Another "out-of-the-blue" update:

Once again I have taken the time out of BF2 to do other things that need to be done, I thought I'd have enough interesting stuff to write about now, hence, why I felt like updating my blog. ;)

First off, as usual I have been playing BF2 :P I have achieved part of my goal and gotten every basic badge! You can check out all my badges from that link I posted some days ago.

Next on the list is on my new expeditions into the programming world with Python. I'm trying to learn this language so that I can then step up and learn Pygame. Before I used to use Game Maker, which is awesome and stuff, but the built-in language won't really work outside of GM. Although I have to say, that learning how to code in GM does help quite a bit in learning a real language like Python, because I know a lot of the terms involved in programming and have a very basic idea on common syntax used. When I learn Pygame I plan on writing up a tutorial for all the GM users who'd like to transition to something they can use in the future. :)

Ok, what else...uh...Casbar is evil. He actually killed me in a head to head knife fight. I am ashamed and shall make trying to get him as my number one victim a priority. ^_^

I upgraded my laptop's memory, and now have 1GB of PC4200 DDR RAM. I got it mainly because Battlefield 2 is a resource sucking game, and 512 wasn't cutting it. It runs awesome now, no more sound stuttering, and loading times are just as quick as my desktop! I also bought another Intellimouse since I hate using the touchpad.

I'm sure there was something else...but I can't remember. So I'll just end with a farewell and blessings to all my Youth Groupians who are leaving/left to Guatemala on the mission trip, prayers to all the British families who have been affected by the recent attack, and some BF2 screenies...

Inside some building... 


Crane map with...stuff 


City map, buildings on fire, fogginess of awesome :D 


Some funny thing that happened to the car!  


Notice the kill stuff on the top-left, I shock paddled a guy during our scrim 2 weeks ago ;) 


I guess I'm taking a picture of the water....dock? I don't know, but look, that's my unlocked medic gun! :D 


Look at the awesome fog/mist effects on this jungle map as I man the guns on the Blackhawk... 

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

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...

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

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...

BF2 DEMO Screenies!

BATTLEFIELD 2 DEMO! WOOOO! 


Yummy lighting... 


Fly away! 


Crap... 


I dead... 


Carrier 


I dead again! 


WEeeeeeee 

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

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

DOH!

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

Oh well, check out the new comic! ;)

Comp pics!

Case, looks bright cuz camera flash... 


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

pz0wned

Its here...I built it...pictures coming soon...

Too late...

...I did it...

End of the week...

Boy, I reallly can't wait! There's only 2 more school days left (because of this longer holdiay weekend :D) and it looks like the job might end today, since they didn't give me my freaking paycheck yesterday. They apparently want people to go today, so we'll see if they make some announcement. Anyway, I just check the status on my shipments, everything but the case has arrived at some Ft. Lauderdale FedEx ramp which is cool, but I know they won't ship it to me until the case comes...from TN. They did that last time when my scanner and router came from different places, one of em was here for a day, and I had to wait another so that tehy could give me both. BAH!

Purchase 1: Complete

Processor, Case, CD drive, and RAM have been ordered, and according to Newegg, at status 3, which means they were just charged on the card, all's left is to package and send me my stuff. As for the Geforce, I'll be getting my check today, it will be very small though, as last week was when I got sick, and I missed 2.25 days. Which is...$75ish. MEANING 1/2 my weekly check, so right now I'm left with $227, I'll need atleast $73 so I can get the card, and maybe I can convince my dad to pay the extra $30 that I'm suppose to get back from a rebate. I thought Newegg had taken the deal off, but apparently I was looking at the wrong card or sumthin because it came back o_O. ORRRR if Justin can pull through and use his super-circuit-city-employee powers...^_^ Either way, I'm gonna have to start backing up all my data soon, that'll be a pain. And I gotta make a slipstream disc of WinXP + SP2 for the new comp, seeing as how the comp its replacing will become a Linux box, so hopefully Dell's Windows key wasn't activated yet >_<

Time to eat food!

