Saturday, May 11, 2002

CAMPER!

I'm back a day early from camping, and just as well anyway. It was costing my Dad $20 a night to have me there, so I only stayed one night. I was following my cousin's girlfriend back today, and she in turn was following my cousin. They were going too slow for my liking so 5 minutes into the drive back (along the dirt road) I stopped my car completely. I gave them a 30 second start on me, could have been more, could have been less. Judging by the (fun) results I wasn't thinking right. They were doing 50km/h down the road, I was doing 65. Not much of a difference, really, but it was enough to catch up to them. So I was going around the corners all sliding and having fun when I get out of a corner onto a straight stretch of road and my car starts to slip on loose gravel. Doesn't sound exciting to you but when I was nearly run off the road twice within 5 seconds, it was lots of fun for me :)

Yesterday was a lot of moping around, and eating, and not doing much else in general. Today was a "study" day, where I spent most of the day reading through my math work. Then I just decided to come home, here I am. The end

-Master Story Teller With Capital Words

Friday, May 10, 2002

Rational Thinking

I really do fly away on May 23, which is really cool because I'll make it for Newnan Highschool and East Coweta's grad. I just want to make it to EC's so I can see a certain friend before she moves away to New York. Newnan's grad will be good, too, if I can make it. I've got various friends I'd like to see then, too.
May 29, the day of my college appointment, I'll just register online, or get another college-apt friend to register for me. And my sister offered to drop off the $100 deposit for registration, as well. So that's cleared up, but finishing my math course isn't. I've got 4 days of school left before I leave, thanks for next Monday being a holiday. That's 4 days to try and finish chapters 7 through 10 and write the exam as well. All that needs to be done with chapter 7 and 9 is to write the tests seeing how I've finished those already. Chapter 8 (advanced Geometry -- fairly easy) and Chapter 10 (Trigonometry) are all that's holding me back. That and the fact that I'm really rushed for time. So whatever I don't get done in the next 4 days, I'll have to get that done June 24 and 25, 25 being the last day of school.

-Here comes a month long vacation during school

Thursday, May 09, 2002

I'm

shaking right

-now
House Sitting, is that - like - baby sitting?

Tuesday night I get a call from my Aunt (GASP! Here's a name -- the name of Peter Parker's Aunt) asking for my Grandpa. That was at 4pm, when she let me know my Grandpa's brother, and thus my great-uncle, had just had a severe heart attack. 4:30pm I got a call from that man's son, asking for someone else I had no idea of. Come 5 or 6pm, my Grandpa's other brother calls and tells me that his brother had died and not to have me tell my Grandpa, but that he'd take care of it. So that was Tuesday night.

Tuesday afternoon, I was in school. I got my chapter 5 test results back -- not too good . Only 52% on that test, bringing my mean grade down to 82%, but my overall grade down to 56%. Not too good at all. So I wrote the chapter 6 test, same question formula over and over, so I either passed with 100% or I failed with 0%. And on the topic of school, today I spent 2 hours 17 minutes at school. In social terms, that means I spent 1 hour 50 minutes talking and being distracted with all the female eye candy. The other 27 minutes was spent rushing through a short chapter 9 in all it's statistical glory.

Morrowind update: I started a new character, two actually. Another Thief, but this time it's a Lizard-man, I forget what their race is called. He's a NightBlade. A magic user, more or less, but I use him as a thief, the magic is just to enhance his thieving abilities. My other character, my newest and current favorite, is a RedGuard Knight. He kicks ass.

***BREAKING NEWS***
My Mom tells me she bought my plane ticket to Georgia already. The plane leaves May 23 and is a non-refundable ticket. Why is this bad? Because I've got an appointment May 29 at the college regarding registration and my courses. NON-FREAKING-REFUNDABLE TICKET?!?!? 0_o NON-RESCHEDUABLE-COLLEGE-MEETING. Good -- Bad... I'm falling right now, I'm upside down. You've heard that before, it's probably an equilibrium thing, but I feel like I'm hanging from the ceiling at this news. I'mma go now.

