Tourney Training, a new toy, etc.

Yesterday I went to Mikado. Monday is "2 credits for 50 yen" day there, so I figured there would be a bunch of ppl. I was wrong. There was only some scrub there, so I picked A-Maki, Raiden, Gief-2 on him and got a 6 game win streak. He left and the K-Yamazaki player came on. He's probably the best in Tokyo at not being thrown. Throwing is a big part of my game with Bison (as you can see in my match with Tokido at the Sega 3on3), so it was good practice. The only thing is, at Mikado, when I win, people leave. So I did what was necessary - every time I was about to win, I let go of the controls and let him beat me. I don't think he liked that much. He started taunting me, but hey... there's a tournament on Sunday in Shizuoka that I'm preparing for. I also practiced using Bison without meter, so I would burn it before or at the beginning of the last round, for no apparent reason (at least to him). We'll see if my training pays off. After 300 yen I left and went to Shibuya where there were a good number of people on all three machines. I got a lot of A-Maki practice in (there's this girl I know named Maki that I think is cute, so I like using the character), but I'm not changing my main team.

Today I only had work in the morning - I gotta use up my vacation days before the second week of March, so I took the afternoon off. Since it was payday, I treated myself to some new toys. I got a long LAN cable so I can use the internet in the living room without switching to wireless. I also got a webcam and headset. But the best thing I got was an SD card video camera. This thing is so dope. It runs on 4 AA batteries, records straight to SD, and is lighter than 2 cell phones (but about the same size!). It's basically the same model as shown here. That's the 572, mine is the 570. No idea what the differences are, but I don't care. Now I can easily upload footage to my computer without having to capture it first. Including a 2gb SD card, it came to about US$100. I'm going to love using this. Afterwards I just came home and watched wrestling on dailymotion.

On last week's Raw, for some reason Charlie Haas put on a mask and shouted "It's Time!" to JR and King. Kim thought this was really funny and thought about making it his new line. So I made him this avatar:





I originally planned to just have Rolento holding a clock, but there was hardly any good art for Rolento, and the good images weren't ideal for manipulating. Then I came up with the idea of using the Rolex logo and changing it to "Rolento". I like the result, but I don't know if Kim will use it. WHATEVER!