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Today is my sister's birthday, so I paid a visit to see her. My wife and her mother had the foresight to bake some chocolate chip cookies to bring over for a gift, which is a much better food to give than anything from a local restaurant that I could think of getting along the way. My sister will be resuming her job in a week, and from there the process of having my mother watch the child while my sister works will get underway. All the preparations are set, so we'll have to see how it actually plays out. On the subject of the child, my wife and I individually posed for pictures with the child in our arms, and I had them promptly sent to my mother - hopefully the subject of us not being in frequent enough contact is forestalled for a month or two.

Draft.

19290112 01:43:32

IP & 16 N

"Just drop me off here, thanks. I can walk from here and be out of your way."
Pulaski caught Rebecca looking over to him in confusion as he turned to face Kedzie in the back seat. A portion of the lower half of his face was illuminated by the glow of a street lamp a few feet away from the front of the car, and his eyes stared back with resolution and without blinking. The store across the street was darkened and had surely long been closed. The sidewalk to the right of the car where Kedzie wanted to exit was devoid of people and sat meagerly in front of the giant fencing which wrapped around the jail.
"Here? Drop you off right here?" After asking this, he turned his head from one side to the other, looking to see if there was an honest reason that he would make the request.
"Yes."
"Are you always this vague?" Pulaski restrained a condescending scoff from coming out of his mouth before asking the question.
"No. You know I'm not, anyway. See you soon, then?" Kedzie reached a hand out to the front of the car and held it in mid air.
"Uh, sure, yeah. Yeah, see you soon kiddo. Enjoy your constitutional I guess." Pulaski took the hand and allowed it to be waved up and down in the air in three sharp motions.
"Good. Have a good night, Miss Rebbeca."
"Um OK, yeah. I'll do that." Rebecca didn't bother turning around to face him as she uttered the half-hearted response.
Kedzie took the bag of leftover food up from the adjacent empty car seat and swiftly guided his body out of the open door, then promptly snapped it shut with enough force to cause the car to gently rock on its wheels. He stood still on the sidewalk, with his body turned to the side of the cold wind gusts which whistled through the empty street, and didn't move until Pulaski started to pull the car away. As he walked back to the apartment, his memory returned to the restaurant owner who had insisted on him taking the food which he now held in the paper bag. The man's words had the tone of desired generosity but he saw a different emotion in his eyes and face - he saw some kind of trouble or fear in the countenance, as if making the gratuity had a dire consequence behind it. He wondered if there was a reason for that. After a few minutes of walking, he was near his apartment and stepped past the alleyway at the side of the building. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of whiteness streak quickly in the opposite direction; he turned to see a small cat conceal himself underneath a garbage dumpster who then turned and stared at Kedzie with eyes glowing under the shadow. Kedzie stood still and pulsed his fingers around the grip of the paper bag.

(revise: hotel / meetup place near I or J block; store at IP1600N)
(revise: encounter with cat nearby)

Songs. Boundary and Wonder Bullfighter are both fails with which I hit 78% on the gauge at the end note. I think I got a 78% on Wonder Bullfighter once before as well, and I'm still baffled as to how I failed it this time, as I went into the last measure at the full 100%, and I didn't think I missed any of the comparatively simpler scratches. I guess destiny shall await for a longer time. I came into this session feeling very tired and spent, so the first awful result was no surprise, but I think I still got pissed about it enough to snap me back into shape quickly. At least, the subsequent scores seem to support that theory. Also, as opposed to the flat zero or the single digit EX decrease, Air Bell gives me the +1 today. At least it means that the date is updated in the logs.

Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter grade rank, EX score value and pass/fail, judgment readout (just great, great, good, bad poor), highest combo reached, note count of chart under Extra Mode, original note count of chart, percentage increase of Extra Mode notes over original note count, timestamp.
Second line, by column; pass count / play count, EX score percentage difference from record, EX score value difference from record, judgment readout difference from record (if current play is new record), highest combo reached difference from record (if current play is new record), timestamp of old record (if currentl play is new record).

Code:

			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+nc 	date
drive me crazy @	48.08 C		1660.F	555.550.401.76.352	0082	1726			2013-09-16T01:50:39:373Z
0/6			14.94-		0516-

prelude @		69.21 A		1405.P	552.301.128.9.43	0114	1015			2013-09-16T01:53:32:958Z
3/7			02.75-		0056-

secret tale @		80.84 AA	1182.P	485.212.26.2.11		0289	0731			2013-09-16T01:56:18:478Z
6/6			03.62-		0053-

alien temple @		71.66 A		1631.P	605.421.90.4.42		0265	1138			2013-09-16T01:59:17:134Z
4/11			00.48-		0011-

hardcore mania @	47.86 C		1501.F	549.403.332.126.439	0126	1568			2013-09-16T02:01:52:470Z
0/7			01.46-		0046-

U.N.オーエンはニコ @	52.90 C		2389.F	577.635.369.103.520	0090	2258	2121	006.45	2013-09-16T02:05:48:605Z
0/3			02.61+		0117+	78+39-18-25-37-		0010-				2013-05-13T00:52:13:681Z

ghostbusters @		72.09 A		1465.F	589.287.90.16.74	0096	1016	0741	037.11	2013-09-16T02:09:17:502Z
0/8			02.21+		0045+	40+35-12-8+3+		0009-				2013-05-05T00:18:53:014Z

code elixia @		30.80 E		1898.F	651.596.846.383.1574	0021	3081			2013-09-16T02:13:39:093Z
0/5			02.46-		0152-

冥 @			34.89 E		1843.F	633.577.701.300.1105	0155	2641	2000	032.05	2013-09-16T02:18:44:406Z
0/4			02.22+		0117+	64+11-67-29+187+	0049+				2012-04-09T01:40:52:833Z

boundary @		71.93 A		1774.F	696.382.112.16.64	0199	1233			2013-09-16T02:22:12:495Z
0/8			00.08-		0002-

air bell @		64.77 B		1521.F	581.359.162.24.117	0176	1174	0794	047.85	2013-09-16T02:26:08:869Z
0/8			00.04+		0001+	11+21-18+3-13+		0041+				2013-07-13T00:29:22:919Z

A @			60.83 B		1712.F	644.424.205.49.222	0107	1407			2013-09-16T02:29:31:742Z
0/10			01.13-		0032-

answer @		58.60 B		2016.F	755.506.257.78.350	0133	1720	1142	050.61	2013-09-16T02:34:30:494Z
0/6			00.93+		0032+	7+18+19-5-12-		0008-				2013-06-15T23:07:03:035Z

last message @		53.67 C		1564.F	555.454.270.68.294	0154	1457			2013-09-16T02:37:44:998Z
0/7			02.81-		0082-

夢語 @			50.48 C		1241.F	449.343.258.67.251	0133	1229	0820	049.87	2013-09-16T02:41:56:112Z
0/4			02.40+		0059+	10+39+44+22-41-		0032+				2012-05-26T00:11:00:403Z

wonder bullfighter @	66.43 B		1512.F	564.384.144.5.89	0180	1138	1086	004.78	2013-09-16T02:45:47:685Z
0/12			01.83+		0017+	5+7+11-5-29-		0077+				2012-04-04T01:40:19:988Z

ラクエン @			64.49 B		1446.F	556.334.159.13.117	0103	1121			2013-09-16T02:51:45:029Z
0/9			00.53-		0012-