Power came back to the house around 7:20pm or so - meaning the power outage lasted a little over 72 hours. I came back at around 11:30.

The tourney was good - turnout was incredible, though none of the SF people showed. It was nice seeing some of the NJ/NY people again, too. Naturally, I played zero DDR over there. =P

I got there around noon, as planned. The room was much larger than I expected, and lacked proper ventillation, but it accomodated the massive amount of people rather well. Rather than Amanda's TV from home, an HDTV was rented - it appeared to be the Sony KP-57HW40, but it might have just been a similar model. Of course, it was set to "Vivid" picture mode - which has the highest level of SVM - which made me want to gouge my eyes out rather than look at it. (I fixed it before long, changing it to "Pro" picture mode... even though I kinda wished I had the remote control so I could do some service mode tweaks. Of course, I doubt the TV owners would have appreciated it if I did THAT much.)

A 2nd TV was brought in, but having only RF input, we couldn't hook any of the PS2s to it. Eventually, a 3rd TV was brought in as well, but that was much later. Also, one of the people with PS2s had an LCD screen for it. I wasn't able to set up pop'n right away, but it started on the small LCD, and made its rounds across all the sets except for the RF-only TV. Of course, the HDTV was dedicated mostly to the fighters and IIDX.

It was nice actually finding someone else in the damn state that plays pop'n, too. =P Of course, I'm disgusted at how bad I got at the game after not playing it for a month or so. I'm not really going to have much time to get better now, either, and I'll have to re-learn the game basically from scratch when I get the ASC anyways.

I eventually went to the Sheetz next door to get food - and proceeded to buy far too much. I did finish it all eventually, though, but not in one sitting. Sheetz was pretty much where everyone went for food, as I assume Playland's own kitchen closed earlier than most people wanted to eat.

One of the big problems - smoking. Playland strictly forbids smoking, so the smokers did their thing -right outside the door-. Now, this is almost worse than smoking inside the building itself, as we had fans sucking up air from outside that door to give some kind of air control to the area. When they smoked there, the smoke got sucked in too, and several people had fairly bad asthmatic reactions to that. I didn't feel too hot after that, either. Now, we told them if they were going to smoke they had to do it far away from the building, but they kept on smoking in that same area, not understanding people were getting SICK from them. I guess the nicotine had already rotted their brains out enough so that they couldn't understand that.

Yeah, I have very little tolerance for smokers. Almost as little as my tolerance for actual smoke. I had to run to Sheetz for extra water and spend some time outside of the building to get some fresh air before I felt slightly better.

Other than that, it was fun. I got very little sleep during it, though I kept sleeping in random locations near the end, but kept getting woken up before getting any worthwhile time in. Not getting much sleep was bad, as I needed to drive myself out at some point. When we all packed up and left at 8:30, I decided that if I couldn't walk straight, I shouldn't be driving. Dollarbill got more sleep than me, at least, and they set out to go back to NJ/NY. Ms. Tenicela somehow ended up with some 16 or so passengers (or so it seemed from the way the tires were being squashed flat and the muffler was rotating in a very unnatural way as they departed). I ended up curling up in the passenger seat of my car and sleeping until about 12:20.

I then made a few phone calls to get updated on the situation outside. Power had -not- been restored to the house yet. Nor was power back at Josh's - they were still running off their generator. I ended up going back to Anthony's after making a futile effort to find a PS2 LCD screen or a controller converter - items I could have probably found if I knew how to get to Valley Mall. Spent some more quality time with SC2, once again taking turns on Weapon Master mode, took a nap, and set off to go back home.

Apparently, campus is open tomorrow, so I have to go to class after all - I wouldn't have minded an extra day off. Also have to work after class as well.

It figures a natural disaster would prevent me from finishing Pretear last week like I planned to. =P