Dork-A-Thon Days two and three

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I had wanted to post this last night, but I ended up talking to kolys and dawnstar instead. and then ecwoodburn called and we talked for a few minutes before the sleepy monsters claimed the rest of my night.

So, the next couple days of the Dork-A-Thon


Saturday
Saturday I woke up early (like 8:00 or so), went online and was greeted with a comment from trillain to talk to her. We chatted for a few mintues. I reminded her to grab the air mattress (more fool me, apparently!) and a couple of other things. Then I went back upstairs and waited for people to get up whilst amusing myself with Saturday Morning TV which kept getting worse and worse until I was on the game show channel for a few minutes and then just turned it off.
Eventually, trillain got here and was met with hugs and greetings from myself, kholnuu and ecwoodburn. We came inside and, since no one else had come to La Casa de LITE, ended up playing a couple of games of Uno.. one regular, one "stackable" (which is, indeed, just evil.)
Eventually, the people from the hotel all find their way over to my house and the LAN networking began. This got.. messy, from what I can tell. Long story short, due to a sudden influx of tiredness and the difficulty of setting up the LAN, I ended up NOT getting much music from the Lan. I got two CDs.. one from trillain and an audio CD from kareila (Speaking of, can you send me the playlist kareila? My copy of the CD doesn't seem to have come out very well at all. Lots of background crackling. )
At the same time, I had finally handed out the bags of eville containing.. bubbles, toy airplanes, little sponge animals that appear when you put the "pellets' in warm water, candy, modeling clay and little confetti poppers (blow them up and explode them and confetti flies out all over.). The airplanes were opened first and various airplanes started flying around the first floor.
Then back to Musix X-changing.
Unfortunately, like I said, I ended up being overwhelmed by a sudden need to close my eyes, which is what I did for 15 minutes or half an hour before slowly making my way upstairs to be social, which was good, if only to be amused by dawnstar's reactions to some of what I have on my FTP site :)
Lasertron. We ended up having a 5:30 game (had to be there at 5:00). Originally, Josh was going to come, then not, then yes. He ended up coming to Lasetron. So the 12 of us had signed up and were joined by some other random couple. So the Dorks dominated the game. I asked if I could choose the teams, which ended up working pretty well.
Red Team was kolys, dawnstar, kareila, alierak, trillian, Josh and the guy in the couple
Green Team (aka THE VICTORS) was lite, ecwoodburn, xb95, janinedog, coderlemming, kholnuu and the girl.
They had a new mode.. rapid fire. Rapid fire is my new bestest friend.
Apparently, you get, for thirty seconds, some insane amount of shots going at five times the original speed. Absofreakinlutely brilliant for Base Runs (which, I admit, was dominating my game plan). The other mode was energizer. coderlemming caught on pretty quickly how to combine energizer mode and base runs.
Basically, it was just, for me, an awe-inspiring game.. all my scores were over 10,000. My last score was over 50,000 (!!!) and I was the team high score player three of the four games. :) The best part, though, was how much everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. If it seemed like Midnight Bowling was a bit of a disappointment, Lasertron made up for it!
We went home and grilled hot dogs and hamburgers.. or started to when we, apparently, ran out of gas. Luckily the hot dogs were pre-cooked, I guess. Memo to myself, if I ever did another Dork-A-Thon, buy more actual food (like potato salad and macaroni salad) and less snackage.
After dinner, we ended up playing some games of Dance Dance Revolution, both Max and Konamix, generally in versus mode. Unfortunately, kareila left her pad in her hot car for two days so it looks pretty bad, but it still works. She ended up leaving it with me as she wanted a new pad anyways, so I now have two pads if I ever want to play vs. mode in the near future.
After DDRing we played an... amusing little game xb95 and janinedog brought called "Curses". This game just got hilarious. It goes like this. There are two phases to each turn.. first you have to pick up something you, yourself, have to do (example, "You are a late night talk show host. Introduce your guests onto the show.") then you pick a Curse and put it on someone else. Curses range from "You are Scooby Talk. Talk like him now. (Rooby Robby Roo!)" to "Your hands are now one foot long. Keep your hands next to yoru chest" to "If someone touches you, act like you've been electrocuted" to 'When someone rings the bell, cry out your everlasting love to them.' Basically, it's a silly game that got even sillier as we kept playing :)
Quotes include, of course, many quotes regarding Planks (Because everybody wants a Plank to wind a piece of string around) to "I love you, LITE. But now I love Kholnuu. I don't know what to do about this.' to "I pity the foo that doesn't know that you're always after me lucky charms, that sounds delicious."
I love this game. I'll have to go get my own version. Perhaps bring it up to Rochester one day for Brain activity. :)
After two games of Curses, dawnstar and kolys ended up going home and Josh ended up coming home from "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and needed to sleep.
So outside we go.. the idea was to say goodbyes, but except for ecwoodburn none of us were that tired yet, so we headed off to Dennys where kareila brought out her cheap ass games and we played "Give Me The Brain" over food.
By the end of the game, at approximately 1:00, I was pooped and we all shuffled to our respective beds, except for trillain who was too tired to inflate her bed so slept on a blanket on my floor *cringe*

