zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org

so as it turns out i might be pretty okay at pinball.

this is the second week of the league, and both weeks i have moved up a bracket, which is not bad for a robot whose main strategy is "keep the ball in play for as long as possible even if you're just gently juggling it back and forth between the flippers like a dork, eventually points will somehow accrue."

this is not to brag, just to chronicle something nice that is happening in my life.

what i don't get are the guys who slam their entire body into the machine and take out their frustration on it with the flat of their hand when it swallows a ball. it is not the machine's fault, Anger Boys. Gravity is a harsh mistress. be gentle to the machine, speak love to the machine and she will shower you with points. Blessed be the Bride of Pin-Bot. Z'ommmmm.

oh, and yes, there is a Dolly Parton pinball, it's real and it's spectacular. ⚙️

i mean, look at this cover and tell me you'd give it a second thought

a quiet pre-xmas afternoon, putting together a classic Space Lego set and watching a thematically-appropriate #MST3K.

feelin' fine.