On the plus side, Mrs. Entropy and I went to see a Kevin Smith Q&A last night, which was pretty cool. Not really pinball-related, aside from him mentioning The Accused once, but there it is.
The Doctor Who power driver board problem ended with a whimper, not a bang. I ended up re-swapping the new board back into the game for testing, but once I did that everything worked fine. I guess it was a bad connection... and the real way to fix that is to replace the connector and the pins, but that's way more effort than I'm prepared to exert at this time. So I'm leaving it be until such time as it becomes necessary to do something about it. Go Fightin' Procrastinators!
I started setting up the T2 cabinet... I would say "she's got legs, you idiot", but I've used that joke already. I installed the legs, attached a new backbox latch that I didn't remember buying, then screwed in a backbox bolt that I had around (I'm hoping to get a second one in Allentown next weekend)... for whatever reason, I had three sitting around in a parts bin, and I used two on DW once I found out I needed them.
Anyway, I was going to put on the speaker panel and mount the backglass, but for whatever reason the speaker panel doesn't fit properly... the metal hooks don't fit snugly on the wood, but instead hang up on it... and since the speaker panel won't go down all the way, the backglass doesn't fit properly, so it's all a mess. I have to look carefully at why the speaker panel doesn't fit, maybe file down the wood or something.
League has had its ups and downs. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be in the playoffs in MD... going into week 10 I was #4 out of 4 with a girl 1 point behind me (or should I say, a girl!?!), so I needed to have a good week. Unfortunately I had an OK week... I held my own on Doctor Who (for whatever reason I can't do crap on that particular game despite having no problems getting great scores on my own) and came in second. Next up was an awesome game of Shrek... when my third ball came up the other two guys had 50 Million and I had about 1 million, but then I did a spectacular 76 million point ball (including an extra ball). When I was done, people actually applauded my performance! *blush* That was good for first place. Then I came in second on Eight Ball Deluxe, but finished a distant third on Six Million Dollar Man (damn you, Steve Austin!) for zero points. So when the unofficial back of the napkin scores were toted up, I had 9 points and Rebecca's 11, so it looks like I lost out by one point. To a girl!?! The official scores haven't come out yet, but I'm not expecting much.
In VA I'm doing OK but I definitely don't have a lock on a playoff spot yet with one more week to go. Because I had a couple of sucky weeks, I actually played in the bottom group, even though I'm in A division. None of my group was there, so I ended up playing alone and pasting everybody's saved scores, getting a 19 out of 20 points. And unlike earlier in the season, this time I actually deserved it... two of my scores were pretty good, and the other two were reasonable. Unfortunately, now I'm being accused (good-naturedly? maybe...) of gaming the system by deliberately losing so I could play in the lower groups and get big scores. These people clearly think I have a much better understanding of the scoring and grouping dynamics than I do... for example, I can't figure out why I'm still in A after a couple of losing weeks. So anyway, now I'm #2 in A but with a couple of guys nipping at my heels point-wise, which means I'll have to post some solid scores on Monday to avoid being taken down. We'll see how that goes... usually when the chips are stacked against me, I have a history of choking on my own vomit.
But to end on a positive note, in practice on Monday I scored a career best 650M on BS Dracula... I think I stacked up several multi-balls, which is the way to get huge points on that game, and I was within about 40 mill of the high score.
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