BOARDCON WEST STATUS: SUCCESS!

The Cabbage · Member since 1999 Joined: 09 Oct 1999 Posts: 3698

I seriously had a great time, and I'm sure all the others can agree. I'm a bit tired tonight, so I'll just post some brief impressions of my fellow conners for now, and fill in the details about our day tomorrow (I'll leave the story of how my being a jackass stopped a ride mid-ascent to Keiran > >). And we have many, many pictures that (in contrast to a certain lame northern minicon) will be posted. We have some greats (aww Lorli it's okay).

Keiran - You are a character, my man. You always kept the conversations flowing, often to the detriment of a moose or two. You were a blast to have around, and you always kept things interesting, ensuring that there wasn't ever a single dull moment. Don't lose your cool, fireman. i almost skullfucked a moose ponytail

Lorli - Such a sweetheart, it was great to have you around to roll your eyes at our more immature jokes. Smile

You were a bit on the quiet side, but yeah, I'm shy too. Still, it was good getting to know you when we did get a chance to talk. And your reactions to spares/gutterballs/etc. in bowling were oh so cute.

Q - Q was as great as I remember him. He, along with Keiran, helped to keep things going, in the face of us quieter ones. A fun guy who always had a good internet joke up his sleeve, to remind us of where we're really from. Mad props for driving out from Arizona and skipping work tomorrow to be with us.

Tony - My benefactor (he gave me a ride to and from Anaheim). You're a great guy, man, regardless of the lack of internet credit you give to yourself sometimes. Your normalcy was almost frightening amidst our often geeky atmosphere. Your random humor was fun, though. Star Wars soundtracks FTW.

Starr - Thanks for calling us, darling, it was great talking to you again. You couldn't be here in person, but you were here in spirit. Or something. Louisiana voodoo spirit magic, right?

<3 @ all. Even to you losers who couldn't be here.
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Treecko · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:

if only i didn't have this cold... and grounding for failing at government the first semester...

Dragonair · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:

Awesome.

Now Lex will proceed to not ignore me again and talk about a certain Saturday prologue scene to the whole thing.

Tony Knightcrawler · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:42 am Post subject:

Indeed, was totally awesome. Will give a lot of detail tomorrow. Very tired atm. :-P See ya all tomorrow.

Keiran · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

So here goes the story of boardcon west as told by me.

Saturday night Q arrived at my house, and we prepared to go visit RocketLex. It was rainign a little bit, but it was nice cool night, so we drove about an hour and 15 minutes down to the USC campus in downtown LA. We parked on campus in the student parkign structure
(Screw paying to park, and no way in hell we were gonna park on the street down there.) Then Q and I walked aroudn the campus aimlessle goofing off while I kept calling Lex, yet he didn't answer his phone. Then Lex finally returned my call and after we gave a description of where we
are ("We're by the building that looks like the Daily Planet building") he told us he'd come down and meet us.

So Q and I goofed off until we saw someone coming, and lo and behold it was Lex. So we shook hands introduced ourselves, then set off with boardmember revelry. We didn't have a good idea of what to do so we just started walking. I was hanging out with two people I've never
met in real life before, somewhere I'm barley familiar with, and somehow it all seemed natural; like I was just cilling with my friends. The internet references flowed from us, the Khakain inside jokes were voiced... it was kinda' surreal. We saw a Denny's across the street, and decided to hang out there for a while.

So we orderd some grub and just sat aroudn talking. Lex told us a bit about the film project he had been working on that day, we talked abotut he board, and video games and such. Q called starr and we each talked to her, good times. After we were done we decided to
head out yet again. We went back to the USC campus and Lex led us to a flag pole base that had the texture and cracks that made it look like a bombable block from zelda.

Then as we were walkign the rain started to really coem down so we rushed under the big archway overhang of some fancy looking building. The three of us stood around shootin' the shit and talkign abotu the good stuff, Khakain ladies, film ideas, other board members. All that
jazz.

The time flew by, but pretty soon hours had passed and it was time for Q and I to take our leave, we had an early start ahead of us the next morning. So we bid adeu, and headed to Q' s car in the parking structure... somehow the parking structure managed to outwit us and we nerviously walked around the parking structure unable to find Q's car, with the possibility of it being towed lurking in the back of our heads. But found it we did, and we drove back to my place, through the rain. It was Q's second time driving in rain ever and he kept talkign about how much he hated driving in rain. it was pretty amusing.