Snack time!

Yea...anyway, lil update on my job. It will be ending May 30th apparently. We will have 1 month's break until July when the next project comes. So I'll be having 1 month of full summer vacation this June. WOOHOO! I'll be making half of my comp purchase today, since I'm already seeing some of the sales I wanted missing, and I'm not patient. Either way, this is the type of stuff that usually won't go on sale, or is cheap enough as it is. Sooo...only things left would be RAM (which prob will go on sale, so I'll wait for that) and my graphics card.

Hello!?

OMG! What happened to my blog!? Is it...what...happening... 

Blablabla...

School ends in less than 2 weeks, and so does my job apparently. You see, my job as a data entry guy depends on the different things the company is made to do. They get requests from other businesses to do certain stuff, and that's our work. This project we've had, called "Tiaa" is almost complete, and apparently we have to finish indexing and scanning verything by the 30th. After that I'm not sure what happens, I heard they already got the next project ready, or maybe we'll get a lay-off for a couple weeks/months until they do. Either way, Summer looks VERY free, except for the part that I'm gonna have to get some volunteer hours for 12th grade, as I don't have any yet! >_<

Yummy!

I'm pretty much over my cold now, got my body strength back, sore throat gone and stuff, now I just need a couple days to lose all this excess mucus my body produced. MAN, its thick and like...yellowish-white and sticky, I could be blowing it out of my nose for half-an-hour cuz there's just so much. I also better bring some cough drops to work today, still have that...

Anyway, I'm planning on buying my biggest purchase of electronics ever. I think by the 26th, I'll have just enough money to buy:
Rosewill Value R103A Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case w/350W Power Supply
Rosewill RR-521 Black Black IDE CD Burner - Retail
Intel Celeron D 315 Prescott 533MHz FSB Socket 478 Processor Model BX80546RE2267C - Retail
eVGA 256-A8-N344-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 Value Select Memory Retail

Total: $538.95 i.e. EVERYTHING I'LL HAVE BY THURSDAY...

For what you ask? Well, that Geforce 6800GT (yea, not an X800XL Justin, this comes out cheaper (with rebate) and some forum friends convinced me to get it! :D) and the 1GB memory kit is my upgrade for Battlefield 2 (which is made by EA, which optimizes for Nvidia cards anyway ;D) and the Case, CD-drive, and CPU are for the first computer I plan to build. Hopefulyl everything goes right. I have so much stuff lying around here (motherboard ($50+ spent and *wasted*, thats another story) then, memory, harddrive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse!) that I might as well build this thing. Yea...that's a lot of parentheses...

Samsung YH-820

Ok, so here it is...


Ok, the thing cost about $210 ($198.62 + tax), its about 3.5" tall, 2" wide, and 0.5" thick. There are 3 little buttons in the front, back, play/pause, next, and then the lower section is a clickable button, 4 sides for menu, select, up, and down. Down side is there is no freaking stop button. I can only pause, and when I turn it off and on again, it'll start playing from that last paused position. Did I mention the pause/play button is also the power button? >_< It has a nice little color screen, which I've already modified the ennding shutdown animation it uses to my nice bowl of rice logo rolling away. It displays JPEGs, though not that great. Can play MP3 and WMA, when it supposedly could play OGG. If it can, I don't know how to do it because the only software this thing supports is Windows Media Player, which can't open Oggs, and Napster, which I don't feel like installing. Battery life is supposedly 8 hours, but I got my first death yesterday at around 5.5 hours. Not that I care, all I need is 4 hours to last me through work ;) Overall nice MP3 player, but I hope Samsung releases an updated firmware...

In other news, I still don't feel well, can't breathe well through one nostril, throat isn't sore anymore, but that mucus-dryness feeling is what I got now, which sucks. Drinking liquids doesn't help either. MAN though, if you ever have a sore throat, you people need to get some colloidal silver. That stuff is like...a gift from God. Its pretty much water, with ionized silver particles or somethin', but that thing instantly, and I mean that, instantly took the major soreness in my throat away. I coudln't believe it, it was like 2 teasponns or whatever, in a little medicine cup, held it in the back of my throat for 10 seconds, swallowed, and wow, what a difference. I could actualyl swallow without the pain through the night. Do some research on it, that stuff is like the ultimate medicine.  

