So I’m hosting another LAN at my place this weekend. It looks like there will be at least 6 people, but perhaps a little more. It will most certainly be a glorious Nerdfest, the likes of which hath never been seen. I know I’m so going to pay for it the next morning on the trip up to Chicago. lol.

Could I be a bigger nerd? LAN parties, DragonCon. I’m so proud of me. lol. Nerds rule the world, or so they say.

I was pondering seeing AVP on Friday night. I’ve heard good and bad things about it. The thing is, I just can’t imagine an Alien movie without Ripley. So, I just couldn’t imagine this as being a very good movie. It might be entertaining, though, being a veteran of the Alien vs Predator games.

Nothing much else going on. Just your same ol’ day. It’s quiet around here today, especially since I’m the only code monkey here. It definitely makes the day pass much slower :-\

That’s the sound of my weekend biting the dust. As with so many peoples around here, my weekend went way too fast. It was nice and relaxing, barely did a thing. It’s good to have those weekends here and there. Fortunately, this Monday went by just as quickly as the weekend did.

I’m getting pretty far in Doom 3. It’s so very much like the first game, only with a fairly decent and concrete plot; the first game, to me, was nothing more than trying to fight your way out of hell. Although, admittedly, I just took the game at face-value. Actually, Doom 3 seems less like a sequel game and more like an extension. It’s not re-hash of the first game, but it merely accentuates what the series was.

It’s starting to get warm again :-\ It passed over the 85 degree mark today *sigh* False autumns suck.

I attempted to bring my parents’ cat Molly home last night to see how Penny would react to another cat. Penny did fine, but Molly definitely did not. I heard hissing coming from the living room all night, and i know it wasn’t Penny. lol. I think that she will totally do fine with another cat. I just have to get one 🙂 It’ll probably be after I get back from DragonCon.

Off for a well deserved nap.

I knew that Penny was evil, the instant I met her

All of this false autumn made me realize how quickly summer has passed. It seemed to pass even quicker than when I was in college, although for the last 2.5 years of college I usually did the class thing during the summer. It seems like yesterday te were just crawling out of winter. It’s not that I mind, fall just happens to be my favorite season; winter is just around the corner, the World Series is played, and there’s always Halloween.

I got a new camera, so I could make spiffier pictures when I’m in Chicago–it’s basically 2x the one that I had. But, the amazing part is that it does movies, too 🙂 I’m certainly no expert on digital cameras, so it just plain amazed me that they put that feature into what I would consider just a plain old still-shot camera. Oh, the miracle of 21st century technology. I await the day when just about everyone has a robot made just to feed their cats 🙂 Oh, and not to mention the flying cars.

Well, maybe not that cold, but it is pretty darn cool today–thanks to Charley, of course. It’s brought the grooviest fall-like weather to these parts, and I hope it stays that way for at least a few days. It’s very nice. I wish it could be like this all year round. Still just warm enough to swim..

The Cubs are in a rain delay, so I’m getting to see the last 3 innings of the game–after the delay is over. w00t. The Wild Card race is quite close, and they’re 2 games above the Padres (who they’re playing in-between the rain today).

Today was one of those days that started out kinda blah, but ended with me whistling (so you know it has to be good, if it got even me peppy. haha). Tomorrow is Friday, so that makes things even uber kewler.

I think I might crack open some Chicago Pizza this weekend–I always get them frozen when I’m in Chicago, so I can bring a lil piece of the kewlist town on earth with me. The pizza just happens to be one of the worthier pieces, too. I’m going to get a few pizzas this next time around. If you guys haven’t had Chicago pizza, be sure to do so at least once in your lives. It’s truly an earth-shattering pizza.

