A Stitch in Time
So the Hurricane has come and gone. I still have my roof- minus several shingles and for the most part we are all dry. I lost electricity for a total of six days and almost lost my mind. I have now discovered that I am a slave to the light. I tried walking in Darkness but on the final day I couldn’t take it anymore. My lack of light (plus the random temperature changes and some allergens) made me quite sick. I have some flu/infection/something that only antibiotics can fix, and Allegra can relieve. I am forbidden to drink anything dairy or cold but atleast my Doctor gave me two days to stay home and recover.
While here I would like to reach level 50- but all the WOW servers are down for maintenance until 11am today.
In other news- I have put my PC building plans on hold yet again. All I need is the RAM and a Case with a PSU but I am holding out a little longer. I need to invest my money. I want to be in a different/stronger position in one year. I therefore will forego that bling system for another month or two. I will not give in to temptation just yet. Check this out- U$860 for a 50″ DLP HDTV. I should buy it now and worry about the consequences later. What I do to discourage myself from it is I remember that is how some people get AIDS.
In essence I am going to take it easy and continue plotting and scheming. One day I will have everything I really want.
In Oblivion
RPGs. These represent the loveable alternate realities some of us live each day. Some people have MMORPGs like World of Warcraft that they sink themselves into and join with other people. I have never been that good at RPGs but since I beat Fable: Lost Chapters my self-confidence increased a bit. My brother is a master in RPGs though- even from the Guild Wars days. I have decided to increase my confidence some more by going far in Oblivion then I can cross over into an MMO.
Oblivion. I decided to enter the game without reading any guides- chooing a class, sign and major attributes at default. Then I read a guide. I am so far off target it is stunning. I can’t believe the amount of work I have to do to get to some semblance of order. Thanks to this link for showing me the light.
The game is old but it is still stunning. Playing it at night- at night (meaning night in the game and night in real life) is really fun and can be scary. Those dungeons are horrible. I have had to run away twice because some vampire guy decided to rush me with his big axe- and I am only an apprentice!
So, when I am not working, or hanging with my loved ones I am right over there in Tamriel. I am the Imperial Warrior Johnny Depp.
Its been awhile
Here we are again.
Life has been extremely busy for me for the past couple months. I have moved from upstairs to downstairs- and had to bear all the costs of that migration. Work continues to be extremely hard and all engrossing and I continue to breathe- thankfully.
I now have a vga cable for my Xbox 360. This cable works pretty well. It delivers High Definition quality to my 19″ WXGA. At first I wanted to get a KVM switch but I set things up in a neat way that allows me to swap audio and video pretty quickly without any pain.
TK needs new shocks and new tyres. I am putting that down as an action item for the end of February. After paying off all my debts for the December migration I am just now rebuilding my finances so I am not going to be broke-flat-broke again. Nope, those days are done. Sadly though a new set of shocks will run me between 23k and 48k. Somewhere that claims to sell genuine Mitsubishi shocks (Berts Auto) charges 12k a pop while Universal Shocks sells for 5k-6k for one. Universal Shocks claims there is no ‘Mitsubishi factory made shocks’ and that instead the shocks are made by other companies. Sounds like aftermarket to me. However, who is really going to pay 48k for shocks when I need four new 15″ tyres? This car thing is serious. Atleast my belts are installed properly and I seemingly only have a problem with shocks and tyres and nothing else.
If you backup a lot of media you should know that knowing where to find it is key. For the past four or more months I have had everything on one of three large spindles. I emptied one of the spindles and found 20 blank dvds plus two copies of things I rearchived because I thought I had lost the former archive- and that is one spindle. I have one more major spindle left because the second spindle was mainly blank discs- closer to thirty.
I am selling the Nokia 9300 to my cousin- or atleast I intend to. I want to get the Blackberry Pearl. I have assessed my usage and I don’t use any killer apps on my phone. I use mainly the standard PIM features and especially email. My 9300 can’t deliver that email and I haven’t been able to find any local contacts to upgrade it. I am going to try to not pay for the Blackberry service but I think the Blackberry 8100 is where I should be right now.
I hope to post more regular updates.
Moving on UP!
