I recently had the longest day I can remember having in several years. We woke up early to go disc golfing, which was my first time on an actual course. After that, Nick and I were scheduled to go to a Guitar Hero 2 release party at the Middle East. The day was supposed to be over after that. We were planning to head to bed early so we could wake up around 6am to go stand in line for a Wii, but then Jen and Ben gave us some intel that people were already lining up outside, so we upped the ante and went to wait in line too. All told, we didn’t end up sleeping until around 9am the next day (around 24 hours of being awake). This is not as easy as it was in college. I’m getting old.
Disc Golf
We found some free course at a park or something, which was really cool. The landscape was beautiful and interesting. Unfortunately, several of the “holes” were either near water or had you throw over a pond, and as a result we ended up throwing a lot of discs into the water. Most of these were retrievable, but we did end up losing two discs. My impression with these pond courses is that disc golf is trying to be like real golf, which seems like a bad idea. Golf balls are like 25 cents each, whereas discs are around 8-10 dollars. All told though, it was a good experience. I’m told that the pay courses are only 5 dollars or so, so it’s definitely a cheap and fun activity for an afternoon.
Guitar Hero 2 Release Party
My roommate Nick scored two tickets to this party at the Middle East in Central Square, which was awesome. In the upstairs they had a big high-def TV set up with Guitar Hero 2, where you could stand in line and play 2-player mode. Downstairs, there were a bunch of bands playing that did songs for the games. Our journey to the Middle East is documented on my Flickr account.
Wii
I promised myself I wasn’t going to camp out overnight for the Wii and then I did it anyway. It turned out to be pretty fun though. I was completely wrong about what this kind of thing would be like. The group was really organized. Instead of having a line in the traditional sense, they set up a list where you could sign yourself into the queue. After you did that, you were pretty much free to wander around, get food, or whatever (as long as you were physically present when the store opened). The people there were pretty cool. I was expecting a bunch of stereotypical nerds, but most of the people were pretty much like my roommates and me. Most people were pretty friendly. There were a surprising number of girls there. The three of us brought our DS’s, and we got a 7-player game of Mario Kart going with some people who had brought theirs too, which was awesome. We also got a pictochat going (where we drew a bunch of penises and then played Destructo).