Ughhh

Sore throat'd...I'll post opinions on my MP3 player tomorrow...

Down with teh Ipod mini!

Today I'm going to Sam's Club. What am I gonna buy? I don't know, how bout this awesome 5GB, colored screen, OGG playing MP3-player for only $198? :D

So much stuff to say...

Wow, yesterday was awesome. Andrew Phillip was doing worship, he has such a heart for God. And something he said struck me, he said that if you were a friend of Jesus, you would tell someone about Him. Wow. Its's so true, and yet...we don't do it. So I'll do it now. I thought hard about what I would say about Him, without being excessively boring, pushy, or lame. So I couldn't think about it. ;) And thank God he already wrote something for me! :D

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Guys, that all you would need to know. God loves us, and he sent his only Son to die for our sins. Humankind is sinful, and we'll never be good enough for Heaven. But Jesus was, he was perfect, and as the perfect sacrifice, he cleaned ALL of our sins. All you need to do is believe that to get to Heaven. How I wish you all could believe that, though I know some won't. And soon, all of those who believe in God, will be gone. One day, and you guys PLEASE remember this, millions of people around the world will disappear, all of them Christian. You'll probably hear weird stuff like aliens, or just strange things like that, but guys, it was the rapture, and God just took everyone of his people into heaven. The thing was, we know this is gonna happen, the Bible said it hundreds of years ago (read Revelations if you want). If you guys ever have ANY questions, feel free to ask. I know I sound, and all this may sound crazy, but I love God guys, and I love all of you too, I just want all of you to know. I'm not gonna "preach" at you, as that's not how it works. God gave us a free will, and YOU have decide to believe it. All I can do is tell you about Him, as I just did above. So I just hope that my life helps show an example of a child of God, and I thank God for doing everything for me. God thank you! You're so frickin' awesome! :D

Also, just wanna give my props out to my 502IB (that's what 10AD is now known as for campaign 10) teammates, we won/tied 3 outta 4 of the Best of the Best Competition sections, you guys are the bestest!

One of you better give me a shirt...(*stares at Smitty)

Early release!

YESSS...to give some background info, I'm homeschooled (that's right! stick it to the man! :D), and in my school I have 7 subjects:

Bible
Math
Language
Science
and HIstory are my primary subjects. I usually have to do a lesson/quiz/test of each a day. Then I have to do Spanish and Life Management (its like double the math >_<) as my electives or whatever. However, sometimes I get a lucky day, like today, when I don't have all 5 primary subjects assigning a job today. So for example, today I had a math & language lesson, plus the 2 secondary subjects. Which is awesome cause I finished school already X). However this most likely means I'll have a bunch of quizzes or tests on Monday :P And this will also happen more now as the amount of work left is spreading thin for the last few weeks of school, WOOHOO!

Just Deserts' first comic!

Its up people so click the tacky ad-looking button to my right to get to the comic site ;) I also added/changed some buttons for my lower links.

Victory!

Well, last Saturday was Paula's BBQ, and it was the last battle of my campaign. As you could probably guess, I didn't make it to the battle that day, which kinda sucks because it was the last one and all, but its cool because the BBQ was fun too! Either way, my team did great and we won the battle, and the campaign! :D Now, if I haven't already mentioned, I will not actively participate in the next campaign (#10) which will most likely be our last campaign before Battlefield 2 comes out. Mainly what this'll mean is I won't play at night as much as I used to, I'll mainly use it to work on my upcoming comic based on 21CW, talking to my AIM buds, and having a go at other games I've been wanting to play (Spring anyone? :D) so yea...I'll still be finishing school early to try and knife Casbar in TNT and stuff, so you Euro guys have nothing to worry your little heads about ;) . Anyway...yea, supposedly there's a Best of the Best contest going on this Saturday, which is a contest to find...yea, self-explainatory :P I won the last one we had, atleast the Infantry part of the contest (it was split up into Infantry, Armor, Airforce, etc.) and I ALMOST won Sniping, only 2 ppl, me and Insignus got 10/10 shots on that one, but he did it like...8 seconds faster...>_<

