First of all, WTF MiXD is now complete, as Ek has finished making the steps not-retarded ^^; The final version, plus the preliminary version, can be downloaded here.

Yesterday was kinda fun... first, I went to work for a 12-4 shift that was probably busier than all my shifts in July combined. When I got out, I went to Patty's house, which took almost an hour due to traffic, then went to Springfield, which took about another hour, again due to traffic.

Just about everyone was at the mall, since school was out early for the holiday. There was one guy on the Soul Calibur 2 machine which seemed, for the most part, completely unbeatable - he had a 16+ win streak with all of us trying to take him down before someone finally did ^^; At least I did fairly well, though I didn't win a single round... hurray for chaotic strategy ^^;

After a while, Patty, Chris, Ek, Billy, and I went to Starland to pick up my PS2. Billy also picked up some cheap hentai o.O We went back to the house to test it out, and...

No workies. The red screen of doom presented itself. Plus, the menu screen graphics (with the spinning blue lights) was acting funky.

Immediately took it back to Starland to see what was wrong. Apparently, Chris (the manager, who also does all the technical work) stated that nothing was wrong - noting that you had to hit reset after inserting the disc to get it to boot up. He tries a bunch of PS2 games to show me that it works with this method. (I should have gotten him to try a PSX game or a DVD movie, since I found out later neither of those work.) Somehow, we end up buying MORE stuff before leaving - I pick up a copy of Vampire Night (needed a good gungame ^^;) and Patty gets a Hellsing artbook (or was it an episode guide?)...

So we took it back, booted up DDRMAX J, and played that for a while ^^; Eventually, Pakman and Kevin arrive. Later on, Pakman goes to pick up Hanna (who was somehow over at Mike's house o.O), and I leave with Kevin to go run to his house and pick up his DDRMAX USA and memcard, so we can play the edit ^^; He's hungry so we pick up McDonalds on the way back, too.

When we get back, Chris is playing Metroid Fusion, Patty is playing something on the PS2 (still using mine), and the rest (including Hanna) are in the basement watching Ice Age. I need to see that movie sometime ^^; Ek plays around with the edit a little bit (though Kevin leaves with Pakman and Hanna, and we end up persuading him to leave his DDRMAX and memcard behind ^^;), which results in the link way up in the first paragraph of this posting ^^; We try some Vampire Night as well - noting that the load times seem abnormally long.

Around 2:30, Patty and I take our leave. Patty drives back while I sleep in the passenger seat. When we get to her house, I rest for a little while (though Patty is trying to wake me up ^^;) before heading back since I am still very tired. I do get back home, but instead of sleeping, I end up testing the PS2 some more. While at Chris's we tried his original copy of Rockman X4, and it didn't work, so I try some of my originals, which also do not work. I sent emails to ModChip-SBox.com to see if they could help figure out what the problem was, hopefully they can help and I can have Chris at Starland fix it or something ^^;

Anyways... today's Thanksgiving day... relatives arriving later... only day free until work hell, and no one's even here -_-