Current mood:

good

Long overdue posting...
Eh, unfortunately twitter's also made me a tad lazier again with this thing. It's hard to make regular posts when you know regular little thoughts are getting put up for you automagically. That being said though, I might as well make a more lengthy post talking about some of the things that have gone on lately.

A couple weekends ago now a group of friends including myself went to Carowinds, and largely had a blast. Dan unfortunately had some trouble with the rides and this lead him sitting out for a good chunk of the fun. I won't lie, that part bugged me quite a bit. I was really hoping he'd be able to enjoy himself just as much as everyone else. Though really it was me and Cassie that seriously hit up the rides. We were the only two to ride the two most intense rollercoasters there. That being said the Cobra is awesome and the Nighthawk has got to be my favorite of all time. The only other real highlights were the heat, and it's side effect. The park was pretty dead. (SHORT lines!) We made it fine though if you didn't keep hydrated you'd sorely regret it and sunburns did occur!

Another amusing thing is that the Mouse Guard RPG won best RPG at Origins 2009, beating out D&D 4e. Majorly impressive. Don't get me wrong, I still love 4e, but Mouse Guard, a largely independent game taking home the crown says a lot about it's quality. I really hope I can organize a game of it soon. Though I am planning to try to organize a game or two online soon. Thinking about doing something with WoD: Innocents finally, though I haven't ran any WoD titles yet so I'm a little apprehensive.

In computing news, my MSI Wind nettop got sent to the living room as a multimedia PC for the big TV. Taking it's place as my primary desktop is this pretty thing. Very similar to the Wind, though sporting an Atom 330 which means 64-bit support and dualcore. Also more room for upgrades from myself. The PCI slot and full 5.25 bay means I get to have a regular optical drive and add my own wireless support. All linux supported of course and now running Arch nicely. Though I must admit it's awkward seeing something that is both dual core and hyperthreaded as it reports itself as having 4 CPUs.

Lastly, more of my family got to meet Dan at the 4th of July cook out yesterday. They seemed to like him alright. He's been kinda moody lately, but I do love him. It's not like he's lacking any reason for it and hopefully he'll start to see the brighter side of things soon. I really enjoy his company and would hate to see it stop. He'd better know that!