Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Battlefield 2...

...is awesome...

I got badges and STUFF! Uhm...I'm still playing...no life updates except I made it to Lance Corporal today and...you can check my rank on bf.slawed.net

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Soo....yea...

I'm lying in bed with my laptop in my lap, waiting for Mom to tuck me in and sing me a lullaby and decided to blog. NO my mom won't sing for me...oh well...

I got BF2 btw...:D

I'm building the comp for my uncle tomorrow, as that's when everything arrives...

K...good night...

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Update 2

Yea...so...

We've mainly been doing a whole mess load of crap yard work around the house. We're getting a circular driveway installed and we got to keep the dirt path dry for some reason and its a huge pain laying down the 4 large sheets of plastic and place the heavy stepping stones to keep em from blowing. Our weather has been so evil lately, raining almost EVERY afternoon, beating sun, and its been like that for some weeks now with no ending signs. Sheesh! Lows of high 70s and highs of low 90s. Well, really hhigh 80s, but with this humidity it could easily feel like 100+. Anyway, we went bowling again for Father's Day. I felt so much more experienced and stronger this time ^_^ I acutally got a strike on a play throw with my left hand (I'm right handed :P) and that was cool. Tomorrow I'll be spending all day drawing stuff for people. First the daily "Just Deserts" comic, which has reached 21 strips so far (w00t!), then finish up Holysoldier's LAN strip, then Xb385's sig, then add sumthin' to Bubba's, make Taps', Oz's, Jones', and anyone else I can remember! :D

Also I will be building my second comp. Its for my Uncle Joe, and it will be running Linux! He's tired of Microsoft, Windows, and all the OEM PC's pre-installed crap, and I have the pleasure of spending some $1200 on his machine. Hopefully everything will go just as smooth during the building as it did with my first :)

And...Casbar bought a Jeep on eBay. YAY! :D

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Life update:

Ok, a couple of days have gone by, and you must be wondering what has happened since Saturday. Well...

Saturday: I can't remember what I did. :D All I know is that in the evening we went to our Grandma's house. :P

Sunday: Dad's birthday, so we take him bowling. Me and my mom split the cost, and we rent "Ocean's Twelve" for the night. I've seen it before, but my parents hadn't, and I rather have watched that again then rent "Are we there yet?". >_< THere's nothing good in Blockbuster anymore...

And so...today I've finished setting up all my stuff on my new;y reformatted comp. I can't believe I had to call Microsoft to give me an activation ID. I hate Windows. When I first installed it, the comp booted in 15 seconds. But with Windows' highly inefficient piece of crap registry system and who-knows-what built-in mechanisms, after installing most of my programs, boot times shot up to some 35+ seconds. Its not bad, definitely better than the 2 minutes from before, but still.. Linux boots the same speed all the time, regardless of how much you installed (unless of course they are services that you install, but there aren't that many and they take like...0.25 seconds to launch? :P)

Ahh...oh well...

Saturday, June 11, 2005

BF2 DEMO Screenies!

BATTLEFIELD 2 DEMO! WOOOO! Posted by Hello


Yummy lighting... Posted by Hello


Fly away! Posted by Hello


Crap... Posted by Hello


I dead... Posted by Hello


Carrier Posted by Hello


I dead again! Posted by Hello


WEeeeeeee Posted by Hello

Friday, June 10, 2005

Ho hum...

Let's see what I got to talk about...

