Yep. A total of 7 hours of sleep across that ENTIRE weekend. And I'm still up. =P

As planned, I stayed overnight at Patty's house Saturday night so that we could leave to go to 8otB from there in the morning. Before that, I met up with Patty, Daniel, and Faith at Borders in White Flint... we ended up just going to Patty's house when they went into Dave and Busters ^^;

I got about 1.5 hours of sleep at Patty's before her cat woke me up at 4am, then I never got back to sleep. D'oh -_- Patty got a little more sleep than that (about 3 hours I assume) so she drove the way up. I tried to get sleep in the car, but didn't succeed at all.

We did stop at a service area on the way, for food... and Tetris o.O ( Yes, we drove all the way up to NJ just to play for half an hour on an old Tetris arcade cab. =P ) Also, we did a souvenir penny thing - we decided to get one that portrayed a cityscape of New York, later realizing that it was a "World Trade Center" design o.O Oops ^^; And Roy's wouldn't serve us anything except breakfast croissants (and all with cheese!) even though the menu says hamburgers can be ordered 24 hours a day. So we ended up just getting two orders of hash browns.

We still made great time, even with the big delay at the rest stop - and it was great finally seeing the place after hearing so much about it. Though I never got to play on Extreme outside of the Single Heavy tourney ^^; My typical tournament performance continued here (I have a VERY long running streak of not qualifying for any tournament I sign up for) - was 9th or 10th place in doubles when the top 8 scorers advanced. Singles was even more embarrasing - no qualifiers, but for the first round, I get matched up against Javy. Pfft. =P Our set was Dead End (his choice), Gentle Stress (my choice), and Hyper Eurobeat on shuffle. Actually managed to full combo Hyper Eurobeat, despite never playing it before, but with too many greats -_-

Suffice it to say, double elimination and two straight losses. Food was good, though ^^

The timetable for the tournament was kinda interesting - we got there at around noon and registered, and at 1pm, improv freestyle started on Extreme while doubles tech started on 5th. Doubles tech went on longer than improv, which lasted pretty long itself... probably around 3:30 or 4, singles heavy tech started on Extreme, and lasted for god knows how long o.O (We left at 1am and it was STILL running, with the routine freestyles waiting for the tourney's completion!)

Other than failing miserably in the tournaments, played a little PPP (finally passed Dynamite Rave euro on Expert Another as final stage on an arcade cab!), SC2, and Beatmania 6th Mix UK Underground o.O Great place, great to see a lot of people again, and many people I met for the first time (you guys better AIM me or something ^^)... I'd go more often if it didn't take 4 hours to get there ^^;

Anyways, at 1am, we finally took our leave - the original plan was to stay overnight, but Patty's dad said no, so it didn't happen, and we had to drive back -_- I took first driving shift, and made it all the way down to the last service area off NJ Turnpike before hitting Delaware before I had to switch out. Amazing considering how little sleep both of us were on.

Now, maybe I can make up for lost time and actually sleep ^^;

You can grab the handful of pics I took at 8otB here.