AGDQ recap, RL stuff, and a lot of thanks!

A lot has happened to me over the past month, but ill start off with AGDQ.

AGDQ was (as always) an absolute blast, and it almost didnt happen for me (thanks again to KomradeKontroll for picking me up and letting me ride wit.  Amazing guy!).  I didnt have a room my first night there, so i had to stay up all night overnight until check in in the morning, when i was finally able to get a few hours sleep and wake up to practice for the Blaster Master race.  The race went really well, even though i lost, i found a new glitch by pure random luck that could maybe one day lead to some time saves in the run.  Also had an amazing group of guys to commentate the race.  Thanks again to Feasel, UraniumAnchor and Big Jon for doing such a great job for us.  Really wish it would have been another 4 way race with all of us though.

Throughout the week, i seen a bunch of both familiar and new faces, but special mention needs to be made to Toad22484.  Was super excited to meet the guy, and im glad i did.  Amazing runner and super nice guy all around.

I spent most of tuesday hanging out with people, and did a couple of Rondo of Blood practice runs here and there.  Wednesday, from the time i woke up until the start of the Castlevania block, was all Rondo practice.  The CV block was awesome, and i had a blast commentating Castlevania 4 with Puwexil and JustDefend.  I won my Rondo race, which was my first time winning a race at a GDQ, so i was thrilled with how that went.  Komrade played an amazing game too, and there were tons of lead changes in the race.  Another run with awesome commentary, special thanks to Plum, CrakAtak and PsychoRipper for mic'ing up for us!

After Rondo was over, the rest of the day until almost 3 am was spent practicing Nightmare on Elm Street 4-player with Fap, Feasel and Jamevil.  Jamevil ended up sick as hell but still pulled through and played amazing (as we all did!).  Had by far the best run we ever had together during the actual marathon run so that was pretty insane.  Huge thanks to NES Cardinality for doing commentary last minute, and also to Mike Stone and Greenleaf for commentary as well.

The rest of the week was mostly spent hanging out with Feasel And Jamevil, and i seriously cannot say enough nice things about the two of them.  These two are the two im most bummed out about not getting to see for 6 months when these marathon are over, and im already missing you both!

Now onward to the RL stuff part of this pastebin.  About 2 or 3 weeks before AGDQ, the furnace in my house died.  Was informed it would be $380 to fix.  Then, to make things worse, about 3 days before AGDQ, my car died.  Filled up the gas tank, went to sleep, woke up and it all was in my driveway.  Had repairs for that quoted at $300 to $320-ish.  Had Komrade not bailed me out with the ride to GDQ, i wouldnt have made it there.  I also recieved my power bill that day, and from running radiators and space heaters to keep my house warm, it was around $340.

The whole week at AGDQ, i was secretly freaking out inside about this situation, but i still tried to enjoy myself for at least that week before i came home and had to deal with my seemingly impossible situation.  I dont make much money, and im a single father.... so yeah.  Had no clue what i was gonna do.

Earlier tonight, even though i was sick as hell, i decided to do a short stream, and put up a donation goal to try to make up some of the money i needed to get everything fixed and pay off my power bill.  Thanks to some extremely generous people, and a lot of tweets and retweets, i made more than enough to get everything taken care of.  The first time ive ever cried on stream.  You guys fucking broke me.  GG :) .  I didnt think id make enough in 30 days, let alone in 4 hours.  Im still sitting here in tears about 2 hours after cutting stream.  There are no words.

Looking towards the future, i will be streaming a lot more from here on out.  I love entertaining you guys, and i want to start doing that more.  Im gonna be getting some profile headers made and cleaning up my stream presentation and quality in a serious push for a twitch partnership.  I cannot thank everyone enough for getting me to a point where i even feel like that could be a remote possibility.

In closing.... I really cannot thank everyone enough for all the good times, all the views, EVERYTHING.  Even if all you have done is lurked in my stream, i fucking love you and cannot properly put into words my gratitude.