About to head out again for yet another Working Thursday. I was really tired last night, I went to bed about midnight-thirty, and I didn't wake up till 10:40, so I got TEN HOURS of sleep, shesh, I must have been catching up or something, I usually try not to sleep too much more than 8 hours, because if I do, I usually end up even more tired than if I had slept less. I feel pretty darn rested today though.
I'll be attempting to fix the vcr setup at my house when I arrive there today, though I have a feeling I won't really get to mess with it till Friday. Why did someone have to touch it at all!! I had it setup PERFECTLY, and now I have to try and figure out how the heck I had it setup before, since I have no clue what I did so long ago, bah, /me flails his arms about.
Alright, the open road is calling.
TUMEO.
Well, I've been juggling a lot lately, between going to classes, doing homework, completing projects, going to work, and playing Final Fantasy XI. Fortunatly my college has not suffered from my gaming, but this is thanks to my over abundance of free time.
Due to the graphical demand of FFXI, I have endeavored to increase my visual pleasure by finally upgrading the ONLY piece of equipment in my computer that is "behind the times", my video card. I have, and have had for a long time (I want to say 3-4 years), a GeForce 2 Ultra 64mb card, and it has sufficed up till this game. Now I have a Radeon 9800XT (with overdrive) on the way to my doorstep, scheduled to arrive at 1630 EST on Friday of this week. 2 things are bad about this: ONE) I have to wait and TWO) All my friends now hate me.
Ok, so I've started my plan of changing my site slightly by actually creating a real "blog", which is what this current area is on the main page. This blog is located HERE, and will mirror things posted on the main page until I update my menu to the right on the main page. This blog currently looks quite ugly, but I will update the stylesheet EVENTUALLY. I like this blog setup, by Moveable Type, because it allows the use of comments for each post, which is a cool way for people to say what they want about what I said. Plus if I don't like the comment, I can delete it. My other friends have been using this for some time now, but I've put it off. The main page of my website will soon just contain "news", posts concerning information on updates to the actual site.
So . . . FFXI, you can see a gallery of screenshots from the game that my friends and I have taken in the course of playing it.
Yesterday I was in Tulsa and ate lunch with my father and a co-worker of his who is in charge of the MIS/computer aspects of his company. I talked about summer work and he gave me SEVERAL contacts to call in the Tulsa area, and I can use his name when calling them. This is very cool, as it will help me get an internship! Hopefully I'll start calling this weekend, though I need to create a "script" of what to say.
Alright, I think that is a big enough update to make up for my lack of updating lately.
TUMEO.
Been a bit, but because of beguiling bruises before me, butter begeats burning bullies, and thus, I am updating with a new post.
Yes, as Erik mentioned in a past post, I have proceeded to endeavour the path of another Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Game (MMORPG) commonly referred to as FFXI, but more accuratly titled, Final Fantasy XI. As many of you know, I have been, for quite some time, playing GemStone III, and enjoying it, which brings me to a new paragraph.
In reality, I have not, and do not, play that many games. The games I do set forth upon myself to take up my time are ones which I am able to play with friends. This is why I rarely play single-player games. I have always been like this, it seems. There are a few exceptions, naturally, where I have played single-player games, interestingly enough, these games all seem to stem from the time before playing games over the modem, and then the internet. My single-player games seemed to demish greatly after WarCraft (that's the first one), when my best friend and I would get up at 3/4 a.m., stuff pillows/blankets infront of the speaker inside the computer that made the connection noises (until I got inside and disconnected it, and then later figured out how to mute it software wise), and play till 5 a.m. and ride our bikes to the donut shop. The only single player games I do play are ones that I can, in a way, still play against others via competition in scores or how far you've gotten.
So, all that to explain why I pay money monthly to play two games, it's all for friends really. I'm not even sure yet if I like FFXI, I have, however, but a decent amount of time into it, and probably will continue to play it, even if I don't fully enough the interface simply so I can spend time with my friends.
Perhaps some are wondering why I'm not immeaditly in love with the game. It does have amazing graphics and such, I won't deny that, and they did an awesome job of putting it all together. It runs smoothly and all that, though Joe has done a well enough explaination of the game mechanics and graphics in numerous posts. For me, for starters, I have never really played any FF games at all except for FFVII. I enjoyed that one, it was interesting, but it didn't hold me enough to complete the game (though that was probably primarily due to the fact that I lost all my game data b/c memory card went bad after many many many hours into the game). The interface is still taking some getting used to for me, and I hear that the playstation controller and adapter is a much better way of doing things, I'm not having that much difficulty, except when I type something and it seems delayed or doesn't register sometimes. Also, what the heck is up with it saying "You don't meet the requirements to obtain
Alright, long enough post.
TUMEO.