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Monday, November 10, 2003

Almost there…

I’m almost ready to start ~~blowing shit up~~ gaming again. I just got my sound card (Audigy 2) today, my video card (Radeon 9700) should show up tomorrow, and my speakers (Creative Inspire 5300) should arrive Wednesday. Then I just have to get a game or two, and I’m ready to go. It’s been a long time, and I really want to play a good FPS again. Most likely, I will start with Call of Duty. The Audigy 2 has a firewire port on it, so now I’ve also got an extra firewire card that I took out of the machine, too. I’ll probably throw it in my Linux box, where it will sit and do nothing. At the moment, all I use the firewire for is my iPod, and I don’t buy that much music, so I don’t really have anything new to transfer to it.

I bowled alright tonight, I guess. I took 2 outta my 4 points, and my team took 16 out of 28, against the first place team. For the most part, I was fine, except for the second game, where I fell apart. I threw a 185-129-190-202. Next week is the position round, and the end of the first third of the league. As far as I understand it, whoever’s in first after next week participates in some sort of roll-off at the end. In two weeks, the second third starts, and the winner of that, and the winner of the last third, all do the roll-off (and the same team can’t win more than one third, I suppose.) I’m not sure what all this means as far as money at the end, but it’s fun either way. My team should be in third or fourth going into next week, with an off chance at taking over first. We’d need to win all 28 points and hope for a split from the first two teams, I think. Something close to that, anyway.

I think I’m gonna be getting a(nother) new bowling ball soon, this time one that hooks more, not one that doesn’t hook at all (the plastic ball, and not hooking is exactly what I want that to do.) I need a ball for heavy oil lane conditions, and the one I have now just doesn’t handle well on them. When the lanes are dry and I can get the ball to move, I do fine, but when there’s any significant amount of oil, it just dies out there. I haven’t decided exactly what I want yet. I’ll probably go into the proshop this weekend and figure out what I should do. Then, of course, I’ll have to get a new bag too, so I can carry around three bowling balls with me instead of just the two.

After that, I stop spending so much money. I’ve really been buying too much stuff lately. Well, after the bowling ball or Treo 600, whichever I end up getting later. I already have a nice 512 MB SD card ready to go for the Treo, and have ordered a Minolta SD-CF1, so I can use it in my digital camera. There are some other SD->CF adapters, but this is the only one I’ve seen that the SD card fits completely into the adapter, and the adapter will fit completely into the slot on the camera and let me close the door on it. Assuming it works, I’ll be able to move pictures from a real camera (as opposed to the phonecam) to the Treo, and post them to the photoblog without requiring the use of a computer. I fully expect it to work.

That is, if they ever release the damn GSM Treo 600 in the United States.