Okay now what do I do? I'm sitting at work bored. I brought in Escape from Monkey Island to play, and it doesn't work on the laptop I use here. Grrr. I'll have to bring in something else. And it was one of the many games I haven't played much or finished. So what games do I have that I haven't finished and/or quit playing? Not that anyone's reading this, I might as well be talking to the toilet.

Dungeon Keeper 2 - novelty wore off, but it was fun. Time consuming. Didn't care for the scenarios, like the My Pet Dungeon mode though
Jedi Knight 2 - another 3d fps, very ho-hum
System Shock 2 - got near the end, didn't like the one level, and didn't think it was worth finishing
Deux Ex - Didn't get that far. Don't know why I quit, probably got some other game and time
Dungeon Siege - Too generic. Needed respawns.

Sims - had fun for awhile, Wendy thought I was sick because of the things I wanted to do, like having them go swimming then selling the ladder. And she didn't find it as funny as I did when Mortimer Goth caught on fire, and the kid just screamed and yelled and his wife just kept playing the piano in the other room. The Hot Date add-on didn't really add that much, skipped Vacation, might try re-installing it when the new expansion comes out. Otherwise I'll wait for Sims2. Plus I have to get the disks back from my sister and her kids.

Grand Theft Auto 3 - just got it, need a better joystick/gamepad
Warcrafr 3 - got to the Dark Elves, and got bored.
Escape From Monkey Island - played for awhile, didn't care for the new interface
Starcraft - got to the later Zerg boards, and got pissed at waisting 3 hours on a mission and thinking I had it beat, when base get's raided by a bunch of Protoss. Wasn't worth it to me to finish

Grimfandango - see Monkey 4, didn't like the new interface, bring back the mouse LucasArts, hopefully they will for Full Throttle 2 and the new Sam 'n Max

Rollercoaster Tycoon - got tired, just wanted to play freely instead of the scenarios. Hopefully Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 will be just as good.

There's probably more, but I'll add later.

I think I got the e-mail thing working, there should now be an E-mail Me like on the right side. There's so much html I've forgotten, I haven't touched the stuff in years.

Ars Technica: BIOS Arcana: description and translation - Page 1 - (9/2002)

Should be useful, if I ever got around to updating my mb's BIOS.

Today looks like it's going to be a good day. First off it was cool this morning, in the 40s. And I'm doing better (MS wise) than I have in quite awhile. They're installing the air cooling thing today, hopefully that'll give me the temp control I need so that I can function better.

At work we're in the process of converting to a new company wide HR system, that effects payroll, employee ids, etc. This may effect my paycheck, because the new system handles taxes differently. It's not suppose to be more than $5 though. Which way, I don't know. The new system is suppose to go in effect the end of this month, I think the 23rd. This could effect our classification levels as well. October is supposed to be the month of raises, we'll see what happens. I guess I'm not expecting one, but one would be nice.

I have to look into putting my e-mail address on this blog thing somehow. It's winterblade@stny.rr.com. Should be interesting to see how much spam I get.

I'm still thinking about whether I want to get a new video card for my computer or not. I think I really need one, as I said before I don't think 32 megs of video ram is enough anymore. Plus it'd give me another extra video card, besides the old Riva TNT and the Matrox I already have. Why am I hesitant? Because I just don't have the time to play games that much any more, mainly because of Wendy. Yesterday she came home and I was playing RTCW and she didn't say anything, next thing I know she was gone. She had left. Later at dinner she said she was bored. Why didn't she say something? I guess I really got to put the old Dell together for her to use, I hate the guilt trip thing she pulled. All I need for the old Dell is a video card, a sound card (I think), hard drive, cd drive, and monitor, keyboard, mouse. It's a P2 400 and it'll handle the stuff she does and the games she plays. Oh and an ethernet card, and a place to put it. I held off on it cause I was hoping to get a laptop for a 2nd machine, that way it'd be small and wouldn't need a dedicated space. Maybe a decent cheaper one would do, though I want it to have 3d hardware acceleration, in case she needs to use the main, so that I can play my games on it, then we're talking high end major bucks. Maybe I'll start researching one. And maybe another, I wanted to get a laptop for my parents for Christmas, they have my old Pentium 200 mhz machine that is in an old Zeos case from my sophomore year at college.

Speaking of my parents, Wendy and I are to go out to dinner with them tonight for my birthday. I think we'll go to Applebees. I don't know why Applebees came to mind, considering it was an Applebees my father and I went to 5 years ago in San Diego for my birthday; which wasn't the best of times, due to my MS and having to say goodbye to my dream of living in California.

Joel on Software - Painless Software Schedules

This was an interesting and entertaining read. There's even a quote in here that I like that I added to my sig file for e-mail at work.

The bottom line is that Project is designed for building office buildings, not software.

I'll have to try his scheduling method, now if I only had some tasks to do at work.

Since I started this blog thing, yesterday. I've come to the conclusion that I'm getting old, doesn't help that I'll be 27 this week either. Why do I say that, the statistics on the blog things seems to put the age range in the teen years to about 22. Blogging has been around for a couple years and I just find out about it? I used to keep up on all this stuff. At least had the time to? Or desire to.

