Worked 40 hours the weekend of 1/16-18 and then half a day on MLK even though the rest of my dept was off for the day. Then worked 24 hours on 1/20, and 12 more on 1/21 before finding out that my grandfather had passed away. My supervisor kindly stepped in to finish the upgrade that was going on (seperate from the weekend's work) and let me come home to be with family. During all this time I was having a flare up of a medical condition that I have and on the day I planned to return to Wisc, I took a turn for the worse and ended up going to the local hospital and getting admitted. Two days and 5 units of blood later, I'm feeling a lot better and the flare up's seem to have been stopped by some of the meds I was put on. Oh yeah, and I'm not <2 days away from death anymore like I was Monday. Woot meds! Going to take another day or two here to a) continue to be with family and b) make sure the flare ups don't come back, before I head back home. Gah, what a couple of weeks it has been.
On the upside (depending on your pov), having time to surf while laid up, I fell upon this picture from AoC and have decided that I need to get some time in on that this weekend. I am in the mood for spilling blood that isn't my own. Also, Jack Lalane juicer commercials are on some cable channel in N. Iowa just about every hour of the day.
January 28, 2009
January 5, 2009
Quick update
Been hitting SWG's Shadowfire pretty hard over break. Last half of Dec = nothin but stress, Jan looks to continue. Will update more later this week. Need to get back into AoC. Linky to SWG screenshots.
December 15, 2008
Pledge results
-Not sure how many of AoC (see xfire), almost to 25. Had fun doing some solo sneaking and random grouping.
-SWG, no clue how much time in SWG, but I got it running again and enjoyed myself.
-Did blog some stuff. More to come, thoughts on FCTS and such.
-No uploaded Screen shots :)
Between now and next Monday:
-Hit 28 in AoC
-upload more screenshots
-have more fun in SWG
-blog stuff
-SWG, no clue how much time in SWG, but I got it running again and enjoyed myself.
-Did blog some stuff. More to come, thoughts on FCTS and such.
-No uploaded Screen shots :)
Between now and next Monday:
-Hit 28 in AoC
-upload more screenshots
-have more fun in SWG
-blog stuff
December 14, 2008
Early morning SWG
Wow, you know your galaxy has population/enthusiasm problems when you do a bazaar search and there is 1, count em 1, weapon available for sale in the entire galaxy.
December 13, 2008
So far this weekend
Space PVP on Valcyn last night. Macbook Pro is really having issues running SWG since Ch11 came out, though I don't know if it's linked to that or not. An event of 3 15 minute rounds took 2.5 hours. Hrm, not a big fan of that.
Today I slept late, then ran errands, so I didn't get into AoC until 6pm or so. Hit level 23, ended up grouping with a guy I helped fight off attacking Vanir. We finished one of my quests, he shared one with me, we grouped with a level 33 guy to finish the shared, and along the way I got both 1/2 way to level 24 and 3/4 of several other quests I had. Should be able to solo those.
Along the way, I noticed that my shuttle pc is now showing video ram in dxdiag, which means SWG will let me play in a windowed mode. The shuttle is 3 years older than the MBP, has a prev gen vid card (X800XT vs MBP's X1600), and is using the same wireless mouse (I take it back and forth). Lag is not showing like it does on the MBP, although I'm still not impressed with SWG's performance on a machine that was built to play games 2.5 years after SWG was released.
Will start resizing screenshots for upload to Flickr and will update again tomorrow. Also, I added AoC friend Zangra's flickr photostream to my links.
Today I slept late, then ran errands, so I didn't get into AoC until 6pm or so. Hit level 23, ended up grouping with a guy I helped fight off attacking Vanir. We finished one of my quests, he shared one with me, we grouped with a level 33 guy to finish the shared, and along the way I got both 1/2 way to level 24 and 3/4 of several other quests I had. Should be able to solo those.
Along the way, I noticed that my shuttle pc is now showing video ram in dxdiag, which means SWG will let me play in a windowed mode. The shuttle is 3 years older than the MBP, has a prev gen vid card (X800XT vs MBP's X1600), and is using the same wireless mouse (I take it back and forth). Lag is not showing like it does on the MBP, although I'm still not impressed with SWG's performance on a machine that was built to play games 2.5 years after SWG was released.
Will start resizing screenshots for upload to Flickr and will update again tomorrow. Also, I added AoC friend Zangra's flickr photostream to my links.
December 11, 2008
I Pledge
Taking a cue from old episodes of YaMB, I pledge to do the following before Monday, Dec 15th:
-AoC for 6+ hours (gotta hit 25 or maybe even 30)
-SWG for 4+ hours (gotta hit at least 10 on my new Starsider Trader)
-Blog something
-Upload those dang screenshots
Maybe I should do also pledge to pledge for the next month. Got a busy time at work and I need to be able to relax. Theoretically things like the above relax me.
-AoC for 6+ hours (gotta hit 25 or maybe even 30)
-SWG for 4+ hours (gotta hit at least 10 on my new Starsider Trader)
-Blog something
-Upload those dang screenshots
Maybe I should do also pledge to pledge for the next month. Got a busy time at work and I need to be able to relax. Theoretically things like the above relax me.
December 1, 2008
Keep meaning to update but....
I keep meaning to update but don't know when I'll find the time. Doing this update via the email update function, woot. Don't worry, more screenshots, stories, and even some actual thoughts of the state of different MMO's will be coming along the line at some point this week. I said "Don't worry" because I know that's been keeping you up at night lately. So stop it.
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