-Thinking time

Tuesday, May 07, 2002

Beta Testing

I feel as if I'm beta testing Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind for Bethesda Softworks. The first day playing it was fine, I hadn't gotten very far in the game, nor was I doing much. Now, however, I find the game crashes on me 3 or 4 times in a 1 or 2 hour session. It happens only 3 or 4 times because I get frustrated with the game and stop playing after that. Here's the bugs I've encountered so far:

1)) You fall through the floor when you bunny hop, happens often enough for you to ph34r jumping. If a lake is underneath you (Vivec City) then you end up falling through all layers of ground until you splash into the water where you need to swim around until you find a place out. If there is no water beneath you, count yourself lucky if you fall and the game automatically resets you on the floor where you fell through. The unlucky time is when you just fall and fall and fall... and fall.

2)) Game crashes when you quick load a game after someone has started talking to you. Can't be reproduced every time, but it happens often enough, as said before.

3)) I'm sure there's a third bug that annoys me.

You all know my system specs, but here they are again in case some Bethesda developer is actually reading this and wants to do something about these bugs.
AMD K-7 III 751MHz w/ 256MB PC-133 SD-Ram and a TNT2 pr0 32MB AGP. Gigabyte something or another motherboard. 15GB Maxtor 7200 RPM HDD.

-Blazed and Diffused

Monday, May 06, 2002

I close the locked door behind me

And in turn I learn I don't have the keys to open that door. I locked myself out of my own house today at 2pm, and didn't have my car keys with me either because they were on the same loop as my house keys. I walked around the house 5 or 6 times, checking all the windows and doors. I even attempted to pick the lock of said door, and was almost successfull but I'm underexperienced. So I sat in my car, which I didn't have locked, and read the Lord of the Rings novel for 30 or 45 minutes before I fell asleep. My Dad got home after 5pm and I was back in the house. School was over by then, no point in going out after that.

-entries have gotten duller
Assassins Abound

School stuff - that's the name of today's game. I've got to go to town today to get a key from my Grandma for house sitting tomorrow. I figured I may as well stop in at school and write a test, seeing how I'd be in the neighborhood. Busy month, May is. Saw Spider-man (excellent) Friday night; house sit for 3 days; pound posts for a fence; have an appointment with a college councellor re: courses; Uncle's surprise birthday at some lake with cabins (and thankfully electricity); Dentist appointment; and finally, an appointment at the college re: registration of courses and timetable stuff. I suppose I should also pick up a Student Loan application some time soon, if they are even out yet.

Progress Quest:
Lvl 48(4/5)
574 HP -- 761 MP
368 WIS
41 known spells
Act VII

Morrowind:
Lvl 1 Breton Mage -- Lawful Good -- Poor because he's so nice

Lvl 4 Khujit Assassin -- Chaotic Good -- Steals from Shopkeepers, but never kills people. He's rich, or can be when he wants to be

Lvl 3 Wood Elf Assassin -- Chaotic Evil -- If she can get away with it, you're dead. Providing you don't offer her any services she uses. She's got cash to travel, mass murderer that's spread her plague across 1/25 all the land.

-It's all in the Stealth

Saturday, May 04, 2002

Fathers, hide your daughters

BECAUSE HERE'S SOME PR0N FOR YA!!!
WiLD pr0n

-uh huh uh huh uh huh
The Morrowind of the story

Yessum! I bought Morrowind and have thoroughly enjoyed it since I bought it 36 hours ago. My first character was an Illusionist Mage, but I strayed to the Destructive side. I think I'll scrap him and start a true Destructive mage soon. My second character which I started this morning is an Assassin-Thief variant. Great with acrobatics, good with athletics, great with small blades, good with ranged skills. A very sneaky character, I often steal stuff from shop keepers whilst they aren't looking and I sell them back. I was only caught once when I tried selling a basket back to a shopkeep, he said "That basket is mine. What have you got to say?" and his fondness of me went down from 46 to 45 of 100. No big deal, and he didn't call the guards on me. Now, if I can find a mage with 60,000 gold or better, I'll be rich. I stole a 60,000$ soul gem from a mage apprentice, but most shop keepers only have 800 gold on them, so I can't sell it yet.

Time to sneak through the town some more and loot some more stuff. I just hope I won't get caught later on; meaning I don't get caught right away, I hope the shopkeeps don't put 2 and 2 together and come after me. I'll be forced to whoop some ass, instead of hiding in shadows.

