SGDQ / future plans

Hey guys, I'm finally back at my own house, so that means I'm able to type up a summary of my experience at my first ever GDQ.

-The trip there-

This was my first time traveling by airplane, and my first time leaving the country, so I was a bit nervous. I packed all my stuff the night before I had to leave to the airport, and let me tell you, my bag was stuffed full of things, and this will be important later on. It was about a 3 hour drive (maybe more) to the airport, which was relatively uneventful. We stopped at McDonald's before getting to the airport, which was the only time I ate that entire day. When I got to the airport, I said my goodbyes to my dad, and headed through security. I was a bit confused about what to do initially, but after asking a few questions I figured it out and made it through without any issues. After waiting at my gate for like 2-3 hours, I finally boarded the plane, and we flew from Halifax to Montreal. It was kind of surreal, being so high in the air. Anyways, once I landed in Montreal, I had to find the gate for my flight to Minneapolis. I was talking to another speedrunner who was already at the gate, skateman222, over discord. Somehow I managed to walk like a kilometer in the wrong direction, so that was pretty bad. This is the time that my bag's weight becomes important. That bag was heavy AF, so heavy in fact that carrying it began to hurt my hands, so it was tough carrying that thing and walking all the way to my gate. I eventually made it there, and got onto that plane without any issues. Funny enough, skateman was literally in the seat directly behind me, purely by coincidence. Once the plane landed in Minneapolis, me and skateman headed to the bus, and after quite a while of waiting, finally made it to the hotel. My feelings upon getting there were: 1. wow I'm actually here, and 2. I'm so tired. After getting to the hotel, I messaged my roommates that I was there, and they got me a room key and showed me where our room was. I was pretty tired, so I basically just put my stuff down and went to sleep.

-The Event-

After waking up, I messaged Doctor_S, and went to meet him, Linkus, Tiger, Phantom, Mike, and others in the lobby. It was so crazy finally meeting everyone, after only knowing them online for so long. we went out to lunch, which was the first time I had eaten in like 26 hours or something ridiculous like that (shoutout to the snug couch w/ me, linkus, and tiger, that thing barely fit the 3 of us). After this, I don't really remember the order of things, just random memories from the week, so I guess I'll just put them in a list:

-Tiger's autistic walking on that first day in the hotel room (blame the red bull / starbucks)
-"it's for panda"
-Linkus shaving tiger's legs because he sucks at speedrunning
-Linkus slapping tiger in the face because ???
-that one moment when simply was like "hey can I spin that fidget spinner once?" takes it, literally turns it once, and gives it back "alright, cool."
-hanging out in a hotel room with cheese, Truman, and others
-jackbox games with the boys in tipdaddy's room
-chick fil a with the crew, literally the best chicken *sandwich* I've ever had
-Qdoba and chipotle, so good, I'm so sad they're not in Canada
-the puritan woman
-Mike's hilarious nickname for PopeSquidward
-"I need more space!" -Linkus7 2017
-Fogo de chao with doc and frozen, despite it being really expensive, it was also really good
-Simply following me on twitter
-Cracking a cold one with Truman
-Playing some PM64 in the practice room
-hanging out with carlsagan42 on the last day because we both made the mistake of staying until monday
-having Svenne and Pro_JN as informal roomies on the last day :)
-watching the 2D mario relay in the stream room with iateyourpie
-Questing around the hotel to collect signatures for my yearbook
-Going to the mall of america with the crew
-being on back couch for both the Luigi's Mansion run and my friend Akiteru's The Lion King run
-being scared to approach people for no reason (with tiger)
-Linkus getting his makeup done by Kasper
-hanging out with malleo and iyce playing Secret Hitler
-meeting stryder7x and mic_feedback and witnessing some legendary paper mario glitches in stryder's luxury hotel room
-frozen's ridiculous 2 floor suite on the 31st floor
-running up the stairs all the way from floor 9-31, and then back down to 19 with tiger (never again)
-Linkus telling chibi in the elevator "I would really prefer if you would be quiet."
-watching raysfire do a 70 star run at 3am in the practice room
-always getting perfect elevator RNG when traveling alone with Tiger

I can't think of any more at the moment, but there were so many more things that happened that were awesome. I had a blast meeting everyone at SGDQ, and I wouldn't trade that week for anything. Saying goodbye on the last day was the hardest thing I've ever done, and I hope I can see everyone again someday.

The trip home was uneventful, just a bunch of waiting and flying, I spent a week at my mom's and now I'm back home.

So that's basically all I have to say about SGDQ, now on to the announcements!

-Future plans-

Now that I've returned from SGDQ, I have a newfound motivation for speedrunning, so I will be returning to my PB challenge, which you can read about here: https://pastebin.com/w3wwPfUT
However, before I return to speedrunning, I want to overhaul all of my streaming stuff. I will be consulting some people for help with making my stream look and feel better, and hopefully set up some alerts to make things more flashy. :P most of all, I will be completely redoing my livesplit layout, and my OBS scenes, to get the right aspect ratios and stuff. So I may not start streaming for a few days, but I promise I will come back. Be ready for me!