I've been so busy these last few days and without energy which is why I haven't posted in quite a long time.

Everybody who cares has probably heard by now, but 2K has upgraded to DrumMania 9th mix. I was there when they upgraded, so I had "influence" on the settings. The default volumes are 20, but the guy didn't want it so loud, so he set it to 18/18. I got him to change that to 19/20 where 19 is the background music volume and 20 is the sound effect volume.

You get 3 songs, and bonus track counts as 1 song. But please don't play 3 bonus tracks in a row. That's just rude. Play at most 1 bonus track. You still get 2 normal stages. That's a pretty good deal.

Job is going okay. I'm sort of writing a COBOL compiler, and it's a real pain, because nobody follows the ANSI COBOL 85 standard. I mean ANSI published a document with rules about what is and what isn't legal syntax in a COBOL program, but actual vendors (like IBM or RM or whatever) made compilers that accept programs that aren't ANSI COBOL 85 compliant. And I have to be able to interpret all of them. Sucks.

Meiko's in Japan, and before she left I gave her some money to buy PS2 games for me. Here's the games she got, along with their Lik-Sang price in USD. Some of the prices are in a range. That means Lik-Sang doesn't carry that game, so I've put the cheapest and highest price game in the same series (for example Lik-Sang doesn't carry IIDX 7th Mix, but the cheapest IIDX game is $64.90 and the most expensive IIDX game is $69.90, so price I estimate for IIDX 7th mix is $64.90~$69.90)

She paid $256.89 USD for the games, or about $317.53 Canadian at time of writing. I love buying video games in Japan because the clerks always give you mass discounts. Combine that with Meiko being a savvy bargainer and you are teh winnar.

Hence the 祭うのガームの日本。ウート！！！ in my name which literally translates to "Festival of games of Japan. W00t!"