Anyway, the prize was a t-shirt I never got...but this time its different because we have a new IC (Airborne) whose got everything set up, pre-ordered shirts, and everythin'...I'll be trying on Spec-ops/Paradrop & Infantry/Light Mech this time 'round. I better get that shirt! ^_^

Ok so yea, from now on, don't believe any goals set in this blog. Reading through some of my old psots, I realized this was suppose to be a blog about Linux :D So here is another uselss post, with a screenshot attached, coming from a Need for Speed Underground 2 demo I have. 

Mondays...

You gotta love em...>_<

The current time is:

Yea ok...I can't fix this. The times on all posts before the last one are broken, and I'm too lazy to fix em, and I rather have the Blogger automatically have the right time then have to change it all the time. So just...don't worry about em ;)

This is just a test

BOOOOOOOP

Yea, quick blogs ey? Just noticed Blogger had my time at -8 GMT, Los Angeles Time o_O Set it to EST but having probs with it changing all my blog posts' time...

YAY! I fixed the freaking network!

Turns out I had Kerio blocking traffic on the network or something. It blocked pings and the Microsoft File and Printer sharing thing. Now I got everything working (not flawlessly yet, sometimes I need to disable real quick to view the comps on WORKGROUP and then I can reenable and browse) so with a little more tweaking, I got my stuff good! :D

You was optical illusion'd!

Ok guys, this is a cool optical illusion I had saved on my drive. First click on the iamge to get the full sized image. I guess you could do it without full size, but w/e. Anyway, look at both real quick and you see they look pretty much the same, but the right side is more blurred and light. Ok, now stare at the one at the left, at the lil red dot in the middle, for 30 seconds. Then look at the middle of the on on the right. The right side completely fades away! :D 

*Western theme music* Draw partner!

Hey, check out this cool site Fatty (Fatgirl, my sister Giselle...'member?) found. Lets you draw and record stuff, and then send to someone. I'll probably do one everyday, that way I'll have something to post even if I have nothing to post ;)

Today's Toucantastic Test, I drew this from a little toucan statue sovenir I got from Costa Rica some years (2? o_O) ago.

Anyway, yesterday was amazing and awesome. I knifed Casbar 4 times. Casbar ppl, that was so not his day. So that was cool, and the lightning storm we had in the evening was awesome too. The lights were all screwy at work and the battery back ups on all the comps were beeping constantly since the lights were going in and out. They had a generator and all this junk for power backup, so we always had a little power (for the comps atleast) and we never got sent home. Darn. :D

Comic blog...

Oh, its nothing big...just a little teaser image for...my comic. This does take quite a long process (well, it could be finished within...~6 hours or so), but when you only have...2-4 hours total in the day free, and you use all of it playing on TNT...! :D So this thing will definitely start rolling after school is done. I gotta change some things though, like learn how to display one post at a time, and add those next and previous buttons. I can't even figure out how to chnage the background color from white to tan! I blame it on society...


^_^

Random image of me in a FarCry demo o_O 

Womp

Did some timing s and such, laptop boots (everything) in about 45 seconds, while the desktop takes atleast 1.5 minutes, just so I can click the start menu (still needs to load a couple mroe programs). So yea...I will reformat, sometime after June 2nd when I'm done with school (1 MORE MONTH TILL VICTORY DARN IT!) and then that way, I won't have to reinstall my homeschool program, which installs some other crap like this SQL server which runs and slows down start time. I don't expect laptop times on this machine, but anything under a minute is good enough.

