Monthly Mumble
Well I'm getting better... only let a month go by this time. Lets see where did I leave off, oh yeah - just finished my marathon video editing session. Well I jumped right back into it and did the PS News Video from the old school days of of PS back when it was in St. Louis. Kinda cool to look back and see how it all began. Never did get back to the blog - obviously, lol.
And now it's October - these last few weeks have gone by way too fast. The leaves are starting to turn up here and the temps have been noticably colder. Maine winters absolutely suck and the older I get, the more I hate them. PSU is now 2 years old and AGN is about to celebrate a year of Ask the Devs - hard to believe its been that long. It's been a great run and we all are so proud to have been a part of the community experience.
I've been fairly busy with computer work the last couple of weeks - although Murphy has been a house guest a little too often - has left me with "Anti-Midas" syndrom (You know, where everything you touch turns to $hl+, rather than gold?) - worked on a friends machine which had been royally screwed up and after I'd put a bunch of time into it pulling out virus's and spyware, I'd deceided it was just easier to rebuild it, and had set it aside. Pulled it out, plugged it in - went to turn it on and the MB blew up on the stupid thing. So that was depressing. My sons machine hasn't been in the best of health either and an aquaintence of his was going to sell him a 100gb HD - went to install that and it first of all had a boot sector virus on it - went to delete the partition and sudden his machine shuts down like it's was in suspend mode - Power supply blew up - Hard Drive turns out to be fubar as well - will write but fails to read properly. After screwing with that for a few hours, finally it starts failing the S.M.A.R.T. test so it's a doorstop. Better to find out "before" the new OS gets installed on it I guess, but still. So XP with an intergrated sp2 was overlaid on his existing drive and after a good couple of days of updates, installs, defrags, tuning, etc... he is back in business and a happy camper again. Also completely rebuilt another friends machine - 233 Mhz PIII - like watching paint dry for that - and a "real" customers machine (another damn 233 Mhz pos) in that time span as well, so I've spent a lot of time "watching the wheels go round and round" (thanks John L.). New MB should be in any day now for my other friend (John - who I've mentioned im my blog a few posts back) so he should be back in business soon. He's doing much better these days and seems much more like his old self. Still has his moments of course (who wouldn't) but I'm happy to see him in better spirits.
Wife has been sick with bronchitus - which sucks. She's slowly on the mend but such things take time. Hopefully she'll be past this soon.
Finally finished Doom3 - Hell was hell, and about 1/3 of the way through, I finally broke down and resorted to the cheat codes just to get through the story line (which is much more the reason I play such things anyway) and I'm glad I did as seeing what I had to face beyond the point I was at, I'd have never finished it. I like to be able to make progress even if it's only a little progress and it was obvious to me that I'd have never made it much further. Storyline was good and despite that I cheated in the end, I thought I did well to get as far as I'd got.
T:V is out (Tribes:Vengenge for the unknowing) - After being in beta, and playing the multi-player demos - I'm in no rush to go out and get it - in fact I doubt I'll be picking it up until it drops price in several months. I understand they did a great job in the single player and I commend them for that, but... this is TRIBES and multiplayer is where it's at and IMO that part is very weak. They didn't even get a decent observer hud in the game, nor did they provide a dedicated server .exe - which it utterly rediculous consider that hosting servers aren;t going to be stuffing CD's into the racks. Thus there is a serious lack of retail version servers to play on - rather makes the whole shoutcasting and teamplay part a joke. Most people who were into T1 and T2 agree - it's "ok" but not what those original versions were all about and it's left most veteran players cold. Too bad, but not totally unexpected.
Played the Evil Genious Demo - that was fun. Demo was a little too "StarCrafty" for my taste but I understand the full version doesn't zerg the enemy quite as much as the demo does. That being the case, I may have to look into that.
My dog is once again shedding yet another 50 pounds of fur. Seems like we finally just got her clear of her winter coat and looking decent again instead of a stuffed toy with 9/10's of the stuffing hanging out everywhere. Now there are clumps showing all over her and seems like six inches of fur on the floor everyday - little balls of it slowly floating acrost the floor like miniture tumbleweeds. She's a great dog, but husky, wolf, sheppard is a bad mix for hair - lol. Wouldn't give her up for anything though - smart as a whip - even talks. All our animals are mouthy and wierd. We just seem to pick em.
