Yesterday was a day that didn't go to plan at all. Wasn't necessarily bad, though.

I finally arrived on campus around 11:30 (an hour and a half later than I was supposed to arrive, ugh...) - no Cesar (who I was supposed to meet) in sight, but I spotted Patty and the others on their way out to Best Buy Rockville. I sweeped the cafeteria and Rec center for Cesar really quick, then decided it would be pointless to stay on campus with nothing to do, so I went to join Patty and the others.

Basically, the time was spent with most of the people playing the demo games, and Patty buying back a lot of the stuff she lost last week. I exchanged Josh's damaged copy of Kingdom Hearts while I was there, too. Coincedentally, Josh was working while we were there, so we all saw him. He tells me he gets off work at 5:45. We eventually finish up at Best Buy and head to grab lunch at IHOP.

IHOP is pretty fun - just make sure never to order the chocolate chip pancakes. Pat ordered them, and swore that the act of eating them would shave off 20 years of his life. ^^; I was quite happy with my chicken strips and mashed potatoes. Too many onion rings, though ^^; Patty gets a call from Daniel while we're there - seems he and Cesar are at campus now ^^; i head back before the others to meet him, since that was the entire reason I left the house in the first place.

We get together and draft up the skit we have to do on Saturday. This takes us probably 20 minutes at the most. It's agreed that I translate the script into Japanese, and we both learn it, and we get together again on Friday to rehearse it. We then head off on our separate ways. (This is at about 3 pm now.)

I decided to try to pull up directions to a place called "Game Edge" in Gaithersburg/Germantown. (I was later told the place went out of business, so this was a waste of time.) I went to the computer lab, and waited for the station to turn on. After 5 or so minutes, I turned on the station next to it, and watched that one complete its bootup sequence before the first station was actually done. -_- MC sure knows how to royally screw up a P3 to the point where my old 486 can outperform it. I decide I would get directions to the place later (but of course, since it doesn't exist anymore, I never do) and head off to BB Gaithersburg.

I finally pick up that burner I've been intending, but not the model I thought I would get - I pick up a Plextor combination DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive (20x10x40x12, I think). It had a rebate on it, which made it cheaper than the CD-RW drive that was there. And besides, I was planning on replacing the DVD-ROM drive eventually, anyways. So I brought that home, then almost immediately departed again...

... right to Josh's house. Amusingly, I get there at the same time that he does (he was walking home from work). He told me I had left BB too early - they had just gotten in Love Hina DVD5 and Strawberry Eggs DVD2 (argh! I wanted that) and he had snatched it out of receiving and picked them up. After 5 or so minutes, we head off to Suncoast to check to see if our X TV boxes have come in - they haven't, and I spend half an hour trying to find the manga in the shipment pile (I fail). While I'm doing that, Josh heads off to Waldenbooks, and picks up Chobits 3, Kodocha (don't know which volume it was), among other things. Finally head off to CP, where I start working on my SC2 conquest character there. Kevyn arrives a little after we do.

SC2 was ok, but DDR was not treating me well. For probably the 2nd time in my life, I failed Furuhata's Theme double - a song that I should be able to full-combo by now. -_- I was in no condition to play, since it had been more than 2 hours since my last meal. (Fast metabolism == bad.) It took until 2 minutes after the arcade closed to get my SC2 character up to Platinum Soldier (after being demoted to Gold Infantryman many times over). Apparently, at CP, I'm now a "Platinum Soldier of the Furies". Sounds better than the "of the Cerberus" I got at SF, I think. I'm now above Kevyn in the SC2 rankings, but that'll change soon enough, since I only had like 15 or so more wins.

We end up going to Tastee Diner - I usually order the chicken tenders, but since I had the IHOP chicken strips earlier, I opted against that, and just got the fried chicken platter. Also, I read a bit of Chobits 3 while waiting for the food to arrive. Food was a bit underwhelming - onion rings seemed exactly the same, but the chicken seemed dry, and the mashed potatoes seemed... instant. ^^;

After that, we headed our separate ways... Kevyn drove home, I dropped Josh off at home, and I went home. Had to clean up my room a bit, since I was just informed that we have relatives visiting soon. I went to play Kingdom Hearts a bit (I play that game WAY too much) and, as usually, fell asleep with the game on, so my time elapsed counter once again elapses by god knows how many hours. (This is like the 4th or so time I've slept with the game on...)

On to today... I didn't leave home today - but somehow ended up playing Kingdom Hearts until my stomach complained loudly that it needed food. Since there was a power outage the previous day at one point, I didn't know what time it was - so I ended up shutting off the game at -4 pm-... -_- I spent the next 2 and a half hours going over our skit script, and revising and translating it into Japanese, and sent it off to Cesar. We're behind schedule -_- Also, at some point we get a call from the relatives that state that they'll be arriving tomorrow, and not today. After that, mom came home, we ate dinner, and I watch a little anime (I've been meaning to watch Platonic Chain for a while now, and finally got a chance to do just that.) Now, about to leave the comp, and see if I can get the katakana chart copied down a few times - I need to have it copied down 13 times by Saturday morning, so I'll probably do half of it tonight.

Yep. And I haven't even installed the new burner yet. That'll have to wait until next week.