Anyway...a lot of my American tourney friends discovered TNT last night (TNT is the server me and the euro guys always play on) and they apprently had a blast. I was so mad though cuz I didn't capture one flag last night. The pubbies camp more, mines double in amount around flag, and there were 5 more of my teammates playing on the other side (I always join the opposite of their side, to even things out ^_^) so you know...I almost knifed Saptiva again, but I really messed that up. >_< Oh well, we'll see what happens tonight! :D

Yea...the silence...

I haven't posted for a couple days now. I'm not sure why, maybe I haven't had much to post about? You must've all been devastated the past days, without any reading material to...read...online. ;) Anyway, I plan on reformatting my comp soon, getting to slow for my liking. Needs some cleaning up anyway (Laptop is still a ~1 booter upper, its so sweet! :D). Lets hope that I dont bloat Windows up again. >_<

OMG OMG OMG OMG ITS OUT!!1

If you ever played Total Annihilation...
Spring ownz j00...

I CANT BELIEVE IT I CANT BLEIVE IT!!

OMG...I've waited for this for years...AAAHHH!!! :D

Eyes burn!

I've been awake for almost 24 hours...woopee...I'm hungry, and I can't fall asleep...BAH! Time for some more Green Ball! :D

Comics or something...

Yea, now that I have a full set of art stuff (tablet pad, scanner, Photoshop, Streamline (raster to vector) and the might pencil and pen) I'm gonna try to draw some comics for 21CW. The comic will probably be called "Just Deserts" (you know? When you get "your just desserts" but this is desert, as in the dry barren place on not ice cream, since 21CW is based in the Gulf War....desert...:P) and I'll prob start a separate blog for it...:)

They are here!!!

Scanner and router arrived, already installed scanner drivers and I got a nice WPA-secured wireless network going :D

Soldat map, by me!

Yup! Just join my server people! Custom made map for Soldat based on my Stealth cartoon! :D

Part 3.5:

Yes, I'd just like to mention a couple more people! :D

Marter: Marter is the guy, who even though he's on your team, you just have to kill. Everyone TK's (team kills) Marter for unknown reasons, apparently he enjoys that or something. I know we all do! :D

Bubba: Bubba was our General last campaign and is not...a Sargeant Major I believe. He and Marter have been playing old games for a long time...as they are old...and Bubba has the funniest I'm-gonna-lose-mybreathe type laugh ever! I don't know how he does it.

Oz: Oz was our Captain, and is now a Major or something! He's a bad ICV driver, but a heck of a tanker (people who drive tanks! You gotta understand that one).

Saptiva: 1 of the...I believe its 4 girls, in the whole Opposition side. Yes, ladies play Battlefield too :P Saptiva is killer with a PKM and she's recently become the Ninja company's captain! We all love Saptiva, and if you check out my sig, I have fun sneaking up and knifing her quite a bit!

Bleh: Is still a noob, a poor poor college boy or something, but hey, if you need to Google something and happen to have a paypal account, sign up and use this one! :D

and yea....here's my sig that was mentioned...

I wub you Newegg...

I just bought my DGL-4300 Wireless Gaming Router:



and my Canon Canonscan Lide 35:



WOoWoo! Now I'll have wireless on the laptop, I'll have a network that finally won't lag me in Battlefield when...let's say, the fat girl over doesn't go onto some turtle forum, aaannd I'll now be able to scan in my drawings. ^_^

Part 3?

Aight, I'm just gonna give a rundown on my closer teammates and stuff, incase I ever mention em to ya! ;)

