{"id":471,"date":"2003-01-04T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2003\/01\/04\/a-definite-night-about-which-one-should-blog\/"},"modified":"2003-01-04T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-04T00:27:00","slug":"a-definite-night-about-which-one-should-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/a-definite-night-about-which-one-should-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"A definite night about which one should blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no prepositions that you should end a sentence with. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I woke up at high noon today. I wouldn&#8217;t say that&#8217;s a record, but even on a holiday, I should be doing something more productive, like making comics or designing webpages&#8230; or something. I woke up to discover that I had lost my email that had the tracking number for my RedOctane Ignition 2.0 pad that I had recently won on eBay&#8230; and later I found that it still didn&#8217;t arrive today. Now I&#8217;m certain I&#8217;m getting it tomorrow&#8230; or something is definitely up.<\/p>\n<p>I went to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.starbasearcade.com\">StarBase<\/a> really early-like today, to meet <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.withinmyhead.com\">Sophie<\/a> and her friend Sam&#8230; and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thecrusader.com\">Chris<\/a> was there, doing his usual Friday thing. When I arrived at StarBase, Chris had good news and bad news &#8211; bad news was that he spent his work day putting out a fire that had destroyed some expensive hardware and sent hazardous gas all over the place; he was calling a doctor about it <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tidus.livejournal.com\/\">(there will probably be a blog about that soon)<\/a> &#8211; good news that Video Bob (the well-known nickname for the owner of the arcade, and the oldest hardcore gamer I know) had ordered DDR Extreme, and that it would be coming in less than a week. That will probably make our arcade the second one in America to have DDR Extreme. YES.<\/p>\n<p>Chris, being the eternally kind soul he is, set DDR 4th Mix Plus on Free Play for the whole afternoon\/evening. Sophie, Chris, Sam and I eventually went out for some crepes down the street. Local creperies also = YES. I got to show off my new Dell Axim, in all its MP3-playing, Avant Go-using, handwriting-recognizing glory.<\/p>\n<p>We returned to find <a HREF=\"http:\/\/midgarswamp.tripod.com\">James<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/bouncy-fish.virtualave.net\">Bryan<\/a> DDRing it up. I ended up spending more time (and of course, much more money) on San Francisco Rush 2049. Some of the secrets in the five tracks are rather interesting&#8230; I love the one where you fly into the Atari logo and dodge fans and rocks&#8230; neato.<\/p>\n<p>And, well, that&#8217;s pretty much all we did. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/philanderingfridays.tripod.com\">Levi<\/a>, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/eponymoose.tripod.com\/\">Simon<\/a>, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.evildavis.com\">Hannah<\/a>, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/peterbrown_5.tripod.com\">Jam<\/a> and Jane (website coming pretty soon) arrived also, and I acted like a total meanie to everyone because I just wanted to show off how a shot of Rockstar energy drink doesn&#8217;t faze me. Oh, and I kicked more ass at SF Rush.<\/p>\n<p>So this was sort of our final salute to DDR 4th Mix Plus, with an all-night free play. Good times were definitely had by all. And I had pizza afterwards, huway huway!<\/p>\n<p>There was no Oasis tonight like there usually is every other Friday&#8230; I guess it was a holiday. But we wouldn&#8217;t have spent a lot of time there anyway. We&#8217;re all slowly migrating over to the arcade, it seems. Hey, we&#8217;re nerds, I guess that&#8217;s what we do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sure to mention when I get my RedOctane pad or when DDR Extreme comes, whatever comes first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no prepositions that you should end a sentence with. \ud83d\ude00 I woke up at high noon today. I wouldn&#8217;t say that&#8217;s a record, but even on a holiday, I should be doing something more productive, like making comics or designing webpages&#8230; or something. 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