So my 2nd time competing in individual events at a ballroom competition was much much better than my 1st time.
(Although it's called individual, it's coupled. So I guess "individual couple events" would make more sense?)
Lindsay and I got 2nd place out of like 10 or so couples in silver-level American Rumba, Chacha, and EC Swing. At the gold level, 3rd out of 3.
Our goal was to not get last, so making it out of semis for Silver was great. Though we were quite surprised when they didn't call us during 6th, 5th, and 4th. So we looked at each other and asked, "they're announcing our event, right?"
Considered we spent most of the time during the newcomer and bronze events practicing, I was pretty tired by the time we got to the formation stuff.
It's not good when you raise you arms for frame and suddenly feel lightheaded. Anyway, despite my performance during the formation routines not being my best, we still swept 1st, 2nd, 3rd, out of 5.
Funny how there was so much buzz around us doing the Star Wars medley. Ken said he heard somebody go, "I've been waiting all night for this!" just as we started.
Driving home, down 101S, I saw a car and thought, "that couldn't be...."
But it was! A Nissan Skyline GT-R! Not the GT-R that's actually being sold here, but the old school ones from Japan that wern't ever sold here.
It was surrounded by 3 riced out Toyota Matrixs, probably part of a racing team or something. But yeah, I drove up next to the GT-R and verified that indeed it's right hand drive. I dunno which one it was, but I think it might have been a R32. Didn't seem all that wide or round.
It had a California license plate starting with 4. Who knows where it lives. I had to take the 85S interchange.
You just know it's going to be shit when you realize a well known company and another well known company joined together to create a new brand which sounds like a cheap Chinese manufacturer. Why the hell does Apple ship Optiarc burners anyways?
You know, it's a bad sign when a well-respected-at-some-point company and another well-respected-at-some-point company take their business and start a company that sounds like a cheap Chinese knock-off brand. Presenting Optiarc. The joint venture of the optical drive divisions of Sony and NEC, Optiarc makes DVD burners that happen to have ended up in a Mac Pro at my desk at work.
I can't tell if it's the burner, or the media, but the last three sets of media I've tried to burn with have all been major fail. Like, I think I'm up to 1 successful burn for the last 15 attempts?
Anyhow, the Sony D150 or whatever, which happens to be a rebranded NEC, got closer to burning the same media but reading it back on other better drives hasn't been successful.
Time to pull a Pioneer 110 from an old G5.