Low Bandwidth 101

If I can find time/budget I'm looking at attending the following insanity this fall:
Carnage Con which is gaming, gaming, and more gaming.
Bakuretsucon which looks to be the only anime/art con in Vermont.
And possibly a Weird Al concert in late October.

We'll see how it goes between work, potential large car expenses, and whatever else pops up.

It's kind of weird when I think about it. I spent the last two years near much larger events, but I was never really able to attend between being on call for my job and the general "bleh" of being in western Chicago.

Ahhh... such be life.

I found a rather amusing geek test yesterday.

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/geekornot/

Also spent a fair chink of my evening relearning how to play Squad Leader.

Hooray for abrrubt weather changes. Fiday, it was sunny and 70, today we got 3" of snow and it was 30... and so goes spring in Vermont.
Also, last night i had what I think was the most unusual indicator that I should go to sleep I have ever had. I've been reading "The Red Badge of Courage" for english 102 and as I was trying to get through the chapters and answer the required questions last night, I decided it was time to stop (thankfully I was on the last question) when I swore I was seeing penguins with read bowties dancing above the lines of perfectly legible text much like the Cid's were dancing in Chocobo Robo Voice. I don't know if I just fell asleep for a minute and didn't notice it or what, but I remember that quite clearly.
In other news, I spent half the afternoon in IM conversation with a friend from the UK in order to figure out how to change the permissions of a folder in linux. I already knew how to chnge the permissions, but for some reason they wouldn't stay that way. But in the end, we figured it out. yeah!

Ahh, where should I start... I'm currently sitting here half watching one piece on cartoon network. Wee the Joys of Cable.
Well, I've been in Ft. Wayne Indiana since last Saturday night and this is the first time i've been able to even pick up a wireless network. I've been doing something over my spring break that many people wouldn't even consider doing: I went out to visit my relatives in the mid west, my one great grandfather in particular.
Well, last Saturday I flew from Manchester to Indianapolis and then my Grandmother and my aunt picked took me to Ft. Wayne. On Sunday I went to church with my great grandfather (which reminded me yet again why I avoid it whenever possible, a.k.a. 98% of the time) and met with a bunch of my relatives and had lunch at Don Hall's Gas House (No, the place isn't Mexican... Its a piece of the history of Ft. Wayne) and then had dinner with my great great aunt , her brother, my great grandfather, my grandmother, and my aunt. That night a line of storms came through and knocked out the power so my grandmother, my aunt and I played 3 person solitaire by lantern until midnight. On Monday, my great grandfather, my grandmother, my aunt and I had lunch at Bob Evan's (woohoo DBZ just started) and then my grandmother took my aunt to the airport so she could catch her flight back to California. I spent the rest of the day hanging out with my great grandfather. Tuesday, I spent most of the day by myself because my great grandfather had a bunch of doctors appointments. Yesterday I went and visited my only remaining great grandmother in the nursing home. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon helping my great grandfather with some projects around his house. And I had Arby's for dinner (glee). Today I slept in (more glee) and then had raspberry cream pie for lunch. I also went out dinner with my grandmother and her sister at Azar's Big Boy. And now here I am, writing this.

I guess thats everything.

Time for geekdom to beat me over the head. But, first of all a few little things.
Firefox 1.5 has been released. The biggest difference I've noticed so far is the way the menus look.
Recently I was introduced to a little program called HLSW. Its spiffy because it can detect most First Person SHooter LAN games and makes it easy to hop in. I'd like it even more if the campus LAN weren't so fucking restrictive!

ANyways, Late last night the core geeks of LANCLan had a chat. Well, most of them. Decided was a party the WEdsneday after Christmas and a second starting on the 6 or 7th of January. All parties are currently planned to go frmon 1600 to 1600.

That is all for now.