Casbar: Casbar's a New Zealander who is living in England at the moment. He has a wife who is great at math (apparently, he says she knows more than him), and 2 little girls. Casbar is the Arty guy in the tournament and he's pretty much my best competition. I'e played Battlefield since it came out, and simply put, I'm good at it. I will take anyone, anyday, in anything, just for the challenge, and usually I'll win. I always get into the top 10 in a public server, and usually pop in to the top 3. Casbar is pretty much the only one who can stop me! He's learned almost all of my tactics that I use on him. For instance, we play on the TNT server ll the time, as it is our favorite server. Its a modded CTF server with flying (or just, extremely good nitro eqipped) DPVs, humvees, and strikers. You'll always find me driving the DPV with nitro flyin and me trying to capture the flag. Now, pretty much the only time I can cap it, is if Casbar is dead or distracted. He's memorized most of my entry points, he knows that if he doesn't see me for a certain amount of time, I must be in a helicopter or something, taking an extremely stealthy approach (which is no longer stealth yas he knows already :P), and he's just a killer with the Bradley. Casbar's so much fun to play with, and his evil laughter just adds to the adrenaline rush for the next attempt to capture the flag! :D A problem I have when capping the flag, is that instead of acutally capturing the flag like I'm suppose to, if I see Casbar sitting in the SCUD or a Shilka for instance, I'll forget the flag, boost my DPV straight into him, and usually kill him as my DPV flips and flies back on its tires!

Easygreen: Easygreen is like...the Michael who lives across the oceans. We "hate" each other with this sort of brotherly love type thing. We talk smack about each other, about how we're gonna pwn each other or something, how each of us suck at this or that, and then I get him to shut up by just knifing him. ^_^ Easygreen is a great sniper, who loves killing me and who gets all the girls...so he says...;) Easygreen and his good friend Nipz will be coming from England to visit me in July! Hope I can drag em to youth group so I can introduce yall to them :)

Agent_Death: I call him Agent, is one of the youngest (13 years old I think) player in 21CW. We're great buds and he's a great companion when trying to cap the flag on TNT. He calls me a monk for some reason, he has parakeets that are too loud, and he has a faster connection (like 3+ mbits) but slower comp (Geforce 5700) than me. I try and help out Agent too, give him advice on things in his life whenever possible, and he's just a cool little guy.

Smitty: Ok, this is the weirdest thing that could've happened. Smitty is a 14 (15?) year old who is homeschooled, goes to church, plays Battlefield, and who just HAPPENS to live 30 mintues north of me in Boca Raton! :D I couldn't believe it when I heard all that after playing with Smitty for a while. I'm not sure how we met, but it sure was quite the surprise. Smitty, like he says, "Is the little brother I never wanted" and I'm "the brother he never had", or something like that. He's a single child who loves he word "spaz" and he's just great fun to kill ingame. We also like playing Soldat a lot, and Smitty is just such a find. :)

Bleh: He's a noob

And if any of you 21CW guys read this, don't worry, you're still graet people even if I didn't mention you! :P I just can only type so much...

Anyway, that's enough typing for me...I can't believe I actually wrote about half of all this, only to lose it as the Blogger "Save Draft" button brought me to an error page, and then having to write it again >_<

Division & Companies

Ok, so here's pretty much how it goes:
There are two teams...Coalition (Americans) and Opposition (Iraqi). I'm on Opp. side (yea yea, whatever, the Coalition guys are a bunch of punks :P). Then from those teams, each team has 2 divisions. That's 4 in total. On Opp side there are the 2SA (2nd Syrian Army) and 10AD (10th Armoured Division). I'm on 10AD. Everyone uses a nickname, and as usual, mine is Stealth. Anyway, from each division, its split up into a couple of companies. IN 10AD we have Al-nida (may company), Republican Guard, Fedayeen, Ninja, Artillery, and Zubayr (our Air Force). Anyway, what my 1337 company usually does is within the region of spec-ops or assualt missions within our point. Sometimes we may be called to bail from a helicopter (this nice chunky bird we call the Hippo :D) onto a point and capture it. We get a custom map every battle (which we have every week). The map has a certain amount of points (like, areas to capture) taht we need to get. If we control more than hlaf the other team "bleeds". You see, in the beginning of that round for the map, we have a certain amount of tickets. Lets say...700. Now from that amount, you lose 1 for very kill, and if you get the other team bleeding, it means that they are losing 1 ticket at a constat rate (of about a couple of seconds). Just reread that till you understand because I think I almost lost myslef in that! :D Ok, gotta go to practice! I will explain more tomorrow...PART 3!

