Jolt Country

Well, seriously, even though it's half the distance to Vegas, you'd probably find better tickets to Vegas because hey, it's Vegas.

And it's nowhere near as big as the Vegas thing, although the pinball enthusiasts seem pretty cool and they do get a handful of arcade games in there.

I'm not seriously promoting this thing as I'd feel too bad if anyone was disappointed (although I'd like to believe that I could show everyone the best ways to get drunk in Milwaukee), but hey, I'll be going to it.

Worm wrote:Is going to Las Vegas just because it is Vegas not gay enough or something?

It is <i>so</i> not gay enough.

Bruce

Here is the problem I currently have:

I get four weeks' vacation each year. One week is used for Christmas. Another will probably be used as Da King is getting married and I'm the BEST MAN and it's my obligation to tear it up for a week with him.

That leaves two weeks. I want to spend a week somewhere on the planet with my sweetie, but shhhh! Don't tell her.

That leaves one week. The "miscellaneous" week. For instance, when Parrish finally realizes that South Carolina is so boring that it's going to give him diabetes (edit: more diabetes) and he comes out to live in Colorado for a few months, I want to be able to take a couple days off work and hang out with the man and introduce him to Colorado Proper. That sort of thing.

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... OK, actually, shit. This was a response to the taking off of a week and going to Kansas City for the Apple II conference, now that I re-read it. MILWAUKEE YOU SAY? Well, crikey, lemme look into this.

Hehe, well yeah, the Midwest Classic thing I posted a link to is in Brookfield, a suburb of Milwaukee, this year (they're all in the Milwaukee area).

Of course, it'd be cool to have you but I know you were considering coming for Metalfest, too, and I doubt you'd want to come twice and I'd imagine Metalfest would take precedence.

Hey, Milwaukee! I could actually drive there. I might flake out again like last year, but if you guys do decide to do this I'll try to get out there, for whatever that's worth to your decision-making process. No way I'd make the Kansas City thing, though.

I think I might go see Yeah Yeah Yeahs instead.

I went to the MGC this morning (I'm actually going back in an hour or so since my sister is going to enter a Halo tournament).

Anyway, since I now recognize the guy (largely due to Robb pointing him out in Vegas), I got a picture of myself with Billy Mitchell. I guess I could also have had Dwayne Richard in there but I never really researched the guy so was not aware which games he's beaten that I like (although I guess he's some sort of game champ who has beaten like 200 games). He's in the back of the picture anyway.



As the picture was taken, Billy intoned the words, "Play to win!"

Roody_Yogurt wrote: Anyway, since I now recognize the guy (largely due to Robb pointing him out in Vegas), I got a picture of myself with Billy Mitchell.

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As the picture was taken, Billy intoned the words, "Play to win!"

You fuckin' <i>rock</i>. I wish I coulda been there, but I'm stuck in Virginia on a business trip.

Bruce

You know, I bet ROCKER looks a lot like Billy Mitchell.

Bruce

Bruce, I had a couple words with the Atariage people. Mainly, it was just that I pointed your game out to my sister and said, "My friend wrote that," which made a female Atariage lady perk up and be all like, "Oh yeah?" and then I talked to Atariage dude for a little bit about how I went to CGE with you in Vegas and he was like, yeah, that's where I met him.

So yeah, it wasn't some sort of unexpectedly interesting conversation, but hey, you were talked about.

Also, my little sister beat 30 other people to come in second in the Halo tournament. I would have been eliminated before picking up the controller, I think. SEE I'M SO BAD AT HALO GET IT AH ITS FUNNY!