sugardeath

The LAN was pretty cool (more on that later… maybe… I will say that the Wii Photo Channel is absolutely hilarious with a basement full of sleep-deprived /b/tards…). I now have very little hair on my head (it is cold… i could feel the rain yesterday).

So now that I have made my decision (it was really decision1, which, in turn, made decision0 (call me dumb, call me hopeless) a whole lot easier to make), I am mostly going to try to just float through the summer, trying to earn as much money as possible and just generally have as much fun as possible (we shall see how well both of those go, though).

Din is up and running using Brian’s old hardware. The new stuff should be here tomorrow or so. It was in Baldwin Park, California on Friday, when the order was placed, and is now in Louisville, Kentucky (where it has been sitting since I last checked Saturday). Why is it that I always seem to order things from Newegg just before the weekend? Had a little bit of trouble getting X to start again, just had to download and install the nvidia drivers, which was kind of tricky thanks to a few of the Debian repositories not being enabled. I got that working, so now the graphical display runs a LOT smoother than it used to, thanks to Brian’s old GeForce FX 5200 (like it will ever be needed, anyway, headless and what-not). Everything that I need works, but it sure would be nice to get the thing out of dependency hell. Apparently I have the front harddrive light connector flipped around. Din is also now equipped with a second ethernet card AND a shitty sound blaster that… I do not ever remember Brian using. I just need to find my old TV card and I could install MythTV on this thing.

I open the theatre in two and a half hours. I think the LAN Party kind of fixed my sleeping schedule: I got up on my own at six-twenty.

My head is fuzzy.

Breakfast time.

So I told myself I would try something, and make a decision based on the outcome. I also told myself that if I did not try something, I would give up. Obviously if I do not put forth the effort, it is not important enough to me. So.. there ya go. Sorry? I was given plenty of opportunities, too. I could have easily made my own.

The, um, social dynamic is very… Let us just say that It saddens me. Like, seriously. No one seems to be happy around here. Sometimes I really wish I could just live in Chicago year-round. Apartments are probably expensive there… Job availability would probably be kinda lame for a below-par second-year college student (I dislike the idea of holding two jobs…)…

I wonder what will happen now. Just… all around.

Some people just need to be better people.

LAN has been pretty lame so far…

1. Find camera
2. Find camera charger
3. Charge said camera with said camera charger (or, at least, bring charger to LAN Party just in case)
4. Withdraw cash from bank
5. Buy 12 pack of pop
6. Pack up computers
7. Pay Andrew $10
8. Set up computers
9. Have fun, goddamnit.

Oh, and get my head shaved.

My day started at about two or three in the afternoon. I got up for… some reason. I do not know. I dicked around on the computer for a bit before showering and picking up David. We stopped off at Andrew’s really quickly, where Brian already had his computer for some pre-LAN+no-more-school fun. Talked with Brian about computer stuff and placed an order on Newegg for a pretty decent combo. Din will yet live, thanks to Brian’s old hardware (though the MicroATX board that Brian will be getting would be GREAT for Din). Took Brian to the MST building for his robotics (?) banquet, then came home, ate dinner (cheesy hot dogs!), and got to work a minute early (whoo!).

Work was… slow. I forgot to see how many tickets we sold, but it was… dead. Dead, as in, we probably did only four or five thousand people. I guess the next big weekend will be Harry Potter weekend. Possibly Die Hard… maybe.

Because it was slow, I mostly dicked around with Christian all night. It was fun. Got off around two-thirty… I brought my mp3 player, but I really should have brought my DS. There’s still a few GBA and DS games I need to finish…

Came home, got three e-mails saying that my newegg.com order existed, that my card was charged, and that the order was shipped. Estimated time of arrival: Wednesday.

Had a… good conversation with Linda. Generally there is not much said between us… But not tonight (this morning, ergh). It was cool. She, um, has seen the pictures of me with the goldfish in my mouth…

The LAN is in a mere seven hours… and I cannot go to sleep. I was dead tired about three hours into my shift (odd, because I had only woken up six hours before), but now… I am wide awake. Meh. Just drink a lot of Bawls, maybe grab some Cocaine (an energy drink, I swear to god. Kevin had some before work sometime last week… He was… energetic, to say the least), to stay up for the LAN. Apparently the Sunoco at Mound and 19 sells ‘em.

My mp3 player has the oddest radio tuner. It gets great signal just a few feet from the ceiling fan (coming from the hallway; and a real ceiling fan, as in.. in the ceiling, pulls air in from the windows and up through the attic) and then just a few more steps and it is static. Great in front of the fridge. Horrible in front of the bathroom sink. Pretty good by the big tree in the backyard. Not so great near the clothes-line pole just a few feet from the tree.

I am extremely excited about the LAN… nervous about becoming bald… excited about Din… and pretty content with giving up. I believe that I need to make one more final effort, to see if I really should give up, but… I am slowly finding happy again. And giving up will help. Moving on, I believe it is called (I wonder who will take this what way).

89X has so many freaking forty-minute “x-blocks” at night / in the morning. It is pretty nice.

Doom III is possibly the only game at the moment that can truly scare me, despite the fact that I have already played through this part of it… Which, of course, makes it a great game to play before going to bed (playing it in the dark is the only way to go).

I got Din to recognize one of the 120GB drives by setting the jumpers on both the 4GB and the 120GB to Cable Select. The system now hangs on the second boot up screen that displays a bunch of data. Why is it hanging? Well, there is one piece of data that is missing: the size of the 120GB drive.

Yippee.

Work six-forty-five until approximately two-thirty Friday night. I will try my damndest to go to bed “early” so that I can wake up almost fully rested and get to Andrew’s for the LAN by noon. Ideally, I would sleep ALL day Friday and be rested and ready for a full twenty-four hour LAN, but that is not going to happen this time.

If this LAN does not rock, heads will roll. Either by gauntlet or lightsaber.

Fucking zombie scientists… my heart is still racing… How can the soldiers’ pistols be that powerful! Mine is not even that strong! We are all using the same, standard issue UAC pistol, too!

And of course the game always finds a way to leave me with two health just before I encounter an Imp.

Jason wants to meet up for slurpies with Cat sometime tomorrow? I doubt I will be awake until six in the afternoon.

It is really hard to go to sleep with the birds chirping so cheerfully.

Cross-posting from the forums (’cause not everyone visits them anymore):

kk guys, here’s the deal: I recently got my hair cut so that I could continue to work at the AMC. Problem is, I dislike it. If I can’t have my hair all long and flowing like it used to be, I don’t want it. There is still a sizeable amount of hair left, however, so what I am proposing is that the overall winner of the tournaments on the June 2nd LAN Party gets to shave my head (while I am awake, thank you).

During the hours leading up to the final shaving, my hair is pretty much a playground. Wanna dye it crazy colors and make me look like a clown? Ponytails? Spike it (holy hell would that be a big spike!)? I’m game. I just ask that no hair is disconnected from the scalp before the actual shaving.

So put on your game faces, bring the clippers, and get ready to shave me!

Also, remember, “pics or it didn’t happen.”

I wonder who will be shaving me.