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And the day when I can use LB is today! It isn't 100% perfect yet but at least progress forthcoming and rapid. And while one major issue affects me for playing Double, Extra Mode is at least playable by me now and since it is an entirely new algorithm, that means that I have to essentially recreate my entire score list from scratch, because the records won't be compatible with the old LR2 EX mode. Fine with me. I was wanting to change the data layout a bit and this is the perfect time to do so. ...

Get ready to leave to work today and I pull the bike out from the garage to discover the rear tire is flat. Pumping some air in it confirmed the leak. One of the ropes I tied to a door at work to help us with our job was totally ripped from the handle and thrown out. Within a few minutes from the start of my shift, a person approaches and asks if we have a car service center - the store I work at doesn't, so I respond in naming two cities which do. The first three words she says in response to me ...

Today's Episode of Total Failure: Wife and I were out for the day, and on the way back home I stop by a CompUSA to see if I can get some sort of PS/2 adapter card to put into the old machine so that I can at least use it again while suffering on the new-old machine. Find one, take it home, and it turns out that the motherboard has no slot to fit the card. Awesome! After consulting a bit more research online, I come to discover that cards like that are merely PS/2-USB adapter wiring build into a ...

Next release of LunarBeat did in fact come just a bit ago, but it is still unusuable for my needs. I seem to not be having great luck with LR2 songs today either.

I only loaded the BOF10 folder to play some Extra in LR2. From the looks of things, LB's EX Mode handles things differently and all of my note counts here will not be the same if/when I fully migrate to that program. Bummer.

Code:

			ex	pgr	gr	go	b	p	p/f	nc	onc	%+ 	date
ネガイカナウヒカリ

...

Back in business. New-old machine has been cleaned up and all content has been moved to place. Unfortunately, the version of LR2 which I have to use now doesn't allow to play Expert Courses at Fixed 100%, which means that I should just warm up with a set or two of whatever comes within the BPM range and then roll from there. I'll use a minimum of 9* charts in the settings. In this case I'll only bother to put up scores for courses I manage to pass. Hopefully, when LunarBeat is ready to go with my ...

Beware of Tuesday the Thirteenth.

Go to boot up machine, notice the screen isn't up after I walk away to let it boot up. Figure that the PC was doing like it has a handful of times before where it turns on but doesn't complete the boot. OK. Press power button, see the Shut Down screen but it's all scrambled. Huh. Reboot. PC is working fine but the image is still scrambled. What's this about? Boot up PS2 and it shows up fine. So it's the HDMI that's bad. Hook up another PC to the HDMI ...

Mondays are painfully boring at the store, as I expected it would be. At least it's as such for the morning hours. They have a new rule in place where they want the vestibule doors latched shut every time we finish putting more carts in.

2012-03-13T01:35:39:454Z

9160; 3155 2850 1137 321 860 Combo 161 A -1357

spica, the black knight, 卑弥呼 B14, concertino in blue, sense 2007

IIDX course, and a pretty good one overall. ...

With changes now in place, Mondays will be my new terminal day of a work week rather than Sundays. It seems that very few people want to work Mondays and the shifts are otherwise unscheduled in absence of anyone else to take them. I get not wanting to work the weekends, but Monday too? Eh.

Go.

2012-03-12T01:18:03:663Z

12062; 4320 3422 1857 568 1365 Combo 222 B -86

旧地獄街道を行く 反逆のパルスィ, ...

Had some urgent issues to tend to earlier. Gotta squeeze this in quickly.

2012-03-11T03:44:38:057Z

8493 2779 2935 1674 495 1512 Combo 251 B -1162

todestrieb, m31 bms edit, dimension block, 瑠璃色小箱, bad maniacs

Well that was terrible. Not able to hit the easy stuff in Todestrieb right off the bat put me on bad footing from the start. Had to turn the volume down when M31 came because, after playing all of ...

Late start. Congratulations Mike and Michelle. At least the names match.

2012-03-10T04:24:38:814Z

10666; 3667 3332 1220 406 1371 Combo 188 A -1726

雪月花, state of the art, solid state squad, たまゆら, 感情の摩天楼 ~ cosmic mind

First course started with Aliceblue, which I flushed once I had another lead in the first half of it at a 50% C. Didn't have much of ...

After years of robot slashing and off-screen, bloodless stabbings, it might be a little shocking to see Wolverine literally tearing new assholes all over people's bodies. The shock is understandable: He's been mainstreamed and tamed down to PG13 TMNT levels over the past couple of decades, but it's still surprising that there should be any shock at all. What the hell did you think he did with those claws? Protip: He puts them inside people in varied and creative ways as they use their last ...

A habit I developed some time between the end of grade school and high school is that when I burp, I reflexively take in a breath of air to help push the gas out, with the result of being able to make a louder and longer burp. Funny times when you're a preteen, yeah, but it becomes quite the nuisance now, particularly on a day like today where, be it from the coffee I had earlier, or the dinner, I cannot bring myself to cease the action. It's like I have endless gas coming from my stomach. It's ...

Developer Other Ocean plumbs deep, so deep, into Paramount's licensing files that they put Herbert George Welles's ass to sleep with a side-scrolling platforming War of the Worlds video game. Using the original novel as a jumping-off point, it tells a parallel story set during the novel's alien invasion featuring excellent visuals based on the 1953 movie adaptation.

You take control of Arthur Clarke (not that one), a man in search of his family amidst the general devastation wreaked ...

Almost forgot to enter this today.

Boy would that have been a bit disappointment!

2012-03-08T00:56:32:308Z

8709; 3212 2285 1306 308 687 Combo 249 A -1229

sense 2007 A14, hverfa, 06 for fantasista, gigadelic, aliceblue

Decent run with good miss count, which is to be expected for this set considering charts like Sense 2007 and Gigadelic - speaking of those charts, they're feeling more like tough 11s each time I play them. Sense ...

Federal tax refund was received today. Also obtained approval for my Form 720 and 2290 series software. Things look good.

How about here.

2012-03-07T01:25:30:988Z

9217; 3336 2545 1278 404 1219 Combo 258 A -1720

brain analysis, genesis, カゴノトリ~弐式~, tranoid, G59

I still have no good answer at all for Brain Analysis and cannot hold a C through that song. It really is a louse of ...