So then we got back to my place and crashed for the night. It was pretty much like any of my other freinds staying the night, it was a khakain sleep over! We layed in bed talking till we were just too tired to keep talking. The next mronign we woke, and got ready toh ead out
to knott's. We sswung by Lorli's and picked her up and headed down to Knott's Berryfarm where we would met up with Cabby who was catchign a ride with Tony.

So we got there and we sat in my car for a while getting excited whenever we saw a toyota (tony's car) enter, or saw an asian person. I waited as long as i could for Cabby and TOny to arrive, but eventually nature won and I had to get to the nearest bathroom. So we went to the fron t of the park, and I used the restroom while Q browsed the candy shop. When i came back we both walked out witha bag of candy. Soon after the others arrived. After the introductions we entered the park and the fun begun.

We went on all sorts of fun rides and stuff, some really freakign awesome. Prolly the best part of it all was that because of the bad weather We had hardly any lines to wait in!!! The was also a cool arcade with DDR, a big 6 player X-Men arcade game and stuff.

We got hungry and decided that we'd eat at the resturaunt they had there called Auntie Pastas Pizza. It advertised a all you can eat Pizza, Pasta and salad for $6 per person. We thought it would be awesome... and indeed it was... but not nearly in the sense of what we thought. The food was ridiculous, I swear all of it was like kids cuisine, it was terrible, and the service was lousy, but we managed to have a great time. The pasta made of half macaroni and cheese and half beef aroni (no joke, it said beefaroni on the menu even), and the pizza with a
crust made of fluffy card board only seemed to make it more hilarious.

Cabby at the dinner table

She says that was a glare, but she was obviously checking me out.

Tony chilling

Q looking very much like he's plotting.

After Walking around, we found a carusel and decided to ride it, I mean it just seems like a good photo op amirite?

Many funny and awesome things happened throughout the day (such as me finding out Cabby is my polish brother) and we all got to knwo eachother better. I think though that the funniest story would be about how Cabby broke the rollercoaster.
When we'd get on the rides the people working the rides were really on the ball abotu making leave all our stuff in cubby holes. Lorli woudl leave her backpack and they'd make us take off our hats and leave our jackets and they would even leave poor Cabby blind and defensless by demanding he leave his glasses behind. Well Cabby thought this was retarded, he and I had a conversationa botu how dumb it is, becuase his glasses never moved around and stuff. So the next ride we were on Cabby and I sat together, and he took off his glasses and hid them so when the ride operators walked by they didn't see them. We were just sitting around and talking and then the ride started moving. we were in the front and once we were out of the
loading area Cabby put his glasses back on. Then we got to the part where the roller coaster starts taking you up, we made it abotu half the way up when the rollercoaster just jerks ot a halt and the operator says something uninteligabl over the intercom. SO we are hanging there, ust sittign around joking about how the ride is broke, or abotu how 5 khakainers plummited to their death on a broken rollercoaster etc. When all the sudden a ride worker appears on the stairs right next to me. He dosn't say anythign he just looks at Cabby and sticks out his hand for Cabby's glasses. In stunned Silence Cabby took off his glasses and gave them to the ride guy, who turned around and started walking back don the stairs. We sat there in stunned silence till I shouted "Cabby you broke the fucking roller coaster" and then we pretty much laughed our asses off the whole rest of the ride (through loops and all) then again when we relayed what had happened to the others (who were int he cart behind us.) oh boy was it funny.

We saw a bunch of these rocking back and forth and racing across a track... and well I know I for one thought of Christian <3.There was a mighty Viking Ship swing that was sailing through the air, and of course it was mandatory that we ride it. But the closer we got to the thing... we noticed there was somethign wrong. There was a mexican flag on top of the mast, and the ride was mexican themed. In fact they were trying to play it off like it was a freaking Mexican longship and not a viking one... very not cool.

By far the most fun moment of the day had to of been when we rode the tea cups. All five of us walked onto the ride, and we all crammed into one tea cup... it was the most uncomfortable thing in the world. Because of my long legs my knees were jammed into the metal pole, and I don't think any of us were actually sitting on the seat, TOny was crammed against the gate that let you get in (there wasn't even a seat there) and we were all just laughing our asses off, and screaming in pain.

I don't think that any of us expected for the ride inspector to let us all ride together, but suprisingly the lady walked up and looked at us and said "are you all going to be okay?" and we replied "sure" and she just walked off... so then the real fun started. Once the ride started going only like three of us could actually get like one hand on the wheel to spin us... but we were spinning like mad. With the combined weight of us in there the ride was swinging side to side, and I dead seriously expected for it to snap of its base and hurl us into the fence... and this only caused us all to laugh histerically. It was physically painfulll, but so worth it.

