My new PC went together wonderfully, thanks to the assistance of Neil and Noah. There were not even close to the number of horrifying problems I expected.

Next week I can finally put in my two weeks notice at work, which will be nice since I hate that fucking place.

The move is coming up fairly soon, but it still really hasn't hit me.

In case anyone reads this that I don't have e-mail addresses for, we're having a going away party on March 15th. Dunno about exact times yet, but it'll be somewhere in the 7pm range, I would guess.

Exciting news! Once we can clean up/repair the house and get someone to buy it (or perhaps rent it if buying doesn't happen), we're getting the fuck out of Maryland and moving to Hawaii.

I have survived my journey to the land of Hawaii. I guess I could elaborate, but I don't feel like writing that much right now.

Insert hyperbolic exclamation here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19630192-Rednecks-build-spider-mech

I must see this movie: http://www.lolitron.org/2007/12/09/the-machine-girl/

You know, it's both exciting and upsetting to discover that no, your hard drive didn't die, but that yes, you did spend the last several weeks fretting about it because of a $10 cable ( Read more... )

No words can describe how great this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU

Hahaha...the ending song in Portal is the single greatest song ever written for a videogame.

My daylong dorkening was a success! I won a few extra packs of the new Magic expansion in the process, and traded for some decent stuff.

Also, meeting up with people you know from the internet, even in large crowds, is still pretty awkward.