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July 10, 2002
Currently playing: Garbage - I
Currently playing: Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
101 degrees F yesterday, 99 degrees F today. It's way to f'ing hot here! Erik's dad had a tire blowout today... turns out those Firestone Wilderness AT tires really are defective... (or his could be a rare genuinely flawed one. The jury's still out on that.)
Finishing up a new system right now... almost an image of the Ars Technica Budget Box... works pretty well, although I will say that integrated video sucks for gaming, especially due to the shared-memory bandwidth as well as the IGP core itself being only GF2MX level.
Played some Counter-Strike today with Pete, Erik, Spencer, Spencer's sister and her friend... CS1.5 or whatever it is at now is pretty weird compared to what I'm used to: Beta 6, Beta 7, and 1.1... but I did ok at the internet place we were at, and my skill with the MP5 and Steyr Aug hasn't degraded too badly. Basketball afterwards was a mistake (99F+... + even hotter because it was on blacktop)... at least the air conditioner in the TL works very well, if you can stand the lousy 5-speaker Bose stereo setup. I've been spoiled by my PSB's at home and Soundstream SPL's in my car.
Meanwhile, school, cleaning my closet, and other stuff keeps me plenty busy. *sigh* I'll get some real time to relax sooner or later, but at this rate, "later" seems to be the most likely by far. Well. Back to studying.
Posted by brian at July 10, 2002 11:29 PM