St. Patty's Party 2022

St. Patty's party 2022! THANK YOU² to Aaron Rowe, Kory Harrold, Jewel Alexa Rodriguez, Nik, baby Ruby, Jennifer Hertberg, Dalissa Avila, Natalie Keller, Remy Keller, Zack Maitland, Raphael Rodil, and of course Sean and Danny (kick my ass next time if I missed anyone) for gracing us with their presence for the 🔥 occasion. See the full, 8+ hour vid on our Twitch channel now (search: TeamBBC ) or on YouTube soon! 

57th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards

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 ⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️😁

Travel Dance Pad THAT FITS IN A CARRY-ON BAG

Wanting to combine our hobbies of dance gaming and traveling, Sean and I decided to put together a 4-panel travel pad for on-the-go dance gaming. The only problem was that all the travel pads we'd seen to date were still too big to fit into carry-on bags and therefore impractical for our purposes of cheap travel and ultra mobility. The solution was simple enough though: take the existing plans for a travel pad, make it, and pretty much just cut it into two stackable halves. Following our dance game bud Sujeet's guide, utilizing free 3D printing services at the library (yep, some libraries off free 3D printing. 😮 Pretty cool!), and combining Sean's and my ingenuity, we made it happen! At the time of this writing, we've been on four domestic and transatlantic flights with it. While, full transparency, it's only juuuust within the carry-on size allowance of most US carriers and barely fits in overhead bins (which could be solved by making the pad just a tad smaller), we've had no problems thus far. Anyway, without further ado, huge credit to Sujeet whose guide we followed for most of this and Sean for much of the rest as well as for working on this with me and video editing and uploading, and go check out the video!:

Building a USB Mini Portable Dance Pad with FSR and Arduino (For Travel!)

My First ITG 22: Passed! 11/19/21

I passed my first 22 on 11/19/21! The chart: Speed Disco Vol. 1-5 (Expert) — 1104 unbroken measures of 210 bpm stream for 21 minutes.

I got another 21 the day prior too: eat it up, boi! FP 218

Vids:

[In The Groove] JOKR - FIRST 22 PASS - Speed Disco Vol. 1-5 (Expert) [22] 83.20%
22: https://youtu.be/pRYOPR-X53c

[In The Groove] JOKR - eat it up, boi! FP 218 [21] 84.51%
https://youtu.be/olHTttGI-dw

Dance Dance Revolution Boardwalk Arcade Toys

These tiny arcade machine toys have been popping up everywhere lately. I've come across them while shopping online as early as several months ago and started seeing quite a few friends post about getting their hands on them as of a week or so ago. Target now has them for sale for $20 each. Though none of the Vegas stores have them stocked at the moment, and it seems they're either out of stock or not (yet?) sold at many Target locations nationwide, they can be ordered online through the Target website, which offers free shipping on orders over $35: Tiny Arcade - Dance Dance Revolution at Target

They're so adorable and I love them forever. 😭 I need like 100 of them. Sean surprised me the other day with three of them he'd ordered from Target, so I just need to get my hands on like 97 more for life to be complete. Haha

Quick vid we made for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/aYYiHBAK9JY

ITG: I Passed Last Trip and Supermanmanman...!

I did the stamina player rite-of-passage thing and passed Last Trip [21] yesterday. Late to the party, maybe, but gotta celebrate it nonetheless! I definitely wasn't expecting to get through it first try (pretty sure I've never attempted it before), two days after doing Supermanmanman...[20] (1 hour of unbroken 175bpm stream), and with how stiff I was feeling from all the running the day prior and recently, but 🥳. Vids of it and other semi-recent ITG stuff:

[In The Groove] JOKR - Last Trip [21] (First Try Pass!) 82.74%

https://youtu.be/RcUGYjvVl5I

[In The Groove] JOKR - 1 Hour 175bpm stream - Supermanmanman...[20] 78.14%

https://youtu.be/uLjyEDSYTdo

[In The Groove] JOKR - We Hate Lama [20] 81.12%

https://youtu.be/MTXxpnaBZlE

[In The Groove] JOKR - Enjoy The Flight (Side B) FB 194 [19] 91.64%

https://youtu.be/bYibt30_9cs

[In The Groove] JOKR - Ride the Centaurus FB 218 [21] 78.39%

https://youtu.be/VL999RQYiWI

Just tons of my ITG vids in a playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJjrQtZSSXyI8ZXeDb25Yq-0RL6xw_wS

We Made Grandma's "Egg Rolls"

My culinary skills still leave quite a bit to be desired, but Sean and I followed the instructions my grandma left behind when she passed and made egg rolls (technically lumpia, I think, but she always called them egg rolls) for the first time without her. 😢 They probably don't look like much, but they're delicious and will always remind me of her. Thank you so much to my cousin Bina for sharing the recipe. ☺ I really am pretty useless in the kitchen on my own, so it meant a lot. ❤