The shit that got too heavy

Emma did a really good job putting down on paper everything that went through my head on the way home. It's sad to see the group dissolve. It really is. It's been the source of my happiness for the last two years and now everything seems empty. I can't wait for the reunion, at least. Don't forget, it's just three easy steps: flip it, stick it, and see ya later bye!

Unwinding

Back from Quakecon. A lot of things happened for bad and good and it's really too heavy for me right now to reminisce on the fantastic weekend that went down. So I'll do some small business:

-Pulled roughly 15GB of stuff. English DVD-quality dubs of Cowboy Bebop (so I'm not a purist, fuck off!) and about 12.5 GB of new MP3s. Mostly ambient techno but managed to get fixed versions of a few albums I had broken as well as the absolute best mp3 I've grabbed in a long, long time: the Daft Punk Essential Mix. If you're a fan, you have to have this thing. Send me an IM for the hookup.
-Tried to install Red Hat out of curiosity. As always, a mistake. Now I'm missing 10 gigs of hard drive space and I can't make Partition Magic undo its own work.
-Running on Knoppix right now and it's damn cool. Knoppix is a Linux distro based on Debian that runs directly off a bootable CD. So just burn the CD, boot from it, and after about 2 minutes you're up and running in KDE3 with fully functional copies of WINE and OpenOffice among all the usual stuff (Gaim, Mozilla [eww]) and even really cool desktop games! Really, there's an open-source version of every good classic arcade game. Oh, and it reads FAT/NTFS partitions so you can pull over all your MP3s and keep listening. Best of all, once you reboot your computer is 100% back to normal as if you had never run Linux in the first place. So yeah, if you'rwanting to tinker, fuck Red Hat, grab Knoppix.
-Finally some downtime now that I'm home. This week is relax and do chores week and I'm thankful for the slow times after going nonstop for a week. Time to crank up the chill tunes and get some good stuff done.

Sad and happy

So I got down. A bunch of bad shit happened all at once. First came the family stress, then came the realization that I'm leaving all my best friends, then Camp Texas (which sucked, pretty much) made me question the fact that I'm going to the biggest party school in the country. Then Quakecon got to a rocky start and I started to wonder if I had even lost my touch with gaming. Needless to say, I was a little puzzled at how absolutely everything could be going wrong.

Then Quakecon got better as the first day came to a close. I found some damn cool new games that I'll be playing once they come out, so my faith in the game has returned. I've still got to try Doom3, which will hopefully come tomorrow. Then the really big deal was talking to my good friend Sophie. Not the Soph linked at right, but a girl actually named Sophie from Albequerque who's going to UT. I hadn't gotten to really talk to her in a really long time just because of the craziness that's been in my life - honestly, for close to a week I had flat forgotten her. But, as always, it was so great to talk to a like-minded chica. She's really a lot smarter/nicer/more my type than I had gotten the impression of at orientation. And that made everything come back to me - the reasons why I was so excited to go to Austin. Sophie reminded me that I'm not entirely surrounded by booze-crazed Greeks who could care less about the good they're doing themselves by actually going to college. So I'm calmed back down. The happiness kind of put me back to neutral on the whole going to school thing, and that's exactly the kind of shape I need to be in heading in.