Night of Nights

This is the night that I stay up in between the Swings and Mids shift, doing whatever I want to do. I haven't written to the blog in a few days, so I thought I'd start the night by doing that.

I've made HUGE progress to the arcade cabinet in the past few days. My control panel construction came along quite well. Right now, I'm laying out the controls in pencil, see how it feels, and then begin drilling the holes for the buttons, joysticks and trackball. I think I'm going to need to buy a router to be able to install the joysticks and trackball though, since the MDF is pretty thick at 3/4". I need a router to be able to cut grooves for the T-molding to fit into as well.

Matt and I played DDR Extreme 2 for three hours continuously today. I think that has been the longest I have ever spent playing DDR straight. I've been playing the game for years, and I never had a stretch of game time like that. I was pretty tired at the end, but we made some good progress through Dance Master Mode. However, I cheated a little before I went to nap for the Night of Nights. I used a controller to pass a couple of bothersome missions. I admit it.

Well, I think I'm going to finish drawing in the rest of the buttons on the control panel, and then play some games on the computer. I'm going to turn on Adult Swim too. I love Family Guy!