Killing time...

I don't really have much to say right now -- things are kind of slow. We've taken down most of the Christmas decorations and put them away, I've got my new notebook setup and running as I like, things at the store are slow -- just not much going on. I did finally get my guitar synthesizer back and working -- my fellow musicians at church were surprised to hear an organ sound coming out of my amplifier -- I just need to get things balanced out better (for instance, the organ sound is about 3 times louder than any other sound I used that morning). We also found our filing cabinet, so I have the paperwork I need to get our portable DVD player fixed (sometimes those extended warranties prove useful). We've been spending some family quality time watching movies on the wall downstairs -- oh sure, we're watching movies that are several months old -- but we're sitting on our comfy couch, the screen (a.k.a. the wall) is nice and big, and once we watch 30 movies on the wall instead of a theater, we've made up the cost of the projector. Ours is an inFocus IN24, nothing fancy, but it's 800X600 resolution is capable of the lower ranges of High Def video, and should work really nicely with the PC I'm building to connect to it (finally found an All-in-Wonder video card at a reasonable price). It could be fun playing UT2K4 and NOLF2 on a screen so large the NPC's are life size **.

Gee, I guess I found something to say after all...


** for the gaming impaired, UT2K4 is Unreal Tournament 2004, a first person shooter with independent and team battles, capture the flag, assault, and football modes -- NOLF2 is No One Lives Forever 2, a story based first person shooter where you play the role of Cate Archer, female secret agent for a '60s spy agency -- NPC's are Non Player Characters, the people shooting at you, or telling you where to find Kamil, or asking you to find their glasses.