Once again, two weeks or more has passed. A lot has happened but a lot i've lost cause my hard drive died after LAN-I-AM on January 8th. Oh yeah, so if you dont know, which is most likely impossible because its in my sig in PDXLAN. 2005 is shafting me with broken hardware so far. Lets name it all

My graphics card fan is dead, so the card overheats after time
My 60 gig hard drive died, just doesnt work at all, period anymore for no reason
My stock 420w power supply blew up while I was playing stepmania. Luckily nothing was damaged.
Windows keeps messing up regularly and during Infernalan, my hard drive rebooted for no reason while I was in a game ... "Props to suntar for pointing that out, was busy playing BFME, so it was probably my 80 gig"

Seriously. All of this has happened within a 3 week time frame. It's not looking good. It all started when moving everything from my old case into my new one. But whatever. This needs to stop otherwise i'll have to get a job to afford replacing all my broken hardware.

So basically what I can remember from the past few weeks is this. I went to Lan-I-Am on january 8th. Had an ok time. Didnt really do too much. Steam was being gay and refused to play in offline mode so I couldnt play anything related to HL2. I played some desert combat, a game of BFME with ramrod and some carball. Also got in some BFV, but not that much. It was an ok LAN, not as good as the ones in the past.

Vippers hard drive for the file server died when he got his computer setup. It was a IBM deskstar so that sucked, no files for us. Ironicly, Blargs deskstar in his Xbox died a few weeks ago as well. I was bragging to blarg that my deskstar "My 60 gig" hasnt died in the 3 years since I had it.

Funny how karma has a way of biting you in the ass when you least expect it.

Came home, turned on the comp. It wouldnt load. Tried switching IDE channels, reseting the jumpers, put it in another computer. Nothing. The hard drive was toast.

The rest of the week I just did the normal things. School and what not. Thursday I went with chris to New hope with his youth group. We chilled out, ate food and listened to people speak. Also played some Xbox so it was all good. We had to move everything out of the youth room cause they were going to put carpet all over it, so that took about an hour.

This weekend I went up with Notoes and Pacmain "Kyle and Alex" to Seattle/Tacoma for infernalan. It was a lot of fun. We stayed at Bug "Kerry"'s house for the two days we were there. Great times. Friday we unpacked and just got ready for bed. We played a few games of Texas Holdem and I was apparently Destroying. I never really played Texas holdem for real until then, so I was still uncertain of how to really play. I got the hang of it after a few games and in the end, me and bug were left. It ended in a tie because I was too tired to go on considering it was 3:00 am and we had to be at the intel campus by 8:00am ish. So we all went to bed

The next day we set off to the intel campus in dupont. We got there and we had to check in with security and get our badges. After that we brought everything in and started the whole LAN. Bug had to go pick up suntar so I decided to go with him, because remember, I had to reinstall windows. I had to do that because my copy wanted to immediatly become activated for no reason. So I borrowed his OEM version and hoped that would work. We went down to olympia to pick him up and wow, he has a nice place. It's right near the bay area, nice log house, perfect place to live in my opinion. After we got him and his comp we headed back to the campus. On the way back we saw a car bite it on the freeway. It was speeding on icy roads and it started to skid, it flew off the road and right into the median. Silly women driving SUV's.

The LAN went on from there once we all got there. Come 7:00, the raffle came. I didnt win anything, just the goodie bag we were all given. Notoes won another 2.8 proc, by another I mean one in a box. He has a 2.8 below his audio deck in his car. Come 3:00 am, it was time to leave for Bugs for sleep.

We got there, and just passed out. We were exhauseted. We all woke up around 12:15ish. We all took a shower, then we headed off back to portland. Before leaving, we stopped at Hooters "w00t!!" for some food real quick. I never really had been there before so it was cool. So after that, we just hit the road until we got to portland. Got back to my place, got everything hooked back up and here I am

Until next time...