Being diagnosed with MS at the age of 21 right out of college doesn't help either. There are days that I feel I died back in 1997, and all that I am now is a ghost; a shadow of who I used to be. Once in awhile a part of that old me will come to the surface. Hopefully the meds (Celexa) will help, and it seems to be, eventhough it's only been 2 weeks. I feel each time I come down with an MS exacerbation (attack) someone is shattering a glass sculpture with a sledge hammer, and I'm the sculpture. And each time I can't fit all the pieces back, so I am never the same whole again. Pieces of my spirit, my fight, or whatever you want to call it get left on the ground. Hopefully one day (and soon) they find a way to stop the hammer and find a better glue, or something to fill in the missing pieces.

It's 9/11, 1 year.

Anyways, I had a strange dream last night. I dream in color which I am told isn't the usual. Well this dream took place qt my parents, and there was a corner store where there used to be one; it burnt down years ago. Present was myself, Jeremy (old friend), Wyatt (a former friend, strange), Mike (a current friend who moved to Buffalo recently). Wendy wasn't around, but I did call her at one point. The strange thing/things that occured were, first Wendy's grandmother shows up at the front door saying she was just chased by a dog, and that an M&M delivery guy helped her get away. Then she preceded to sit on the couch and pass out. The other strange thing was that I was popping pill like things every now and then which kept my MS in remission, if I missed a dosage some symptoms would return.

These pills weren't pills in the sense of medicine, they were meant for a different purpose, and the us in MS hadn't been fully tested and approved. I think Wyatt and/or Jeremy were supplying these "pills" to me. Where does Wendy fit in? Like I said I called her, to see what she wanted to do about her grandmother. Wendy said to let her sleep that she was probably better off/happier with us. Then I woke up.

MSN Careers - Discover the Work You Were Born to Do

1: What subjects do you most enjoy reading about?
computers, video games, sci-fi, fantasy

2: What television or radio programs do you most enjoy?
wrestling, Babylon 5, Friends, Star Trek

3: What are your favorite types of movies?
action, sci-fi, horrow

4: What are your favorite hobbies or pastimes?
video games, surfing the net, reading (before depression)

5: What type of volunteer activities do you prefer?
don't really do any unless you count fixing family computer problems

6: What subjects do you enjoy discussing with friends?
when I had more/any friends I liked to talk about games, technology, movies, tv shows

7: What subjects come to mind when you daydream?
sci-fi, different life, what ifs

8: What have been your favorite jobs?
I liked working for Vv, Link was fun at times.

9: What were your favorite school subjects?
Math and Science

10: What are your pet peeves?
healthly people using elevators, healthy people with handicap parking tags, people not respecting my thoughts or believing them

11: If you doodle, what do you often draw?
I haven't doodled since grade school, and back then it was "wars", doodle, erase, doodle, erase, etc.

12: If you ran the world, what changes would you make?
no MS or crippling diseases. Everyone does what they are good at and given a chance, no money


13: If you won a million bucks, what would you do with it?
pay off debts of self and family if possible. Try starting my own company

14: What are your favorite kinds of people?
fun outgoing people, geekie people, non-arrogant people, people who are willing to listen and learn.

15: How would you like to be remembered after your death?
Someone who had a fair shot and did the best he could. One of the first people cured of MS

16: What are your favorite toys?
Legos and action figures where my main toys as a kid, then video games and computers

17: How would you describe your political beliefs?
they're my own, I believe in the rights of the individual to have a choice and not have some major corp limit that person's options. Stop trying to make honest people honest, all you do is piss them off and probably make them dishonest

18: Who do you most admire in life and why?
Tai from Trading Spaces, he enjoys what he does and has fun doing it. I guess I could say the person I should/could have been if it wasn't for the MS.

19: What tasks have brought you the most success?
I'm just a code monkey, a keyboard grunt. I guess college.

20: What tasks do you think you could do well that you haven't yet done?
work on a game.

am mainly interested in…
games.

I believe most in…
life's not fair

I most value…
enjoying what I do.

For a good life, I feel I need…
to be rid of MS.

I can do the following well…
complain, be a cynic, learn, computers, play games (well I used to be good).

UT2003 demo... here we go again this time it might happen. We'll see, I think I need a better video card first, I don't think 32 mb of video ram will do it, as see with the performance I get with Neverwinter nights. Oh and that right click blog this thing didn't work, probably cause of AdSubtract.

Anyhow the other "big" gaming news I saw today was/is BLizzard announcing their next thing next week at the Tokyo Game Show on the 20th. What is it, odds are a Warcraft 3 expansion or a port of Warcraft 3 for the Xbox or some other console with multiplayer support.

Now what do I say :) This is like being given a microphone on the street. Well I thought I try this blogging craze out, since I've wanted to keep a record of my thoughts. No html for now, don't remember much of it .

Not to get too much into a life story, in a nutshell I have been dealing with work getting the temperature down to where I can stand it. Been weeks now, and I first mentioned the heat thing last winter. I've been moved a few times. Some engineers stopped by and scoped things out, and they're going to install my own temperature control and some cooling units so that I can keep cool. I've always liked cold weather, even before the MS.

So we'll see how this blogging goes, I like the looks of LiveJournal better, but it costs money to join, or someone refers you. I like the idea of having a little app that you can type into whenever you want. Makes things quick and you don't have to go a webpage, I can always look around for a tool that does something similar. I'd ask for a reader to point me in the right direction, but I'm the only reader right now.

This was a fun little web thing I found while poking about bloggers.



What lesser-known Simpsons character are you?