2012-01-14 01:46 UTC

Happy New Year 2012 / MMXII!

I know it's been a while since I did any day logs hey, but here I am. On 2011-12-08, I booked the flights for my upcoming trip to Iceland and The Netherlands! It was cheap for a return, but as we all know, I probably could've got a better price at some point. I'll be leaving JFK airport in Queens, New York City on 2012-01-20 then spending 3 nights in Reykjavik before moving on to Amsterdam.

So I have just about everything ready, including print-outs of reservations, receipts, the plane ticket, a few books on the places I'm going, as well as several phones (I'm a phone junkie) for my various uses when abroad.

I have been thinking of the woman I described before in a prior day log about the same as before, which I wish I could just easily get over. Might there be a light at the end of the tunnel?

Recently, I was at a video game festival/convention called MAGFest X (the 10th edition). It was my 5th consecutive year attending. It's held annually in the DC area on the first weekend of the year (Thursday to Sunday). I enjoy the classic games one can play there and music that is performed. This time a friend of mine, who is also into games, decided to go and he intends on attending next year. He cosplayed as Batman and got lots of photo ops. During my time there, I have managed to get 200 lines in Tetris on the NES for the first time since the time I got 202 way back on 2001-05-24. I did a personal best score of 316841 points. We also managed to get the winning shot in on the buzzer during a round of NBA Jam, arcade version. I never played this particular game before (not into sport games very much).