Once Again, An Update!

Well, the LAST time I posted I mentioned that I'd gone to the ER and such. To update that situation, everything is now coming out all right. And that's enough of that.

Sunday the 31st we played the 7th Seas campaign, and a good time was had by all. We played off by a week due to the GM not being available on the regular day, and we play next on the 21st. I have all these points to spend, and can't decide on what...

Monday night (February 1st) I realized that I had to take the trash and recycling out. Rather than rattle-and-bang my way down the stairs and out the garage, waking khirsahdrgn and mirrdae, I decided to go down the back steps. This was a mistake, as I've not shoveled them out for some time, and they're a mass of snow and ice. The inevitable happened, and I now have a bruise and nasty scrape on my shoulder. I'll dig them out sometime this week so that this doesn't happen again.

Thursday we did the Furry Night Dinner thing, eating at the Blue Fox Inn. Philly cheese steak and onion rings and bheer. Yay!

On last Friday, I made a big batch of chili and had joshuwain, foeclan and feezlekahn over. It was a good night, and we gabbed about various things while watching "Varan the Unbelievable", one of the poorer Toho Kaiju entries from the late fifties.

Saturday had me chiseling out the snow and near-ice on the front walk. Yick.

Monday, I got two of the three movies I ordered- War of the Gargantuas and The African Queen. The first of these was a 'prestige' package, including Rodan and a documentary on Godzilla- very cool. The copy of The African Queen I got... Well, it seems to be a Japanese-language edition, at least from the packaging. It DOES have the English vocal track, so I don't care- but it IS a little weird. That wasn't mentioned when I ordered it! Remaining to arrive is Frankenstein Conquers The World, of which War of the Gargantuas is actually the sequel.

We had yet another big snowstorm too- I think here in the Cities we got about 6-8 inches, but I know that other areas got 11 inches or more. I spent the morning digging out the front, doing the bak with the assistance of mirrdae. As an additional bonus, Mirr let me know that the drain in the washroom was backing up some- fortunately this time we caught it before it flooded to the hallway! I'd scheduled Roto-Rooter to come out and clear the thing, but as the driver couldn't get into the alley (and barely understood English- I tried to have him bring the drain-snake in through the upstairs, but he seemed to think I was continually talking about bringing the VAN around) that's been rescheduled for tomorrow morning.

That brings us to now. I've a trio of pictures of out front, and here they are:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4495325/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4495339/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4495347/


I think that this Friday I'll do another bad-movie gathering, showing Frankenstein Conquers the World and the documentary. Just have to decide on the food!

The Computer...

I'm about to update Gigan again, my gaming desktop. Here's what it was when I forst got it:

GIGAN!

Case: Antec NSK 4400 case with a 380 watt power supply.
Motherboard: ECS EliteGroup HT2000 CSIGM-M Motherboard, socket AM2
Processor: AMD Sempron 3400+ socket AM2
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1310 Pro, 256 megabytes DDR2
Memory: 1 gigabyte Buffalo DDR
Hard Drive: Seagate 160 gigabyte Serial ATA/300 7200 RPM with 8 megabyte cache
CD/DVD: Generic CD-RW/DVD-RW drive
Monitor: Acer 17" AL 1716B LCD
Keyboard: Belkin Standard Keyboard (this $9.00 piece of work is gonna get replaced...)
Mouse: Logitech Marble Trackball
Speakers: Logitech R-10

Now, that was what it was then. What it is NOW is:

GIGAN!

Case: Antec NSK 4400 case with a 380 watt power supply.
Motherboard: ECS EliteGroup HT2000 CSIGM-M Motherboard, socket AM2

** Processor: AMD Athlon X2 64 Dual Core 3,01 ghz processor

Graphics: ATI Radeon X1310 Pro, 256 megabytes DDR2

** Memory: 2 gigabytes Buffalo DDR

Hard Drive: Seagate 160 gigabyte Serial ATA/300 7200 RPM with 8 megabyte cache
CD/DVD: Generic CD-RW/DVD-RW drive
Monitor: Acer 17" AL 1716B LCD

** Keyboard: Logitech Deluxe Keyboard (got it used free from work)

Mouse: Logitech Marble Trackball
Speakers: Logitech R-10

The next upgrade is the new graphics card. I've not figured out WHAT yet, but nearly anything would be better. I've a budget of $170-$200, so while I can't get the top of the line I CAN get something real nice. If the money is there, I may go to 4 gigs memory too, but that would be a bonus. :)