Well the park ended up closing at 8 o'clock, evne though I thought it said 10 on the website. So we waited in line for our favorite ride in the park (the wooden rollercoaster) then after that we pondered what else we shoudl do. I'd called off from work the next day and so had Q (well... he meant to anyway) so there was no good reason for us not to go out. Cabby suggested bowling, so we decided that we'd find where a bowling alley was. So we got in our cars and met up at a gas station fro TOny to fill upand for us to ind a bowlign ally.

So driving along trying to find the Bowling place we stumbled across what might have been the craziest thign ever.

I shit you not, that's not photoshopped.

Then we found the Bowling ally... but it wasn't JUST a bowling ally. It was a Bowling ally, Pizza place, coffe shop, bar, AND Kareoke Joint! WITH AN ARCADE! AND 40 BOWLING LANES! needless to say this place kicked ass, and we had to wait 1 1/2 hours for a lane, but we spent the time in the coffe shop watching Spiderman (the movie) and playing a Turn based strat game on Tony's DS.

So then we played an awesomely fun game of bowling. Finding a ball was easy for me

Lorli Fails at Bowling... this had to of been the luckiest picture of all time. And yes... she threw the ball back at us.

This is probably Q's best lookign throw of the night. Poor guy never got a strike or a spare for that matter =(

Tony Bowling, everytime he charged the line I thought he was goign to eat shit. But much to my dismay, he never did.

And there goes Cabby, is houdl have known the minute that he opened his mouth about bowling that he was a straight up hustler. DAMN YOU CABBY!

And me going for distance, I'm going for speed! When our game was over we walked out to the parking lot preparing to leave, but it turned out
the festivites were nto yet over! I'd forgotten, but TOny hd kept a soda in his pocket all day (I dunno' how he managed not to drink it... I knwo i would have) and after all the roller coasters and bowling and such he was goign to pen it. So he put on his rain coat.

And then he opened it

I only caught like right when the seal broke, but the can Was bulging out at the bottom from the pressure, it shot everywhere like a huge geyser, but i didn't catch it on film.So then unfortunatly it was time for us all to part ways. We were all pooped and it was late. We all had a great time and all agreed we shoudl definatly do it again. It was beyond a blast!

So we drove back to my house, Q and I talking about life and all kinds of Shit while Lorli slept int he back. Then we dropped her off and we headed back to my house where we abrubtly passed out for bed. Around 6 int he mornign Q's Boss called to see why he wasn't at work. He fed him some crappy story and we went back to bed. We woke up, goofed a little then Q headed off into the sunset. well it was around noon whatever.Now i feel like I've really gotten closer to some of my board freinds and now I kinda' miss them. Everyone was pretty much how I imagined them, 'cept Tony. I really had no clue how to imagine you buddy as I'd never really talked to you. But everythign turned out A-Ok TOny is one seriously cool guy for all you doubters.

Till next time!

Archdeco · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:21 am Post subject:

Holy shit lex. Are you the Joker by night?

(ubone SE KE · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:26 am Post subject:

I have at last made my triumphant return to Phoenix. I will face the wrath of my employer tomorrow, but today I feast on the sweet success that was BoardCon West. Pictures to follow, but for now, a brief rundown of events.

Saturday, around 3 or so, I left Phoenix for Colton, where Keiran lives. I got there 7ish (ZOMG TIME PARADOX, ER, CHANGE), met Keiran and his grandparents, and then we left for Rocketlex's place. We (eventually) found the USC campus Lex lives on, parked, walked around a bunch before finally getting ahold of him. We met him in front of some bigass tower monument thing with a sphere on top much like the Daily Planet building. We went and got Denny's at what shall henceforth be known as the Biggest Fucking Denny's Ever. The three of us ate, sat and chatted, and Starr called me so I passed the phone around. Keiran got a milkshake that, incidentally, brought all the boys to the yard. We walked back to the campus and stood around chatting about video games (as usual) and zombies. And which board girls we like best. I'm not naming names. Keiran and I bade Lexington a fond farewell, we went back to his house, and went to bed. Naked? Maybe...

