And the days go by

[dr4b]

Hmmmm, today.

Good things:
I got a cable modem! Whee! They came by to install it around 2pm. It was easy and fun and the network hasn't gone down yet. I like network that doesn't go down.

I got pad kee mow from the thai place at Uwajimaya for dinner. That was really, really good.

I got a big box in the mail from proz that is full of baseball cards and stuff! Ooh, exciting! I haven't really looked through it yet, but yay, thank you! It will do well to cheer me up, which I'll be needing.

ryani taught me how to distill in Puzzle Pirates today. I'm not great, but I get Goods and I got one Excellent, so maybe I can do that too. Arr.

Bad things:
I went to Sunset tonight to play DDR. I played Paranoia Rebirth Heavy (qualifier for the tournament saturday) totally cold, as if I'd just gotten to an arcade and had to play Paranoia Rebirth Heavy... like I might on Saturday. Well. Let's put it this way. I can PASS Rebirth Heavy cold, but I can't do well at it, AND I felt like total and utter crap after doing so. My sinuses flooded and I coughed up a lung and... my god, I'm just too old for this crap. Or out of shape. Either way, note to self: do NOT play Rebirth Heavy as my first song. If I do go to the tournament, I demand a warmup song.

There are some other very very bad things, but I can't/won't talk about them in a big LJ filter just yet. Sigh.

EDIT> ambivalent things:
I forgot to mention, but in Puzzle Pirates we had this crazy pillage where I was not only last pirate standing two battles in a row, but the first one I pretty much defeated 3.5 brigands singlehandedly and the second I defeated 2 brigands singlehandedly. My hands were shaking for about ten minutes after we got back to port. I'm not sure it's good when I think pillaging might give me a heart attack.

Comments

[zqfmbg.livejournal.com]

Ryan, Carisa, and I met up at SVGL today (like we tend to every week). For a final round Ryan and I tried Naoki Neo-Standard; he did better than I did, getting farther than I did, widening the score difference between us past every successive song, reaching the "x hundred combo" markers before I did...

I guess the guard's changing again.

[zannah.livejournal.com]

**hug**

[bayushiboy.livejournal.com]

Broadband is teh bomb and I had lunch at the Thai Palace yesterday too. *cue de ja vu music* I think I got the same thing. So good! Of course, adding the pickled chilis only caused my stomach to feel on fire, but man, it tasted good! ;)

[damienroc.livejournal.com]

That feeling of taking out impropable odds by your lonesome? That's called adrenaline. ^_^

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. I've had that feeling too - once made it to the semi-finals for a tournament. I was going bugnuts. It was better when I was doing judo all that time ago - then I could actually *use* the adrenaline to good effect.

[dr4b]

Well, I dunno, this is a little different. I'm not sure I could have done well on Rebirth cold even when I was really playing a lot...

[dr4b]

I know, but I guess combined with feeling crappy, it was just kind of startling. I had to quit playing because I was really worried that I might fall out of my chair.

[zqfmbg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the comment wasn't specifically a response... which I guess means I wasn't following instructions. (Right above this box is "Post a comment in response:" in big blue letters...)

[dr4b]

Yeah... I know, I guess I was just pointing out that the two situations aren't really parallel. You might be getting a little out of practice, or Ryan more in practice, but me, I've just always sucked.

[zqfmbg.livejournal.com]

Suuure, Ms. BIMP. :P

I definitely am out of practice, and Ryan and Carisa have been getting steadily better. Wonder if this means I should play more? Eh, I won't push it too much.