#ephshi

10am went with family to visit cemetery. it was raining. played some bravely default on the subway and car rides

2pm arrived at karaoke place, except it turns out everyone was late anyway so I walked over to port authority because I don't know how else to waste time and that is one public place where I would not feel bad about loitering (plus it was raining outside)

~2:45 went back to karaoke and met up with fc. karaoke was good, sang all the Love Live songs I had looked up, and then tried another one that I didn't think would be on the machines (wonderful rush), but it was there. So then I realized the karaoke machine that the place had was the type that had a lot more songs than the one we thought it was. spent time looking up more love live songs with the limited internet access (the place is underground so reception is pretty bad); fc mostly sang kyary songs

at some point hflw arrived with his good 4g and generous wi-fi tethering and all was good. blu also arrived later and bitmap even more later (~6ish?). we were in a small room for 4 people so they didn't charge him. they had the actual videos for the mikakunin songs which was neat. bitmap and I ended it with an improvised version of the love live ED which I very much appreciated. I also forgot to get the stampcard stamped, but not really a big deal since we always do karaoke marathon and rarely have a use for one free hour

~8pm took the subway to a bonchon but it was the wrong one so we walked in the rain. blu stopped at a hotdog stand and we just left him. eventually met up with a bunch of other people at the bonchon near go go curry and it was good (chicken, okonomiyaki, fries). some discussion on kawaii rice cookers and about drinking

karaoke with fc for 6 hours (steve did not show up). sang all the new songs I wanted to sing (we also sang the non non biyori ED three times)

at 8 we walked over to halal guys on 53rd and 6th and met up with zzgzzpop. decided to go to the new location on 14th and 2nd but after getting there found out the restaurant wasn't actually open so we got food from the cart (really good, though probably shouldn't have eaten it all because it was a lot). it was really cold outside.

later steve and his girlfriend arrived and then we all went over to dunkin donuts near union square after also meeting up with josh and attempting to go to starbucks first (it was closed). I got a hot chocolate mostly to warm my hands

watched non non biyori ep11

played hearthstone. had a 5-3 mage arena run; the deck was really good I was just bad and made lots of misplays.

met with fc and yuyu at starbucks and drew for about 3 hours and then they had to leave (at different times)

6pm decided to go to go go curry. they put a lot of curry on there, presumably by accident because the cashier told me "that's a lot of curry" as she handed it to me. usually I feel like there's not enough sauce but this time there was definitely too much.

friday: last day of work of the year for me. most people also left pretty early or weren't here that day. went home, played some hearthstone, then took the subway uptown (after several delays) and met with fc and group for dinner (including josh, zzgzzpop, that one other guy and really tall guy). listened to some interesting conversations

subways were pretty annoying, didn't realize R trains weren't going to Jay St. so transferring was weird except then it helped me realize that there was an exit on the 42nd st times square station that was actually not that far away from where I needed to go, so I guess in the future I don't really even need to make any transfers to get up there

arrived at gogocurry at about 1pm, fc and a ton of other people were there. I was expecting barely anyone to be there but I think it ended up being like 15+ people and I don't feel like naming everyone (also I didn't actually know most of them). I guess some of them were here for nycc. anyway later bitmap, lily, and easynam arrived and we all went into the restaurant at the same time and ordered curry and stood outside waiting for everyone.

went over to bryant park and ate there. bitmap easynam and I drew for a bit. also those pigeons are barely afraid of anything, even compared to most other pigeons I have seen. then we all headed over to a starbucks and sat around for a while and then went to nintendo world where a lot of them bought the new pokemon game. there was also some free stuff (foldable pokemon visor hat things with pictures of the starter pokemon, and some posters). hflw arrived when we were heading out.

walked over to book off and looked around for a while. they moved some things around since last time, I had no idea where the old CDs section used to be (or if it even existed)

sat down at a place near book-off and josh and some other people went back to nintendo world to exchange his x version for y because he didn't like the deer legendary. drew a bit (other people played their pokemon) and then

went to new wonjo for dinner. actually saw someone from college at the entrance though I don't think he remembered my name but that's fine. ate food and then bitmap easynam and I went to port authority where bitmap took his bus (except actually he missed it and waited for the next one) and easynam and I walked around to find a place to sit and draw and ended up going to the nearby starbucks.

was in norcal. long post

watched oreshura ep7, gj-bu ep6

browsed stackoverflow

12pm took subway to manhattan, played some more eo4 demo. Mostly airship stuff

1pm met with @ephshi @catplanetcuties (formerly @8bmp or @bitmapchaos or... whatever it was previously) @hflw @lilypichu

after eating, walked over to karaoke duet 53, got there at like 2pm

I sang a ton of vocaloid songs pretty much. @equinoxrocks and chris arrived at some later time (I think at about 6:30?). Ended with Last Night Good Night, after which it felt like my voice was dying

we went to ny beer company for dinner; the chicken flatbread thing I ordered was huge (didn't get beer though because I don't drink). A bunch of other people showed up including @zzgzzpop @afrostevekun @yyr_ @mattostrofsky and uhh I don't remember everyone. There was also some collaborative drawing times in my sketchbook

watched gdgd fairies ep9

10am wasted time on stackoverflow

1pm waited for @ephshi at go go curry, then went to starbucks to wait instead because it had wifi and so I would actually have something to do

~1:45pm? fc arrived, we ate curry, then went over to the starbucks and drew stuff. Also when waiting for the bathroom there was a guy in suit who for some reason started talking to me about job offers. In fact there were a bunch of people in suits in the starbucks. Then later @desucarforcutie (formerly @akirascuro) and @c2switch showed up. And then also later @afrostevekun (formerly @mr_sangkm) and @xminttea showed up. And then later @bearpigman showed up. And then steve was feeling sick and had to leave. Then later another person who I don't know if he even uses twitter showed up. Time was spent drawing and listening to people tell stories about various things. Here's some of the things I drew. sameface everywhere.

6:30pm-ish? went to kbbq restaurant and we were joined by more people and had a group of 13 people woah (@shin_superdry and @equinoxrocks and a bunch of other people I didn't know where also there). Also I learned that shin works at cooper union and I think I have seen him around the building because I vaguely recognized him. Anyway after kbbq a bunch of people left, then we went with akira to deposit cash into an ATM and when the door opened it made weird noises

~9pm the rest of us attempted to karaoke at karaoke duet 35 but it was full and the next available thing was much later so we left. I went home and I guess the people who were still there went drinking