Sunday rolled around. This day was friggin' packed of stuff, so I likely will forget a lot of it. Keiran and I pick up Lorli and head to Knott's and wait for Tony and Cabby. They arrive, we all go in. First thing, we hit a rollercoaster called The Boomerang, which takes you backwards up to a peak, lets you down, stops you at another peak, and sends you back where you came from BACKWARDS. This was my first-ever rollercoaster, and it was destined not to be my last. Next up was a '50s-themed rollercoaster called Xcelerator. It looked like a '57 Chevy and shot us forward to 80 mph in 2.3 seconds, spun us around a bunch, and then was over as quickly as it started. The Supreme Scream (name?) was next. This thing took us up really high and dropped us, bounced us up halfway, and dropped us again. Ho-hum, but it offered a nice view. I think we did a coaster called Montezooma's Revenge next. It was over quick, but it was fun to be spun upside-down in a loop a couple times. Then I think we did Jaguar, a coaster ride that didn't offer as much in the way of thrills, but it was fun because it was so long.

Then we stood in line at a coaster called the Silver Bullet (was that its name?). And stood and stood. Eventually, the ride was fun. It was pretty long and offered a good amount of twists and turns. Up next was the one we all decided was the most fun: the Ghostrider. This was a wooden coaster, which I made fun of earlier for probably not being as good as the others. I was sorely mistaken. It twisted and turned all over the place, and the rickety nature of the wood made it feel like we really might die. It was an instant win.

I'm not too clear on what came next. I think we did some water rides that I didn't go on. I don't like being wet, and I'm pretty afraid of water. We watched a wild west stunt show that was pretty funny, and then we got dinner at Auntie Pasta's. The place had horrible service, but it was all-you-can-eat for $6. Nigga stole my menu. The place served what seemed to be cafeteria pizza, but we choked it down and moved on.

At some point, we rode one of those Viking ships that swing back and forth, but since that part of the park was sponsored by Taco Bell or some Mexican shit like that, it had a Mexican flag on it. Next was something like the Teacups at Disneyland, but they were Mexican bowls with a comically oversized sombrero atop them. We all crammed into one, and it was superb. We hit the Xcelerator again (it was here that Starr called again and I passed the phone around again), then the Supreme Scream again, and then some crazy thing that had water so I didn't ride it. I'll let someone else describe it. While on it, Keiran decided he didn't want to lose his hat, so he hollered and then threw it at me. It was the most ridiculously perfect catch-and-throw I'd ever seen. If we had a quote thread for actions, it'd be in there.

We went to the arcade and watched Lorli and Keiran kick ass at DDR. I think I saw their shoes catch fire. We all played an oldschool six-player X-Men game... MUTANT POWER! was shouted any time Keiran's Colossus needed to kick some ass. We went to Ghostrider again and rode it one last time before the park closed.

We decided it was not time for BoardCon West to end, so we all went bowling. This place was awesome... it had bowling, karaoke, a bar, a restaurant, and an arcade. Probably more. We waited around to get a lane, and while waiting, we watched Spider-Man and played some game Tony brought on his DS. When we got our lane, we all discovered quickly that I suck ass at bowling. Everyone got a strike but me. Everyone got a spare but me. In the past, I had usually lucked into one or two strikes, but not this time. We played a game and a half before they kicked us out. Cabby dominated, AND he broke 100.

BoardCon West was coming to a close. It was probably 1 AM, so I guess that's a good thing. Tony opened the soda he took with him on all the rides, and sure enough, it sprayed all over the place. We said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. Tony took Cabby home, Keiran and I took Lorli home, and I spent the night at Keiran's again.

We got up today and thanks to my external hard drive, Keiran now has the Rough Night zombie show. I left Keiran's and drove home. And posted this. Hi!

Keiran: You haven't seen outgoing until you've seen Keiran. There are times he talks like he types, but it's still fun. Like Cabby said, he's a blast to be around. Thanks for letting me stay over. Pass that along to your grandparents, please, and tell your grandpa I think he's badass.

Rocketlex: Lex is almost exactly as I had imagined, except he didn't do the V for Victoly thing as much as I counted on, and he talked a lot more than I figured he would. He really knows how to anchor a conversation, too. Any time we strayed off-topic, he brought us right back. I wish you coulda come to the park with us, Lex. We saved you a seat at dinner.

Lorli-Chan: Kawaii! I gotta say, she was pretty quiet. She's one of those people who talks a lot when you give her a chance, but she's content to let everyone else do the talking. Because of her, I'm now finally convinced I should play Chrono Cross. And damn, she knows her way around a DDR machine. Stay sweet, Lorli. We're gonna have to all hit up ComiCon or something one of these days.

