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Birthdayness

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Ruthie threw me a party yesterday for my birthday. It wasn’t really all that big a surprise for me, I guess. I knew that something would probably be afoot 🙂 Aaron suggested a LAN on that day, Ruthie and I had gone to Michael’s over the week leading up to it where she was looking for cake stuff. And, Friday night Ruthie wouldn’t let me chill at her place because “The Plague” was there 🙂

Of course, what I didn’t know was that the cake was going to be in the shape of an XB 360 😀 So, go figure, during a 360 birthday LAN party we ate an XB 360 🙂 It really was quite the yummy cake; Ruthie used fondant, which was really tough for a plastic fork but very good. And the biggest surprise of that day was that my bro showed up. So, he got to partake in cake, birthday door prizes and some killin’ on the 360. Mostly, we played Call of Duty 4. I don’t know if that sold him or not, but Keith says he’s getting a 360 next week. I certainly look forward to kicking his booty over XB Live 🙂

I got a VGA cable for the 360 via eBay this past week for $5. Even after the shipping, it was still 1/4 of the price for the retail crap that’s out there–$39.99 for an “official” VGA cable. Boooooo! This one suited me just fine at the LAN, thank you very much. I like paying what a cable is worth rather than what it’s licensed for 😛

I got a really kewl Mage shirt from Ruthie, official Blizzard merchandise, of course 😀 Matt & Rynn got me 1600 XB Live points. w00t! I also got one of the door prizes, Snakes on a Plane. I hadn’t seen that one before. Should be interesting. My bro got me season one of Jericho–we already watched four of them over at the ‘rentals today. Between all of that and the wings feast they made, it was quite the happy birthday 😀

Ruthie throws very awesome parties, and Aaron and Beth are certainly quite the smashing hosts 🙂

Today, I’ve been chillin’ at the folks, spendin’ a lil time with the bro before he headed back–he left a short while ago. Now that he’s only 3.5-4 hours away in Atlanta, he’ll probably be popping around once a month instead of every four. w00t! My folks got me a $50 gift certificate to a rather swanky haircutting place…but, I swear I don’t need one yet 🙂

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So, I’ve been playing WoW for a good bit now…I’ve been 60+ for probably over half of my time playing it. I’ve really been slowing since passing that stage, but I hit 66 this morning. I got a few upgrades to my spells, another talent point, and it also turned out that I’m Revered in Stormwind. I don’t know when the heck that happened, but it meant that I could get a nice Swift White Steed in Elwynn. It’s about time I got a swift one 😛 It’s amazing the difference it makes, too, when you’re running away from baddies. lol.

I’ve also been playing on Linux. Wine seems to treat WoW really well, at this point. I’ve had my difficulty in getting going with it–it initially froze intermittently. But, a few tweaks to the xorg.conf file, and I was good to go. I’m gonna download Portal via Steam tonight and see how that goes. It will be nice, though, if they ever put out a native binary for Linux 😛 (fat chance) But, even if they don’t, Wine can do the job quite nicely.

Ruthie’s birthday present to me got here early. She basically unwrapped the box it was in when I walked in on Thursday night, so she gave it to me early. It’s Seiko automatic watch. It’s really frickin’ cool. I’ve never owned a mechanical watch before. I’ve come as close as analog quartz, but never anything with lil gears in it. Pretty awesome. It stopped last night, and I got quite discouraged. But, this morning Ruthie got it going again. We were both shaking it every which way yesterday, trying to get it going again. It turns out that you have to shake it like a rattle to get the rotor to wind. I guess I’m too slothy for an automatic, so I guess I’ll have to shake it every morning or something. hehe. Small price to pay for never having to replace a battery. lol.