mac79

Name: mac79
Joined On: Jul 20, 2005
Maintag: Mac79PR
Age: 28
Occupation: Tech Support
Location: PR
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Last seen: 7/23/08

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01/18/08

Good News

Diabetes...

On December of '07 I was diagnosed as a type I diabetic. The situation was really out of control. At this time I was out on vacation in Texas visiting my sister. Her husband is a doctor in pediatrics and noticed me symptoms so I take a blood test. High. Get some lab test done. When i return home I immediately visit my doctor to present my lab results. Yada-yada shoot up insulin 2 times a day, get some other lab tests done after 2 weeks and then go back.

Today I had that follow-up visit, lab results were great, lost weight, good BP and my blood sugar level are way down compared to what i had them on December. Body's producing insulin again so now i'm type 2 and don't have to inject it. WOOT.

That is all

-Mac

Posted by mac79 @ 9:40 am EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments

10/17/07

Back to normal

Its weird getting back to work after a week and a half. Last week and the beginning of this week I was away on a couple of Visual Studio workshops. Coming back to work today it feels weird like when you come back from vacation! First order of the day: collect pay check, then off to the HR department to present achievement certificates. It funny the way they say: "Microsoft Certificate of Achievement", I'm getting MS achs even without turning the console on -- Achievement Unlocked! LMAO.

Yay, I finally beat H3 on legendary over the weekend thanks to the help of many people in my FL and others from my friend's FL. I also found that IWHBYD skull but had to do it alone to make sure I was doing it right. I think it was Monday night I followed a friend into a custom games room and we played some seriously fun games: Frank The Tank and spikeball(?) and also some other game types on Sunday or Saturday night some variations of rocket races, anyways I gotta find the person and ask him the names again.

I downloaded the Virtua Fighter 5 demo last Friday along with the Call of Duty 4 PC demo. VF5 looks awesome! The gameplay is meh, maybe the full app might be a bit better, anyone interested in this title? The COD4 PC demo was nice but to me it felt shorter than the COD2 xbox 360 demo from launch.

OMG, my inbox....Ok, back to work for me!

-Mac

Posted by mac79 @ 8:43 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

10/01/07

Custom LOLCats...

Thanks plato for the link, made the mundayz go by faster!

Posted by mac79 @ 3:04 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

09/14/07

Absent minded

Yesterday I was installing a new PC at work. The first thing I do after I turn them on and after that initial setup process is set the correct timezone on the PC clock, not this time. I have what could be described as two jobs in the same company. In the morning 8 -12 I do tech support and in the afternoon I work on websites and updating our existing ones. Anyways, I was installing software and whatnot and I see the time on the PC its 12:20! OMG, my lunch break! I hurry to finish up what i was doing and rush upstairs punch in my time card and merrily go out to lunch. Hhhmm, why is the cafeteria so full, its late, its not like this at this time. FAIL! It was 11:30am. Forgot to set the timezone on the PC and I didn't even bother to look at my watch or the timer that punches the timecards. One hour later (12:30) I noticed my mistake.

LOL
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The 360 is still busted, the coffin hasn't arrived yet. I log on to that new xbox 360 service web site for follow up, its down for maintenance and give me an error message. I try to look for the in store warranty which I find, WOOT! OMG, the ink faded! Time for plan B. I search my home PC to see if I scanned the warranty receipts...nothing. This morning at work I try and search the PC for the scanned receipts and I find them, WOOT! Uhm...the text on there is sort of unreadable! I hope it doesn't cause any problems when I try to get another console.

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Guild Wars: Eye of The North: Its a good expansion pack, new to the series are dungeons (underground exploration), a bunch of regular quests, master difficulty quests, solo quests and tons of PvE (player vs environment) skills to use. Basically the storyline goes: there's a ancient evil lurking in the depths of the lands called Tyria (the first continent you get to play in) its so powerful you need to seek the help of various factions. It also expands on the storyline of the first guild wars story line called "Prophecies".

More missions to be added in November with the missions pack come 4 new missions that delve into the storyline (reenact past events) of the past 3 guild wars campaigns: Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall.

That is all.

-Mac

Posted by mac79 @ 2:21 pm EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

09/08/07

1-800-4-my-xbox...Sigh

Today my console finally went caput. Called that number today, most of you know the feeling. I'll be out of action for some time. My only frustration is not being able to play BioShock yet which I got during the week.

I am glad I was able to log in some quality time on the COD4 beta last night with a bunch of 2o2pers and get to level 16. Dunno how but my console lasted all night long without crashing on me. I guess I can go read a book or something, they say its like forums but longer