Employed and Moving

So hello there! Things here have certainly been up and down, but I have finally settled with a new job working as a Technical Support Representative for Philips through Sento in Raleigh. I sit in my cubicle space and help customers with universal remotes, phones, prontos, and tv's nationwide... Everyday of work brings laughter and frustration, but in good amounts of both! It's definitely my favorite job thus far. There's benefits, payed vacation, options for a 401k, and I have the coolest supervisor on this planet. Not to mention, I work with some pretty amazing people! So that's that, now lets move on to the moving, "uh oh...."

You heard me loud and clear, it seems as though I will be moving out with a friend of mine, her name is Lauren. She's such an amazing person who is full of energy and excitement. I am greatly looking forward to living with her and having a place to call my own =). Well that is all for now, later!!

Games, Games, and more Games

FinalFantaxyXI
Here’s the wrap-up of what’s been going on here. This isn’t the place for me to become extremely personal, but I now have more time to work on my projects. That includes my roughly-thought-out mod for Half-Life 2, a new website layout, more lan party’s, and a up to date information section based on my Final Fantasy XI character.



That’s right; I started playing the mighty Final Fantasy Online. I actually had played it before but only for the first free month it offers. The game is massive, beautiful, and seems to never end. It does a good job at pulling you in. You will find yourself playing for hours before completing quests and leveling up. This is certainly no log on for thirty minutes and put a dent in the game, nope. The quest system actually involves reading and exploring, unlike most mmrpg’s out today where you are given a way point to your destination. That makes it lazy and all you have to do is click, click, next, next, and not even use those literacy skills you learned in school… I am trying to level up so I can get a mount to ride on. The yellowy fuzzball called a Chocobo! But my character is a rather large Galka beast. I wonder how funny he will look when riding the chocobo around. I’m recording footage of my gameplay and taking screenshots constantly so this will of course be put in to another youtube.com video provided by me.

Music. The band I am in right now has had a few successful jam sessions. I guess you could say we have roughly three or four songs. So far the sound is hard to explain. It will go from Anthony’s off-sound to my melodic style. Hardcore punk to just jamming. The music will surely get people moving at a show, which reminds me. The first place we will be playing at is a house party. Some guy with parent’s who have a lot of money so I figure we can go and wreck his place up. Nah…


Lord of the Rings Online. I was able to beta test this massively multi-playered online game before its release and I have to say I was a bit disappointed… Its basically World of Warcraft with a few different skills. The skills are a little bit more interesting to do, but other than that the game even looks close to WoW. It even looks like they used the same game engine. You can go and spend fifty bucks and find out for yourself, but if you’re already playing WoW then I would just stay put.

LanParty#2

That's right, lan party 2 happened at my place again. The turnout was the same as last time with five people here and two playing at home from their internet connection. My 8meg connection came in handy with all the bandwidth it had to dish out on my Natural-Selection server. "Machine-gun barrels were smoking and green blood was splattered all over the place." I played mostly for the Aliens and we got our asses handed to us. Robert would evolve to Onos early in the game and just annihilate the enemy base. Anthony held the commander chair for a few rounds and dropped the Marines supplies as they were being chomped to pieces by swarms of Skulk. It was good to see Jeff back on the gaming scene, I'm glad he made it. Below here is a video I pieced together of the not-so-good footage I took of us playing.

Something New, Something Great.

So here is me switching over to a Blog. Should be much simpler for updating and putting stuff on the net. I'm slowly working on a new design for my old website, from the ground up so I will use this for the time being. First thing is my Internet. About two weeks ago I switched over to a Cable 8meg connection. Now, for those of you who are computer dummies, it's an extremely fast connection. Imagine all of your downloads completing in minutes, or even seconds! Over 900kb/sec downstream, man... The service is about 55 bucks a month, which was cheaper than what it used to be out here. Anyways, I have been busy testing out the connection, and fiddling with AMX mod. my Natural-Selection server. The server isn't up officially yet, but it will be soon enough.

I have been working on a little video with pictures from the past bands I have been in, up to when they broke up. Here are the results so far.

Now, second priority in business here is a new addition to the family. My sister just had her baby girl a few days ago. I'm now an uncle to three nieces! Look, there is the picture of me holding her at the hospital. Yeah,
nevermind the face I was making, dunno what I was thinking eh? So she is cool and everything went alright.



Spring break has set in and I'm at home enjoying it. I have a few college assignments to compete but that's all. I've been playing games, working, and soaking up the sun. I mean, dusty air in my room...