I'm getting long in the tooth but there'll always be a place in my heart for redemption games. After much cajoling Friday night, Joe was able to convince me to go with him down to Block at Orange to "take some pictures" for his friend... Liar! We ended up at Dave and Busters where to my surprise ;-) we met up with Allen, Candy Boy, Evan, Genie, Johnny, Lori, Hsuan, Sakura, and Terence.

The whole crew in one place! A birthday bash for Sakura and I!

After splitting up into two teams, we proceeded to compete in every redemption game Dave and Busters could muster -- we shot hoops, raced horses (in the saddle and otherwise), rifled targets, coin-dropped, and skeed balls (yeah, I made that up) until weary and tired and out of credits.

Terence was my first round draft pick for good reason. But in spite of Terence's Herculean effort and Virtuoso performance -- winning every game he played by doubling his opponents, hitting 100 points in skee ball multiple times, nailing "run" on the horse races consistently, and htting 80% of his baskets -- when we counted our tickets, Team Sakura had 1092 tickets and Team Danny... uh, I think we had like 563 or something...

Team Danny loses! In-con-ceivable!

After returning home, I consoled myself by playing GT3 on my brand spanking new PS f*ckin' 2!!! MUAHAHAHA! Thanks everyone. As I gun the Impreza through the turns on Smokey Mountain, Daypop and work are but distant memories...