It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!

Well, Christmas in March.

IT'S SNOWING!

I'd guess we've already gotten something like 4", hopefully it'll continue. It's mostly filled in my shoe prints in about 90 minutes, so I'd rate it as fairly brisk, though it's probably light for most people's standards.

One thing's for sure: it's going to be really tough getting our poodle to go out and poop!

How I have missed the sound of my sword slicing into the flesh of mine enemies!

NEW SOUND CARD!

NEW VIDEO CARD!

I CAN PLAY CITY OF HEROES AGAIN!

Two weeks ago when I was in Phoenix, I took back the GeForce4 that I'd bought and got credit, which I used to buy a Radeon 9200SE. Definitely not top of the line, but it has 128meg of memory. I had some initial problems: I installed it, then tried to install the latest drivers from the factory web site. They wouldn't install. So I finally loaded the CD that came with the card, and now all is well.

So that left sound. I don't know what happened, but the on-board sound stopped working, I learned this a few weeks ago when I fired up iTunes to listen to some moozik whilst doing the dishes. Today I decided that my frustration was worth $30, so I bought a new Soundblaster Audigy. Went in just fine. Unfortunately I couldn't find any card screws, so I pulled out my modem riser card (like that's going to see a lot of use!) and used that screw.

And tonight I got to play City of Heroes!

I just did a little running around, killed a bunch of street toughs, did one mission that was very rewarding as most of the bad guys were my level or one higher. I still have a lot of debt to work off on that character, though. (In CoH, you don't die. You're knocked out and either use an Awaken inspiration to wake you up if it's safe from villains, or you are teleported to the hospital and wake up there. But every time you're defeated, you gain Debt. You don't lose EP, what the debt basicly does is add on to the EP required to get to the next level. You have to work the debt off, by beating on baddies, before you actually begin advancing with EP again. And you don't lose stuff when you're defeated. It's not a bad methodology, beats having to run back to your body and re-equipping everything like a lot of games require.)

I wanna be sedated! What classic punk band are YOU?!

Ramones This is where you belong in the annals of punk history!

You probably don't realize how cool you actually are. You set the trend by not setting one. You do what you want and are surprised when other people like doing it your way. You may be simple but that's just fine. Who cares, right? you'll go down in history as the stuff of legends, though you have no idea why; as far as you knew, you were just some stupid person having some fun, right?

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 30% on wild apathy You scored higher than 78% on pissed off You scored higher than 53% on comically evil You scored higher than 63% on socially aware

Link: The What classic punk band are you Test written by DrLebowski on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Misfits, HAH!