Today's story

>17:00
>tired
>decides to take a nap
>in this nap I dream about not only showing up late for a race, but then mistyping .enter so much that people ready and I miss the race (???)
>wake up a bit before 19:00
>oh shit
>still didn't practice
>hurries to set up
>around 19:20, laptop charger sparks, very well could have started a damn fire if that was in the wrong place
>fortunately it didn't
>exposed wire the problem
>can't use that anymore, can't trust battery to survive the race either from that point
>has to use a Windows 10 desktop instead (and we bought this less than a month ago)
>scrambles to set up XSplit, Dazzle drivers, and Hexchat (didn't have time for a timer, although was thinking about it)
>19:55
>people are readying up fast
>had to ask for a 5 minute extension as I wasn't going to be promptly ready at 20:00
>was ready at 20:03
>still no practice
>proceeds to have a bad CP, close call in CN1, Tails messing with me in Hill Top, phasing through crushers in Met 2 whilst trying to die, failing the zip in the same act for a solid 4 minutes, GO, Met 3 was wtf, and only one death in DE
>instead of gaining 3 points, loses two instead
>is glad it isn't worse, but holy fuck I was mad
>decides to do DE 1 cycle attempts after the race
>gets exactly two 11-1s in the next 90 minutes
>stops
>23:30
>has an idea
>replacement wire from a different laptop (it was the wire between the charger and the power source that had the exposed wire)
>seems to work
>phew
>maybe tomorrow won't be this bad