by Matt | Oct 3, 2003 | Imported Entry
A few odds and ends to mention. Most importantly, my belongings have shipped from New Hampshire and are somewhere mid-journey to Texas. They should arrive Monday or Tuesday. The new apartment is nice and now I’ll have things to put in it. Hurray. I’m not sure what they shipped, they just said “everything” and I believe them since the invoice they forwarded my says 1300lbs worth of freight.
Technically we “moved in” on Tuesday when I got the keys but I haven’t been back over there since. Tonight we’re supposed to move a few things over and then pretty much all weekend will be packing, moving, etc.
I also picked up Halo for the PC and almost made a scene at CompUSA when they tried to give me some crap about a rebate. I’ll mention that again later. It’s a nice game. I had gotten halfway through on Paul’s XBox and now I get to finish it with kick ass graphics. Actually, I should take that back. People have been having some driver issues with it and frankly, it’s not a pretty as it could be. They really half-assed the textures in this one. They upped the particle effects and the lighting but left the standard XBox textures in there. It’s playable on my new work machine with the Radeon 9800 Pro but not at home on Lauren’s computer or (once it gets here) on mine. It might be upgrade season. If Halo, which has only a few DirectX 9 enhancements, is having issues, Half Life 2 is going to be a nightmare. I want to be blown away by HL2, not discouraged because I can barely play it.
So, that means it might be time for a new mobo, cpu and graphics combo. I’m all of a sudden glad that I didn’t buy that $300 phone.
Ok, back to work for me, long day of retouching and then a shoot this afternoon. Afterwards I get to move some stuff. There’s no rest for the weary.
Oh, and I still need Chips tux messurements. *poke*
by Matt | Oct 2, 2003 | Culture
Just a quick test of W.Blogar to make sure it’s working. Thanks go out to Chip for that long detailed explination of why I’m a dumbass.
by Matt | Sep 30, 2003 | Imported Entry
Well, I went and got the keys for the new apartment this morning. Its very cool. The parking is a little sparse but I can deal. There’s also unfortunately a car-port right in front of the side of the complex I’m on so I won’t be parking directly in front of my apartment. I can however, park beside it and see my car from the bedroom window. I had a little trouble sorting things out with the rental office this morning. The keys they gave me didn’t work and neither did the gate openers. They reprogrammed the openers for me while a maintenance guy changed the door locks, so everything is working now. The gate is pretty weird though, it only opens on one side but its a double sided (two lane, in and out)gate. Although that could simply be my opener not working 100%. We’ll see.
As for the apartment itself, I don’t have any pictures to show yet but I can give you a mental walk through… As you come in, the kitchen is immediately to your right, separated by a bar. The living room is immediately to your left. Also on the left, through the living room is the “study” or second bedroom. Strait ahead as you come in the door is the dinning room (connecting to the kitchen on the right). Further in, there’s a large closet (for the washer and dryer) on the left and the master bathroom is on the right. At the end of the hall is the master bedroom and a huge (room sized) walk in closet. I’ll get some pictures soon.
Also, Jason just let me know that he’s flying into Intercontinental Airport on Friday morning. I’ll figure out some way to get him but for those of you who haven’t booked your plane tickets yet, please, for the love of god, fly into Houston-Hobby. Not Houston-InterCont. Hobby is much closer (only 10 minutes away) and I know it and the area pretty well. I don’t even know where INTC is.
Later.
by Matt | Sep 29, 2003 | Imported Entry
This entry could go on and on but I’ll try to keep it brief and stick to the bullet-points.
Hopefully no one has booked plane tickets for Friday yet (Jason and Nagle) because there’s been a slight twist. The rehearsal needs to be pushed up closer to 1-2pm because of scheduling conflicts with the minister. This simply moves the time table forward so dinner would be before 5.
Also, it just occured to me that you guys might not have a ride to the airport once Lauren and I leave. I’ll try to find you rides (my folks are staying in town for a day or two) but someone might consider renting a cheap car. Something to think about.
I move into the apartment this week. It will have no utilities because I can’t contact the electric company because their phone system is messed up. Yippee.
Still no word on where my stuff is. Matt’s getting angry.
Work is good, I have weddings every weekend until, well, my wedding. We just got a new monitor for me, a new graphics card for Paul and a new external DVD writer for both of us. It’s one of the nice Sony duel formats. Very slick.
I need Chip’s Dad’s mailing address. I have an invitation to mail him. Speaking of invitations, they went out earlier this week. You should have them shortly if not already.
I want a Tivo.
Half Life 2 is delayed. Not surprising. That sucks.
I also had some political things to ramble about, but The Screen Savers is on, so it’ll have to wait.
That is all.
by Matt | Sep 23, 2003 | Culture
I would like to make the following observations:
1) Fajita Hot Pockets suck… a lot.
2) Never ever call Lexar tech support. They are mindless cattle.
3) When the electric company voicemail system disconnects you because the wait is too long, there’s something wrong with that phone system.
4) Two button mice should have been outlawed years ago. You poor Mac bastards.
5) Playing Jedi Academy in 1600×1200 is a very good thing. If only the game didn’t blow.
6) Having lunch at 2:35 doesn’t really count as “lunch”, its more of a “linner” sort of thing.
6b) Working strait through lunch until 2:35 also sucks.
Those would be my observations from this morning. You can see what kind of a day I’m having. Well, except for Jedi, that was played yesterday.
In a random note, Paul was throwing out a perfectly good (define good) Compact Presario when I stopped him and said that I would take it. I’ll throw a few NIC cards in there and turn it into a SmoothWall, which I’ve been wanting to try for a while. Should be a fun project for my new apartment.
Oh, and a big thanks to Chris, Jason and Nagle for getting their tux messurements down to me. Thanks guys. I’ll call those into the tux place today or tomorrow.
Later.
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