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Not surprising I know, but I do.  I’m not great at video games, but I’m not the worst either.  I play my Wii and I like puzzle games… what surprises me is my fascination with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  I played The Call of Duty series as a first person shooter single player mode for COD 2 and 3.  I played the Single player mode for Modern Warfare 1 and got COD 5 for the Pacific Theater, but I just couldn’t get into that one… I guess I was WWII’d out.  I went back to the original Modern Warfare and made my first foray into multi-player mode. I got addicted to them and I got pretty good.  I even “prestiged” once to see what that was all about.  Yeah, that was about losing all my weaponry and having to earn it back, which I do have to admit was kind of fun.

When Modern Warfare 2 came out I made sure I had pre-ordered a copy for the hubby, but I found myself jonesing.  I begged and pleaded until I got my own copy. I think so far I’ve only made it through about half the Single Player mode, but I’m already getting close to prestiging in this version.  The maps are great and varied, though like in the last game I do have my favorites and I’m still trying to decide on which load-outs I like better.  The one thing I wish I could do though, is bring in the maps from the original and play them too.

I’m still getting use to the throwing knife and the “stickies”, but they do add a nice dimension to the play.  I’ll just have to keep working on it and get better as time goes on.  See you online!

Rawr!

Today is the day!  Days start getting longer from here!  That means spring is on the way!  Wooooooooooo!  That also means just a few more months until I can ride my motorcycle again too!

Now is the time to start looking at those seed catalogs!  Start planning for your spring garden…

Yes I’m serious!  It was even founded at Michigan State…  Check it!

Monkey Day…

Celebrate the day by opening communications with others.  Say hello to at least 10 people today!  Hi!

Happy Birthday Governemt.

Did you know you can get a pocket sized US Constitution?

Some of the contents of my hot and sour soup

There are more so many, many more piece of those red pepper in there!

I forgot my lunch today and so I went to the Rice Kitchen, which is one of my more favored Chinese restaurants. I got my normal Lunch special, but I thought I would try something new. So I got the Hot and Sour Soup… ummm wow. I think my lips may burst into flame. I took the pictures with my iPhone and it doesn’t do well with close-ups, but it tries.  Other than the sheer terror that envelops me on seeing this many peppers and the sweat involved with eating it.  Overall it isn’t too bad.  I don’t know that I would get it again, but I don’t know it seems like it would be really really good on a chilly day.

my brain is mushy

coherent thought escapes me

pain behind my eyes

added some new pictures to the gallery…

• More campus graffiti
• Campus in the Spring
• Trip to RSA in San Francisco
• and something else, but I don’t remember what

I put my NetBook in suspend mode yesterday evening so I could take it home and finish some work on compiling.  Yeah now I remember why graphical logins suck fanny.

The graphical login is broken and just keeps reloading and reloading and reloading and reloading… well you get the idea.

Needless to say, I’m reformatting again, because I shouldn’t have to deal with it being broken and I don’t want to spend the time trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it.

So I’m getting along fairly well with my Netbook and while I understand that I’m not going to find ready made binaries and happy little plugins for everything I would like. I’m also  remembering what a pain some things can be when installing from source.

My latest adventure has been installing Pidgin’s OTR plugin.  I thought this would be an easy thing to ese me back into the the realm.  So… yeah, ummmmm… it still isn’t installed and I decided to reformat my netbook.  I’m still fairly new to “apt”, which by the way is a really nice package manager, and I installed quite a few things that just, well… I didn’t need them and I hate haveing all these extraneous bits lying around.  So since it doesn’t take that long I reformatted the netbook and started over again.

This time instead of using apt-get for some of the stuff I just went to the site and got the source direct.  I found that I didn’t have 2 packages I needed when I tried to compile GLib, pkg-config and .  I did apt-get them.  Then I tried to compile GTK+…. yeah…. now I remember why I don’t like dependencies.

So pixman begat cairo, which begat a whole butt-load of other crap…. I might get the plugin installed by next Tuesday.  /me sighs