The Strongman Classic — July 9th, 2022
It was such an honor getting to chat and share such a special occasion with these beasts. 💪I'll be waiting impatiently til next time. 😄
Some pics on Facebook here:
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Sold for $1,450 (including storage fee to hold it for awhile) to someone in Seattle with his own, personal, rhythm-game warehouse who had his friend from Game Nest come to pick it up today, we said goodbye to Beatmania after over 11 years. 👋 Time to find a Stepping Stage machine to take it's place? 👀
Pump day, woo woo! ↙️↖️⏹↗️↘️ Sean and I just rented a 10' U-Haul for ~$63 total, including the gas we spent driving it, today and picked up a near-pristine PIU Prex machine, complete with pops and other features you just don't come across often at all, in North Las Vegas! Sean had found the cab listed for sale on OfferUp for >$4k, I believe it was, last week and talked the sellers down to $1k. Apparently, it'd been their son's machine, but he was grown up and living in Texas now, and they were clearing out to move out that way as well. It turns out they'd bought the cab directly from Andamiro back in the day and had been its only owners. In fact, the coin counter was only at 37, and the marquee and parts of the trim still had the film covering on from the factory! Wow. Anyway, we really didn't *need* a second PIU cab, but no one else was buying it, and for that price, we couldn't pass! Besides, there's probably no better arm day than one that ends with a new dance machine. 😁💪
And damn, it's been a whirlwind of a past week (yet again)! I feel like it's gone too fast to even quite remember *where* it's gone, but between the NKOTB concert, starting therapy (via zoom, second session was this morning), getting a COVID-19 booster, having a yard sale (several hundred $ profit 🤷♀️🥳 + donated a fuckton of the scraps), and whatever else we've done, it's been wild. Can't complain!
All-you-can-eat sushi at Super Sushi, Fremont Street, Oddfellows, Techno Taco Tuesday at Lucky Day, dance games at my place, and more a couple of nights ago featuring Sean and the buds Erick Zavaleta, Zack Maitland, Remy Keller, Chris Valentin, and Reggie Lyles!
Erick was in town and spent the today hanging with me at my place where we chatted and played a little DDR and ITG til going for all-you-can-eat sushi and sake across town at 8pm with Zack, Remy, and Chris. Chris and Remy had to go home from there, but Erick and I regrouped with Zack downtown. The three of us enjoyed our fair share of festive beverages between Lucky Day bar on Fremont and Oddfellows around the corner before being joined by Reggie and Sean at Lucky Day. (Sean had been playing PIU at home prior.) It was 2am by the time Sean, Erick, and I headed out together to swing by Erick's friend/client's apartment, where Erick was staying. We hung out there for nearly two more hours, and then Sean and I said goodnight and went home to eat pretty much everything. 😆 Fun night. I'm doing my best to make nights out with friendly faces a more regular thing.
Me to Sean while booking us tickets to this at 1am this morning (as well as pretty much every time I try to get him to do anything with me): "Come on. It'll be funny!"
Artists who performed (in addition to those who just received awards or were in attendance): Dolly Parton & Kelsea Ballerini, Brittney Spencer, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Chris Young, Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Jordan Davis, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Mitchell Tenpenny, Walker Hayes, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, Parmalee and Blanco Brown featuring Brooke Eden, Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music, BRELAND, co-hosts Gabby Barrett and Jimmie Allen, Kelly Clarkson, Lady A and newly announced New Artist winners, Parker McCollum (New Male Artist of the Year) and Lainey Wilson (New Female Artist of the Year)
Bonus stuff:
-Sean claims not to like country, but I'd say we got value with our ~$35 per person tickets regardless!
-Chris Young totally waved at me, and we got pretty close to Thomas Rhett and a few other big names. 😅
-Raiders = 😒, but I'm not petty enough to shortchange myself and miss out. 😝
-Getting paid $1 for two fountain drinks (yes, they literally opened the register and handed us $1 to take them) and paying $12 for four Little Caesars pizzas wasn't a bad way to wrap up the outing.
-Dance game time at home now ⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️😁