Me and my tournament...

Just a little explanation to yall and what I do most of the time.
I play a FPS called Battlefield 1942. The game is extremely fun, even though it came out back in 2002. Obviously graphics are aging and such, but its just too much fun. Especially because I always play Desert Combat. Desert combat is a mod for Battlefield, which simply put, modifies the game from a World War 2 scenario to a more modern Gulf War based time. Now, after playing DC (Desert Combat)a while, I had a friend named "Thunder" from a Total Annihilation forum who also played DC. I had sent him a CD Image (its like burning a CD, but the CD isn't a physical copy, but a file on your computer, which you can then burn onto a CD again. I had to do this because Thudner lives in England!) since he had lost his. After playing around with DC for some weeks (pretty much illegally, as he also used a No-CD crack) he bought the game. He had also invited me to a tournament he had found called 21st Century Warfare. I eventually joined, hearing his voice over Teamspeak for the first time, and actually talking with my voice to other people online for the first time. Anyway, thats pretty much how I started in 21CW (as we call it for short). I've been playing for 3 campaigns now, probably since...before the middle of last year. I'll post a bit more about how it works, times, and my team later on.

Oreos...

I haven't posted in 3 days? Man...why? o_O

Just a small post...

Going to bed as soon as this spanish-translated version of "Getting even with Dad" is over. :P I gota a buncha cool stuff from Justin today, and I'm gonna mess with it tomorrow and see what I can do. :) Giselle got her first DVD of anime, or rather a collection of videos from Justin. I'm scared now, because she's gonna go crazy and then be all up in Ragnorak or sumthin! ^_^

We killed it...

EeARrGhHAH! Today was painful...we worked from 10 AM to...6:30 PM? Just doing lawn stuff! Uprooting some bushes, mowing lawn, and trying to get a pressure cleaner to work for an hour! It didn't work, so the main thing that we would've done today has been pusponed for a fututre date. >_< Right now I'm watching "Flight of the Phoenix" and talking to Sheena and Justin on meh laptop! ^_^

More Soldat...

I got even more friends (Bleh and Chaos if you must know) to download and install Soldat. Yesterday. OMG what fun! I played with those 2, Nipz, Smitty (who I will probably explain about some other time, but this dude was quite a find), and Giselle. So a nice 6 people game going on my server. Boy, Giselle really owned all of us. There were bullets flying everywhere, I had a couple nice nife throws, and it was just so much fun hearing Smitty and Chaos react to their death! :D Anyway, I'm downloading the new Kubuntu 5.04 Final which I'm gonna install on the laptop. Which reminds me, I gotta boot into Ubuntu again as there must be a bunch of updates waiting for installation. But after all that I'll be on my Soldat server. Which, if you ever wanna play on it, just head on to the Soldat Server page, press Ctrl-F or something to search for a word, type in "Stealth" and you should see a server called Stealth's Server. Just click and if you have Soldat installed, it should launch it up and join automatically!

:)

I woke up, and there was a laptop on my desk, and I wasn't dreaming! *giggles*

Thank God, seriously man, you guys don't know (or you may!) HOW LONG I've wanted a laptop...and then I find this and get an awesome deal and configuration. W00t W00t!

ANYWAY...just like to let you Youth Groupians that the REEL Ministry Forums has had a nice little makeover, very nice and clean interface I must say. And ya gotta love the icons on top! (I know that usergroups icon is from Linux's KDE UI! :D)

Installing stuff as I type... 

*hallelujah music plays 

Pure beauty... 

It has been delivered...thank God... 

Hello Picasa!

Ok, this is just a little test with Google's Picasa and Hello programs, to add photos to blogs! This image was made in Photoshop, which I made by following a tutorial somewhere...^_^ 

UPS said so...

According to my tracking number, my laptop is to arrive today. Being the civilized man that I am, I will not sit on the mailbox all day waiting for him, but I will calmy sit next to my door and walk back and forth to the window to see if he has come. And if he hasn't come by the end today, I'll just have to raid the UPS headquarters...