Its funny, how during school when I should've been doing work, I posted up my blogs, and I posted them way more frequently than I do now that its summer vacation and I got all the time in the world. ^_^

SO yea, let's see...it looks like my dad's all hyped up on getting me my permit. He's found out info about the insurance and I got info from Mike on what to do. That's cool, I'll be taking that DATA course soon. I don't get why NOW though, cuz I could've had a license or sumthin by now, seeing as how my "I-wanna-drive" phase was during my year of 15 years. >_>

I'm currently reading a Tom Clancy book, Op-center: Acts of War. I have read all the Op-center's before that too, this one looks like its about some Kurdish terrorists breaking a dam in Turkey (or was it Syria...) and releasing the waters of the Euphrates (yea, thats the river in the Bible incase it sounded familiar ~_^) to replensih the dryness of Iran and...Syria? Syria has something to do with something! :D

Yesterday was a blast playing with Moe and Smitty, versus me and Casbar. Moe is this German dude who uhm...is in Ninja company (i.e. the monkeys) and...he has a little girl, and...he doesn't like Soldat for some odd reason! :D Anyway, it was great. The map we've been practicing on is the map for this week's battle. I just hang around to help the other guys practice, as I'm not playing this campaign. Anyway, the map is Sniper heaven. So many tricky places, pretty much the whole game we were sitting somewhere, or quietly moving from place to place to sit there for another 5 minutes. ^_^ I knifed everyone atleast once I believe...hehehe

And today, today there will be a small, but special "Just Deserts", and I'm gonna start reinstalling some stuff on the new hard drive. I decided to just take everything off of it, move all of Fatty's files and reinstall whatever is needed on to her main drive, so that I can take my 120GB one. Then once everything is done, I'll format the 80GB in this Dell, and move it to the new PC. That one will have Windows 2000 and Ubuntu on dual-boot. Also, I'm trying to this all before 12 noon because the Battlefield 2 demo may be out today!!1! :D

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Freeedommm...

Yes, now it is official, there is no more work. We finished yesterday night, and its finally over. So there is goes my first job. In total over the last months as of my first paycheck on January 13th, I've made $3,095.82, not counting the next paycheck I'm suppose to get for this and last week. Overall, I've spent about 80% on electronics (big surprise woooo) with $2,512 going into that! Uhm...let's see, I gotta give about $100 for tithe, $15 for the cellphone bill, and...that leaves me with about $51, plus last week's check should be about $200 and then the last 2 days are $64...so I got $264 to live off of for the next weeks. Oh gee...^_^

Anyway, no updates on what could be my next job. I'm not sure what the deciding facotr is, so I'm just waiting for my dad to tell me more about it when he can. They're coming down from New York (I think I said California before) and they'll be quite East of us, near the beach I was told, so its quite a bit away. I'll either have to take the bus or get my permit! :D

Monday, June 06, 2005

DOH!

Yea, it looks like I still have work...

Oh well, check out the new comic! ;)

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Comp pics!

Case, looks bright cuz camera flash... Posted by Hello


Insides, that Geforce2 is now a 9800 Pro...

Radeon right, new card left :D

Ding! ding! ding!

And the final test scores are:
Bible: 97% A
History: 90% A
Math: 90% A
Language: 88% B
Science: 86% B

Yay! Now I gotta finish this project, grade some stuff, get my graphics card installed, finish my last day of work today (YESS!!) do an IOWA test tomorrow.

Also, for a little more info, looks like God is planning a nice big ol' blessing for me. One of my Dad's bosses ask him about me and if I was working. Because they have one of the sections of their business moving to Florida from California and they're gonna be hiring people. And me, having my dad as a connnection, was offered a job there. If my dad lets me, and he's really thinking about it, I'll be working there. This is so awesome for me and I thank God for everything. Its so cool because 1. my first job wasn't a small minimum wage paid job, but a nice $8.50 an hour job, 2. Its only been 1/2 a year and now my job ended, and I get offered with a new one that is 3. professional! This is not like my current job which gets projects and we work, but there's really no room for growing in that business. In the new one, I can grow in rank like my Dad, get paid more, do more, like a real business should be. Its pretty much a jump to work just like my what my Dad is doing now. And all this is happening, and I'm only 16! I mean, how many people are looking for a job whoe are 20+? This is why God deserves all the credit because I've obviously done nothing to get myself into this position, its all by God's grace. WOOHOO! :D