Civ Anon

With Ben finally being back, and the Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 free trial ending, I realised I needed a new game to get into. Ben has about $60 to spend on games, so I took the first step and went out and bought Civilization IV: Warlords and CivCity: Rome. While I haven’t played Warlords yet (I want to wait for Ben, otherwise I won’t be able to play normal Civ IV with him right now) CivCity Rome rocks. It’s very.. Strongholdesque, but with a very distinctive Civ feel.

He was going to buy RO:O 41-45, but that was before I bought the “Civvies.”

Anyway, I bought Red Orchestra the day it was released (around the same time I preordered HL2: Episode One) but really hadn’t played it at all ’til now. It’s better than the original RO for UT2004, sure, but I got bored of the original RO quickly (possibly due to frustration, even though I’m a great shot) and I get bored of RO:O just as quickly. There’s still a chance that Ben will be able to afford Call of Duty 2 or Battlefield 2 along side Civ IV: Warlords, but who knows.

August 6, 2006 · Filed Under Announcements, Ben, Journal, Mjolnir, Projects

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Heeeeeere’s lappy!

I’m going to buy a laptop. Maybe I’ll use the Christmas money I get, or maybe I’ll use the money from fixing computers, or from the job I plan on getting in September. Either way, I need it for school, so it’ll have to go on my list above all else. (Else being an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii, a PlayStation 3, a BD/HD-DVD capable optical drive for Mjolnir, all of Buffy and Angel on DVD, a camera, a trip to Japan, etc.)

I’ve pretty much decided that I’m going with a Lenovo laptop, just because I’ve used quite a few Dell laptops, a few Sony VAIOs, a Toshiba Satellite here and there, and even a few Hewlett Packards, and the thing is.. none of them have ever impressed me as much as a ThinkPad. (Though the Toshiba Satellite line has come damn close.) The thing I want right now is the Lenovo N100. While technically not a ThinkPad, it serves my purposes for a school-use-and-type-on-and-play-HL2-from-time-to-time laptop. Plus, it’s got one o’ those there biometricamajiggers. Y’know, you swipe your finger across it, and log into Windows, or what not.

One other thing I want from the laptop is Linux capability. Like, everything (save the pointless 56k modem every laptop still seems to have) working in Linux. I’d love it if the li’l biometric thingy did, but I’m not going to hold my breath for it.

Either way, I won’t be getting this until December, so for now I’m just going to worry about how to pay for it.

This of course means I need to get a job, learn how to drive, etc. I’ve already picked out a few places to apply to for work, and I know I have a near-guarenteed job at the local McDonald’s, etc. I’m not going to apply for said job until I go back to school, because you get credit for writing up a resume and applying if you do it at school. Credit = good.

I’ve also picked up the “RoadSense Guide for Drivers”, so I can take my written test before I go back to school. Or at least, that’s the plan. Most likely I’ll spend the rest of the summer swimming and playing games with Ben, but who knows.

(P.S. Swimming laps in the ocean is … weird. You swim from one end of the beach to the other, and get tired very quickly.)

August 5, 2006 · Filed Under Announcements, Journal, Linux, Projects, School

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Brr

I got a haircut and shaved today, and as a result, my face is very very cold. Anyway, head on over to my gallery to view before and after mugshots. ;)

August 4, 2006 · Filed Under Announcements

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One helluvan update.

Okay, so maybe “helluvan” isn’t a word. I refuse to say helluva followed by a vowel. Sosumi.

My first PC Gamer finally came here. It rocks.

I’ve added a new album to my gallery and upgraded it to a newer version. Took a while, but ’twas worth it.

Because I’m too cheap and/or lazy to buy a Flickr PRO account, and zeeble won’t buy me one either, I decided to go back to using G2 for more than just screenshots. So, in short, (or long, rather), I’ve added a Photos album, with at least one sub-album. W00. I also renamed the gallery “TLC_G2: The Gallery of The Lazy Canadian”, just because the weird name that was en francais I had before was… tres lame. ;)

In other news; I’ve really gotten into photography. At least for now, that is. I’m planning on taking a photography course as soon as school is back in session, but there’s always the chance that I won’t get in, seeing as the last two years I’ve applied, but not soon enough. Here’s hoping I get in. (Wish me luck!)

Other than that, my life has been as it always is during the summer: Long.

The last discs of Buffy S4 came, and I watched them.
The last discs of Medium S1 are here, I’m in the midst of watching them.
I got a copy of Azumanga Daioh, and I’ve been watching it.
I bought Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2 for $20ish, and I’m going to watch them.
I rented “She’s the Man” and “Pride & Predjudice (2005)”, and I watched them.
Ranma 1/2 DVDs are in the mail, and I’mm’a watch them.

Basically, other than take photos, and go for hikes/swimming, all I do during the summer is… watch TV or movies.

Boring, yes, but I can’t apply for a job ’til September as well, seeing as Ben apparently has an “in” with one of the places I want to apply at, and if I get a job during the school year, I get credit.

I asked my mom to pick up the “driver’s guide” book… manual… thing, so I can take the first test. Why? Because I’m so bored I’ve decided to learn to drive. I don’t really want to, but what else is there to do? At least this way when I want to go to Gibsons, I don’t have to convince one of my parents to go. (I could take the bus, yes, and I wouldn’t be bored, seeing as I’d have my PSP, but I don’t like taking the bus, because it limits the time I can spend wherever I’m going, since I have to keep the schedule in my mind.)

Eh.. what else (long post, ’cause I haven’t posted in a while.)

Oh.

I still haven’t recieved the free Gentoo CDs that I sent away for. I suppose I’ll just have to wait, but when they get here, I plan on setting aside a week to install it. :X

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on IRC again lately, and I’ve met most of the people that I fell out of touch with again. I must say I’ve missed ‘em.

Anyway, for the last few sentences, I’ve just been trying to check every li’l category box. And while I’m certain I could easily do so, by yelling something out about norse mythology and … uncategories, I won’t. Though now that I have… I’ll check the rest of the boxes anyway. (My Xbox isn’t used much anymore, my dad is taking care of my old computer, I like playing M:TG, uncategories ftw.)

August 1, 2006 · Filed Under Anime, Announcements, Ben, Buffy, Freya, IRC, Journal, Linux, Magic, Mjolnir, Projects, School, Ullr, Uncatagorized

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