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Managed to not have to work in rain for most of the day. I also get to look into sprucing up a computer being used by one of my wife's coworkers. I've seen the machine before and it was typical low end emachine junk, but she didn't do anything beyond normal Internet use so I wouldn't think that to be a big deal. She informs my wife today that her PC has "run out of virtual memory". What a catastrophe. I hope the nearby CompUSA has RAM which is ancient enough for her machine to use. Yesterday ...

A rapid downpour came and went, and I had the luxury of watching it happen from under my roof. Hopefully my luck will continue through the weekend.

I never had an entry for Voltage in Extra Mode before. I wonder why. The program also didn't load Starmine yesterday, so I might as well get that out of the way.

Resuming 5th Style in Extra Mode otherwise.

Code:

			ex.p/f	pg	gr	gd	bd	pr	combo	nc	onc	%+ 	date
starmine		1471.F	0567	0337	0187	0013	0121	0158

...

I had to take the time to develop a new Form for my Individual filing procedures, which thankfully I have just finished and didn't take me as long as I was predicting. I cannot rest on laurels, though, and I have to keep moving between a few returns to do before things get too late. Neither should take tremendous amounts of time but this is nothing to dawdle about. Also had one of my better takes on grilling bratwurst for dinner just a bit ago.

I was halfway into 4th Style in Extra ...

Another late start.

Still getting used to the timing on this.

Extra Mode in LunarBeat. Some 3rd and 4th.

Code:

			ex.p/f	pg	gr	gd	bd	pr	combo	nc	onc	%+ 	date
dream			0824.P	0304	0216	0096	0003	0030	0265	0633	0620	002.09	2012-03-21T03:28:25:116Z
reincarnation		0920.P	0332	0256	0054	0001	0005	0322	0644	0643	000.15	2012-03-21T03:31:34:239Z
right now		0806.P	0309	0188	0053	0002	0005	0249	0554	0549	000.91	2012-03-21T03:35:47:263Z
sos

...

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 ...

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 ...