Well, this was an interesting ride. My first launch

Hardcored totally failed for me. I was getting nothing but rejects. Dammit, I like you guys. Prolly gonna try again in a few minutes. It took a WHILE to connect to anybody else. You guys might try lightninghash if you got a big rig, they are running real smooth but got NO hashpower. Like 12 plus hours estimated to find a block. Can't play that with my little rig, so I wound up (for now) at Hashing.at, which after 15 minutes is showing the same or close too it as cgminer on my stats.
So, you veterans, is it normal for most of the pools to be dead ten to fifteen minutes into a launch? Or just my usual luck?
Looks like the few coins I managed to snag with my USB ASIC are stuck at minerspool. Oh well. :/