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This will hopefully be my start to get away from LJ and the such. 


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Be jealous.  I know you already are. :)

I may end up scrapping this blog and starting a new one soonish.  I'll let everyone know because I know how much everyone LOVES to read about my life! :) 


So, I just modded my Wii this past weekend.  I'll have to take some pictures and pop them up here so you can bask in the glory of Woo.  But yeah, basically now I can backup Wii games to an external hard drive and play them from that.  No more buying Wii games....evah.


My newest project will hopefully be here all this weekend.  I bought a black Macbook with a bum screen.   Looks like someone just left something on the keyboard when they closed it and it cracked.  The thing works perfect still, and I was able to get it for $400, a steal in my opinion.  I just bought a replacement LCD off of Amazon and will use this guide to do so.  It shouldn't be that hard, so we'll see if I got the right LCD Friday.

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As the title states, I need a game to play.  I sold all my game systems so it has to be something PC based.  Any ideas?  And it can be an MMO except WoW, FFXI, Warhammer.  

Ideas?

So, I think a few posts back I mentioned I had bought a MSI Wind U100 netbook.  I think it's probably been the best purchase I've made in awhile.  

It's been the most versatile netbook I've seen out there.  Last week (actually like three days after I got it), I ended up putting OS X (Mac OS) on it.  It went out without any problems and worked great.  Well this week I got the bright idea of dual booting.  First off, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.  There aren't really any straightforward guides of how to do it and a lot of people just can't.  

Well last night I figured what the heck.  I killed the partition I had of OS X and started from scratch.  It was a lot of blood sweat and tears before I got it to work.  Putting two OSes that like to boot by themselves and hate each other on one hard drive and trying to get them to boot separately isn't the easiest thing in the world.  After 7 hours of building, rebuilding, reinstalling, repartitioning, reinstalling again because something failed, and al;sdkjf;alksujeop389 (yup that's a word) I was finally able to get it working.  Around 130AM I was able to lay down in peace and know that I had finished what I started.


Oh, and I ordered an Apple Extreme wireless card for the MSI Wind and installed it.  Had to break off a piece on the motherboard to get it to work, but it works great and has awesome signal.  

So, for the price I paid, I got an AWESOME MacBook Air (same exact specs as the first one minus the size of the screen) and a pretty sweet WIn XP system.  I'll have to post pics later!

Why the hell are some people so damned arrogant?

MUST....STOP...BUYING...STUFFS...


24 inches of uberness...  Not that I really needed it...

Yeah, so I know the way of HD DVD is dead, but there are still some great movies on it and for really cheap.  Fry's has a deal that's not too bad.  It's 5 movies (basically all the Harry Potter movies) and then King-Kong and the HD-DVD player for XBOX for $59.99.  That's not bad.  Also they have a few for $39.99 if you're not a fan of the HPs.


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So yeah, check it out if you've got a 360 and have been wanting one. :)

I despise when someone asks how you are doing and you give them the answer of "okay" then they ask why aren't you great???

I'm just not.  Is it that hard to accept "okay" as an answer?!

I believe that the movie Taken should have been renamed to Liam Neeson:  Badass.

Just sayin'.

I like this one today.  I may actually end up buying it:


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So, awhile back I made the post that seemed it was about a girl.  Well it was and here is how things have turned out so far.


She and I have been friends since around the 5th or 6th grade.  We've been that type of friend who can disappear for awhile and come back and still have so much to talk about.  We lost touch during the college years and went our separate ways.  Well about two years ago, I had just ended an "online relationship" and was looking for someone to talk to and she was just ending a year and a half relationship with someone.  Through the power of social networking, we ended up finally meeting at Starbucks on a Sunday night and talked for a few hours.  It was nice just to chat and know someone was having the same problems and such.  We started to hang out a little bit, but not much after.  Not sure why, but it was I guess basically because I wasn't really ready for anything.  Stupid me, huh?  Oh well.   So not too long after that, she ended up meeting someone who was in the Army and they started dating. 

Moving ahead two years...  They were going fairly good for a long distance relationship for the past two years up until recently (right before Christmas to be exact).  She had finally decided they needed to take a break and they did.  Well, for these two years she and I had been hanging out on a regular basis.  Not really for any reason, but just as friends to hang out and have something to do.  We sat on opposite sides of the couch and all that, nothing happened.  Well, on their 'break' we ended up starting to cuddle some and on Jan 1st of this year we ended up kissing.  I'll spare you the details. :)   I guess about two weeks after that, he ended up coming in from out of town to see if they were going to patch things up and continue on, but it didn't happen.  He still stayed with her for two weeks and it was odd for me to think about that.  But I digress...

So, we've been doing our thing for a little over a month now, and the idea was put in my head about being a rebound guy.  I mean I had never figured in the first place that we would go this far as to think about dating, so I never really had to think about it.  I think since we've had over 10 years of friendship that I wouldn't technically be a rebound, but in terms of definition I guess I would be.  I actually brought it up to her and she seemed somewhat reluctant to tell me at first, wanting to know why I was asking all this.  So, I finally got an answer, but I'm just not sure where to go from here. 

We've always had our differences and she's always told me the reasons why we would never / could never date.  What changes those now?  Anything?  And I honestly don't want to just be a rebound after a shitty two year relationship.  You know what I mean?  I just don't really know...  *sigh*...

But I get so tired of calling a company and having to ask for someone that I can at least understand to some degree...  I'd almost rather talk to a computer sometimes....

So, it's taking all I have to not buy an iMac today.  Pretty much everyday I wake up I want to go to BestBuy and buy one...  www.apple.com/imac/


*sigh*

Well, I'm glad I ended up waiting.  I had kinda figured this would happen since the production had slowed down so much for them, but Kindle 2.0 is going to be out soon and will be a lot better than the first.

Anyone use it?

So, I just literally finished watching The Other Boleyn Girl, and all I have to say is...Wow.  It was honestly a really good movie and knowing that parts were actually based on a true story just made the movie even better.  It's hard to think how life used to be during that era, fighting for your nobility, a name for yourself, or just becoming no one.  And it had two of the hottest actresses out there. ;)  I'm a guy, I'll go there.  Who couldn't love Scarlett Johansson AND Natalie Portman??? 

So, I've give this movie about 4.5/5.0.  You really should check it out if you in anyway enjoy history.