Have to admit the past 3 days have been a bit crazy/hectic/fun I must admit. Overall its been filled with a good bit of traveling, good fun, and many random activities. Definitely looking forward to the weekend. Once again as a result of work I've completely forgotten that the weekend ahead is an extended weekend so that may fluctuate my plans a little bit. May do something a bit outside the norm in terms of typically expected. Well without further I'll go through each day of the week.
Tuesday:
Come Tuesday morning (partly as a result of Monday evening...Mario Tennis, good times). I decided that after the work day to head over to a friends place to help them fix there PC issues. Recently they started to play a game called Titan's Quest and were unable to exercise the LAN feature. Once 5 o'clock rolled around I made my way over there and resolved the issue. In terms of troubleshooting it seemed they were going in the right directions and checking the correct screens. Though one element I forgot to factor in for was prioritizing Hamachi on the connection. Once that was set they were able to join and play with great ease. After the PC issue was resolved I accepted a payment of playing one round involving "Risk:Reinvented" got stomped (I blame Putin...)but definitely like how the game encourages a bit more aggression as compared to the original version which seems to result in many stalemates.
The evening however didn't end there. Between these intervals I kept in contact with another individual who I would be going bowling with later that evening. Our first game was pretty bad but we both scored around the 100-120 range. For myself the best round of the evening was when I 148, best game so far. The rest of the games were ok, not great and not too bad. Unfortunately the bowling buddy couldn't get the turkey he wanted but we were both definitely glad to get a few overdue rounds in. He also hinted on a new rhythm based set-up (that I also heard from random person at putt-putt) that was now running in Colonial Heights. I'll need to take a trip there in the near future. When we finished bowling I dropped'em back off at home and drove back.
Wednesday:
This one was another fun day. Woke up and a couple hours into the work day and via discussion through facebook was grated another opportunity to assist someone. Recently their engine light had been turning on and need it checked out. So after the seemingly slow work day (glad it was slow today) meet'em over at the car place and drove down to Micheal's to pick up some supplies. For board game and tabletop purposes I wanted to have a few extra bags on hand to store pieces and simplify a few things. Was getting a bit tired of opening up a box of catan and seeing the chit spread all over the place whenever I opened the box. Not to mention that sense I purchased the new risk game and the only way the pieces were separated were by dividers along with Quelf cards could use some sort of repackaging method...well you get the idea. So as a result we browsed the store, observed random objectives, bought our respective supplies and departed from the store.
After this we went over to IHOP to grab dinner. Nothing spectacular happen here except for consuming food...unless you thinking eating food in a restaurant is awesome or out the norm. Or find it odd that someone would go to there after filling up the back of there car with food, but that's about it. The Chauffeur stylings of Tonberry continued as the next stop was Target to pick up some pet food. They didn't have the exact type needed but there was a substitute that may do the trick. This conclude the travel portion of the trip which the last bit consisted of general conversation. I was a bit stuck and tucked into my chair for a bit as I must admit I still find the individual I chilled with attractive so I was only able to converse until bloodflow was only working towards one part of my body. Which at this point i departed drove back home took care of a few things and went off to bed.
[b]Thursday:[/b]
Another fairly busy day (and another reason how his putting his friends first and study second...catch-up this week, god knows). For this day I decided to work from home sense there was the anticipation of having another friend come visit and assist him with building his computer. He had never put in a process before and was freaking out about bent pins, putting it in the wrong way, misalignment, collateral self implodedment (made up word!) of the universe and extratransversal (another word made up of other words!) reverse of the timeline paradox. So pretty much my day consist of more waiting and troubleshooting a few issues. At one point he arrived we unloaded his car and tied a few lose ends and we started work. There was a brief period in which I play a demo of a game on steam but I'll put that in its own post.
This next section just involves the assembly of the computer. It maybe interesting/boring for some so you can choose to skip it or just read ahead. Without further a due.
To began I would like to thank the individual who bought the computer to allow myself another friend help assemble it. For myself it definitely expanded my mindset as to how top of the line motherboards for intel are designed. First to note the last time I had built a computer was about 2 years ago and it wasn't anything complicated. This was definitely a fun experience. Admittedly the process installation was the most enjoyable and painfully. We definitely encountered a few issues. For example when we removed the PnP cap from the top of the process two of the pieces broke off and we had to fetch them from underneath the CPU claps was not fun but my dad did provide a small array of tools to help us :). Next was the heat sink. Another great reaction from the fellow who hadn't seen one up close.
After a couple handful of "That's what she said jokes" and realizing that we need to unscrew the mobo from the case again we were able to apply thermal paste on the CPU with Heat Sink on top. Another +1 on the amusement meter was his amazement at how simple it really was to install a processor unit. Though it must be noted that if ya screw it up that's no fun. The last hic-up we encounter were the screws falling out the motherboard but this was quickly remedied. Dean did an excellent job with the wiring and the few hours worked payed off as our friend stood completely mesmerized (and soon to be brother's bench pressing tool) of new computer. It shuts down in about 3 seconds which is a bit absurd but he seemed quite please as there was constant thanks.
For dinner we all went to IHOP (after 2 trips I'm haven't gone above 180 so confused) ordered some food. Somehow Ali (friend with new computer, bit tired of typing in the vague) got yellow stuff in his Chocolate Milk that looked like eggs. That's about it though. We went back played a round of Catan as he sat absorbed by his new machine. Evening concluded shortly after that with watching some HHDDVVDDBVD and bleep bloop related videos. Have to say I slept well that night.
Today and Ongoing
Should be an interesting day going forward, there's plans tonight but no idea exactly what's going down. So will wait and see chillage of some sort and maybe a nap as I would mind a tiny recharge. That's about it this weeks been a blast and definitely enjoy hanging out with all you guys. Thinking about booking out of work early so I can run the scripts in a timely manner and perhaps finish that Reccetear demo. That's about all. La ta everyone.
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