So, yeah... it doesn't seem like I got a whole lot of work done the past month. Even this weekend, it was pretty fun, but I got a whole lot of nothing done. --;;

On Saturday morning, the well pump guy came in, and spent a little over two hours fixing everything... leaving us to wonder how much of the work was actually necessary. The well pump was replaced, as was the well cap (understandable, since the shield over the line had long been broken). Apparently, a lot of valves were also changed, and the lines had to be purged of a lot of iron. Further, Montgomery County requires any well or water source that has been opened for repairs to be filled with chlorine. So, when we got water back, first we got a burst of dirty iron polluted with iron. Then, we got a whole lot of clear, but chlorine-saturated, water. So, we actually had water on Saturday afternoon, but it wasn't usable at all.

I think now, we finally have usable water again (the chlorine needed to sit overnight, then we could flush it out of the system).

So, later in Saturday evening, I left, bound for Springfield Mall to check out a DDR MAX2 with memslots that randomly showed up there. Kevin and Brice were there, and apparently had been there for quite a while (I didn't actually get there until like 7:30pm or so). Found out, the hard way, that the shoes I had obtained were great for running, but horrible for DDR. Going to need to bring my old shoes with me to DDR with. (Two of the four sensors in the 2p up arrow being out didn't help either.)

After deciding to eat, we find out Kp and Hanna wanted to come, so we dropped off the cars at their place and went to the magical world of IHOP... okay, that line was just dumb. After our usual IHOP craziness (including my meal with all-potato sides), we drove to Brice's house the long way, then back to Kp's place... so yeah, we did a complete loop all the way around Springfield. At least we had Kp's torture CD and other CDs to amuse us. So, yeah, all that trouble just to grab Brice's copy of Finding Nemo, even though Kevin couldn't stay to watch it.

Watched a lot of other random videos after we finished the movie... Brice left while I somehow ended up staying and sleeping (as usual, I don't remember when I fell asleep)... woke up in the early afternoon, took a shower, ate a little bit (wow, steel chopsticks are HEAVY), and left so Kp and Hanna could pack to go back to VT.

You know, I don't think I ever commented on the VT trip we did a few weeks ago. More on that later.

Anyways, I got home, and tried to get some actual work done. Of course, Kururu happened to come first. ^^; So, yeah, people would be surprised how much earlier that episode would have come out if I was actually home, since I'm one of the two main bottlenecks of HnK (guess who the other one is). When I was actually set to do some work, my mom announces we were going out to dinner. Argh. So, once again, work remained not even started.

And hour and a half later, I kind of start working, but end up paying more attention to Cartoon Network. Big surprise.

And now, I'm writing this entry. And I got all of 23 lines of dialogue timed. That's probably about 2 minutes worth of work there. What a productive weekend. --;;

Anyways, back to that VT trip... the plan was for Dan, Kevin, David, Kevin, Brice, and I to go down to check out the Culture Festival that Hanna was performing in. They were originally set to leave on Friday night, but I was working until close, and Dan didn't want to do the drive late, so we ended up doing it the next morning instead. Somehow, Brice dropped off the face of the earth in the few days leading up to the trip, so he was MIA and we ended up going without him. After a stop at the Country Buffet, we continued on our trek into VT. David mysteriously had the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack with him. We had it playing for all of 6 minutes before we collectively decided the entire CD was crap. David will be shot for that someday. =P

It turned out that Brice had been asleep until Hanna tried to find us while we were on the road - she called our phones, and when she called Brice, he was still asleep... so she eventually got through to us when she called my phone. We were an hour away at that point... Brice is probably the only person that sleeps in later than I do other than people who work graveyard shift.

We got there some time in the afternoon, in time to watch some of the groups practice, and to get a little DDR in. Naturally, VT's DDR machine happened to be... a MAX2 with memslots. ^^;; (Literally the day we left, they finished the upgrade and it is now an Extreme with memslots.)

We watched the culture festival, which was quite a nice performance. Though it was somewhat amusing to see a blatantly Japanese name in the list of performers in the Korean "modern" dance Hanna was in. U.S. Bear (one of the two stuffed animals I got from City Place Time Out quite a while ago) got around, too. ^^; During the festival, Allison called, and although I could barely tell what she was saying, I found out there was a lunar eclipse happening that day. We didn't really get to see it very much, though - we took a look as we were leaving the building to go find food, but that was it.

The food hunt was interesting. We were actually carded in the first place we tried. Dan and I were the only ones that were actually 21 or older, so we got handstamps. The rest got little X's drawn on their hands in marker (though some of them looked more like T's). Of course, after all that trouble, we ended up leaving and trying to find another place since there was no room. So, that was definitely an exercise in futility. We ended up going to a place to get deli subs and the like. Pretty good, and it's interesting to see a gigantic meat-cutter in action. (Yeah, I'm weird, and I had always wondered how those things worked.)

After we got back to Kp's dorm (where everyone except David had a sleeping bag... even -I- had remembered to bring one!), Dan stayed behind while the rest of us went back to the DDR machine to get some more play in (and more link data and edits in) before the place closed. I -finally- AA'd CSFIL -speed- heavy double on an arcade machine again, though with some 56 greats - nowhere near my record of 15. As we were returning to the dorm, my leg cramped up fiercely, requiring David to actually carry me part of the way back. My leg didn't fully uncramp until sometime on Tuesday. It was kind of strange that it happened while climbing stairs on the way back, rather than while I was actually playing.

Kevin played IIDX when we got back. Decided to give Night of Fire a try on Light7, just to fail it miserably. You'd never think I actually own the game and a controller from how badly I play.

Fell asleep at some point, but sleep wasn't very comfortable, since my stomach was exploding. I guess it doesn't like it when I combine a deli sub with a hot dog. So, between dreaming of stomach pain, waking up to stomach pain, shifting to try to avoid pain, then finally stumbling to the bathroom twice over with a cramped up leg, that wasn't a very fun night.

Kp was actually the only one still up at that point. At least he finished that project he was working on. He was in the middle of commenting his code when I did the bathroom runs. That was at about 5am.

His project was due at 8am that day. I think he just might be a better procrastinator than I was.

In the morning, we went to rape Hanna's little food card thingy in our quest for breakfast - but we all paid her back in cash, so I don't think she really minded aside from standing there and swiping her card over and over again. ^^; I ended up getting breakfasty foods, although I probably should have gone for that hamburger instead. I don't get chances at not-fast-food hamburgers very often.

So, we departed for home... when we stopped at a gas station on the way, we found there was an adjacent Subway (not quite attached, but right next to the station). The sign below the gas prices claimed Subway was serving soup. This was not the case, so we left Subway soupless. Oops.

We passed this big freight rig with military markings like three times on the way back.

And holy crap this is a long entry. If you're still reading this, congratulations. I actually have to be at work at 11am tomorrow (the hell?), so I should probably sleep, but I'll probably end up timing as much as I can until I get too tired to time more.