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Lately it occurs to me...
Wow, it's only been about 2 weeks since i last posted, but what a strange couple of weeks.
In that time, i've blown up a car, gotten a new computer, found out i have an allergy to the heat transfer compound used on cpu and heatsinks, driven my mom's car, attended a game convention, missed a wedding and gotten a new car.
Also spent a week home alone, and wasn't killed when ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
morgandria got home.
So 2 weekends ago, Colin came up and played at the Orillia Beatles Celebration, playing 2 gigs (look at me with the lingo) in town; One at the Ossiwippi Express Restaurant and the other at the Legion. Both shows sounded great, with a number more people attending the legion show thanks to better advertising. I spent the weekend as a roadie, and was treated to dinner at Theo's Eatery on sunday night for my efforts. One of the attendees was able to give morgandria a ride to Michigan for silere and nagitaka's wedding. On the Tuesday of that week, as i was about to go out to my parents for dinner, I came out to find out that the car was overheating, with steam roiling out of the vents into the cabin. It appears that the fan had broken and wasn't moving any air. The steam ran the radiator dry, and blew the head gasket. This equals a dead car, as spending $1700 to fix a car i paid $3000 for 3 years ago just didn't make a sense. I got to spend the rest of the week driving my mom's 2001 Intrigue, which is a sweet ride. Got shot down from the bank for a car loan, and so i went off to Phantasm in peterborough, to get my game on.
Phantasm was great, and i want to thank jlindsay and acornya for letting me crash there. The con was pretty well attended this year, even if a pile of GM's cancelled at the last minute. I played some Battletech in the first session, managing to cripple a Commando with my last shot with my Jenner, scoring two random criticals through untouched center torso armour. I left hime with two engine hits. In the second slot i played digitalraven's Aeternal Legend, as game mastered by eyebeams, the publisher of said game. It was interesting to see the progression of the game from playing it last year at Phantasm. I got to play the gnome inventor, and added an afterburner to the TTC train we were riding around in. Saturday night was the LARP, ran ably by me. I had about 20 pre registrations, and the people seemed to really enjoyed it, as at 11:30, when i tried to wrap it up, everyone went, " Really? Already"
Sunday I sat in on a session of a local first time developer, that i went to school with. Chris is writing a game using eyebeams Ready2Run system, that is a Star Wars/Space Opera with a touch of over the top anime. It's got an interesting setting, and i hope he does well with it. I'll be looking forward to reading hte setting at least when it's published next year. The last session i played a little bit more battletech and tied for the lead in the circle of death. I convinced morgan_delvanna to play while we waited for another friend to return, and ended up getting him as a target. I managed to put him down, along with another target that had been softened up. We then played a few rounds of Illuminati, with a surprise first time player winning the first game by surprise.
I made out fairly well in the prize category, paying for 6 tickets, getting one for free, and 2 for the larp. out of the 9 tickets, i won 5 prizes.
2 books, a free pizza, a signed copy of urban legends for the nWOD, and a copy of GURPS Supers. I also got free meat from a friend. Luckily it's beef, so red meat, as opposed to some variant of white/pork. I have to say, I've been to a few cons, and this one always seem to energize me, and carry me through the year. It would be nice to get some people around here into gaming, but thanks to Phantasm, i don't feel so bummed out about it.
Early in the first week I ordered parts to replace my computer.They finally arrived this week. I cleaned out the old case i'm re using, and set it up last night. There was only a slight accident when i touched the bottom of the heat sink, not realizing they'd applied the transfer compound to it already. I woke up this morning to a swollen thumb, so a minor allergic reaction.
It's an AMD X2 4400 with 2 GB of 800 MHz RAM on a M2N-32 SLI Deluxe motherboard. I tossed on a BFG 8500 GT video card and a new power supply, and 160 GB SATA drive. So far i haven't done much with it, but COH is now so shiny. I'm slowly but surely transferring files and setup to it, and getting ready to convert my old machine to be a Server/Media Storage device for morgandria and I. I'll also swap some parts around to upgrade her machine a bit, so we cna save up some money to replace her parts.
The other new thing i got this week was a surprise from my parents. We'd taken a look at a car or two, and they decided that they would pick up a car for us, and got a 99 Chevy Lumina, in white again. only 92000 KM on it, and driven by a little old lady who had it serviced every 3 months, according ot the salesperson. Hopefully some pics will follow soon.
Work is work, and things are starting to settle down in to a manageable tedium. The initial start up rush is dying, so now hopefully we can get some other projects on the go, so that we can actually be pro active, rather than re active as things happen.
Lastly but definatly not least, i want to thank starfallz for bringing morgandria back to Canuckistan, and staying up and visiting us, even if our supposedly rock solid internet has taken this week to be the flakiest it's ever been since we started this account. Hopefully it'll stay strong for the rest of your visit.
Soon.... Thanksgiving, turkey and ham and pie!... also a chance to me my new nephew, Zachary Joseph George Barker, born on the first day of school.
