Monday, December 27, 2004

I have had a day to play

From my girlfriend I got an awesome shirt, green, long sleeve with the text World's Laziest Ninja and a picture of a fat ninja with akimbo sword. She also got me a flashlight, always handy to have around. 2 more stickers to add to my laptop (I'll get to this in a bit). A 100 piece Spiderman 2 movie puzzle which we've already pieced together. Oooh, I can't forget this one... she's getting my tongue pierced. I'll be doing that in a couple days, so it is mostly healed when school starts again. And who doesn't need a calendar before the new year? She got me this kickass Sea Monkey calendar. 12 months of sea monkey memorabilia. Her parents and brother got me a box of Pot of Gold (chocolates) and a bunch of Spiderman swag. A towel, toothbrush, comic book, binder. Gotta love that. I got a Dirt Devil vacuum from my Dad and his girlfriend. Money from my Mom and Stepdad. And a Lord of the Rings action figure of Eomer and his Horse. A few more figures and I can create a scene on my desktop.

I also got American McGee's Alice and "The Looking Glass Wars" from my Girlfriend. Isn't she the best? ^_^

Now, as for the laptop. Yeah, I'm writing on it right now. P4 2.8GHz... you've read it before. This thing is sweeet. I downloaded the HalfLife 2 demo and played through the two chapters, the game was butter. I can run it at max everything, looks good, run's not so good. It's still playable, though. So turning it down to the defaults (still great visuals) and the game runs awesome. No slowdown or choppiness. I love it. And when I get to school with it, I'll be able to access the wireless network around the school. And I'll get RedHat running on here so I can bring my research home with me as well. I'm just waiting a week or two so I can run it hardcore, break it in, etc then I can rip the existing HP stickers off here and put my own on.

I've got a sticker of the Mudflap girl with a flame fill instead of black, and a woman holding a large lolipop while wearing lingerie. Last years stickers were the dog licking himself and text saying "Because I can", the other was a topless redhead (mmm redhead!) sitting on a cherry with text saying "Everything to lose". So I'll stick at least 3 of those on the lid of my laptop. I'm thinking of putting another inside my laptop, to the left of the touchpad.

Oh! Last night when our friends got home, we visited them and exchanged gifts. I got a tamagotchi from one. And from the other friend I got a sushi set. Chopsticks, dried seaweed, mochi rice (sticky rice), pickled ginger and a tube of wasabi. She's going to teach me how to make sushi, I can't wait.

-Good things in life? Fun things in life

Sunday, December 26, 2004

It is now

4:42am and I'm filling myself with the fuel needed to keep warm the next hour outside FutureShop, waiting in line with the other faithfuls. This is it, this morning decides which notebook computer is going to be by my side at least until the end of my University career. I've got water heating for hot chocolate and Maple and Brown sugar porridge steaming in front of me. 15 minutes and I'd have planned to be standing outside.

-But I still need to brush the snow off my car

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