I can safely say, without fear of contention, that I am with the most wonderful woman in the world. Okay, so my mother is wonderful too- but my girlfriend is the absolute best, nicest, sweetest lady ever to walk into my life.
I thought it was impossible to surprise me but oh was I wrong. She successfully threw a surprise party for me that had me totally stunned and speechless. She did most of the food preparations- that is the cheesecake, fruit-kebab and the like. Her mother and father- really good people- cooked jerk chicken and pork along with manish water and curried goat. There were a lot of people there- 3/4 of whom I didn’t know, but they all came out to wish me happy birthday and partake of the festivities and food. My mom and brother, Yatta, Damion, Damion’s brother and Lee-ann were also there. They were at the centre of the conspiracy.
I am now a member of the Xbox 360 owners!! Yes, my girlfriend, Kireen, bought me an Xbox 360 Premium edition console. The Xbox 360 is pretty much its own PC in terms of the power it pushes out. I need a television- should be getting one this week. I can hardly wait to start playing. The first game I get will be Dead or Alive 4. Second game will be Hitman: Blood Money. Third game will be Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I think I am going to go for the whole shebang- Xbox Live Gold etc. I am just so excited!!!
Pictures to be posted soon.
World of Warcraft
If you ever go to the Korgath server and see a young druid named Parragonius just feel free to hail me up. I am a lvl 5 Druid with a big heart… and a heart of Gold. I got GOOOOLD from a friend who has been in it since it first came out.
I like it. The world is big, there is a lot to see and do and it takes all your time. There seems to be a nice community going and the gameplay gets exciting with each level you gain. There are some features that I would probably want that I understand don’t exist. That is fine. However, I just want to be the highest and best epic level 60 Druid on that server. The HORDE will bow before me in fear for I am PARRAGONius.
I am looking forward to raiding Horde towns and killing more Horde instead of what I currently do, which is run and hide.
Just 9 short hours
I am at work now. I had intended to do a wonderful presentation on the In’s and out’s of the Zen Vision: m. However what has occurred is that the shipment with my beloved Zen was delayed. I will be picking it up bright and early tomorrow morning though. I think I am even going to go there before I get some sleep. Who wants to miss that?
I haven’t been able to make any additions to my PVR this week. I plan to make an order by Friday though. I will be getting either those two burners, the television payed off completely or both. I am more interested in the burner though.
Everyone needs a social community to let off steam and express some creativity. I frequent a site called Animesynergy.com. I usually read and post in their persistent story thread (my creation 
). You can take a look at it here. As a matter of fact I will quote a part I consider exciting.
The swirling vortex behind otaku began to close and what stood towering over him was a beast that could only be described as terror itself, what stood now was a minotaur looking creature, the head of bull and the body of an oversized man, its eyes burned with flames and glowing tattoos engulfed its blackened body, its horns where as long as his snout, the tip of which were searing red, chains of flame lingered off its wrists, his weapons of destruction where Runed iron knuckles which covered the bottom half of his fingers.Otaku took a deep breath,
“Cheiftain, do you see what stands before you, this your enemy, send him into oblivion”.Chieftain snorts and steam shoots forward from his nose and smashes his knuckles together, a deafning sound wave echoes through out whats left of the cave, as he pulls his fists a part a dark red lightning energy dances furiously between the runes incribed on the iron knuckles, his muscles bulge and pulsate as if he is trying to pull the world apart, he cries out and roars, the flames in his eyes go sporadically out of control, the ground begins to tremor.
“what the hell is this….unnerveing power i am feeling”, shudders unaz.
then finally, the power that were binding his fists together released its bond to the other and enourmous power surged through chieftain’s body from both his arms to his legs to his chest where it collided and a loud explosion followed.
“do you see now, this is the true strength of chieftain, kneel before it in defeat”, boasts otaku
There is actually more at the site…..”
I played Xbox for the first time in my life last saturday. I was hanging out with a friend and I decided to try out Dead or Alive 3. I think it was love at first sight. I used this Karate dude who uses what looks like the drunken boxing technique. His name is Brad Wong. He is actually pretty cool. His moves look slow but they are fluid. Believe it or not I wiped the floor with two people who play all the time.I will have a review for the Zen ready by next Sunday and will advise on any developments with the media centre.
