My first year of grad school is finished successfully! Granted, I still have to write a paper for a class that I semi-audited, but I have all summer to do it and no other academic or teaching-related activities! SCORE! Massive gaming will ensue.
I got my super-overpriced computer case today. My ghetto rig is now a bit more neat and tidy and in a proper box and stuff. Also, I took pictures of the computer before I took it out of the old case frame. I'll try to post in my other comp thread in due time. For now, sleep.
I really really want to go camping too. Or some other outdoorsy activity! I'm too tired of the urban, indoor, normal stuff I do on weekends. I have been thinking for a month now about taking a trip to a near beach from which you travel 15 minutes to a little town from which you board some little boats that take you to an isle in which you can see FREAKING RIVER DOLPHINS AND A THOUSAND FRIGATEBIRDS.
I did this yesterday! Afterwards we went to an incredible beach. We also visited my girlfriend's grandmother's house which has been abandoned for some 20 years and now is inhabited by goats. There were baby goats that were only 15 days old! All in all I saw:
River dolphins, pink herons and some regular white herons, a ton of pigs, baby goats, hermit crabs, this sort of sea star that's not actually a sea star but sort of round with what appears to be a flower or a sea star 'drawn' in the center, regular baby crabs (catching them and then releasing them was very fun), and some stupid wasps following me around. It was a very cool day.
I'm on my way home from Iraq! Right now I'm in Qatar. When I get home I have two weeks off from work during which I can recreate my life. Will I find another love? Will I find adventure? Will I waste my time? Who knows!?
I installed Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries on an old Windows XP computer using an unofficial patch. Crude, shitty 3D accelerated graphics never looked so good. Back in the day, my old 233Mhz K6 computer could barely do 16-bit graphics let alone the full 3D accelerated setup.
Now even an old junker computer a friend of mine got for free a couple years ago can run it all out, silky smooth so easily it'd practically be yawning. Or maybe laughing at the clusters of crude textured boxes and planes that make up the entire game.
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Sounds fantastic!
And I polished my shoes. Shiny.
I did this yesterday! Afterwards we went to an incredible beach. We also visited my girlfriend's grandmother's house which has been abandoned for some 20 years and now is inhabited by goats. There were baby goats that were only 15 days old! All in all I saw:
River dolphins, pink herons and some regular white herons, a ton of pigs, baby goats, hermit crabs, this sort of sea star that's not actually a sea star but sort of round with what appears to be a flower or a sea star 'drawn' in the center, regular baby crabs (catching them and then releasing them was very fun), and some stupid wasps following me around. It was a very cool day.
YES! That, thank you!
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Now even an old junker computer a friend of mine got for free a couple years ago can run it all out, silky smooth so easily it'd practically be yawning. Or maybe laughing at the clusters of crude textured boxes and planes that make up the entire game.
Just you wait! one of these days I'll commandeer a whole room for my art there!
Ohmyfuckinggod.