Fifteen Days
May 1
I know I said I was going to write more once I got the new design. And I am. Maybe. No, really, I am. I’ve just been a bit preoccupied lately.
Spring has sprung here in Arkansas and I’m feeling it full-force. I don’t know how many nights and mornings I’ve woken up to a pounding in my sinuses. It’s not fun. A couple of sinus painkillers, a few bottles of water, and a good hour of drooling while staring blankly at the TV seem to fix it, but that really puts a cramp in the day (especially when the headaches don’t come until I’m really getting a good stream of work going around 2 or 3p.m.). It seems like the pollen is starting to die down (thanks to several rainstorms and some near-freezing temperatures at night, so they should all go away soon.
Hopefully they do, as the middle of this month is my birthday. I don’t really care about ages or anything. I don’t drink so 21 was no big deal, and I don’t smoke, so 18 was a pass. For some reason I’ve been looking forward to this one, though. Maybe it’s just that it’ll be my first birthday so far away from my parents and their home. It’ll be my first birthday out of college with a job under my belt and a new business starting (slowly but surely). Anyway, I’m somewhat excited.
We still haven’t really decided what to do for my birthday, either. I think we’ve finally settled on having an Xbox LAN party at John’s house as he has a giant 60″ television that’s just begging for multiplayer Halo 2 and Ghost Recon 2. We tested it out last night, taking my Xbox over there and running a few games through their router. Worked great. Just have to get the people together and make sure we have enough controllers and copies of the games. We’ll be sure and take pictures.
I think we’ll end up doing something for my birthday that’s just family, too. I know my parent’s are coming up for a day or two sometime around then and I’m sure Elaine’s mom’ll come over for a weekend or something. Maybe we’ll all go out to dinner; there’s a Brazilian steakhouse that’s been catching my eye, and a “prime rib steakhouse” that’s been noticed, as well. I guess we’ll just see what evolves.
So, what do I want for my birthday (am I ever going to get off this subject!?)? I really don’t know. I mean, there’s stuff on my Amazon wishlist, in the about section, but I can’t name just one thing or another that I really want. Well, I take that back. I can. I want/need some more RAM for this here wonderful iBook. I’ve pre-ordered Tiger and it’ll run on my 256mb, but I’m sure it’d run a lot better on 1.25gb. I can buy a gig for around $200. Not that anyone has or will donate, but any donations to my PayPal account will go to a “buy RAM” fund. Same for any money anyone gives me. Hopefully I can upgrade this machine really soon, as I tax it daily, just ask Ray.
I guess I want a few other doodads for this iBook, too. I need either an external keyboard or one of those silicone keyboard covers for it, as I’m hard on keyboards. My Linux box’s keyboard (which has been in use for something like 5 years) has little or no paint left on several keys (C, D, S, V, L, O,M, >, E), has the beginning of a hole in the left Shift key and has a quarter-inch or more long hole in the spacebar. This iBook, which is just going on 4 months of use by me, already has a slick spot in the spacebar and is losing paint on a few keys (N, S, E). I don’t know how I do it, but I kill keyboards. Maybe I should stop handwriting all of my code! :)
Well, OK, on to something other than my birthday. I think I may start another blog soon. A video game blog with a few other writers (too be announced, but you already know who you are). It wouldn’t be the usual video game site where they just pass around the reviews written by IGN and the like. It would be just a few ordinary people who love to play games talking about what they like about games, giving reviews of recently played games, and talking about anything they think needs to be addressed in games (like the bad Xbox Live! support in Ghost Recon 2). I have a domain already for it that I think would be a good name for the site, so we’ll see how it goes.
Well, we need to see about dinner and stuff, so I guess I gotta sign off for a bit.