Well I'm running out of things to mumble about - you'd think I'd have more after a month? Life in Maine just plain isn't very exciting ya know, so I suppose I'm lucky to have written this much in one sitting. I'll see if I can cut down the time interval to my next posting to less that a month - perhaps martyr won't even have to guilt me into posting something. :p
And now it's October - these last few weeks have gone by way too fast. The leaves are starting to turn up here and the temps have been noticably colder. Maine winters absolutely suck and the older I get, the more I hate them. PSU is now 2 years old and AGN is about to celebrate a year of Ask the Devs - hard to believe its been that long. It's been a great run and we all are so proud to have been a part of the community experience.
I've been fairly busy with computer work the last couple of weeks - although Murphy has been a house guest a little too often - has left me with "Anti-Midas" syndrom (You know, where everything you touch turns to $hl+, rather than gold?) - worked on a friends machine which had been royally screwed up and after I'd put a bunch of time into it pulling out virus's and spyware, I'd deceided it was just easier to rebuild it, and had set it aside. Pulled it out, plugged it in - went to turn it on and the MB blew up on the stupid thing. So that was depressing. My sons machine hasn't been in the best of health either and an aquaintence of his was going to sell him a 100gb HD - went to install that and it first of all had a boot sector virus on it - went to delete the partition and sudden his machine shuts down like it's was in suspend mode - Power supply blew up - Hard Drive turns out to be fubar as well - will write but fails to read properly. After screwing with that for a few hours, finally it starts failing the S.M.A.R.T. test so it's a doorstop. Better to find out "before" the new OS gets installed on it I guess, but still. So XP with an intergrated sp2 was overlaid on his existing drive and after a good couple of days of updates, installs, defrags, tuning, etc... he is back in business and a happy camper again. Also completely rebuilt another friends machine - 233 Mhz PIII - like watching paint dry for that - and a "real" customers machine (another damn 233 Mhz pos) in that time span as well, so I've spent a lot of time "watching the wheels go round and round" (thanks John L.). New MB should be in any day now for my other friend (John - who I've mentioned im my blog a few posts back) so he should be back in business soon. He's doing much better these days and seems much more like his old self. Still has his moments of course (who wouldn't) but I'm happy to see him in better spirits.
Wife has been sick with bronchitus - which sucks. She's slowly on the mend but such things take time. Hopefully she'll be past this soon.
Finally finished Doom3 - Hell was hell, and about 1/3 of the way through, I finally broke down and resorted to the cheat codes just to get through the story line (which is much more the reason I play such things anyway) and I'm glad I did as seeing what I had to face beyond the point I was at, I'd have never finished it. I like to be able to make progress even if it's only a little progress and it was obvious to me that I'd have never made it much further. Storyline was good and despite that I cheated in the end, I thought I did well to get as far as I'd got.
T:V is out (Tribes:Vengenge for the unknowing) - After being in beta, and playing the multi-player demos - I'm in no rush to go out and get it - in fact I doubt I'll be picking it up until it drops price in several months. I understand they did a great job in the single player and I commend them for that, but... this is TRIBES and multiplayer is where it's at and IMO that part is very weak. They didn't even get a decent observer hud in the game, nor did they provide a dedicated server .exe - which it utterly rediculous consider that hosting servers aren;t going to be stuffing CD's into the racks. Thus there is a serious lack of retail version servers to play on - rather makes the whole shoutcasting and teamplay part a joke. Most people who were into T1 and T2 agree - it's "ok" but not what those original versions were all about and it's left most veteran players cold. Too bad, but not totally unexpected.
Played the Evil Genious Demo - that was fun. Demo was a little too "StarCrafty" for my taste but I understand the full version doesn't zerg the enemy quite as much as the demo does. That being the case, I may have to look into that.
My dog is once again shedding yet another 50 pounds of fur. Seems like we finally just got her clear of her winter coat and looking decent again instead of a stuffed toy with 9/10's of the stuffing hanging out everywhere. Now there are clumps showing all over her and seems like six inches of fur on the floor everyday - little balls of it slowly floating acrost the floor like miniture tumbleweeds. She's a great dog, but husky, wolf, sheppard is a bad mix for hair - lol. Wouldn't give her up for anything though - smart as a whip - even talks. All our animals are mouthy and wierd. We just seem to pick em.
Well I'm running out of things to mumble about - you'd think I'd have more after a month? Life in Maine just plain isn't very exciting ya know, so I suppose I'm lucky to have written this much in one sitting. I'll see if I can cut down the time interval to my next posting to less that a month - perhaps martyr won't even have to guilt me into posting something. :p
3 Comments:
Wow he IS alive!
ooh, and comments too! huzzah!
Marsman, the PSU community demands pictures of your dog and your family :p
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