Sunday
Sunday, everyone at my house ended up waking up a little earlier, so ended up getting two games of Fluxx in and had intended to watch "Wizards of Space and Time", except that the Boston gang got here about 10:00. We ended up getting involved in another long (but just as funny) game of Curses. And began a game of Chez Geek, except that we had to leave after a round to get everybody to South Campus to have lunch with tallin and phinnia by 1:00. At this point, ecwoodburn and I headed off to the bank, to get food and home to strip sheets and throw them in the washer, put Josh's bed together and other assorted cleanings. In the middle of the cleanings, I found an unmarked CD in the CD changer and we didn't know what it was, so I went to put it on my home computer.. except my computer didn't realize it had no CD drives *boggle*. So we ended up spending time trying to fix that.
About 2:45, kareila calls and we put the computer problem aside to pick them up at South Campus and head back home to finish up Chez Geek. Chez Geek took an extremely long time and didn't finish until about 5:30, which is when kareila, alierak and coderlemming went home.
I ordered dinner (Pizza) and we sat back and played some games of You Don't Know Jack while xb95 logged into lj_abuse and did his thing. After a while, I was struck with a wave of melancholy which has mostly but not wholly passed now. After YDKJ, we sort of hung around until we had to get Derek to the bus terminal. I downloaded my pictures onto my computer (I shall share them once I've sorted through them) and played with the confetti things from the Bags of Eville
We left at 8:00 to get to the Bus Station. Getting him there was not a problem and we stayed until we saw him board the bus, then we headed home.
Unfortunately, heading home became the problem as we got directions from a lady behind the information desk to go down Ellicott until you take a right on Elm and then a left onto the 33. It didn't work like that. We went down ellicott.. and down ellicott.. and down some more until the street ended and we were in a bad part of town. So I asked xb95 to call my mom and ask for directions. She told us to turn around and take West Tupper to the 33. Which we were headed towards, but we were on Jefferson and ended up picking another exit up instead. Long story short, we got home aby 9:20.
xb95 and scottydoggie had to go to Walmart before heading out and since Walmart is RIGHT NEXT to the hotel, I took them there and pointed the hotel out.
And then I went home, very sad, very lonely, the big house seeming (still seems, to a point) extremely empty.
As I ended up trying to finish up a few tidbits of cleanup, I found, besides the air bag that trillain had accidentally left with me, a still wet off-white towel. ecwoodburn? Did you lose your hair towel in my house? :) If so, I'm sure I can get it back to you soon. :)
I hopped online for a few minutes to, if nothing else, write this post, but ended up spending half an hour talking to dawnstar and kolys. Then suddenly ecwoodburn's dad called to see if she was around because she needed to call. I mentioned this to dawnstar who called ecwoodburn who called home quickly and then called me.
It wasn't much of a phone all as, by that time, the exhaustion from the last few days set in, but it ended up with me finding out that there was a small surprise for me under my pillow (that I'd have found as I finished putting blankets on my bed anyways).
It was an "I Love You" card from ecwoodburn and a "Happy one Months Anniversary Card."
You're nuts, Kristen. This isn't silly. This is romantic. You helped cheer me up. :)
I love you too. Happy One Month Anniversary. :D


And that, my friends, is the end of the Dork-A-Thon.

In true engineering style, I shall finish this with a few conclusions and recommendations
1) In the future, while this was a great deal of fun, try and find another venue for this gettogether. The Dork-a-Thon was hard on my family, on my cats and, yes, on me too. Very stressful and alot of work to make things work out.
2) In the future, buy more actual food and less snackage (we still have an entire bag of chips, wasted most of the veggies and never touched the nut mix.
3) Lasertron good. Lasertron is your (my) friend.
4) I love ecwoodburn.. alot.
5) Plank.
6) There is no... conclusion six.
7) Semprini.

And with that, I might as well post.

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*is now very very intrigued*

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Someone will have to buy it and bring it to Rochester for the Brain to play it one day :)