DDR and Sushi Day
I went to BVM (the Beaver Valley Mall, 45 mins away, the only place in Western PA with a DDR machine, namely 4th mix, for those just tuning in) this afternoon to celebrate our friend Brad (not ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bk1e)'s birthday. Rebecca got a huge cake and I brought a folding table and we had chips and drinks and some presents (I made him a DDR Mix CD, which I should make a copy of for happysteve but I was a retard and didn't do it before Carnival) and stuff. So, Rebecca and I got there at 1ish, but she had to go pick up Brad, and nobody else DDR-wise was there, so I had to watch all the stuff. That was ok... so I played some random rounds of DDR... since I felt sick I didn't do anything really hard or complicated. It was ok because most people going by don't know anything about DDR and are really impressed by things like me doing Butterfly basic or Brilliant2U or Dub-I-Dub or any of my other songs where I spin around like 30 times. Did some doubles, too, including a way spinny Think Ya Better D. I was mad that B4U was off Player's Best and tried to get it back on but I don't think I succeeded. Anyway, nobody else showed up until Chris and his wife and Juan all showed up around 3pm. By this point I was about to die, having not eaten anything all day and played DDR straight through for two hours. I got them to watch the stuff and went to the food court. After eating lunch, I made the mistake of playing a maniac round with Juan, where I did In the Navy Maniac, Wonderland Maniac, and Shooting Star Maniac. Then I felt like I was going to throw up. Instead, I just got a severe coughy-hacky-sinusy fit and went to the bathroom to sneeze and cough and drip snot for a while. Fortunately it only lasted about ten minutes. Rebecca got back with Brad around 3:45. We sang happy birthday and he opened presents and then a bunch of us played more DDR. We left BVM around 5, although more people were showing up afterwards. Like Natalie, who got there right as we were leaving.
I got home and showered and napped and all that stuff, for like an hour.
Around 7pm people started showing up for dinner. We had a sushi party here (I'm sorry I didn't invite more of you guys, but everyone we DID invite showed up, and that meant there were like ten of us, which was waaaaaaay crowded for our apartment, and we only had four bamboo mats anyway). Eli and Charlie had gone to the strip this morning and acquired tuna and salmon and flounder, and I acquired eel and cucumber and fake crab and avocado on Thursday, and so we had people roll maki and try to make nigiri and stuff. It mostly worked pretty well, and the failures were edible and just not as pretty as the successes, basically. We kept running out of rice and pretty much cooked all of the short-grain rice we had in the house... and we also ran out of nori. But, we used up pretty much all of the sushi stuff. So now I know that for ten people you need much more than 20 sheets of nori (cut in halves even), 8 cups dry rice, and one avocado and one cucumber. Roman brought over sake, which made things a bit more interesting, and Kevin W brought over green tea, and I had the green tea pocky, and.. it was generally pretty fun and successful.
After dinner I managed to make people watch three episodes of Sledge Hammer! I mean, so really only Alex and Mike and I had seen it before, so it was probably most enjoyable to us, but I think others enjoyed it too (Carl and Nick certainly laughed a lot). I think it's one of the greatest TV shows ever. I don't even really watch TV, so that's saying something. (I have tapes of it from like 14 years ago that I taped off TV, and a copy of "Hammered! The best of Sledge Hammer".) After Sledge Hammer we played a bunch of Super Puzzle Fighter. It started with one person playing it for real and one person playing it on a DDR mat, but after I beat a few people and Carl played Roman and our legs got tired, we switched to lots of Puzzle Fighter matches. I loaded up a memory card and then we had a lot of people playing Dan vs. Dan. (If you don't know the game... Dan is a seriously handicapped character, after the Street Fighter character.. in SPF he drops all red gems.) It got silly and eventually Dave turned on the PSX2 and there was a lot of SSX. In the meantime Carl and Mike were looking up Greyhawk stuff in my books, and Charlie and Nick were bidding bridge hands for fun.