This is just one of those days where I can already tell that I’m going to be exhausted by the end of it; one of those days where you wake up tired, as if you hadn’t slept in days. It almost feels like I played the entire World Series all in the span of last night. Gosh, I hope I’m not starting to get old 😉

I’m going to start looking on The Ark’s website today for some kitties. I think I’ve decided that I’m going to get a cat quite close to adult age–definitely not a newborn, but not quite drinking age (in cat years, of course). Penny probably IS bored *sighs in resignation* and I think a daytime bud would definitely help her since I can’t give her 24/7 pettin’ time 🙂

Of course, in the end, I might break down and get a little 6-8 wk old. Those big blue kitten eyes are shifty, that’s for sure–they really know how to reel you in 😛

Well, of to do some napp–working. Um, yeah. That’s it.. Working *ZZZZZZZZZZZ*

So, I’m thinkin’ of getting a little companion for little Penny. I’m gone most of the day, and sleep most of the night, so that leaves only a little time in-between for Penny to have any time that’s not to herself. So, I think she needs a sibbling. I don’t know whether or not I’m going to get a kitten, or one that’s a year old (around fully grown). If I got an adult cat, I wouldn’t have to worry about Penny getting into the kitten food (thereby growing her already chubby self to Godzilla proportions). But, then again, a kitten would be a lot of fun.

In other news, I’m headed up to Chicago in a couple of weeks. Should be quite the hoot; I’m going up to visit family, take in the museums, and even a Cubs game 🙂 I always love going up there; I go every summer, and it never gets old. I wouldn’t mind moving back up there one day, but we’ll see where things might take me. If not, I can always worship the Cubs from afar 🙂

I think my bro is finally over his little wisdom tooth fiasco. Poor guy had them removed last week and hasn’t been able to eat much in the way of solid food. I still have mine, and in fact they are pretty much completely in-place on the left side. I don’t know if the right ones will ever poke through; there’s just not as much room over there. I really don’t like pain, so I really don’t think I like the idea of taking them out. Keith is definitely braver than I 😉

Off to do that Superman thing I do every day.

Just when I thought it was all hopeless, the Cubbies are 2 games up in the wild card race after last night, 2 games ahead of San Diego and 3 ahead of San Francisco. The Cardinals, the most detestful baseball team ever created by mortal man, are 10+ games ahead of the Cubbies.. Soo, I think the division is pretty much locked. But, hey.. The Marlins won the World Series off the wild card last season. Even if it means crying in my beer in the end, I still have uber faith that my Cubbies will go to the dance.

This weekend has been a very relaxing one. It’s been quite sunny, and very fall-like. I’ve been playing a little more Doom 3, without any nightmares. lol. I would say that this game is about as scary as the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

I’m about to be making some uber upgrades to my website that should be quite awesome-ish. I guess other than that, things have been same-ol’.

Off to go root on the Cubbies 🙂

So, I got Doom 3 last nite 🙂 It is just such an unreal game. Well, basically it follows the same plot as the predecessors. On the whole, it seems like pretty much the same game as before only on steroids. I was playing at a friend’s house last night (has a mediocre multiplayer package, btw), when he brought up the good point that no genuine strides in gaming have come along since the first Doom. Basically, the main thing that has been improved upon has been graphics engines and method of play/input. You still have the basic types of games you had back then: action and rpg. It’s just interesting that we all spend $50+ on these games, when nothing really changes except the fluff.

But, that being said, Doom3 has good fluff 🙂

This weekend shall be one for relaxing. It was kind of a long week, and I think I feel like doing nothing more than sit around and read–I’ve been gaming way too much to not take a break from that 🙂 My book library is so big that I could almost be my own bookstore; I guess I’m kind of a total packrat when it comes to books, especially of the Sci-Fi variety *nerdish grin*

But maybe I’ll play just a little Doom 3 before getting to it 😀

My router has been down the past day or so. Last night, I was playing UT2004 with a friend. I opened up all ports on the computer that I was using as a dedicated server. I hope I didn’t get cyberschmacked by some disgruntled punk 13 year old 😛 DMZing your server isn’t generally a good idea, but I forgot to UN-DMZ it when I went to bed. *place dunce cap here*

Other than that, it’s been a fairly uneventful day–which isn’t bad.. It’s better than Penny constantly biting my feet 🙂 She has this crazy little thing she does when I’m on the computer in the den. When I call her in the living room, and move my hand toward the floor, she starts walking sideways over to me, arching her back and curling her tail behind her.. it’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in a cat. I don’t know; maybe you cat owners out there know what the freak is up with that 🙂

Anyway, off to play a lil more UT 2004 (and this time i’m freakin closing the DMZ when I’m done. lol).