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Yes, this is dog

Wed, 11 Jan 12 00:46:36 -0600

WE GOT A PUPPY. LOOK AT HIM AND GO \"AWWW\":

The first night was restless and resulted in very little sleep, but he\'s getting used to his pen and crate. We just got him on Sunday so he\'s still adjusting to his new home. His name is VIKING. Because he\'s such a badass. We went out to Boise to get him, and stayed with a friend while visiting and had a stellar time hanging out and seeing the area.

In other news, Skyrim...though I haven\'t played it in a while. Oh and Christmas happened, Erica got me a fancy electric razor bceause I forget to shave all the time and now I have less of an excuse since it\'s too easy. And as an early present she got me a new core i5 to update my computer and now it is awesome. Work is busy as always but good things are in the pipeline so that\'s always fun 8]

Netflix PS3 woes resolved

Sat, 23 Jul 11 01:37:57 -0500

For a long time we've seen an error on our PS3 with netflix:

We're unable to connect you to Netflix. Please try again or visit www.netflix.com/tvhelp for guidance. To return to the XMB menu, press the PS button on your controller.

I hadn't bothered to research it because I just grumbled and we watched a DVD or something on Hulu. That and it works on our Xbox so we've used that for netflix as well. However today I demanded the PS3 to obey and researched the issue. Turns out it started happening when daylight savings time kicked in, which threw off the clock and thus breaking Netflix.

Updating the system clock and setting DST (apparently the default was to have it off) resolved the issue. FREAKIN' FINALLY.

Summer

Tue, 12 Jul 11 04:25:50 -0500

It's the summer. WHOOO. It's coding season at work and it is busy. While that eats up a lot of my time, Erica and I make sure to spend time with non work pursuits. For example, we recently purchased a grill (we had one as a gift from my dad previously, but it was very small and low to the ground and somewhat difficult to use). Today I made some delicious burgers (Erica can confirm). Also, up until a couple of days ago, some of my family (parents and two brothers) were out here visiting, and I had a chance to grill for them too. I'M LIKE A GRILLING PRO NOW.

Also yikes in the long time since the last update a number of games have been played on our PCs and consoles...Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, Alice: Madness Returns... all of which Erica has been blogging and youtubing about (and has been doing a fine job of it :P) Of course TF2 is still in the rotation...and the server(s!) have exploded in use after years of...not exploding in use. We now have 4 TF2 servers in the US, one of which is in the top 50 on game tracker (actually that's the one on the right side of the page). Then we've also got a UK TF2 server now as well... and to top it off, my TF2 site Will It Craft? got mentioned on the official blog! That was pretty sweet. Made for some fun stats graphs (~1000% traffic increase).

Meanwhile, Erica built a new machine with a kickass core i7 processor just last week, and it's running at a cool 4.3 Ghz. I'm jealous :( Her machine dominates mine. In every way possible. Benchmarks, windows experience index scores, arm wrestling matches, you name it. Her RAM is still in the "WHAT IS GOING ON, NEWEGG" stage though. There was a sweet sale and I offered to get her some new RAM (since she needed DDR3), and the pack was a 2x4GB set. So, being a sneaky ninja, I ordered two to get her 16GB (ridiculous but hey I'm supportive of her machine being ridiculously badass). Except only one set showed up. Instead of two packages of ram, we got one, plus a usb cardbus adapater thingamawhatsit. Sadface. Already sorted it out with Newegg (you still rock Newegg, even despite this screw up....though you get a fist-shaking for it).

An update...within a month!?

Wed, 16 Mar 11 01:24:04 -0500

I'm actually managing to make a post a month after the last! So as was already mentioned Erica got her finalized ring and it's quite lovely. Since then, coding season at work as started and has kept me quite busy :( But, Erica manages to help me keep my sanity and took it upon herself to improve my wardrobe. Typically my clothes consist of:

A pair of pants (jeans)
A tshirt with a band (RUSH!) or something silly (a vegetable ice cream truck)
A pair of running shoes because I run constantly at work (??)

So we went to the mall (we've gone a number of times in the last month, usually on weekdays -- it's not as crowded and we do a lot of walking wooo exercise and it's some fun time together) and she brought me on over to Nordstrom's. I've never bought anything there. My shoes are just running shoes from like sports authority, my jeans are from I don't know where and my tshirts are from the internet. That is where I tried on shoes. I don't think I have ever had a salesperson bring me shoes to try on and help me pick something. Then she also brought me over to Macy's looking at suits, and JCPenney. Over the course of a few visits my closet has improved itself to contain:

A pair of nice brown loafers (they're comfortable and they look good 8))
A pair of brown desert boots (chukkas, I believe? For some reason that makes me think of chakra which makes me think of naruto which makes me a terrible person.)
A pair of black dress shoes (I have black dress shoes, but they suck. I've had them forever and they're worn out).
A cashmere sweater (it is nice and soft and green and when I say it was on sale I mean it was on sale).
A sports coat to go with a suit or jeans or whatever to dress up dress down or what have you and it fits quite nicely.
A reverseable brown/black belt (?! never knew these existed) and is again better than any of my other belts which, as can be expected, are kinda crappy.