-Moral

Friday, May 03, 2002

Obsessive Gaming

Morrowind is now in my possession

-Game Time

Thursday, May 02, 2002

Suck to the stuff

OK, I called around to EB Games, Radio Shack and Wal*Mart, in that order, and nobody has Morrowind. The assistant manager of EB says the game will be in tomorrow with the morning shipment, but I don't trust that bastage >_< he never hired me when I applied there months ago. Guess it's just because I'm over qualified for the job. If all goes well, I'll be adventuring all night tomorrow, after I get back from the theatre and Spiderman, right? Right!

-Addicted, or some such thing
Small Break

I've got the Lord of the Rings novel from my friend, who I also borrowed his PS2 from, but he's got my GameCube now. Morrowind is also supposed to have been released upon the North American public today. Barring only reviews, I'll see in a few days whether or not I buy this game. It could tide me over until the release of Neverwinter Nights, and then again, it could make me overlook NwN completely -- all depending, which is to be expected. And since I'll be house sitting for my grandparents this weekend, and pounding fence posts for my Uncle, I should come back at least $60 richer, the game being $75 most likely.

-Bored to hell and back

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Camping is done

And that doesn't sound like it went too well. It was great, I had fun. But no where, any time, was I told any money would be coming out of my own pocket. That's why I brought my own food, right? Yeah, that's right. I packed my own food and my own drinks. So why, then, didn't anyone tell me before I left that I'd have to pay for the food I'd eat while camping? I had my own food to eat, but everyone pushed their food down my throats. Not that I said "No thanks, I think I'll eat my own food", because I would have rather eaten their food. But if I had been told, "Those two eggs, two sausages and two slices of bread you just ate cost you $5" I'd be like "fucking hell no it doesn't". So out of these meals, it cost me $25: [thin steak with mashed potatoes], [4 pieces of French Toast with two sausages (of which there were leftovers)], [two burgers], [spaghetti (plenty left over)] and finally [two eggs, two sausages and two slices of bread]. As for liquids, I mostly drank water and my 5 cans of diet cola nobody would touch. Now I'm kind of bitter, because everyone else ate much more than I did, I'd have been quite happy only owing $15.

-I'm upside down

Saturday, April 27, 2002

Camper!!!

I'm going to be lame and camp the next 24 hours at least, possibly even 48 hours. Nobody likes a camper but somebody's got to do it. And with the possibility of coming across wobbly female companions, it'll be well worth it. Out to one of the many lakes tonight, where hopefully the snow's all melted from. Otherwise I'll be sleeping my my car for two (possibly one) nights. Birthday parties are tons'o'fun, but only if you're 16 or older and it's not your own party. My friend turns 23 today, I think. Could be younger, he acts younger. So it'll be drink-drink and make whoopy tonight, though I never liked using that term "whoopy". It made me think of Whoopy Goldburg and that's never a seksi thought.

-sex0r

Friday, April 26, 2002

It's just one of those days, you don't want to wake up. Everything is...

I just wanna justify ripping someone's head off >_<
Not really, of course. But it is one of those days I just want to get away from my computer. I think I'll go upstairs and play some Tekken Tag Tournament on the big screen. Or maybe I could make myself some instant noodles and scratch my nuts.

As you can see, I never did take that "one week break" from my computer. That's alright, I got caught up in some other stuff. So many projects going on at once, that's pretty bad. I'mma try to change into one of those people who only has one or two projects going on at once; if you have many it's usually a sign that you can never stick to it through the end.

Excitement about Neverwinter Nights is building. I redownloaded the three known (to me) trailers of the game and I want more. I want a demo of the toolset. I want I want I want. Please, for my own good, do not give them to me. I've signed up for the beta and I've been a member of the official NwN forums for months. I'm as good a shoe-in for the beta as anybody. That could be your present to me, BioWare.

-Wandering Monster

Thursday, April 25, 2002

Random Old Lady in the Super Market

I like your necklace. It really suits you.
She was eye'ing me up in the line at the cashier. She started walking down to her few groceries and had left her walking stick (it sounds much more grand than 'cane' ) hanging off the side register. My Dad walks up immediately after her, taking her place, but leaving her grand scepter there (so now it's a grand scepter?). I picked it up and hung it on the seperator post thingy behind her. She started looking around for it, so I pointed it out. She picked it up, looked at me, and she smiled. She then proceeded to tell me she thought my necklace suited me very well. See, it's a wodden bead necklace; brown and tan in pattern. I made it myself after my youngest cousin tried pulling it down over her fat head last summer. The clamp was closed and she succeeded in showering the lawn with 50-odd wooden beads. Needless to say, my necklace is now made of 40 or so. -- I always like to help other people

Now, for the game stuff. I spent two hours last night playing Dungeon Siege with the No-Level mod. The first hour, I levelled up my lvl 0 farmer to lvl 38. In the second hour (or slightly more?) he graduated to lvl 67 Champion. Talk about power levelling :) I'm bored and there's not much else to do with the game.

