Happy Insurrection Day!

A big thanks to sea_gaagii and tavalon for the excellent house-boat view of the fireworks. The company was well worth the ten-block walk to park.

I have training in the mornings all week, so I'm really going to suffer for my staying up way too late over the weekend...

Weekend computer project complete

With the exception of figuring out how to get my BIOS to understand that when I add the ZIP drive it isn't actually a harddisk and you should just continue through to the Serial ATA drive to boot, my new computer is all set up. It installed stuff really fast thanks to the 16x DVD reader and the 7200 RPM Serial ATA drive and games like Neverwinter Nights are quite snappy as compared to my 4-year old Dell.

What I find ironic is that I've received three free games from work in the past six months that I've not bothered to look at since the min-specs were way above my Dell: Half-Life 2, Metal of Honor: Pacific Assault, and Battlefield 2. Now that my machine can handle it, I find it ironic that I have absolutely no real interest in playing any of those games. Probably because they are all effectively FPS games and I'm more a RTS/RPG man.