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I borrowed my brother’s Xbox to entertain both me and Alex (3-year-old son) last night.  I let him play “Cars” and I patiently waited for him to go to bed so I can play “Forza” - by falling alseep on the floor - genius!  After vigorously playing my campaign mode, acquiring three new cars, levelling to 10, and decaling the mess out of two cars I realized that I should not be going to bed some time after 3:30am.  I have too many things to do, in the morning, and video games is NOT one of them.  I must have played a straight 4-5 hour session and didn’t realize it.  Sure my fingers hurt, but it wasn’t an indication that I’ve been playing too long… just that I needed to not put so much pressure on the buttons.

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You like my mathematical equation for dead playtime with World of Warcraft on a linuxbox?  When I first installed Fedora 8, I ran Wine 0.9[something] with nVidia’s proprietary drivers.  I had no problem playing World of Warcraft.  I did notice something though - that every time there was a kernel update - when I restarted my Xserver that things would be kind of haywire.  I would normally have to reinstall the video driver and then I’ll be back to status quo.  So; now I’m a bit more seasoned with linux and open source or non-proprietary software means a little more to me than before - and getting that to work with WoW has proved to be quite difficult.

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As the title suggests, I’m pretty beat down by my life.  It is wall-to-wall filled with responsibilty and mayhem.  Just today I had to make a hard decision of cancelling my World of Warcraft account.  I haven’t played in weeks because I’ve just been so busy.  It really doesn’t make sence paying a monthly subscription right now.

Work is a mad house!  The uppers don’t understand what my workload is and they keep giving me their tasks as priority.  Things are just piling up two tasks at a time and I’m up in my ears with people being frustrated with me.  Honestly; I’m truly learning about project management - but it’s very tough thing to put into practice.  I scheduled myself to “project manage” 2 hours a day - 1 hour when I get into work, and the last hour of the day (away from my computer).  Do you think I’ve stuck to the plan - no!  When I get in I have so many things to do that “wasting” time project managing doesn’t seem viable.  In reality I need to do it.  It’s wierd.

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I’m So Sick from BaronSoosdon on Vimeo.

I saw a video posted on WoW Insider and I thought it was very cool. Wide screen is something new you don’t see with online videos. I don’t know what Vimeo is, but so far I love their video player and widescreen.

Since I have tons of financial responsibilities, I cannot buy a next-gen console. I’m itchin’ for GTA IV, Grand Turismo 5, etc… I did get a chance to play GTA IV at my neighbor’s house the other day and I fell in love with it. Aw, it’s sool cool and he has a big screen TV too so it looked really nice. With touching GTA, it’s hard to go back home and NOT play it. I downloaded GTA San Andreas for my linuxbox and everything ran without a hitch via Wine.

I played some World of Warcraft last night (dinged to 46 on my priest) and was pretty tired - so I said my “gnite” to the guild members and intended to go to bed, but I found myself double-clicking on the San Andreas icon and to my surprise - I was up till 2:00 AM - AGAIN!!!?!?!?! It’s funny playing the game on my PC. I certainly had to get comfortable with the controls - it really handles different than the PS2 controller, but I did notice that I took my time with everything. I actually got more emersed into the world than I did when I played it on my console.

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