Today I started a new character. Instead of the melee character like last night, I spent the last hour building an Archer. In 60 minutes, no more and no less (it's my limit ) I brought her up to lvl 50, 3 attacks away from lvl 51 !!! Now that is impressive, more or less. I'll spend another hour with her later, then I'll choose which character, the Master Sharpshooter or the Champion, I'd like to run through the Single Player map with, in MultiPlayer mode; at least the castle level.

-Good deeds and smilies abound

Oh, right

I forgot to update you all about my ProgressQuest character (though the link is to the left). Currently Level 43 with 443 HP, 537 MP and knows 40 different spells.

-I'll make you care

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Brother

dad saw the bags under my eyes and knew i was staying up really late. he asked how late, i said 1:00. he said 11:00 bedtime or "no computer or tv". i said ok so now its 11:00 instead of 10:30. G'night.

-what he said
Master

That's what I am when it comes to Tekken Tag Tournament. Go ahead, I am teh L33T. Take me on if you dare!

My ProgressQuest character is teh L33T. He's up to lvl 40 now.

This is just another line to add to my post.

Um, yeah and stuff.

I spent way too long with computers over the last 24 hours, and they weren't even my own computers :( I got $10 out of my sister for helping her. I didn't get anything out of my Aunty for the help I gave her (which was plenty of help -- She's got a friggen DELL of all things, YOU DON'T NEED HELP WITH A DELL!L!L!"

-L33T

Monday, April 22, 2002

um, blorg?

Aaaaaaaahhh, massive (de?)pressurization of my ear. It pains!!! I just spent the last 2 hours power levelling a friend's combat mage in Dungeon Siege. Went from 0 to 28 in about 50 minutes, then another hour. He's lvl 38+ now, we killed the Dragon Queen, then cleaned out the Drake Nest of all other drakes. By that time it was 2am and I wasn't really too eager to stick around much longer.

While playing Ragnarok Online today, I lvled myself up to 17 and job lvl 7 Swordman.
My ProgressQuest character, SnotShrivel is a happy little Double-Hobbit Bastard Lunatic. He's currently level 38, very close to level 39 and kicking muchos ass.
Shock and horror!!! I'm in first place in the BuF Fantasy Baseball league! 0_o I bumped Dopefish out of first place. Though, tomorrow (today by Blog's terms - the 22) I'll be down to 5th or so. I've only got 4 batters playing today, so statistically I should suck.

Tomorow is going to be another day at school writing tests so I can catch up. I succeeded in sitting on my ass all weekend and not doing much of anything. I didn't touch my homework once. Not so much as even a bump, or lifting up the book to get at something underneath it. I have will-power. Oh! Yes I do.

->_<

Oh, when I was visiting my friend the other night, I brought his PS2 back with me. I still haven't touched it, maybe I should set my TV up and play some Tekken Tag Tournament until I pass out. Or maybe I should continue playing my FFX save until I pass out. Or maybe race some GT3 A-Spec until I pass out...

-I passed out

Sunday, April 21, 2002

You're my Daddy

Gas Powered Games, it's taken me a long time to track you down. And now that I've finally found you, I thought you'd like to know you're my Daddy. You see, this game you just made has owned me almost every single day since I bought it, and I got it asap. I was up last night conquering the Great Northern Forest and when I say conquering the I mean I really cleared it out. There was nothing left alive in the forest, save for the odd fairy, butterfly and fish in the ponds you can't fry. The bandit boss to the N-W through the Great Forest yielded a kickass rare ring which I cherish. And the 4 drakes (maybe it was 3? I can't remember, it was 4am when I got there) guarding their various treasures proved a very worthy fight. Mostly because I was in a 3 person MP game and I was taking on the G.N.F. all by myself as a lvl 36 Magus.

-GPG, I salute you

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