Okay... Today and last night now decidedly do not qualify for my list of 'the best' for times. The shift went fine as far as I knew, with me getting a nice score in that someone is throwing out a VERY nice corner-desk unit; the Account Manager has okayed it, so I'll be picking it up Thursday afternoon with dad and his trailer. It'll end up in the front room, prolly with my old computer setup. In any event, I went home and got a call almost right off the bat- one of the radios was missing. No biggie, it was misplaced and I miscounted last night.
And so, it began. I went in and played some City of Heroes (Yay! Servers stayed up!) and had breakfast; at about 9:30, I got a call from the Account Manager- there'd been a break-in on MY shift. 4th floor of one of the buildings; I think its prolly safe to say that much. According to the report I just read, there were few signs of forced entry. What ticks me off is that I saw NOTHING. Zip. I hate that. Not that there was anything I could really do other than call the police. I'm gonna start doing a few extra little observational walks through the buildings each night, just to try and improve the situation.
After that, I had trouble sleeping; this wasn't from the work-stuff. I had problems yesterday, too. Minor insomnia-bout, I think. Not a bad one. I'd made tentative plans with
joshuwain and
zxizaraxii to do a little City of Heroes teaming on the Valentines Event special missions... Due to bad timing, bad planning on my part and misunderstandings it kinda got cocked up. We did the first two missions with WILDLY different difficulties, due to the characters used and the bizarre level-spread; I'd done the first mission solo in the morning (just to see if I could) and it was pretty easy; the second mission was a bizarre cakewalk, WAY too easy with me as the mission-bearer lowering the difficulties for everyone.
Then we re-did the first mission, for
joshuwain with
zxizaraxii taking the mission lead... BAD choice. Where everything was ignorably low-level before, now it was ALL red and purple (read: higher level than all but one of us!) and we got stomped. I ended up in a cell when I got whacked and tried to hospital out!
With a character-substitution by
zxizaraxii the mission was salvaged, but it still was a cluster-fuck. We broke off after that, and I finished off some non-event stuff, then napped.
I'll plan better the next time.
And finally, the details of my new computer. :)
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
Future mods will prolly be a faster processor and more memory. Other than a better keyboard that is. ;)