I finally beat the song Won’t Get Fooled Again on expert drums. Just one more song to go, and I will have completed the Expert Drum Solo Tour for Rock Band. I want to complete Rock Band before moving on to Rock Band 2, so I’ve got six more days until Rock Band 2 is released for the PS3.
One more thing. I also managed to climb up to #1812 on the PS3 drum leaderboards.
X-rays seem to indicate that I did fracture my left big toe, but they weren’t conclusive. However, the pain seems to be radiating from where the x-ray hints at a fracture; so I, myself, conclude that it must be broken. I missed the first round of the playoffs due to the broken toe, but my team managed to win a nailbiter without me. I was able to lace up the skates for the semifinal matchup versus the number two seed, but we couldn’t pull off the upset. I thought I skated pretty well, but one of my teammates did notice that I was favoring my injured foot during non-critical plays. So, I guess whenever the adrenaline was going, I skated normally.
So, I skipped the consolation game to rest my toe and was back on the ice with my team last week. This season, I’m playing for the Geckos with a lot of players that have been on my team before. I’ve never been on the same team with only three of my current teammates. So, it shouldn’t take me too long to click with my current team. We won last week’s game 5-4 against the Desert Dogs. I didn’t contribute anything to the scoresheet, and didn’t have a vert good game. So, I stayed and played one more game since the game after ours needed players. I always get the urge to play another game whenever I have a bad game; or else it’s another week before I can redeem myself. Unfortunately, I didn’t fare any better in the second game, and my team lost 8-4.
I finally had a good game this week though. I contributed two goals and an assist in a 7-5 victory over the Arabian Knights. I tied the game at four apiece with my first goal of the season. My teammate Jason had the puck in the corner and spotted me trailing the play. He got me the puck and I had plenty of time to shoot. I put everything I had behind the shot and my shot glanced off the goalie and in. Later, I returned the favor by setting Jason up with a goal. I was streaking down the right side with the puck looking for an opening to shoot at. The goalie came out a little to cut the angle, and that’s when I spotted Jason streaking down the center of the ice. I fed him in front of the net for an easy one since the goalie had come out to take away my shot. And finally, late in the third period, I jammed in a rebound to seal our victory with our seventh goal.
I finally beat the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” on Rock Band today. I have been stuck on this song for over a month….quite possibly two months. When I finally beat the song, I got up and ran circles around the living room to celebrate. Well, atleast I tried to run but my leg was so tired from the constant use of the bass pedal that I only managed to hobble around the room. Now I only have two more songs to go before I finish the Expert Solo Drum Tour. Rock Band 2 comes out in 11 days, so hopefully I can beat those two songs by then.
As a bonus, I was also able to move up the PS3 Solo Drum Career leaderboard. Right now I’m at #1841; the highest I’ve ever been. Woohoo!
I got home a little bit early so that I could eat, stretch, and then get to my hockey game without rushing. It’s the playoffs after all. I got home maybe a little bit too early! With some time to kill before dinner, I decided to play a few minutes of WiiFit which I had borrowed from Ben. After a few minutes of same old exercises, I unlocked the Snowboard Slalom. Cool! First time through, I missed a bunch of the gates which resulted in time penalties. Second time through, I got an even slower time than my first attempt. I kept trying over and over again, but I wasn’t getting any better. So after, I finished my last run, I hopped off the WiiFit board and kicked the sofa in frustration. It wasn’t even a hard kick. It’s just that I was expecting the sofa to be very soft, but found a spot that was very hard. It felt like I had stubbed my toe. But when the pain wouldn’t subside I knew it was much, much worse. I guess I get to visit the doctor’s office tomorrow to figure out how badly I hurt my big toe on my left foot. Oh boy, I can’t wait to tell my teammates why I missed our playoff game.
The playoffs start tomorrow. We finished the regular season in 3rd place with a 15-9 record, trailing the first and second place teams by just one point in the standings. It appears that our forfeit loss to the last place team three weeks ago has cost us a first place finish. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised by that, since this entire season has already been totally weird for me. I started the season with a 12-game goal-scoring drought even though I felt that my skating was improving. I wasn’t too worried though, since I knew that all it would take was some lucky bounce, and I would turn things around. Sure enough, once I got that first goal of the season, I began to resemble a hockey player once again. I finished the season with 7 goals, where 5 of them came from my last three games played. Hopefully, this hot streak will continue through the playoffs.