Boy...

You're gonna see a bunch of template changing going around, until I can find out how to make my blog look good in Firefox and IE...

I can't seem to post images wider than the width of this column! Oh well, I'll just be posting smaller images or thumbnails more often...

Soldat fun!

Yay, I actually got Julen to download and install the game Soldat. If you've never played it, its a cool 2d game, with soldiers with an arcade scrolling shooter type gameplay.


The graphics aren't super awesome 3d or anything (tho screenshots don't do it any justice either, you gotta play it in fullscreen and it looks a lot cooler), but the gameplay is just fun. Atleast for when ya got nothing to do! :D Anyone who has it should message me so that we can setup a time to play. I can host a server if needed. Also, I made a program for it that allows you to switch mods and stuff. They have a HALO mod for it, WW2 themed mod, and all different types. Really cool!

I've been attacked!

Boy, I got about 13 bites across my left arm, feeling like 3 or so on each leg, and about 6 or more on my neck! They're so itchy too! Boy, I won't be going to a beach again anytime soon. :P

And in other news, I got a cellphone. So on Friday, I'll prob be asking all you youth pplz for your numbers and taking pics of you! :D

Freaking paper cups made of paper...

Woo, I got quite a bit to say, let's see if I can get it all out before I have to leave to my cousin's (Vanessa) 18th birthday party. Yea, I don't believe it either...

Anyway, yesterday at work, well...it was Friday. And every Friday they bring us donuts. So as usual I scarf down a donut, only to realize that the water machine (the one with the red and blue flippy switches) next to me has no cups. Great. So, with the super creative mind mankind was given, I used my imagination to make myself a cup from some paper I grabbed on a desk. Now, I don't know origami or anything, so my first attempt at this was a simple cone. I had to bend the bottom up, because I couldn't tighten the paper enough to close at the tip. Now, if you've ever folded paper into a cone, you'll see the problem I ran into. As I poured the water in, and it stayed in, I brought it up to my lips, only to see that this isn't some even surface. Part of the cone was stickick up like some spear, while the other folded down a bit. Fold a paper into a cone to see what I'm talking about. Either way, I was thirsty so I just chugged it down, and spilled a bit on my shirt.

Later on, after I finished my 15 minute break, I got thirsty again. This time, I made a better cone, bending the bottom tip up higher, and folding the top section nicely into an even cup type shape. This worked great and I had another cup of water.

The problem, with this is...this water hurt. After my first drink, it felt like a paper cut my tongue or something, or atleast a little (if it was a full paper cut, I'd probably scream in agony). So I thuoght that with my second attempt I'd be more careful. No. It must've been the paper or something, but my tongue hurt more, and soem pain shot up through the left side of my neck, and up into my ear. Not right away, but a small sting some minutes later. I feel better today, except my throat is still a little sore, but man, what the heck do they put in paper these days? Freaking chemicals...

Also, last night at youth group was awesome. It was great to see how people got closer to God and stuff, and how the Lord moved his spirit through the youth group so powerfully during the fire tunnel. I thank God for everything he's done for us, and everything he will do. I hope we continue growing like this, and that we can glorify him as much as possible in our daily lives.

GAH! teh frustration...

I downloaded the Cedega and Point2Play debs, to try and make everything as easy as possible for installing Battlefield under Linux. What crap man...Battlefield gives me some Installshield error in cedega, Point2Play is uglier than I thuoght, and again, I failed to install BF. I'm pretty sure this works fine under regular Wine, but regular Wine will not play 3d stuff...maybe I need to install it with Wine, then use Cedega to run the .exe? I don't know, either way, after reading through some posts at the Transgaming website, it appears people have a lot of problems in BF that are unresolved. They mainly deal with the newest patch (1.61, which you must have to play online) and punkbuster (which most servers have online, so if that doesn't work, you're screwed too). So...I think I'll have to wait for Wine to completely implement these nifty DirectX 9 patches.