the egg is now in a nest made of shitty swords and soft puppet ass

Well, it turns out ironhand@lj was right–that “basic cable” package I was ogling? When you first click the “channel listing” thingy on the Comcast site, it shows you a very attractive list of channels. But when you click for the printable version, it shows you a completely different fucking list. Which is local channels only. I sent a “WTF?” e-mail to Comcast, their entire reply was the list of local channels.

What they call “Standard cable,” which includes the channels I want, jumps way the hell up to almost $50 a month. Not only is that way outside of my shitty service tolerance limits, it’s just too fucking expensive period.

Well, I guess I’ll just keep watching my fake news at work and my Mythbusters and such at Mom’s house.

On the DDR front, I has a new mat. It was not terribly expensive, it should work with Stepmania (though I haven’t tried it yet, I’ll need a USB extension first and I’d like to get whatever cable I need to feed the Black Beast’s video to my TV) and it’s a pretty decent mat. The only downside… whoever decided this thing should carry the “non-slip” descriptor is on fucking crack. It slips on my foam mats. It slips on carpet, though not as badly. It slips on my hard plastic mats, though at least it can be duct-taped down on those. I still want a RedOctane mat someday, but this will do until then and hey, now I can play with two mats. :D

I have officially graduated to Basic. I’m getting As on 4 and 5-foot songs, and the occasional full combo. 6-footers are hit-or-miss–I’m either getting As and Bs or crashing and burning entirely on them.

And I got Extreme last week. It seems like Beginner on Extreme is harder than Beginner on X–lots more jumps. Extreme has a lot of music I like, though.

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