On 8/24, for our fourth night of the season, we played bank Urania, the “stars” bank (named for the Muse of Astronomy; this was an easy one). First, a sob story. I had expected by now that I would be settled in to my new computer, all my data migrated so it looked like home, back into the normal swing of things again after my traumatic computer theft incident. Instead, my new computer, while shiny and pretty and sleek, has turned into a new source of frustration and disappointment. For some reason my data refuses to migrate, even though I did the responsible thing and ran a backup almost every day and in two different places. I went to the Apple Store and spent three hours watching them frantically Google stuff I had already tried, culminating in their declaration that my backup just didn’t contain key user data such as my mail messages for unknown reasons. I didn’t believe this (correctly) and dug around at home and found where those things are stored in a Time Machine backup, but unfortunately I cannot figure out how to get them copied back into Apple Mail so I can read them. Anyway, that’s my latest excuse. I do have pictures this time, at least.
Well actually… pictures are pretty much all I have, since I didn’t take notes as I should, at least not where I can find them. Again, my computer situation has lots of ripple effects, since I normally keep my league notes in my Stickies.
I started out with a bang, having a 15 million or something Junk Yard score, which amazingly didn’t even win my group. I think everyone in the group was over 10 million. I remember when Junk Yard was the shortest playing game in the joint, but now that people aren’t scared of slam tilting it, I guess this is what happens. The rest of the night I did not play so well. At least, not until the end of the night. There was a credit on AC/DC (the Smackdown game) and I hadn’t played yet. I looked around and asked and no one wanted it, so I started up a game and ended up with something well over 100 million, which put me into A division and pushed Joseph out. I guess I’m good at AC/DC now? Huh. It wasn’t even a one off, because in the actual Smackdown fray, I did another 100+ million score that I thought was going to land me my first ever Smackdown A division medal. Danny dashed those hopes with a big third ball rally. Meanwhile in B division…
Yep, that’s Jason in lucha libre attire, which to the surprise of spectators (mostly me), he donned prior to his Smackdown Undercard game. If I remember correctly he was victorious, though I’m sure someone will come along and correct me if that’s not so. I don’t have the records on me as I’m at school scrambling this together before driving home. A previous Jason stunt involved showing up to league after a long absence wearing a hockey mask, which spooked Derik but correctly clued me in that Jason had returned. I wonder what other masks Jason will show up in? It can’t be a chicken mask, because that one is my trademark.
Tonight we are playing bank Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, which in our interpretation means “the comic horror games.” That’s The Addams Family, Ghostbusters, Monster Bash, Scared Stiff, and the league “favorite,” The Munsters. This is going to be our fifth meeting, so keep in mind that it’s the last chance for new joiners to get in the four league nights needed to qualify for finals. See you soon!