I think that was more shopping than I've ever done for myself unless you count computer parts. THANKS ERICA I LOOK NICER NOW (I do still like my tshirts though). Oh and on a last note we've started playing minecraft together, it's a lot of fun -- we're working on getting our materials to build ourselves a housefortressmansionresort 8)

Ring update

Sun, 13 Feb 11 17:29:26 -0600

I didn't post here but elsewhere it was announced/proclaimed/rejoiced that on December 31st I proposed to kreebby. Miraculously she said "YES". The ring I proposed with had a temporary band for the diamond so that we could both go to the jewelry store and pick one out that she really liked. I already had flagged a few possibilities (so I wasn't just being lazy!) and just yesterday it was finally ready. So I re-proposed when I got back home with it (I didn't let her know I was home) and she likes it:

I like it too.

The Fall

Thu, 04 Nov 10 23:23:30 -0500

Last time I updated it was the middle of the summer, just after my birthday. One of these decades I'll actually manage to get into a habit of posting regularly. Quite a bit has happened since July. In August good sir Jeffington came out to visit for two weeks; Erica and I took him around town, went down to Seattle a few times, and naturally played plenty of TF2. The kittens also became quite fond of him :D

In September we revived UberGaming, which is naturally the best inactive gaming site in the world. Everyone should visit it. Daily. Hourly. And of course Erica's responsible for getting it back in action, left to my own devices I just make it dead :(

In more recent news, I got promoted to CEO have been eating way too much candy. We decorated the place with some Halloween stuff (including orange christmas lights...well, not really christmas lights but you get what I mean). Erica's also now got a job at GameStop and starts soon, woo woo! Also about a week and a half ago was our one year anniversary :3 We went out and about for a bit during the day and then went out to El Gaucho for delicious steak for dinner. We dressed up (she wore a new dress and I wore a suit -- for the first time in like two years). It was quite a wonderful evening.

And lastly I've finally got a Facebook app live -- AmINerdy -- and naturally everyone should go use it and "Like" it.

Stay metal! \m/(>_<)\m/

'TWAS A MARVELOUS BIRTHDAY

Tue, 27 Jul 10 11:55:08 -0500

Erica helped make for a wonderful birthday yesterday (and Sunday too) :D On Sunday we went out with another couple to Macaroni Grill (she planned it) and she insisted to pay for my dinner (aww<3) While there she also decided to tell the waiter it was my birthday, which resulted in a free slice of cake (delicious) and getting happy birthday sung to me in Italian (filling in "Pat" in the song sounded funny.)

Yesterday when I got home from work I found a note saying she'd be home shortly and sure enough moments later she arrives with an oreo ice cream chocolate cake.

I want more of it now but I don't think I should have cake for breakfast (I might cave, we'll see..) After that we went to Target and got Diablo II because she said for my birthday she'd play it with me (:DDDD) so we'll be doing that this week sometime. ALSO she spotted Big Bang Theory season 1 on DVD on sale and bought it (I'd never seen the show) so we watched a few episodes last night. I very much enjoy this show. Needless to say she is wonderfully sweet and lovely <3

KreebbyMoiph adventure update

Fri, 19 Mar 10 18:40:16 -0500

So it's been quite an intense (and wonderful and awesome) week. It's not quite over yet but we've done a lot so far:

Saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D
Ate brunch at the Space Needle
Wandered around Seattle/Pikes Place Market (we rode the monorail to get there :D)
Went to dinner with some friends at a BBQ place
Bought random things from Target to help improve furnishings of the townhouse
Got a few Bluray DVDs (Matrix, Serenity, Dark Knight)
Played Link to the Past (didn't beat it yet..)
Went to Lost night (watched Lost with friends which occurs every Tuesday at about 9:30PM PST)
Made tacos
Painted pottery at university village
Wandered around university village and in Crate & Barrel, scoping out couches
Ventured off to JCPenny to look at more couches, found thecouch
Traveled to Ikea and wandered through the entire store, looking at things and getting ideas for more furnishings; bought a sweet desk and also a night stand that goes with my bed
Ate chicken tenders and fries at the exquisite Ikea cafe
Put the desk together and totally rearranged the loft
Went to Subway and got delicious sandwiches
Bought a whiteboard to enhance the officeness of the office (okay and gaming) area (the whiteboard can be used to strategize key sentry building points on TF2 maps)
Went back to JCPenny to buy the couch
Ate lunch at the Macaroni Grill (it was quite delicious)
Cooked quite a few fried egg sandwiches cause I'm a pro chef
Smiled at each other like, the entire time

