update by photography
A lot has happened in the past week, but mainly christmas and xbox arrival....
Last week, just around when finals ended, chris came down to give up the xbox. Stu and Chris gave my ESPN NFL for christmas, so I went to work on that, and it's quite graphically awesome.
Shannon came down thursday night for a bit of Applebees and gifts. Applebees = off the list now. They brought us rotten pineapples, said they knew about it, and fought us about giving discounts because of it. They also had like 4 waiters for us, which felt weird. Anyway, after that, I got:
1. The hard drive kit: I decided I wanted a challenge for this winter, so I asked for a kit to put together an external hard drive. Only, since I got a 120 GB drive, I'm switching that up with my current one. This will force me to reformat and resintall everything, which I wanted to do anyway. So I got an enclosure, a new hard drive, and a card for USB 2.0, which I've already installed.
2. Halo and Madden 2k5 for Xbox: Halo is, as expected, awesome. Madden took some time to get used to, and their franchise isn't as cool as ESPN's. But all in all, a good haul.
3. A digi camera. Shannon gave me this, and it's nice and compact, and the only weird thing about it so far was the pictures that came on it. When we got the camera out of the sealed box, it had what appears to be amateur pics of someone's house. Unless it was factory refurbished, I don't see how someone else's pics could get on it. I've taken up a photo webpage in the meantime. R-AWESOME. I also got a memory stick and reader for the camera.
4. Some stylish plaid pajamas...I've been wearing them a lot and they're quite awesome.
For christmas, I spent some time up at Shannon's visiting. That was a pretty good time. Shannon's family got me a Ravens jersey and hat, which again is funny because they are diehard Redskins fans. Shannon also gave me the Third Dark Tower book, a Stitch coffee mug, a packaged magic towel from the Disney store (which is actually a washcloth :-P), plus a whole big stocking full of goodies. There's a 3 function pen in it that you have to hold different ways to use the different things. Like, to use the pen, you have to holp the side that says PEN facing up, and to use a stylus, you have to hold the side with a computer disk up. But they all use the same clicker, so it's pretty cool. I got a bunch of candy, a puzzle ball, a Worst Case Scenario card game, a keychain flashlight, and just a whole bunch of goodies.
After Christmas, I went out to buy the Return of the King Special Edition, Knights of the Old Republic for Xbox, and Mars Attacks for 6 bucks! it's awesome.
Last week, just around when finals ended, chris came down to give up the xbox. Stu and Chris gave my ESPN NFL for christmas, so I went to work on that, and it's quite graphically awesome.
Shannon came down thursday night for a bit of Applebees and gifts. Applebees = off the list now. They brought us rotten pineapples, said they knew about it, and fought us about giving discounts because of it. They also had like 4 waiters for us, which felt weird. Anyway, after that, I got:
1. The hard drive kit: I decided I wanted a challenge for this winter, so I asked for a kit to put together an external hard drive. Only, since I got a 120 GB drive, I'm switching that up with my current one. This will force me to reformat and resintall everything, which I wanted to do anyway. So I got an enclosure, a new hard drive, and a card for USB 2.0, which I've already installed.
2. Halo and Madden 2k5 for Xbox: Halo is, as expected, awesome. Madden took some time to get used to, and their franchise isn't as cool as ESPN's. But all in all, a good haul.
3. A digi camera. Shannon gave me this, and it's nice and compact, and the only weird thing about it so far was the pictures that came on it. When we got the camera out of the sealed box, it had what appears to be amateur pics of someone's house. Unless it was factory refurbished, I don't see how someone else's pics could get on it. I've taken up a photo webpage in the meantime. R-AWESOME. I also got a memory stick and reader for the camera.
4. Some stylish plaid pajamas...I've been wearing them a lot and they're quite awesome.
For christmas, I spent some time up at Shannon's visiting. That was a pretty good time. Shannon's family got me a Ravens jersey and hat, which again is funny because they are diehard Redskins fans. Shannon also gave me the Third Dark Tower book, a Stitch coffee mug, a packaged magic towel from the Disney store (which is actually a washcloth :-P), plus a whole big stocking full of goodies. There's a 3 function pen in it that you have to hold different ways to use the different things. Like, to use the pen, you have to holp the side that says PEN facing up, and to use a stylus, you have to hold the side with a computer disk up. But they all use the same clicker, so it's pretty cool. I got a bunch of candy, a puzzle ball, a Worst Case Scenario card game, a keychain flashlight, and just a whole bunch of goodies.
After Christmas, I went out to buy the Return of the King Special Edition, Knights of the Old Republic for Xbox, and Mars Attacks for 6 bucks! it's awesome.