Cabbage: Cabby opened up a lot more this time around than he did in New York. Now I've seen him on both coasts! I'm still very confused how an Asian Pollack's family runs an Italian food restaurant, but okay. Dude killed us in bowling. Cabby, I'll see you in Toronto. We'll be vacation buddies!

Tony: T-bone! Tony is not at all how I figured he'd be. I wasn't sure how he'd be, since I don't see him post a lot. He's actually very normal, and he's pretty outgoing. Fun guy to be around. You need to post more, T.K., so more people can behold the awesomeness that is you!

And that's enough for now. I've got 283 posts to read.
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Rocketlex · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:

Archdeco · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:22 am Post subject:

We need to try that Xmen game here.

Rinn · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:26 am Post subject:

You do have a very big smile. That's not bad though. You could just easily The Joker.

Tony Knightcrawler · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:54 am Post subject:

I'll just start.

Well I was up watching anime and ST: TNG until 2:00 am Sunday morning, so I feared the prospect of waking up 4 hours later. So I set all my alarms and somehow managed to leave only 10 minutes later than I'd have liked to, even with my worriesome mother pestering me. Picked up three sodas. DUN DUN DUNNNNNN! Traffic was great that early in the morning going toward LA on a weekend, except I did hit a rainstorm on the way over. Nature's been washing my car recently because I'm too lazy to. But I was certainly glad when I moved out from under the rain clouds because I needed to recover some time on my trip. UCLA was a bit far but I've driven to CSULA many times, which is I guess about 25 minutes closer to my house than UCLA. Unfortunately my delay was compounded when I had trouble driving to where Cabby was expecting me. It was kinda weird parking illegally on the side of the street waiting for someone I honestly couldn't recognize on first glance. At one point I saw an Asian guy walking toward me and waved to him, expecting it to be Cabby... well he waved back but didn't enter my car, so I guess he wasn't. Cabby did show up and we started driving about 20 minutes after I first got to UCLA. I was a bit worried about how late I'd be because I had expected to be 10 or 15 minutes late to begin with, then 10 minutes I was late leaving, then 20 minutes I lost picking up Cabby. :-P I consider myself to not usually be very talkative. It depends on the situation; sometimes I can be more boisterous than anyone else in a room and sometimes I won't say a thing. But Cabby was a lot less talkative than even me, so we had a pretty quiet car ride. I told that guy to bring his own music if he didn't wanna get nerded out, but he didn't listen and it'd come back to punish him later. ;-) We got called by the main group a few times, but Cabby is blind and deaf so I had to tell him when his cell was ringing. We talked a bit, I let him play Metroid Prime Pinball, a Metroid killed him. Almost parked in the staff parking lot. Finally parked and a both me and Cabby left our jackets in the car, expecting the clear day to be quite warm... we were going to be very, very wrong. I stuffed the last remaining soda in my pocket.

I pretty much knew what Keiran would look like because I've been reading the last few pages of the pictures thread and he's posted quite a bit on there, and Lorli is the girl, and Q is whoever is left. So we were able to recognize them right away at the entrance, which was a good thing. We all looked at each others' cool shirts, except mine wasn't that kind of cool. Cabby had a Sonic the Hedgehog shirt on, Keiran had an Aqua Teen Hunger Force shirt, Q had a Firebird shirt, and I identified Lorli's shirt by looking at the 2% of the picture that was showing under her jacket. I'm just that awesome. Lorli saved our wallets by slashing prices in half with her Sabre of Coupons. YOU'RE KILLING MY, LARRY! We entered and prepared for awesome. I looked at my stuffed pocket and got an idea...

Lorli got a map and Keiran wanted to go on the Boomerang, which was like on the completely opposite end of the park. Good thing he did, though, because lines back here would be a lot longer later. On the way there I remember we talked about someone's Optimus Prime costume. I think it was Q's. After Boomerang was the Xcellerator and that was really cool. The feeling of that acceleration was just the best thing ever and reinspired my dreams of being a human cannonball. I think it was about at this time that me and Cabby realized that... it was cold. It was cold and we were wearing T-shirts. California's got weird weather, you see. It was summer last week. Then we hit the Xtreme Scream. "This will be awesome, look how high it is!" I thought. Then I thought "The gravity on Earth accelerates at 9.8 m/(s^2), much slower than the last ride." Whilst the Xcellerator had a bunch of badass cars in front of the ride, Xtreme Scream had a minivan in front. For some reason this ride really psyched out 2 of us, though. Won't mention who. :-P

We saw a couple cool rides we didn't want to or couldn't go on then. One of them had an interesting name we thought our Chavez-loving friend would like. After taking a few pictures, we hit more roller coasters.

