Crap...

Well my laptop is dying FAST...Seems like it's taking hits from all parts: Video Card/Processor/HDD (this has been slowly dying for a while.)  I had to wipe my computer yesterday and spent the day before transferring everything to dropbox (Awesome service! If you don't have one use my link and we both get extra space! http://db.tt/tpYMfkG or you can be mean and just go to dropbox and sign up yourself, but then you don't get extra space either.)  Sadly I lost my windows 7 install and now I'm back on Vista...but at least my computer is hanging in a little better.  I'm looking at a new laptop atm, I think I'm going to get a Sony Vaio EC series Sony EC series Specs: 1GB V.Ram (ATI 5650 if I remember correctly,) 500GB (7200RPM) HDD, 8GB Ram, Intel i7 2.88GHz processor, windows 7 professional (spending the extra $50 so I can select Fresh start and I don't have to have all the extra crap companies always stick on computers....screw AOL..I have a horror story I'll share another time about them.)

In other news I did some more work on my video game framework this weekend, not enough to really make a post about, but it's slowly getting better.  The FFXI marathon went well too, didn't get done exactly what I wanted but I am working towards it.

dyslectic

My girlfriend was nice enough to point out that I had some issues with dyslexia in my spelling of "etc" I had it as "ect" as you may or may not have noticed.  I swear I don't think I'd have passed English classes w/o a spellchecker(I had to program one once, it was a pain.)  This weekend I'm back home, hanging out with a friend.  Tonight shall be a Final Fantasy XI marathon! I'm working on getting an awesome weapon....slowly I might add.

It's the Staff on the bottom row, second from the left.  It has 3 stages, I'm working on the first stage:

Though it's basically crap till the second stage:

I love how goal oriented video games are, it's nice to sit down and do something solo or with a group of friends and come out having accomplished something (even if it's in a virtual world) and of course there's all the fun you have doing it.  There's actually a very interesting TED talk about video games/gamers, shows how it's useful and stuff (my thousands of hours are justified!) If anyone's interested in it, here's the link: Video game TED talk

Edit: added labels, also if anyone's interested in mythology (I enjoy reading it~) here's a link to the origin of the Staffs name Hvergelmir