I am Thankful for…
I am thankful for ridiculous Black Friday sales, Thanksgiving break (I couldn’t take one more Physics lecture), family, friends, finally getting some laundry done, my roommate that lets me play Mario Kart on his Nintendo DS, being able to bring my PS2 (for GT4) back up to school, Scrivs letting me in 9rules and finally putting an end to all these tech support calls from my mother and fixing that Dell for the last time.
I am not thankful for holiday traffic at the airport, $12 a day airport parking, things out of stock on Black Friday, facing a Physics test on Monday, sleepless nights in my horribly uncomfortable mattress at college, those kids on the 3rd floor that play a farm animal soundboard at 4am really loud, waiting in line for anything at the dining hall and lastly, overpriced monkeys.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I hope you rake in some massive steals at your local Black Friday sales events. If the Xbox 360 fiasco has taught me anything, the early bird definitely gets the worm… or at least a peek at the worm. I will be on the lookout for a new motherboard for my sister as the Swiftech Northbridge cooler was too heavy and pulled out the rentention clips on the motherboard. I tried soldering them back on but that didn’t do the trick. By the way, I am loving my old CRT at home… it does 1920×1440!
This year has been hard with my brother undergoing his 3rd and 4th open-heart surgeries to replace 2 valves. Thus, I’m thankful for above all family. Some people don’t appreciate the inherent bond that is family. I’m also thankful for lots of other things, too, but won’t take up too much space here!
Hey, you play GT4! None of my friends seem to appreciate the level of difficulty that that game provides. It’s the fine wine of the racing genre, in my opinion. I love it.
I feel your pain with family computer support. The first thing I hear every time off the plane is, “Something is wrong with our computer.” I’m considering just setting up VNC on all of my family’s and relative’s computers so that I can just help them out from school instead of having to make housecalls every holiday. Also, if setting something up ahead of time isn’t an option, you could use something like Copilot, a one time use secure VNC service that is (apparently) pretty easy to use. The product was built by last summer’s Fog Creek interns under the direction of Joel Spolsky. Pretty cool summer internship if you ask me.
We ended up getting a slick new laptop for my sister, an HP with a P-M 1.73GHz and 1GB DDR RAM. Downloading AutoCAD from the school and then installing it was the most time consuming activity. The AutoCAD suite is around 4GB and it was packaged as several CD ISO’s but the software didn’t recognize that they were broken up into CD’s so I had to manually put the files in one folder. Anyways, GT4 is still an amazing game. No word yet on PGR3 for Xbox 360, that’s the only thing that has my slightest fancy at the moment.
GT4… rented it from blockbuster last week and I’m in love with it. It’s the toughest driving game that I’ve played, but it’s great.