Wyvern, Passion for Gaming

Mood - half and half
Today's Song - Linkin Park - Cure For The Itch

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Not very many lyrics considering it's a DJ scratch song. Also, the title of today's post is the title of one of my favorite animes. Anywho...

It's been a bit since I posted. I hope I haven't lost my three people audience just yet. Lol... you know, a friend recently commented on how they thought that it's interesting how "lol" has become apart of our language. Go figure, the internet and computers would have an impact on life.

I called myself half and half because yesterday was a mixture between crap and good. Let's go with the proverbial way of things and get the "bad news" first.

The first thing is that I have a parking violation ticket that I indeed have to pay due to the fact that I payed my registration late. Sucks to be me... at this point, I'm going to scrounge up $20 and extend the payment period by three months. Hopefully within that time frame I can come up with $88 more.

Also, I'm worried about my financial future once again and probably shouldn't be complaining or worrying about it. Instead, I need to get off my ass and turn in applications and this time really hit the grind. Hell, I even thought of going back to Carl's Jr. and asking if I can start from ground zero. I just wouldn't want to go back to front line again... I can't stand guest service in a fast food place. Too many people come in with the attitude that they're hunger determines that they should act like an asshole.

Now the good things...

First off, you might notice a change in my blogger format. I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE IT WORK FOR WIDE - SCREEN MONITORS! And it doesn't look horrible either. All I had to do is break up the things in the sidebar to two different parts and now it looks wonderful. Plus, I inadvertently solved a minor worry I had had from the beginning. I had always known that someday, because the archives section of the sidebar is going to continually get longer and longer due to the addition of months, eventually it was going to end up extending past the bottom of the posting area. Now that the sidebar is broken up, I've gained a lot more space for the archives. I do declare awesome sauce on this fact.

And finally, I got my first title in World of Warcraft. Hurray for me! I just wished the game (which you just lost by the way) hadn't teased me when I first logged in. Long story short, one of the achievements required me to find a female of each of the ten playable races in the WoW world. And the last one of the Alliance side that I needed was a gnome. Well, when I logged in the neutral city I had logged out of now had three gnomes in the area I was standing in... EXCEPT ALL OF THEM WERE MALE! I hate you in the face, WoW.

"Folks! We have a very special guest for you tonight! I'd like to introduce...
MR. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!!!"

Mood - happy but tired (seems to be a standard for me to be tired)
Today's Song - Saliva - Ladies & Gentlemen

So this weekend entailed some very interesting computer learnings. Yes, I know it's not a word. Let's move on, shall we? :P

So first off, I had been wanting to have my brother check out Starcraft for quite some time. The original time I went to have him try it, I realized that in order to play online I was going to need a second CD key. So I went out to buy him a copy as well. Turned out I had found a jewel in the battlechest I bought; one, the game doesn't require the CD to run. A very odd but awesome fact. Secondly, when I realized these discs were designed for Windows XP and Vista, I quickly decided to try and makes copies of them for my brother and just use the old CD key for him. In a roundabout way I got this to work. When I registered a Battle.net account for the old CD key, BLIZZARD GAVE ME A NEW CD KEY! It was awesome and I didn't have to go with a key generator (which probably wouldn't have worked anyhow). Either way, I got my brother a legal copy and into playing Starcraft for a bit.

It wasn't all fine and dandy though, I had a couple of issues with the game. First I had to download a patch for Battle.net in order for us to even access the online play. Nothing too hard, just a minor detour. Before this, however, I ran into an interesting little hickup. It seemed when I went to go play the game, Starcraft was running in a 640 by 480 window with a HUGE black frame around it instead of changing the screen resolution to 640 by 480 for the game. At first I tried changing the options on the .exe file for the game but that didn't help... it still played in that black frame. So I called up Glen but he wasn't available. I left a message and like a good, little computer nerd I continued looking for answers... AND FOUND IT. Turned out I had to go manually change the screen resolution because it wasn't an available resolution when immediately trying to access the display control panel. Kind of an annoying to have to do but at least the game can be played.

I also went over there to use my brother's Lightscribe capable DVD drive. I had made a few more cruising CDs and wanted to print my Lightscribe labels. On Saturday when I first tried it out on the CD that I had ALREADY WRITTEN THE MUSIC TO, the stupid drive wouldn't take the disc. It kept saying that it wasn't able to read the Lightscribe information on the CD to prove it was a Lightscribe capable disc. I kept on wiping the thing down but to no avail. So on Sunday, I went back and tried the exact same disc again. And wouldn't you know it, the stupid thing worked. His DVD drive is acting crazy, I swear. Not only does it change it's mind about discs, but for some strange reason the computer will randomly forget that there's even a DVD drive available for use in the computer. I don't get it.

This week is Easter vacation. I'm hoping to use the time for a little break from WoW. I want to play a few other games for a bit and also work on some school work. I really need to get to learning my guitar pieces for Intermediate Guitar. At least I finally have a strap for the guitar so I can play standing up and not worry about holding the guitar up with my right arm. It allows that arm to be free in its strumming movement. I'm pretty much rambling at this point so I'll say goodbye and hope you enjoy this week's quote!

"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening!
You've seen that seeing is believing!
Your ears and your eyes will be bleeding!
Please check to see if your still breathing!

Hold tight, 'cause the show is not over!
If you will, please! Move in closer!
You're about to be bowled over
by the wonders your about to behold here!

Welcome to the show! Please come inside!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Boom! Do you want it?
Boom! Do you need it?
Boom! Let me hear it!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Boom! Do you want it?
Boom! Do you need it?
Boom! Let me hear it!"

Mood - happy, tired, stuff... something inteligible
Today's Song - Pendulum - Propane Nightmares

First off, go check out the music video to the song from this post... seriously, it's pretty interesting in my opinion.

Anywho, this post is to announce that I just got my first video on YouTube that's hit 1,000 views! Hurray for me! In celebration, I bring to you embedded videos of some of my own favorites of my stuff, including the one that 1,000...

...which would be this one!




My latest of video concoctions:


"Much to weak to jump yourself;
heal the wounds or crack the shell?
Lift yourself from once below!
Much to weak to jump yourself;
Heal the wounds or crack the shell?
Lift yourself from once below!
Praise the anger...
bring it on home!"