I'm into cool ramps, but even more into extra flippers.
Whitewater... I didn't think I was familiar with that one (immediate thought was "is that in the Cyclone/Hurricane series?") but then looked it up, and oh wow, I played that a bunch when it first came out. All I really remember was that the ball would make very frightening thuds on the glass when it went down that wave ramp on the left side.
I think someone told me about a pinball place in Seattle too (it was probly Bobby (scummo), who I haven't talked to in a bazillion years), and I've just never had the motivation to go try to check it out. We had a good pinball coffeehouse in Pittsburgh, although I always hated wandering through all the coffeehouse hippies in the front part to get to the pinball in the back part. And then they replaced Addams Family with (shudder) Austin Powers. And then I moved away...
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