Got out of work early, came home, got Age of Conan. Installing now, should be done in an hour or so. Yay gaming. Now to be patient til it installs.

Current Music: 10,000 BC on DVD

Well, to curb my desire for food I ran and got a cheesesteak for lunch. I also checked with Amazon, and my copy of Age of Conan was delivered. So now I'm full, kinda sleepy and REALLY not wanting to be at work. But, 3 1/2 hours and I'm outta here. And I haz plans for tomorrow, yay pool parties. Now to just make it til 5...*twiddles thumbs*

Current Mood: here
Current Music: King Diamond - Them

Well, it's Thursday...aka PseudoFriday. Yay for 3 day weekends. I'd be more yay, but my brain is kinda meh. Want to go back home and go back to bed. Or read a book. But, 7 hours and I go home, and get my copy of Age of Conan. Then tonight, install, patch, and pray it works :) Then I should be going across Hyboria decapitating people left and right ;)

Had a good night last night, hung around with Amythest. Worked on my new mini- project. Let me explain, you remember those radio plays I go on about, from The HPL Historical Society ? Well, they come with 'props', faux newspaper clippings and maps and pictures related to the play. So I have these little oddities filed away. A few weeks ago I had a bright idea of making a scrapbook to display them. Well, last night me and Amythest got working on it, and it turned out really good. Creative and artistic friends are always a good thing. I'll be posting pictures of it once I figure out how to transfer pics from my camera ;)

Still no definite plans for the 4th. 5th is seeing Wall-E. Oh and sleeping, I see alot of sleeping this weekend. I need it. Probably some camera experimenting and game playing too. Mostly though, vegging. Wish me luck.

Current Mood: ok
Current Music: Virgin Steele - Burning of Rome

Today in 1947, a UFO crashes near Roswell, NM. 15 years later, on the same day the first Walmart opens.

Coincidence ? I think not ;)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Crimson Glory - Burning Bridges

Well, another day, another shoggoth. At work, mostly sane here. Slept less than great, insomnia decided to say howdy. Woke up, remembered rent was due last night...so I had a nice flurry of activity this morning, throwing clothes on, writing a check and racing to the office. Came home, got ready for work. Yog is running fine, so it seems I fixed the issue o bluescreening *knocks on wood*

The new monitor has me wanting to add a pair of flatpanels to Shub-Internet. Some nice 24" flat panels would be nice, and even vaguely affordable. Well, maybe by my spawning day ;) But everything looks so crisp on the new monitor. Thus, savings accords are bled dry ;)

Not much else going on. Guess I should get back to the Shoggoth Pit. Wee.

Current Mood: ok
Current Music: Blind Guardian - Fly (told you I liked this song)

Got Yog-Software (my gaming box) home from chraptor today. Met up with him and pyrene for dinner, then snagged box. Ran home, hooked it up, booted. All well. My new monitor looks wonderful. Had some issues with software installs, found the evil nvidia firewall that got installed, removed what was causing the download foo. Then the computer started blue screening. Gave up, went to play with ferrets. Came back out, and the geek came out in me. So I did some googling, and found a known issue with Nvidia software that's installed and XP SP3. Removed software, cleaned up the registry and now we see. *crosses fingers* Hopefully that will fix the blue screen foo.

In other news, I decided I'll be eating ramen for the next week and some, and ordered Age of Conan from Amazon. I should have it Thursday, so Thursday night I'll be adventuring in the lands of Hyboria. Assuming I can make it work. If not, I'll wait til I can do the video card and memory upgrades next paycheck. But I think it will work. I have faith. By Crom ;)

Ok, I need to get to bed. Night all.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: humming computers

Well, today has been much less frantic than yesterday. Car is inspected, lit up and now waiting on registration tag from the state gov't. Yay for this time of year, when car foo comes to the forefront. Oh well, at least I had the funds. Didn't do much of merit last night, laundry and finally made dinner that didn't involve a microwave. Woo me. Of course, it was Hamburger Helper, so it didn't require much more work than the microwave... but still, it's cooking of a sort. Played with ferrets, saw Whiskey deside that he, like his sister can fly. He lept from the bed to a stand alone fan I have I have by the bed. He didn't get close, but boy did he get some height on his leap. He's also turning into one portly ferret. When I got him he was skinny and you could feel his ribs. Well, no longer. He's a nicely plump feezel now. Nyx and Arwen had fun too, but no real amusing stories from last night. Oh, wait...Nyx did decide she wanted the Pringles I was snacking on, no matter what I did to discourage her. So no more snacking for me, and Pringles out of ferret range.

Today has been decent, work was busy this morning with tons of DNS changes for one guy. Not much else. Going by chraptor and pyrene's place tonight to pick up my gamer box. Run home, hook it up, start playing software setup. Avoid temptation to go out and buy Age of Conan on the way home. ;) Wee. Should be good.

Ooh, the camera I ordered from Woot, plus an Amazon order should be delivered today. Ugg, now the decision...do I go home and get packages from office, then drive back to North Dallas to get computer, or do I wait on packages til tomorrow and go direct to Chez chraptor from work. Ugg, decisions, decisions. *tries to make up mind* *fails*

edit: Ok, after talking to chraptor and pyrene, we decided to grab some dinner and hang out a bit, so I'm going to go to ... whereever we decide to go eat tonight. So I'll grab my packages from the office tomorrow instead. Spread out the new shiney things over two days instead of one.

Current Mood: random
Current Music: Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy

Home is where the books are. And friends. And ferrets. ;)

Actually, really...home for me is New York. I haven't lived there in over 20 years, but it's still my home. That goofy village of Valley Stream. Taking the train into the city to visit the museums. Half a dozen good pizza places in walking distance of home, and delis with real bagels. I miss real seasons, leaves changing colors in September, Jones Beach in the summer and the bite of cool air on my birthday. That's my 'home'. And yes, there are things I don't miss about New York. Prices, temperature inversions and garbage men on strike, over-the-top accents, the fact that everything is busy-busy-busy. But, in my memories, the good things win out over the bad. So there. ;)

But, most everyone I care about is here in Texas...so I'm stuck here. I don't mind it all that often, besides the weather, the lack of good bagels, and the occasional desire to jackslap the goofballs who also live around here. So I'll deal with the State of Insanity Texas. Maybe someday I'll even get used to the summers...

Nah...

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire

I've developed a fondness for the song 'Fly' by Blind Guardian. A metal song about Peter Pan and co, who'd have thunk it. I've been playing it repeatedly for the last few days. It's fun, and nicely complex. My kind of music. I recommend the band heartily. (Hmm, need a metalhead icon for LJ).

Current Music: Blind Guardian - Fly

2 hours to go, well less. And of course it's a slow ass Monday. So I'm bored off my gourd. Oh well, I will survive. *yawn*

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Mercyful Fate - Egypt