We went on Jaguar first, don't listen to Q. Excited by the last few rides, we talked a bit about how cool various theme park design jobs would be. Then we rode on Jaguar and it was slow and not all that exciting. Keiran tried to grab an acorn as we passed by and missed, so I tried to beat his challenge by grabbing something but also missed. We both fail at life. On the way out, I see a berry vine. Hey, this is Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's makes all kinds of jelly, I bet this is edible. I grab a branch and challenge everyone. Whoever doesn't eat a berry has to open the can of soda in my pocket at the end of the day. Then I realize how stupid that is and Q eats one anyway. As I was to discover a minute or so later, it was pretty tastless, but the texture was dreadful. It was like chewing a paper mechet ball made by a retarded child who didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom. I gagged on a berry as if I was a girl gagging on nut. Then we went on Montezooma's Revenge, which wasn't much better. Really fast excelleration, but over in a few seconds.

Yeah, we did Silver Bullet and got really bored in line. Really long line. In line I found out that Cabby's mom would probably bang me due to me apparently looking like someone she apparently has a crush on. But the ride was awesome. It also solved the question me and Q (I think) had about why 18 cameras were pointed at the ground inside a fence. We did Ghostrider. I tried to convince Q wooden rollercoasters were legitimate, but he didn't believe me... until he went on it. :-P It's fun like a 2D game is fun. I think we did debated eating at this point and decided to hold off a little while until we were really hungry, but made a note of THE REALLY AWESOME AWESOMENESS THAT IS AUNTIE PASTAS i almost skullfucked a moose. I think we did bumper cars, then Bigfoot Rapids (Keiran got wettest), then we screwed around inside a store and got pictures for Dunk and others, then we saw the cowboy show. Something like that. We were all really run down by the end of the cowboy show, the perfect time to eat. And what finer dining can there be than Chef Boyardi spaghetti and Kids' Cuisine pizza. To be honest, the salad was the best of it, and Q is a non-salad eating wimp. Pitty him for having nothing good to eat for lunch. Oh, and Keiran squirted on Cabby, then Cabby squirted on Lorli... pepperincini. And I shot a straw wrapper at Keiran. The water was from Bigfoot Rapids. The chief ate eagle tendons. Regardless of the quality of the food, we stuffed ourselves. We left and found some easy things to do. Q got some not-quite-MILF's number thanks to a conversation we were having about fishing for coins in the ride's decorations that she butted herself into. We saw Sam in the ride. Cubone opted out of this one again. :-P Then we took the picture of the pedobear and went on the merry-go-round, and I mounted a pig. We talked about how jealous Tinister would be. Sometime around here, Cubone stroked a dinosaur's johnson.

Then the teacups... er tortilla soup bowls. The ride operator was talking to the customers when we got there, saying something like "Why don't you come chill by me?" or something weird like that, so I had a feeling that if ANYONE would let 5 adults onto a ride intended for 1 adult and 2 children, she would. With the combined strength of us 4 guys working together and our weight, we got that thing spinning dangerously fast and we loved every moment of it. I couldn't stop laughing. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE i almost skullfucked a moose YAY! It was so fucking awesome. To give you an idea... when the ride came to a stop, you could hear the breaks really grinding hard under our bowl, and only our bowl. I'm sure we broke the warranty on that thing. And yeah, it did feel like the damned bowl was gonna break off and tumble onto the ground, killing at least one of us. Then there was the Mexican Viking Ship. After that we hit a bunch of rides a second time again and this other ride... uh. I guess I'll have to explain it. It basically... well imagine... damn. It's hard to explain. Well it was fun, and there was a chance that we'd get a little wet on the ride and it was night time at this point, so Q decided not to go. Basically the ride throws you all the fuck around by rotating you along one axis in two ways above a lot of water that sometimes spurts up. I kept Cabby's and my stuff in my zip-up jacket pockets since the attendant lied to us about the cubbies. Well Keiran kept his hat with him and he realized he'd lose it during the ride unless he did something, so from 50 feet in the air, while his body was in a seated position parallel to the ground and bound by a very tight restraint, and with many ways to miss and throw his hat in the water, he somehow managed to throw his hat beautifully at Q, who caught it beautifully. It was quite a sight.

