RichRock : Running Free

Hi all. As you can tell from the title, it’s a few new things going on. New life, for my girlfriend, as she’ll hopefully be out of hospital in the next couple of days. I’m not going into any specifics, but the op she’s just had will remove a long-term hindrance to her having a fuller life. She says shell be more annoying to me. Also, she reckons I won’t know what to do with her. I do. And I’m not saying here. (To those who thought something rude - wash your mouth out with soapy water.)
New diet indicates that I have to change my dietary habits. I have been having dietary problems for many years, and now I’m in a job where I sit a lot more, it’s harder to be comfortable. It’s not piles. It’s only the start, and I’m told I may probably have to be on this for life, which in some respects is no bad thing. I refer you to my previous posting about God and healing here. This explains something about why I haven’t sought physical healing, but I really felt God had led me to discover a reason for the problems, and to solve those, as that would be more beneficial for my life.
New Year - soon. This new year will culminate all the new things that have happened this year :

• New job - a web developer
• New girlfriend - patience has bought me the best woman I could have hoped for: Godly, beautiful, honest and true
• New computer - (sort of) new parts, such as a Geforce 8 series, 2gb Corsair RAM, Antec 900 case have gotten me my modded pc. Just a quad-core and watercooling kit to go, and that’ll keep me happy for a few years.
• New friends - well, online friends in Halo, but there’s mutual friendship in the game. 1AV is the server, I’m there frequently. GG

And the new year promises more. Who knows, maybe marriage may be on the cards? With whats happened to my girlfriend, we have already had to seriously look at each others commitment in our relationship. This has bought us closer, and hopefully God will bless us further. Theres many other things which could be new next year, but I’m keeping those card close to my chest, and not revealing to you, my readers.

I just took delivery of a spanking new 27″ widescreen monitor at work, so my web development took an excellent turn today. It’s mahoosive, just like working on a screen like on Minority Report. Without the touchscreen. Or the blue tinge.
Anyhoo, I just re-wired my PC, tidied it up a bit. Put the cold cathodes in, it’s now a vibrant blue inside. Why? Because I’m a geek. And a gamer. Halo was great last night, getting cheeky with nice and rice, but some scumbag calling themselves opm002 kept getting me a lot. It got a little frustrating… But it was still fun.
Where next for my PC? Maybe a nice new motherboard with Core 2 Quad capabilities, and maybe a Core 2 Quad processor… Oh and the board must have SLI, so I can get another of my graphics cards. I currently use an MSI Geforce 8600 GTS Overclocked, and it’s pretty good. I bet in SLI mode it would be very good, especially by my standards.
Right, onto looking at some game demos, get the latest goss.

Who needs em? Spent the week using a borrowed PSU because the one I got last week decided to blow up. In the middle of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Had everything on max, still pushing about 40fps. Great. Got a replacement supply a 550w one (different manufacturer) and it seems fine. Leads were too short, ordered extensions. Now to spend an evening chilling out and rewiring my PC, as it’s a bit of a mess.

This should have been posted Friday evening. Some idiot (richrock) clicked the save button, and not the publish button. Silly billy.

Well, I would do if I wasn’t going to visit my girlfriend. She’s not been well. Ended up in hospital after the weekend, but that got sorted quickly. It was hard to see her like the way she was on monday, doped up with painkillers, in agony. Glad she slept ok. It’s hard having to work, when you know you’re loved one’s in hospital having a scan, and you don’t know anything about the results until the evening at visiting time. It was tough. Anyway, she’d come back home, but already getting similar pains to before. I’ll have to make sure she doesn’t overdo it.

Got some RAM for my PC today, plus a new power supply. The RAM is 2gb matched pair of Corsair DDR2 PC5400 667mhz XMS2, awesome RAM. Didn’t do much for Crysis, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. boosted from 25fps average to over 30! It even hits around 80fps in certain places. Halo varies, and can be up to 200fps.

Going to the farm. Not the funny farm, mind you. Going to get all this Joomla and E-Commerce out of my head. Enjoy your weekend people.

Last night was a laugh. Played Halo online, the 1AV server, met a few players, the banter flowed pretty thick until I quit. Must say respect to nice for killing me so often, and his buddy, rice. Alphabud was a riot, his moves were smooth, just made my evening online fun. And that’s the way it should be. Nothing offensive, just banter about the game, the fun of competing and being a team with players from around the world. I won’t meet them in person, but that’s not a problem.
Online gaming can be a scary place full of l337 gamers who will pwn you and the first chance if they smell n00b. However, we introduced a friend to Halo online, and he did ok. Not brilliant, but he enjoyed himself. So, the Halo online community, pat yourself on the back for making the evening fun.
Thnx, gg all.

Agent Bob

Some things have gone well - the launch of the new Bromptons Auctioneers site went well. Just needs to be finished… An auction system would be good. That’s a bit of work.

Gaming nights on mondays are doing well too. Got a decent bunch of guys (and gals) joining us for LaN Se7eN, a weekly lan gaming session held at a youth centre. It’s great because it’s mostly team-based, great fun and something a lot of people don’t experience or appreciate. As much as AI can fool you in single-player gaming, playing against a character that is controlled by a free-thinking human makes a lot of difference.

Some things aren’t good. My babe’s still not well. Shame. In some respects, we’ll pull through. It’s things like this that can test a relationship, and make it stronger. These things can make you realise how much you do love someone. I hope there’s a light in this situation somewhere.

Like they said in M*A*S*H - ‘That is all’.