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Fun at the office

So this week a lady friend at work asks me to check out her jump drive which is giving an error and asks me if i can recover the files in it before the inevitable formatting. Well the files couldn't retrieved, the good news is she has 2GBs free now, jaja! I sent her this video to cheer her up:

Embedded YouTube Video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=198okcxeF74

"I hope that explains the situation" I text her over Facebook. Without the benefit of the fruit basket of coarse.

Have a good weekend everyone!

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Wait...what?

I just read about 2old4duty. This really sucks. I really love this clan and the people there so obviously I won't delete anyone off of my FL. I also will not leave 2old2play. This site opened the world of LIVE to me. This reminds me of my old Battlefield2 clan. First it divided then, they changed their name lastly it totally disintegrated. The copyright declarations sound serious and I hope that this was a just a big misunderstanding. I'm off to find some cardboard, a sharpie and write "looking for clan" on it.

To my 2o4d brothers, please don't quit cod4 or the site. Just wiat it out.

Sincerely,

-Mac

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Gaming event in PR

Last Saturday morning I visit a local Gamestop to purchase Soul Calibur IV and I notice a flyer for an event called "GXF - Gaming Explosion Fest". The people behind this call themselves the Puerto Rico Association of Gamers. Its the first of its kind here. I am exited at the thought of more of these types of events taking place on the island. apart from the competition there is gonna be stuff for visitors and expos and demos. It's gonna be a 3-day event taking place August 22 - 24 and the competitions will be in 10 games: halo3, cod4, GH3, RB, GoW, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur IV, Fight Night Round 3, NBA 2K8 and Mario Kart - Wii. Sinse I am not able to go to this year's chi lan, I'll get my fix here and maybe schedule for '09.

Fianlly, I hope you guys have a ton of fun in at the LAN!

-Mac

PS: Soul Calibur IV rocks, character creation is a blast, TOLS mode has nice variety and tag team style switching between characters. Yoda is a cheap lil bastard and The Apprentice is over-powered, but the rest of the game is fun.

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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

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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

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Custom LOLCats...

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

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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.

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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

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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

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Denied!

Last night I was really looking forward to our clan's COD night. I got home from work first thing i notice is that my internet connection (DSL) is out by some status led in front of the modem. OK, it'll probably be back later. I go have dinner, when i return, still no connection, power cycle it, no good. OK, time to call support. WTH, all the phones around the house are dead! I hate it when you call support and all you get is the automated answering system and no early option to talk to someone live. When i did finally hear the option to talk with a rep I get the busy signal and a hang up. SIGH. I miss my Shadowrun nights! Give me back my net!

OK, now that that's out of my system, time to report something good, for a change since I've been blogging only when I'm frustrated at something.

I took the time to do some single player gaming I'd otherwise leave for the weekends or rainy days.

This weekend: Guild Wars: Eye of The North 72 Hours of Early Access free

Guild Wars: Eye of the North (commonly abbreviated as GW:EN, as on the official site; GWEN, or EotN) is an upcoming product of the Guild Wars game series. It is an expansion to all of the first three campaigns. Unlike the previous three Guild Wars products, Eye of the North is not a standalone campaign; it is an expansion pack.
Eye of the North will require at least one of the Guild Wars campaigns to play, and focuses on high-level content for existing characters.
The campaign's name refers to the Eye of the North, a tower in the Far Shiverpeaks, which shows visions and will play a significant role in the plot of the expansion.

Woot! oh, wait, no internet

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Oh...

COD 4 beta, where art thou??

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The continuing saga of broken stuff

For the last couple of weeks I've been experiencing problems with my XBL connection....

Alright I think I'm getting to the bottom of this. I call xbox support they tell me to try my connection elsewhere. I plan on bringing my 360 to work and check out the connection there since it was brought to my attention that most of the people here will either not be here tomorrow or out on training.

I also call my ISP and my connection wasn't syncing up (generated a job order for support) and they reported there was some repairs being done to something in somewhere affecting connection all over.

I'll be updating tomorrow.

Yesterday I got my copy of Shadowrun, that's for the game invites Zikan, Fetal, and P Train! I was able to play some matches till aforementioned problem was getting me disconnection error and even not allowing me to get into any games.

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Update

Guild Wars

We at Guild Wars Gurus (guild) have switched over to the Kurzick faction.

Guild Wars Wins More Awards - 9 February 2007
PC Gamer Magazine awarded Guild Wars Nightfall its 2006 Awards for Best MMO and Best Value. They cited "gorgeous, engaging environments populated by some of the coolest- and most creative-looking monsters and characters out there." The editors also gave a nod to their favorite game element—the low-level quests—and to the "near-unlimited gameplay for the one-time price of the boxed copy."

The awards reception for the 2006 1UP Awards erupted into chants of “Guild Wars!” just prior to announcement of Guild Wars Nightfall as the Best Online/Multiplayer Game of 2006. 1UP said, “Fans of Guild Wars Nightfall love the multiplayer experience of the game and helped vote it the winner in the Online/Multiplayer category.” Details here.

Canthan New Year's Festival starting Feb. 16

Other stuff

I finally finished setting up my game area last week to share my flat panel monitor with my PC and my xbox360 with this.
Joined 2old4duty for some active COD2/3 action.
Looking for people to play Prey's multiplayer to get the achievements. Details here.
Looking for people to complete that co-op achievement in Contra.
Looking for people to complete the last chapters of act 4 and all of act 5 (hardcore) in Gears of War and get into some more mp.
Candy count: 5.

Happy Valentine's Day,

-Mac

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LOL. Oh, really?

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What have I been missing!?!?

Yesterday I received the xbox 360 vga cable and I quickly connected it to my PC's monitor and fired it up with GOW. Amazing the difference it made! Ever since I got a 360 I'd been using an old 19' sd tv and since I didn't have the money for a HD set, this cable was the way to go. Now I need a switch box to share the monitor without physically having to connect the cables back and forth from console to tower.

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More love for Guild Wars

Source: GW Official Site

Guild Wars: Game of the Year - 23 January 2007
In a recent announcement, MMORPG.com recognized Guild Wars as recipient of their Game of the Year editorial award. They say, "Guild Wars is innovative and entertaining while continuing to grow and please their fans. That’s enough to make this game the Best of 2006."

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