We then hit the arcade. Keiran and Lorli really kicked ass at that game. I don't know why, but they both switched around between the two positions and whoever was on the right pad was always kicking ass and whoever was on the left was barely not losing. Maybe the pad was broken, maybe the two of them have some kind of system... I dunno. We did play the 6-player X-men, and of course I was Knightcrawler, and of course I got the highest score out of us all. ;-) We all got the highest scores for our players, but the scores are probably reset every day. Then we went on the Ghostrider one last time. While in line, they had technical problems and told us all in line that they didn't know when or if it'd be back up that night. A bunch of people left; just enough so we'd get to ride when they did finally fix it like 8 minutes before closing.

We walked to our cars and along the way took a few photos, including the one with the Imperial logo. We didn't want to say goodnight yet, so we did manage to find a bowling alley and I managed to get gas, no matter how much the attendant didn't want me to. Cabby bought me a soda. Super-big props to Keiran for actually being able to almost flawlessly follow directions in a city alien to him at night. Saw the Q-Star Video on the way there. Me and Cabby saw it and Cabby prepared to call the car in front of us in case they didn't catch it, but we saw them pulling out their cameras so awesomeness ensued. The bowling alley was kick-ass. Lorli was too tired to play Advance Wars DS at this point, so us four guys ended up playing. None of them had ever played an Advance Wars game before so we didn't finish the game. I got a cheeseburger in the coffee shop that was pretty good for a bowling alley. Cabby got a sandwich or something with fries and let us have some. Keiran got four pieces of cheesed-up bread.

Bowling was a total blast. I got a spare on my first turn... well let's just call it a delayed strike. :-P Made me look all bad-ass knocking 10 pins down at once on the first turn, but after that I got a bunch of zeroes until I started getting good again. I got a strike on the last turn which let me go again. Lorli was pwning us all at the beginning of the game, the Cabby layed it down hard. I just tried desperately to at least beat Q. ;-) A little more than halfway through the second game, our time ran out and we got ready to leave. I pulled the soda out of my pocket and got my rain jacket from the car. The can seemed to be bulging a little on its sides for hours at this point and, at the request of Keiran I think, I shook it up more until it didn't even sound like liquid in the can, kicked it a little, and gave it a little toss at the ground. That last one made the bottom of the can bulge outward. I waited until Keiran was ready and gave it a go. Actually Keiran I like that photo. It's the very start of the event but it does look dynamic and cool. Smile

The can sprayed everywhere, as was evidenced on the ground after the event. Lots of fun. We took one last photo, shook hands, and said goodnight. I drove Cabby home, bumping my Star Wars tunes this time. We didn't take the same path home because of the damned confusing signs but we made it anyway. Actually I think it was probably a bit faster. I managed to make it home, and was totally exhausted when I got home at about 1:30 am.

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Anyway there you have it. Sorry to be a bit drawn-out and boring, but I wanted to make sure I'd have an extensive record to jog my memory later. There's more pictures than those that are already posted. The whole experience was totally awesome. It was nice to finally be able to better associate faces, voices, and more of the personalities with the names and faces I already knew on this board.

Cabby - A quiet guy. But he's also a very good and cool guy. And it'd take a golem to remove his glasses apparently... either that or the posibility of a ride being cancelled.

Lorli - A sweet, cute, quiet girl. Laughing at you when you threw your bowling ball at us was a guilty pleasure that karma took revenge for.

Keiran - I think he took his credit card off someone he killed because the picture looked nothing like him. Props to this guy for keeping conversations flowing the whole day.

Cubone - Also all sorts of awesome for keeping the conversation flowing. And he's bald like Picard. Soon we'll be able to call you Cubonehead.

(ubone SE KE · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:07 am Post subject:

Balding! Balding!

Oh yeah, and Lorli still has that pic I bought of all of us on Ghostrider. Whoops.
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Tony Knightcrawler · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:30 am Post subject:

Treecko · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:17 am Post subject:

Sounds like fun...Good thing I didn't come. I would have fucked up the teapot experience.

Jim · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

WTF, no Zebra?
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Archdeco · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject:

my exact words. To photoshop!

(ubone SE KE · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

HA!

Most of the good animals were taken. Mine and Cabby's didn't even go up and down.
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I'm glad you went Alex. Maybe you'll make it to Toronto this summer.

LorliChan · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:52 am Post subject:

Everyone pretty much reported it all, so I don't think I need to tell about the events again. There are a few things I want to mention, though...

