Lack of posting

I have been a little busy, and haven't had much time to post some entries from DA2, or anything. Work, School, Car, Everything else. Car dying is no fun. Most of my free time has been in SC2 with my cousin, or Diablo (which I am nearing completion, finally got into hell). Although I'm playing a little bit of DoW2 again with the new expo.

Car Repairs and not much else

The past couple of days have been pretty dull...ish. Just not much really going on.

I replaced my spark plug wires+spark plugs the other day in my 3000gt, here are some pics of the engine with the new additions. (First pic in each set is the old, and the second in each set is the new.)

 Other than that, I've got the start of little job next Saturday with my dad. It'll be interesting. I'll enjoy it more than my current job (When I'm doing it anyways, which isn't more than twice every two weeks currently =/)

I'm also picking up Eve and SC2 again a bit. Mostly Eve, I miss the time sink it gave me, not just because it was a time sink, but because I enjoyed it.


Here is my main character, all about the combats. Tons of skills trained to 5 for Amarr ships, and a lot of Caldari. I love missiles and lasers. Amarr ships are pretty cool, and Caldari ships are cool for me too. So I trained in one, and then now I'm maxing out my Caldari. (Kai Nah is her name)

And her old pic is here. I feel I got really close in the looks, with a bit extra that I wanted to add/change. Her eye color used to be a grayish color, I changed it to a green/hazel color, and was surprised at how close I got the hair color. I also couldn't put a metal plate on her face, so a tattoo will have to do.

Here is the pic of my indy char in the new char creator. (Meniku is her name)

And here is the old pic of her. I tried really hard to get the same facial features and fullness, but it just didn't work out that well. There is also the fact that there are no decals/accessories yet, so I can't have the hair bands and thing behind my head. I really couldn't get it much closer, the two systems were really different, and I couldn't get the cheek fullness like I wanted, and the nose was a little shorter height wise. Oh well, still looks good to me.

G15 started working again

So uh, I decided to try and plug my G15 in the other day to see if it worked, and it didn't. Not really anyways. It plugged in, but pressing 1 pressed F1, certain keys repeated, and the problems went on. So I went back to my eclipse 2. I really didn't like the squishy feel of the eclipse, the feel of the G15 is just so much better for me. It's like, you have to actually press down for the keys to go, so you know when you've pressed it. Where the eclipse was just loosey goosey, and it was hard to tell if I actually pressed it sometimes.

Anyways, I looked around, and no other keyboards at the moment really grab my attention as "I MUST HAVE THIS" (other than the sc2 keyboard, but putting the numpad and arrow keys n stuff together just doesn't work out with me. I use those in combination too much. Mostly the delete key with the numpad.). Pretty much every keyboard I looked into because something was interesting, had reasons for me to not want it. So I decided, why not try again? Expect the worse, but hope for the best is a term I always seem to use. Anyways, it actually worked when I plugged it in!

So, bam. Until a keyboard really strikes me as a must have, I guess I'm just going to stick with my g15. Just wish it lit up more >_<

Need a new keyboard

So I spilled a little (lot) of water on my g15 the other day, and I'm using my old Saitek Eclipse 2 for the moment. Upon taking it out, I remember the lighting I really like from it. Completely unnecessary, but I like it. I also remember why I bought another keyboard. Certain keys require more pressure to use than others to register.

I'm kinda tired of the G15, and I don't need the LCD screen anymore. It also doesn't light up nearly as much as the Eclipse does.

I looked into the Eclipse 3, but I've read of ghosting, and the non programmable macros make me want to look elsewhere. It has the lighting I like though =/

The older cyborg v.7 or some crap like that seemed pretty cool, but it was discontinued, and there are no blue colors. Which is kinda awkward, only having green, yellow and red. That choice is obviously not possible anymore anyways.

Thinking of G110, one cool thing about it is you can make any color within red and blue for the backlight. I really like the unnecessary lighting of the eclipse though, so this is hard to figure out.

I need suggestions for keyboards that I might like. Not many keyboards seem to have the full backlight effect like the Eclipse does, if they do, I don't know of them =/. Shades of purple are also preferred, being my favorite color and all.

Also, enjoy the conflicting backgrounds from the pictures.

Gas Prices and Stupidity

So, when I first bought my car about 2 years ago, I looked up what octane gas I should be using with the phrase, "3000gt octane gas". I came up with the answer of 92 octane. So cool, just put in some premium gas, and I'll be fine.

2 years later (yesterday pretty much), I'm looking for a new car to buy. I found a 94 3000gt with DOHC engine and all extras. On the close up on the dash to show the mileage, I see the phrase, "Premium unleaded gas only". I then remember mine only says, "Unleaded gas only"... Hmm. Awkward.

So I start thinking maybe I don't need premium, but I'm not sure. So I refine my search with "SOHC 3000gt octane gas"... And lo and behold, I find out it since it gives less power, etc. etc., it only requires 87 octane gas...

So I'm all sorts of pissed at myself at that point, so I figure why not figure out how much money I've wasted. I calculated it to about $4500, more or less. If the price difference between the 87 octane gas and the 93 octane stayed about the same the last two years, I threw $4500 at gas companies for no reason.

The amount of face palm I gave myself when I figured this out, cannot be described in words.

Who would of thought 4 letters in a search could affect my life that much in the next two years.

Bleh

Better to have loved and lost, then to have never loved at all...

..l..

Feels bad man.

Super Meat Boy

All I have to say

Shit's hard yo.

Sins of a solar Empire

I was going to start a little journal on a Sins of a Solar Empire game, but apparently print screen, which is their screenshot button, doesn't work in vista/7. So I only have one of the screenshots, and I'm wondering if I should re-start, or just go with what I have now, and start it off late. I already had some epic fights, but I think I'm just going to restart. It just isn't the same starting in the middle.

Police must be low on money

I freaking got pulled over today for not "completely" stopping at a stop sign. No traffic either way, I'm on a downhill slope, I was turning right at the sign, and the speed limit is 20. I'm not going to bust out in front of someone hauling ass, me or them.

When I was approaching the stop sign (on a downhill road), I had a clear view of the 3 other streets that intersect, left, right, and in front of me. I slow down when getting to the stop sign, I'm moving no more than 3-5 mph while I'm on my brake, look left and right again real quick and see nothing, so I pull off to the right. The fucking cop pulls me over for not making a "complete" stop. Such bullshit.

At this rate, I'll be taking defensive driving every year.

This was the face I was making after I drove off, and am still mostly making.

Video card

I just got my nVidia 460 in yesterday, but I couldn't run my 9800 in there with it because I think they take too much power together. So I went to find my 7900 for dual monitors, but it brought back it's old habit of dying one me whenever it wants. So I'm stuck without a second monitor unless I get a larger power supply or figure something else out >_<

This lady at work was soo stupid.

I don't think I've dealt with a more mathematically inclined person today at work.

So this person owed me $19.46. Or something close. They wanted to give me a $4 tip, but they only had two 20's. So she wanted change for one of her 20's, I gave her two fives and 10 ones, but after that I didn't take the 20 from her. A fatal mistake. She then handed me a 20, and then 4 bucks. I then realized I still needed that other 20 she was holding, but she said, "No. This is the correct amount, I don't make mistakes on things like this." I then spend the next 30 minutes trying to babystep her through basic math and how she still owed me 20 dollars. She eventually just said, "Here, take it. Just take it, you know my number when you realize you're wrong and you can give me my money back."

Just wow. Some people. Some people.