malkav11

I'm leaving for Iowa tomorrow morning (early for me, not for the rest of the world) and will be down there until ~6 am on Saturday the 29th (yay late-night bus journeys). Since I'll be with family, chances are I will not be logging on to porn sites on their computers, and I haven't got a laptop with wireless. So I'll probably be out of...
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This promises to be an odd Christmas. My family's about as scattered as it's ever been. One aunt and uncle live in California with their son who's, I think, just about ready to get into school (though I lose track of his exact age). Everyone else except me does live in Iowa, but my parents are 3 hours east of everyone else in Iowa, and...
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It's kind of funny. I picked up the original Half-Life 2 when it got low enough, simply because I liked the game enough to consider it worth the money and the play. A damn sight more than I liked the original, certainly. And it came with a couple of other games. Counterstrike: Source being the big one for most people. But as they were multiplayer...
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I guess I'm not really surprised that Rev 22:20 seems to be one of the strongest Puscifer songs, but the recent album does have quite a bit of other goodness. Favorite right now: Momma Sed.

Very irritated that all the sales and the super-hot game release season are coinciding with my lowest financial ebb in ~8 years.

Sooooo sneezy. Sigh.

Incursion continues to be awesome (if hard). Really, no excuse not to go download it. Here.

Poking at Oblivion trying to finally get the main quest done (and still routinely getting distracted.) When it's stable and free of weird graphics problems, it's such a beautiful game. Unfortunately, I still routinely find that I'll load it up, play for five minutes, and it...
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Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes (I am far too lazy to go thank everyone individually.). I wound up hanging out with my friend Eddy. So it was kind of a low key birthday, just entertainment and good food and spending time with people I like (I here include my pre-birthday activities on Saturday with my parents also.) Only present so far's been some microwave...
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The iPod is great. Durable, small, tons of storage space, and it remembers my position in spoken word material (!!!). Okay, the files do have to be set to do that, but that's pretty trivial to accomplish. I'm never going to use it for video because the screen's like a third of my PSP's screen size, but for audio, it's terrific. I just wish the...
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I have this thing where I can save money, not really a big problem. But if I've got a bunch of money around, and I don't see any proximate *requirement* for that money, then I really badly want to spend it. Because let's face it, in today's world, unless you're saving for something specific, that money isn't even paper, it's just a bunch of binary...
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You know, I found montestruc's declaration that comparing UPS and the USPS led to the inescapable conclusion that private enterprise was inevitably superior laughable at the time. And now I am even firmer in that opinion. My dealings with the postal service have not been entirely without annoyance, but my packages tend to arrive ahead of predicted times, and they're cheaper. Moreover, there's post...
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For the record, no I do not fucking want DirectTV or cable. *beats head against wall*

Sorry, just got off the phone setting up the gas/electric billing account in my name for the first time ever - a process hindered by a) the energy company representative ("Harry") having a very thick accent. I'm not sure what sort, exactly, so I won't say. But I have...
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About 5:30 yesterday morning I did it. I beat Neverwinter Nights 2. The last few areas are full of frenzied, high level battling against swarms of nasty undead, culminating in an epic multi-stage boss fight. Very awesome. Better yet, if playing an evil character (I was), the big bad will offer you a chance to switch sides and join it. This has ostensibly been a...
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