- We saw about 15 NickNacks there.
- At at least one point, all five of us thought we were going to die on Ghostrider, the wooden roller coaster.
- We all tore it up on the bumper cars. At some points, three of us would surround a helpless child and ram the heck out of him, and we also disregarded all rules. Couter-clockwise direction? No head-on collisions? HAH.
- The longest line we were in was probably only 20 minutes. There were almost no lines or crowds. Awesome!
- Cabby also threw his bowling ball backwards, so it wasn't just me! (sob)
- (Oh, and the left DDR pad was very broken and unresponsive, that's why we switched once, and that's why the left side got bad scores)

Cabbage: You were very sweet, and we were the shy, quiet ones together. You totally rule at bowling, too. You left us all in the dust.

Cubone: Pretty cool guy, and always kept the conversations going. I also appreciated the Khakain/internet humor often brought up. (O rly?)

Keiran: Well...I already knew you, so I don--MUTANT POWER!!

Tony: You were hilarious! I've found that you're a nice guy to be around. Your jokes and antics were much appreciated.

(I apologize if my post doesn't make much sense. I have a fever, so I'm pretty out of it.)

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Tony Knightcrawler · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:21 am Post subject:

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Treecko · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

...I JUST realized that RocketLex is really Alex because A looks like a rocket.

A=Rocket

...someone kick me.

Rocketlex · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

That was unintentional.
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Treecko · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

Oh. Then really cool coincidence then?

Rocketlex · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject:

I said before that my name was originally going to be Rocket Lex, like in Pokemon when you battle a Team Rocket agent and it says "Rocket <name> wants to battle!" My name is Alex, but I used Lex because I always thought it was a cool nickname. I later shortened Rocket Lex to Rocketlex, because I think I tried to join something which didn't allow spaces in your SN. It's been "Rocketlex" ever since, just because I've gotten used to it.
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It Doesn't Matter · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:

HOORAY

Treecko · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

And the A looks like the rocket from Asteroids!

(ubone SE KE · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

I was intentionally calling you "Rocketlex" when we were in public because it's a friggin' weird thing to say out loud, let alone address someone with.
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Rocketlex · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

I didn't even notice. I guess it seems natural to me.
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Reitz · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

I'll crash the next one now that I'm officially a dirty Californian come April.

Lith · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject:

Looks like you all had awesome fun happytimes. Hope I get to make it to the next one :3 we can go throw rocks at the indian.

Keiran · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

i almost skullfucked a moose, the cars were great. When i was driving the opposite way around the track I saw this kid goign out of his way to avoid everyone and drive safe, so i sidled up next to him for half a lap and made him not see me as a potential threat then WHAMMIE, I jerked a hard right and nailed him to the wall. Awesome.

Oh i forgot to fill otut hings for indivuiduals so here we go.

Q- Dude you get major bonus points for drivng out from Arizona. I think we got a long great and ourr humors meshed as well as I expected they would. I think you may actually talk more than I do >8O, but that's pretty cool. i coudl see us getting along as roomies or something... except you snore like a whore. -1 for that

Lex- Dude I had a great time hanging out with you and shooting the shit. You're a little bit socially akward and our brains work on differnt levels, but I expectedthat. But you really did suprise me by how much you opened up and how easily we just chilled. You go my man.

Lorli- Well I too already knew you, but it had been a long time since I'd spent anytime with you. It was fun and you've changed a little but you're still a great gal. And you win for nto being as wussy as Q was... SHE WENT ON THE WATER RIDES.

Tony- Dude you're awesome as well. I had a great time hanging with you and i completely enjoy your sense of random humor. Yout ake your time and think things through, but that's not bad. We only live like 15 minutes from each other we shoudl definatly chill sometime. Oh, and I think that you were definatly the most active gamer amungst us.

Cabby- My man I had a great time just hangign otu with you and just talkign about junk. I mean we had real conversations about stuff, and we had the jokes going. You're prolly the coolest other Polish person i know that I'm not related to, we shoudl definatly hang out again sometime.

All in all you were all great and I look forward to seeing you again

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(ubone SE KE · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

There were many kids with your haircut.

I may have been a wuss about the water rides, but at least I was a DRY wuss.
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Tony Knightcrawler · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:18 am Post subject:

HAH! Your Zelda avatar is pwn, Cubone! Anyway, when are we getting some more pics up? For page 2, maybe?

Treecko · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

Well someone has to bring us there.