It was a good day and a long day and an exhausting day and I guess I'd be more pissed off about D&D getting cancelled tomorrow except that I guess it's good because I can have time to rest and maybe get more driving experience, and wonder whether or not there is Sunday Dinner this week to attend and so on.
bk1e)'s birthday. Rebecca got a huge cake and I brought a folding table and we had chips and drinks and some presents (I made him a DDR Mix CD, which I should make a copy of for happysteve but I was a retard and didn't do it before Carnival) and stuff. So, Rebecca and I got there at 1ish, but she had to go pick up Brad, and nobody else DDR-wise was there, so I had to watch all the stuff. That was ok... so I played some random rounds of DDR... since I felt sick I didn't do anything really hard or complicated. It was ok because most people going by don't know anything about DDR and are really impressed by things like me doing Butterfly basic or Brilliant2U or Dub-I-Dub or any of my other songs where I spin around like 30 times. Did some doubles, too, including a way spinny Think Ya Better D. I was mad that B4U was off Player's Best and tried to get it back on but I don't think I succeeded. Anyway, nobody else showed up until Chris and his wife and Juan all showed up around 3pm. By this point I was about to die, having not eaten anything all day and played DDR straight through for two hours. I got them to watch the stuff and went to the food court. After eating lunch, I made the mistake of playing a maniac round with Juan, where I did In the Navy Maniac, Wonderland Maniac, and Shooting Star Maniac. Then I felt like I was going to throw up. Instead, I just got a severe coughy-hacky-sinusy fit and went to the bathroom to sneeze and cough and drip snot for a while. Fortunately it only lasted about ten minutes. Rebecca got back with Brad around 3:45. We sang happy birthday and he opened presents and then a bunch of us played more DDR. We left BVM around 5, although more people were showing up afterwards. Like Natalie, who got there right as we were leaving.I got home and showered and napped and all that stuff, for like an hour.
Around 7pm people started showing up for dinner. We had a sushi party here (I'm sorry I didn't invite more of you guys, but everyone we DID invite showed up, and that meant there were like ten of us, which was waaaaaaay crowded for our apartment, and we only had four bamboo mats anyway). Eli and Charlie had gone to the strip this morning and acquired tuna and salmon and flounder, and I acquired eel and cucumber and fake crab and avocado on Thursday, and so we had people roll maki and try to make nigiri and stuff. It mostly worked pretty well, and the failures were edible and just not as pretty as the successes, basically. We kept running out of rice and pretty much cooked all of the short-grain rice we had in the house... and we also ran out of nori. But, we used up pretty much all of the sushi stuff. So now I know that for ten people you need much more than 20 sheets of nori (cut in halves even), 8 cups dry rice, and one avocado and one cucumber. Roman brought over sake, which made things a bit more interesting, and Kevin W brought over green tea, and I had the green tea pocky, and.. it was generally pretty fun and successful.
After dinner I managed to make people watch three episodes of Sledge Hammer! I mean, so really only Alex and Mike and I had seen it before, so it was probably most enjoyable to us, but I think others enjoyed it too (Carl and Nick certainly laughed a lot). I think it's one of the greatest TV shows ever. I don't even really watch TV, so that's saying something. (I have tapes of it from like 14 years ago that I taped off TV, and a copy of "Hammered! The best of Sledge Hammer".) After Sledge Hammer we played a bunch of Super Puzzle Fighter. It started with one person playing it for real and one person playing it on a DDR mat, but after I beat a few people and Carl played Roman and our legs got tired, we switched to lots of Puzzle Fighter matches. I loaded up a memory card and then we had a lot of people playing Dan vs. Dan. (If you don't know the game... Dan is a seriously handicapped character, after the Street Fighter character.. in SPF he drops all red gems.) It got silly and eventually Dave turned on the PSX2 and there was a lot of SSX. In the meantime Carl and Mike were looking up Greyhawk stuff in my books, and Charlie and Nick were bidding bridge hands for fun.
It was a good day and a long day and an exhausting day and I guess I'd be more pissed off about D&D getting cancelled tomorrow except that I guess it's good because I can have time to rest and maybe get more driving experience, and wonder whether or not there is Sunday Dinner this week to attend and so on.