Current mood:	sick but accomplished
Current music:	a-Ha - Take On Me

SCULimpics '06
EDIT: Sometimes all the pics don't display, because Verizon sucks. Just refresh.

So yes. Definitely sick. Started feeling horrible sometime Friday night, but I just pushed through it for SCULimpics. Woke up Saturday morning (of my own accord) at 7am; I'm assuming a combination of habit from work and the oppressive heat and humidity.

Regardless, made myself some food and rode over to Somerville. Got all pre-flighted and ready to go, then headed over to the site with grimlocke to kick out the civilians in our spot. As it turned out, *someone* (read: Somerville) forgot to put up "no parking" signs on one side of Dover St., so we ended up getting moved over to Day St, which was fine.

a few docked choppers


SCUL sets up for the SCULimpics


Future SCUL Pilot inspects Summer's stabilizers



Fleet arrived, setup began, a crowd gathered around at the site of the Fleet and the sounds of ChopperGroove, and the events began!

I will *attempt* to remember relative order.

Began with the SCUL100. Basically, the street is littered with orange cones. Pilots pick a cone, and on the call, begin to orbit the cone (ride around it). First Pilot to reach 100 orbits wins. If a Pilot drops their landing gear (touches the ground with their feet), they are penalized 10 orbits.

About half-way through this event, non-participating pilots began running around and moving cones, thus setting the silly tone for the afternoon. (A side-note: any Pilot found to be taking the events seriously is disqualified.)

I dunno who won; I know I didn't. =)

Next up was (I believe) the ChopperLimbo. How low can you go... on a chopper? Threespeed rocked us at this one, taking the gold. I snagged myself a Bronze in this one through a heavily unfair five-Pilot Paper-Rock-Scissors game.




Threespeed gets a hug from Samurai after receiving the Gold for ChopperLimbo!


Next up: Donut. The kids loved this one (seriously). One lap race, while consuming a chocolate donut. Pilots CANNOT cross the finish line until the ENTIRE DONUT is consumed. This is harder than it seems for most, especially in 90º weather in the beating sun. Too much chewing, imo. So I stepped up, squished it with my tongue, and consumed the damn thing in three bites, snagging the Gold and setting a new world record of 15.2 seconds. Go me!

We even had some kids volunteer to try it; go Civilian Kids!




Skunk and Captain Underpants act as spotters for the Civilian Competitors


Civilian Competitors struggle to finish consuming the Donuts


I got the Gold!


After that things get fuzzy for me, and I forgot that I had a camera. I know that loxocele showed up around that time, had a really cute bug, and got me food (so sweet!). Events that occurred:

DoubleMint: Pilots carry one chopper while riding another chopper, ride to the end of the course, then switch choppers and ride back. (I missed this one, as I was on a snack mission).

Kick the Ghost: Pilots ride at a plastic ghost, and see how far they can kick it. I sucked at this one.

Monkey: Kinda like DoubleMint, except instead of carrying a chopper on your back, you're carrying another Pilot, and the Pilots switch at the other end.

Tube Pump: Pilots are timed to see how fast they can pump up a standard tire tube until it explodes. The kids REALLY loved this one. Explosions are superposi!

ChopperHaul: All ships are placed in a heap at one end of the course, and a starting line is drawn. 20 yards from there is a finish line. Pilots mount a ship, and then gather up as many other ships as they can carry. Once they pass the starting line, they can have no assistance, and can not touch the ground. The Pilot who can carry the most choppers from the starting line to the finish line while riding a chopper without touching the ground wins. I placed Bronze with 2 choppers. SecretChief, I think, won Gold with five. He also broke one of the limbo 2x4s.

Derby: Pilots attach plastic ribbon to their necks, and hang a fwe feet of it off their back. They then ride around in the derby area and attempt to be the last Pilot standing. If your ribbon is pulled, you're out. If your body touches the ground in any way, shape, or form, you're out. I won Bronze, Acehole won Silver, Captain Underpants won Gold (damn she's good!). At one point in the Final Round I ended up slamming dead into Nameless, knocking him over, hopping onto him and running over him and his ship; it was completely awesome. So happy.




zOMG four medals yay!


Blockhead demonstrates his immense power


Dillweed demonstrates how much my digital camera sucks


Skunk *really* demonstrates how much my digital camera sucks


Dreamer demonstrates what he wants to do to me


zOMG CUTE BUG !!!11!!1



So yes; that was SCULimpics '06. Next year I'll have a better camera (maybe), and take more pictures, and hopefully feel better. And be drunk. Yeah.