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Super Heroic Weekend
Jan 26th 2009
First off, I do realize that I've been slacking off on the blog posting recently. I'm going to try to spend a little more time on it so I get more than 2 posts a week in…but we'll see how that goes.
Second, this weekend was very good on the scale of weekend goodness. It was double XP weekend in City of Heroes (meaning you leveled at twice the rate), so my friends and I had decided that we were going to meet up (meaning I went over to their apartment) and play together for a while, with chicken salsa tacos and some wine for good measure. It was just a really cool relaxing day.
In the afternoon we watched Atonement while Jay was taking a nap (he wasn't feeling good) and Wassy was working. I really enjoyed the movie, although I thought the middle section dragged a little bit on the first viewing. But the twist at the end shed new light on the entire story and I would like to see it again with that information in mind. After the movie, it was taco time and then we got into playing City of Heroes. The setup was a little cramped, with Jay at his desk and Wassy and I next to each other on the couch, using their coffee table (which folds out into a nice table for when you're sitting down on the couch) for our laptops. That setup went about as well as I expected (Wassy enjoys messing with people playing games, so there was lots of randomly pressed keys on my keyboard as the evening progressed), but no big deal, really. It was an extremely fun time and I hope we can do that again at some point in the future.
Sunday however, was a day of me struggling with Windows. I had put the beta of Windows 7 on my Macbook but, as I discovered Saturday, City of Heroes didn't really like it all that much…probably related to drivers. So I decided I would go back to XP. From not reading my XP install DVD (it's a long story, but basically because of how the macbook works, I have to burn a DVD with windows XP + a couple folders from my windows 98 CD so it sees it as an upgrade disc) to not being able to find my 98 CD so I could make another one and then having issues with video card drivers…what started as a project that was supposed to take a couple hours ended up taking most of the day.
Man, I hate windows sometimes.
QotD: A Dream Come True
Apr 23rd 2007
I have lots of wierd dreams that thankfully have not come true. For example, I dreamed that I was in a motorcycle race however my bike wouldn't pass inspection due to the fact that I couldn't produce a valid license key for my bikes copy of windows xp.
Yeah…I know…
I honestly can't think of an actual dream that I've had that came true. Now if we're talking about dreams as far as the concept of desires goes…then of course. My dreams tend to be smaller and short term though. No big "i wanna be an astronaut!" (apologizing for my bad spelling here…typing this on my treo) although…I did want to go into space for a while until I learned about the whole concept of g-forces…but that's another story.
Usually, my dreams are small scale. Fish ownership, finding a job that's decent, getting out of college alive…
Those last two are, I admit, large goals for some…but they're both fairly immediate and small as far as effort on my part at this point in time.
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