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there and back again
Apr. 25th, 2004 10:12 pmSo. Owatonna, Minnesota. Home of, um, Taco John's, Owatonna Concrete, the Village of Yesteryear , and, uh, not a ton else, just like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kantayra said. Surprisingly, though, the weather was pretty nice except for the rain Saturday night -- not that I saw a whole lot of weather, having spent almost all of the four days inside a huge concrete-floored room at the Four Seasons center, at the BBIQ competition. The flipper bot sucked a lot, losing its first two matches and getting immediately bumped out of the double-elimination tournament, whereas the wedge sucked less, winning two matches before, er, losing two matches. The overall winner was an absolutely incredible bot with a spinning drum on the front (ironically just like the one my brother had wanted our team to build) that wreaked total havoc on everything it went up against. Bright shiny sparks, flying pieces of metal, the works. It was great. We didn't get to hit the Mall of America, though we went briefly to redneck heaven -- er, I mean Cabela's.
In fact, really we did no touristy things at all, which was okay. We (by which I mean I) had fun anyways, and actually I kinda wish we could have stayed in Minnesota longer, and there is a sentence I never thought I'd say in my life. ( Obscure in-jokes of the weekend that nobody who reads this will understand, but that I'm including for personal reminiscence later. )
And I swear I used the word "sketchy" at least twenty times as much this weekend than I ever have before, and still I had the time of my life, even though it was Minnesota and not Hawaii like we hoped. ( Me getting sappy. )
kantayra said. Surprisingly, though, the weather was pretty nice except for the rain Saturday night -- not that I saw a whole lot of weather, having spent almost all of the four days inside a huge concrete-floored room at the Four Seasons center, at the BBIQ competition. The flipper bot sucked a lot, losing its first two matches and getting immediately bumped out of the double-elimination tournament, whereas the wedge sucked less, winning two matches before, er, losing two matches. The overall winner was an absolutely incredible bot with a spinning drum on the front (ironically just like the one my brother had wanted our team to build) that wreaked total havoc on everything it went up against. Bright shiny sparks, flying pieces of metal, the works. It was great. We didn't get to hit the Mall of America, though we went briefly to redneck heaven -- er, I mean Cabela's. In fact, really we did no touristy things at all, which was okay. We (by which I mean I) had fun anyways, and actually I kinda wish we could have stayed in Minnesota longer, and there is a sentence I never thought I'd say in my life. ( Obscure in-jokes of the weekend that nobody who reads this will understand, but that I'm including for personal reminiscence later. )
And I swear I used the word "sketchy" at least twenty times as much this weekend than I ever have before, and still I had the time of my life, even though it was Minnesota and not Hawaii like we hoped. ( Me getting sappy. )
