BlogHaving been
kidnapped by the flatlanders more than a month ago, Butt the Gnome was finally returned to his rightful porch today. A visit to Ohio for Jaird's
birthday party gave Lisa and I the opportunity we needed to infiltrate the flatlander enclave and retrieve the gnome. We escaped without any major injuries but my RC Car sustained significant frontal damage and Lisa was hit with a temporary
neural disabling device. Happy to be free again, Butt is content to sit on my freezing porch once more.
Today was my last day at
Quicken and Jennifer organized a
goodbye lunch for me. My new job at
Fathead is in the same building, in fact it's owned by the same parent company, but what better excuse to have a group lunch.
An upgrade to the
Asus A8N-SLI Premium and
BFG 7600 GT OC finally brought me out of the AGP dark ages. The ability to play a game at high resolution without having my machine lockup or reboot was a refreshing change. The main reason I bought this motherboard was for the RAID 5 support, but I soon discovered the parity striping makes the disk access dog slow. I then reloaded using the same SIL 3114 controller in RAID 0 before settling on the
nVidia Controller in RAID 0 which blew away the SIL 3114 in the burst category. For anyone else who buys this board the RAID 5 option makes you feel nice and secure about your hard drives, but if you're impatient like me skip it and go directly to nVidia RAID 0. I also added another drive so now it's 3 time more likely my entire array will fail compared to a single drive. Surprisingly my old motherboard RAID beat my new one in average and random access.
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It's true, the need for me has declined dramatically this year. The
server statistics show a definite trend of less desire to click on me. Why have I become less clickable? The blame lies squarely with Myrone, who has been gone for
over three years. Without his tomfoolery and shenanigans I'm just not as interesting as I once was.
MorlockPrime decided to rearrange my basement furniture, resulting in a new configuration for the
LAN party. Apparently he knew it would suck so he decided to stay in Illinois during this event. We returned the favor by shoving unnecessary furniture into his room. Original Morlock stopped by to say he was too scared and had to hide in Jackson. FEAR Combat was first to be played until everyone had it up and running, at which point we switched to FarCry. A few heated rounds of FarCry was the highlight of the whole event, after which handsome Dan decided to leave, prompting a major exodus of handsome Dan followers. Fortunately the die hard remained for some
Battlefield 2142, by far the most involved game of the whole event. If you don't have a copy, get one. The Jeffords found a way to play it on his Mac it's so good (If you play online,
post your screen name). Finally, here's the
event timelapse.
The safety rail at the bottom of my shower door has been off for awhile after coming loose and falling into the tub. My procrastination on replacing it finally caught up with me this morning when I bumped the door off it's track and
showered myself with shattered safety glass (instead of water). Refreshed, and bleeding from several minor scratches, I tiptoed through the glass to stop the bodily hemorrhaging. Deciding not to risk a trip to the morlock cave for my other shower, I have an enjoyable aroma to share with my coworkers. I also discovered a glass shower door costs $100 and 7 days to replace.
Today is Voting day, so I thought I'd provide a guide for anyone who has yet to partake in our democratic process.
- Go here to see your ballot and polling place if you're registered.
- Research your candidates! Most have killed babies and supported terrorism according to the people they are running against.
- Arrive at your polling place with your voting card or drivers licence.
- There will be 4 tables with no directions. Ask one of the tables what to do.
- You'll be directed to the "Voter Application Table." Fill out a voter application (name and address)
- A nice old lady will smile and ask for your application. She'll drop it and you'll see the other people with your last name registered to vote.
- When she recovers she'll put a sticker on your application and refer you to another table
- This table will take your stickered application hand you your actual ballot
- Take your ballot (in it's folder) and proceed to a mega-secure voting booth (table with a pen and three walls)
- Take your ballot out of the folder and Vote! (fill in the circles). The machine will beep and embarrass you if you vote for too many people for any category. You can vote for as many categories as you want (or none at all!)
- Put your ballot back in the folder and go to the table you haven't visited yet.
- A scantily clad teenage girl will smile at you and pop her bubble gum. Hand her the folder with your ballot.
- She'll take your application from the front of the folder and hand it back.
- Go to the VoteMaster 5000 and feed your ballot into the machine. It will beep and show you the number of people that voted today.
- Hand the folder back and scream something in latin, then run like hell.
Our good friends from Ohio
visited us today for some
RC Car and
Quake III action. What better way to enjoy a rare 60 degree November day than smashing expensive RC cars into each other. Because Ohio is so flat, most Michigan food has too much elevation to be appetizing to Ohioans, so Lisa cooked some Ohio approved food for us. No doubt a direct result of me sending her
this link. Butt the Gnome remains a captive of the Ohoians until I retreive him next weekend.
Senator Kelley stopped by for some wedding planning followed by a game of
Warcraft III. Shortly thereafter, he returned with
Mrs. Steven Kelly who joined Lisa for some
Karaoke Revolution while(st) the senator and I snuck off for yet another Warcraft III game. The
last time we played Warcraft was over 4 years ago and it was quickly discovered that we suck equally as much now as we did then. Amazingly, my original copy had somehow escaped my regular eBay cleansing, which was fortunate since equally as amazing the game still costs $30. The games weren't just for entertainment purposes though: as best man, Steve gains valuable experience needed for
defending my bride should her family try to take her back.
Despite my all-time record of 3 trick-or-treaters, Lisa decided to purchase excessive amounts of candy in hopes the record would be broken. I live close to a trailer park but apparently my house is not up to the strict trailer park candy standards. That or I'm just really creepy, probably both. Needless to say the record still stands at 3 and I have many sugar highs to look forward to. We also learned that
The Grudge is either too artistic or not enough for us to appreciate, and that a
real live ghost stopped by for candy. The ghost may have been a side effect of a bad video connection but after watching that movie I'm a believer.
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