So basically it's been absolutely great and Erica is wonderful and it's been fantastic having her here and I can't wait for her to be out here again :)

Valentine's Day

Wed, 17 Feb 10 23:41:51 -0600

Sometimes people get chocolates, or other things. I love chocolate. Chocolate is delicious. However for valentine's day I did not get chocolate. However, this is completely okay by me because instead I got this:

I never owned an SNES growing up. I never beat A Link to the Past. It is wonderful ;_;

THE NINJA BLENDER

Mon, 15 Feb 10 22:51:01 -0600

IS NOW IN MY POSSESSION

New Jersey Adventures

Tue, 02 Feb 10 02:07:40 -0600

So this past weekend I went out to New Jersey to meetup with Erica, a wonderful person. I started talking to Erica several months ago; we just chatted about nerdy things, played some TF2 and Borderlands together, and we really seemed to click. Fast forward a bit and we've grown on each other (a lot) and so I went out to pay her a visit and hang out in person. We had a really great time and definitely clicked even more so. She's wonderful and fun and smart and didn't I already mention Tf2 and borderlands? I mean c'mon. YOU ARE AWESOME ERICA. Oh yeah and we met up with Jason (webmaster extraordinnaire of zeldauniverse.net) to grab some lunch and hang out a bit and he's cool even though he likes macs. At least he thought my Zune HD was slick 8]

TF2 GRIEFING AND HIJINKS

Sun, 17 Jan 10 23:50:26 -0600

The SVARRENGLOSSEN have done it again with their crazy Dutchmen ways, and have a new TEAM FORTRESS 2 VIDEO which you should WATCH

GREETINGS FROM 2010

Sun, 17 Jan 10 17:25:22 -0600

It is now 2010. I believe 2010 will be a fantastic year..I should try to post more things on here. Maybe links to awesome stuff. Or not awesome stuff with warnings that say "CAUTION DO NOT VISIT THIS PAGE" so that you know never to visit whatever links I post because they are terrible. THROW OUT SOME IDEAS THERE'S A SHOUTBOX OVER THERE and I fixed it after it being broken for a like a month WHY DID NO ONE INFORM ME OF THIS. jerkfaces. EDIT: kreebby did in fact inform me of its brokenness, which is why it was fixed in the first place today. I should have called that out but forgot to in my rage at everyone else. Thank you, dearest kreebby, my love you for you burns stronger than all the fires of mount Doom.

ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY C

Fri, 09 Oct 09 19:29:20 -0500

(that means you mr chen) let us celebrate with irc highfives

Today is the future

Fri, 09 Oct 09 19:27:24 -0500

Today is October 10th, 2009. It is really October 9th, 2009. However it is really the 10th, thus making today the first day of the rest of the future. Mr. Sparks has based the rest of his life on this future date which is not really today, and thus chaos is beginning to spread through #treehouse. We can only watch as those lovely inhabitants of that IRC kingdom bost on their plogs and celebrate events before they happen.

The Black Box?!

Fri, 05 Jun 09 01:34:30 -0500

So there's been some outrage recently about Left4Dead2, mostly along the lines of: L4D JUTS CAME OUT IN NOVEMBER AND THEYRE MAKIN A SEQUAL AND IT WILL COST $50 THIS IS STUPID IT SHOULD BE FREE DLC"

And hey, okay, I can see how $50 to drop for a sequel which seems like more of an expansion than a full-fledged sequel seems ridiculous... however this got me thinking (and I'm not alone in this), that perhaps L4D2 won't just be a standalone game. There was a notable lack of info around Half-Life 2: Episode 3 at E3 this year. When Episode 2 was released, it was bundled in "The Orange Box" with Team Fortress 2 and Portal. Now, of course this could be entirely wrong and Valve is actually planning a $50 L4D2 (which admittedly I will probably buy) and Episode 3 will be released in 7 years.

OR it could be released with L4D2. But then what could a third game be? Hmm... Well Black Mesa looks interesting... Valve is aware of its existence... Their trailer says "2009" as the release, and L4D2 will be released November '09... AND THE LAST UPDATE WAS IN NOVEMBER 2008 WHEN THE ORIGINAL L4D WAS RELEASED?! THEY'VE BEEN HUSH SINCE!? CONSPIRACIES!!!!!

It's Not December

Thu, 01 Jan 09 00:36:04 -0600

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It's Still December

Tue, 02 Dec 08 03:56:42 -0600

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It's December

Tue, 02 Dec 08 03:42:47 -0600

o_O

Texas

Thu, 02 Oct 08 14:37:49 -0500

I am in Texas.