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Krista and I were in Japan from Sept 22nd to Oct 3rd.

In September 2018, I rode my bike 132 miles.

It’s getting to be rainy season here in Seattle, so this ride required a little more suiting up than usual.

Today I rode around the north half of Lake Washington.

In August 2018, I biked 251.8 miles!

Today was the last of the “long ass bike rides” of my vacation, so I rode out to West Seattle.

I made a post a few days ago about being able to post using my phone, so here’s some more info!

Ow my legs.

First up, after yesterday’s long bike ride I went for a short ride today, but was able to hit some decent hills in my neighborhood.

I was hitting my vacation limit at work so I took this week off.

This will hopefully work.

In July 2018, I rode only 19 miles, making it the lowest mileage month yet of 2018.

I came across this hilarious Packard Bell TV commercial from 1996.

I started buying vinyl in 1998 when I was a senior in high school and had my own money from working.

Unfortunately, my biking has really slowed down over in recent months.

In March 2018, I biked 134 miles.

In Feb 2018, I biked 123 miles.

I got to tour the Spheres at Amazon this week, and it was pretty awesome.

I played some Ketsui today for the first time in about 6 months and streamed it on Twitch for fun.

In Jan 2018, I biked 197 miles.

I moved my blog from Octopress to Hugo since it builds sites blazing fast and doesn’t have all the goofy dependency management of Ruby with rvm and all that.

This list is ordered by (roughly) when I got them.

Hi, my name is Phil Piwonka and I live in Seattle, WA with my wife and daughter.

I’ve had a goal of breaking a billion points on Mushihimesama Futari Black Label God Mode for a while now, and with a little effort I was able to get a score of 1,212,620,114!

I’ve been getting back into Ibara and streaming on Twitch a little bit.

This week, I biked 111.2 miles.

Man, I did a lot of biking in June.

I got a slow start to biking this year for various reasons (lazyness, back pain, lazyness) but toward the end of April I started up again and am now hitting my goal of 40 miles per week consistently.

Haven’t been playing a lot of shmups in recent times, but I played some Muchi Muchi Pork on XBox 360 and was able to 1-ALL the game and reach the 2nd loop for the first time!

Unfortunately, I did not meet my biking goal of 1,500 miles for 2015.

2015 miles as of October 18th: 1299 Miles to go toward goal of 1,500: 201 Haven’t updated in a bit, but I’ve been keeping up with my goal.

2015 miles as of June 7th: 787 Miles to go toward goal of 1,500: 713 April was a little slow for biking which is why I didn’t post an update.

I did some more work on my JAMMA input display recently and its working really well now.

On pace to meet my goal of 1,500 miles in 2015!

With today being the last day of February and a beautiful day here in Seattle, I went for a 14.8 mile ride along the Burke Gilman trail up to Matthews Beach.

Last year I started biking more seriously, sometimes biking to work but mostly doing longer trips on weekends.

Near the end of 2014 I bought a Side Arms PCB off the guy who runs shmuplations.com.

I took a break from playing for about a week and a half, then on my second credit after playing again I was able to 1-ALL Muchi Muchi Pork!

I built an input display for my arcade cabinets by reading the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi using Node.js and socket.io.

I bought a Sega Naomi with NetDIMM off a guy on the shmups forum and got it up and running.

I love this game.

KevinDDR says: Well, I finally did it!

I didn’t play many games seriously in 2013, mostly due to work being very demanding and just not having the time to really get into a game.

CPS-2 Motherboard fans are super loud.

I’ve moved my site off of Dreamhost and onto Amazon S3’s static webhosting.

With my PCB collection getting too large for me to realistically play all of my games, I traded 2 games that I never play to get an In the Hunt PCB.

YouTube video is no longer available James Sessum pulls off a 142 chain and S rank on Ikaruga Stage 2, Normal mode.

wnka recently got his Ketsui PCB back from being at Full Tilt Ice Cream in Ballard, so he decided to record a full 1CC run.

KevinDDR came over and did some Radiant Silvergun runs and this was the best one.

The classic Taito STG RayForce is now at Full Tilt in Ballard!