Blood Moon Eclipse Last Night

The blood moon eclipse last night was the last total lunar eclipse til 2025. Here was my view from home:

Crystal Qualified, i.e., Just Passed My First ITG 23!

Crystal'd (i.e., passed my first 23) and Classic'd and best set ever'd tonight. 🥳 Stamina Nation Megamix 2 (epiiiic mix + first 23!) felt easier than ECS Classics (Side B-A). 🤷‍♀️

VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1645873169

1st Place in ECS 10.5 Lower with Urza, DDR Cab from John, etc

I was waiting til things in my life calmed down a bit to make this post, but it seems now's actually as good a time as any, so...

Finally back in Vegas after the better part of two months abroad, and though the stack of mail I had waiting here for me was more than a little daunting, the rewards for getting through it and coming home to the other treasures awaiting me here were pretty outstanding. 🤩 My doggies and dedi always top that list, of course, but some pretty freakin 💞 new additions:

-1st place ECS 10.5 Lower team tournament trophy for my team with Urza this last spring + ECS 10.5 shirt. David Sjöstrand: doing 26s now, I'm not totally convinced that you even need me these days 😆, but I'm so glad that you want and never stop choosing me to beast by your side, even if it's from thousands of miles away atm. Besides, we really do make such a great team. 🫂Thank you so much to Ian + crew for our trophies and shirts! 🥲🙏

-DDR cab, pad (he has the other one), and even a Minimaid my friend John Bove just GAVE us FOR FREE. 😳 John: I owe you more than a few fun drinks, nights out (don't say no!), and maybe camping trips for this one. 😛❤ Btw, I've already moved the pad inside, between our dedi and Extreme, so I can start modding and prettying it up soon. 😁 Also, thank you so much to both you and Daniel Gonzales for moving it into the garage for us while Sean and I were overseas!

-SRPG and Stamina Nation tanks and stickers I'd ordered 🥳

The Strongman Classic 7/9/22

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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Goodbye, Beatmania

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? 👀

 

Mustang #2

I've been after a second Mustang for the past week or two now, since my first one's not currently running, and Sean and I realized it'd be much more convenient to have a second vehicle working (besides our Saturn Vue) as both a backup and so we can each go out without worrying about stranding the other. Welp, we got her today! 🐎 We found her through Facebook Marketplace, being sold for $2.2k from a private seller across town, but Sean offered $1.8k, and the seller was happy with that.

This one's just a 2003 V6 coupe with some scratches and minor flaws as well as nearly 200k miles and a broken AC, but she's gorgeous, she runs great, so clean, black leather interior, and no way she wasn't coming home with us for $1,800. Besides, look how sweet she is, keeping my old GT convertible company in the driveway. 😍 

Near-New, PIU Prex Machine: $1k?!

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!