Another Epic Weekend

It turns out I had another epic weekend. It was another Basement LAN weekend. I spent a few days "fixing up" a computer for my roommate Katherine to use at the LAN party. Luckily, she really only digs the old games such as Diablo 2. Using a computer I found on the street corner (because for some reason, my old mother board is now completely fried), I put in new RAM and a hard drive and installed Windoze XP. Worked great for her, and she decided it was better than her current computer. Hard to believe as it only has about a 2GHZ AMD Processor in it O_o. The mobo is probably 5-6 years old, but I suppose her computer only has a 1.5GHZ Celeron or equivalent.

Anyway, we packed up our computers and fudstuffs into Paul's van (which he graciously let us use) and picked up Moose. We drove all the way to Glencoe, partaking in some giggly conversation. Moose was in the back, and I guess he couldn't hear what we were saying. Girlish banter generally explodes brains if at the right frequency. He was lucky... this time.

At the LAN, we played Counter Strike, and a little Diablo 2. Compared to the last LAN, this party was lame. Last time, the basement was absolutely FULL. This time, there were probably about 20 people there. Come 6pm, over half of them went to the bar upstairs. Altaris headed up there, and I joined him for a bit. Bars piss me off, in general. Something about people sitting in dark smelly places spending oodles of time and money on getting wasted, and because it's a bar, that's generally all they talk about. My anger towards them has a lot to do with growing up in a bar and alcoholism in my family. I don't *always* hate bars, and have enjoyed them on occasion with coworkers... But these trips did not involve copious amounts of alcohol and talking about alcohol. They involved deep-fried tater tots, two pitchers of beer between 8 people, and engineering talk.

After everyone left for the bar, the LAN became pretty lame. We played a little Warcraft 3, but eventually we ended up just watching movies. We watched The City Dragon (the horrible kung-fu porn-like movie I got at the dollar store), The Protector, and Ong Bak. Lots of actiony, kick-you-in-the-face type movies. Fell asleep around 5am, woke up around 11, had pizza ranch at noon, and left the LAN at about 2pm.

Drove back to Minneapolis and immediately fell asleep. I woke up at about 6:30 and walked to Coffman for another LAN party *nerdy giggling.* The Campus Gaming Society (or some other stupid name like that) was hosting a Left 4 Dead party. There were about 10 people there. Moose and I were the best ones in attendance, and it turns out that several of the people there had never even played L4D. Woo! We griefed them and managed to get a RAGEQUITTER IN PERSON! It was epic. Followed up by a great meal at Hard Times Cafe, this evening made up for the ill feelings at the Basement LAN.

Sunday, I slept all day and "played" Dungeons and Dragons in the evening. Moose is DMing a session, and they recently had a player drop. I'M A HALF-ORC BARBARIAN GRRAAARRR. I'm going to have fun with this!

Weekend over.

Week started.

Already Tuesday.

Too much to do, as usual.

Paper due Friday. Homework due Monday. Project stuff to work on.

I've already wasted 15 minutes typing this blog entry. I hope you enjoyed it. IT CAME AT A PRICE!!!!!! Now I don't get to eat lunch until 2pm! :-p