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Ok, I have been at the LAN for more than 4 hours now and I still can’t play games. I got counterstrike source, abut when I tried to play it, it said I should update my video card drivers, which I then proceeded to try… Midway through the install it crashed, royally screwing my computer, leaving me trying to revive it for the rest of the day.

I did have slightly better luck this morning, coming away from the garage sale with a jigsaw puzzle and 5 packs of Girl Guide Mini chocolate biscuits. However, the warehouse only had two swiss balls in the size I wanted and they were both purple, so I didn’t get one of those. I did buy some croissants from the bakery outside the warehouse though, making for an excellent breakfast back at the flat – apparently the girls had just been discussing making some kind of different breakfast seconds before I walked in the door. On a positive note, the other 8 people at the LAN are having no trouble gaming…

51 seconds till I have another driver download to try…

I should be in bed doing the necessary preparation for the LAN tomorrow… oops, today, but instead I am still being dragged back to this blog thing. A couple more people have joined the bandwagon… Louise (my sister) and Baz. Anyway, I thought I might order halflife 2 from steam, but then it started trying to update steam which I really couldn’t be bothered waiting for, (does anyone think I have begun to speak a foreign language) so it’s just going to have to happen today at the LAN. But first I am going to hopefully buy a swissball, which I may even use as my seat at the LAN if I’m crazy enough, followed by trying to find some bargains at the garage sale at the church at church corner.

We had beer and pizza or “Monthly Company Update” as it is now called at work this afternoon, followed by some discussions about the things that were said, which are going to have to remain confidential … and then we went to Baz’s and ended up playing Nintendo for a couple of hours before eventually heading off to Rockpool to play some pool, after which I headed back to Baz’s to pick up my cellphone and headed home to write this, after giving him some valuable tips on how to set up his blog from my vast blogging experience. Anyway, that’s probably enough rambling about how my day went. I think I may actually prefer writing posts that are about something interesting or that have some sort of theme, but in my tired state you are going to have to settle for my night out. (You may want to put this in the “Where the geek guy hangs out” section of my previous post.)

Paul posted a link to an article about geek guys yesterday, which was scarily accurate, so I thought I would go through it and comment about myself point by point… (The article is here) If you haven’t read it you should read it. It will also help this post make more sense.

“Geek Guys are smart, loyal, interesting, have an cool sense of humor and are very creative. Parents love them, too.”
Yes, I can agree with that 🙂

How does it work?
The pulling everything apart thing. Yes, to a certain extent… although somewhat reformed.

Toys.
Not huge on the toys like I used to be, but I do have some juggling balls, a frisbee, a tennis ball and a cd case that can be made to eject rapidly on my desk at work

Creativity
I like to create, but often find it gets pushed to the background with all the other stuff I have going on.

Science Fiction/Fantasy Conventions.
No, not really, at all. Although… The dressing up part, I nearly went into town dressed as a pimp the other day. Silk dressing gown, jewellery and shiny shiny aviators. in the end I left the dressing gown behind.

Gaming and role playing.
Gaming yes, role playing no. I tend to prefer a bit of adrenaline/action and more fun in less time from the games I play. I don’t really like RPGs that much. Partially because I think they are more addictive than fun – much like gambling – you don’t see that many people smiling at the casino but it’s always full, and partially because there is a lot of magic/demons/occult in there which I don’t think fits with my faith very well. But then one could argue against the excessive violence in the other games I play too, so that’s not really the main reason. I tend to play mainly first person shooters and driving games, although I do enjoy the occasional real time strategy or adventure game.

The Net.
Yes, definitely, I started doing the instant messaging thing (ICQ) in 1996 and did the BBS thing before the internet really got going. I’m not really big on the online gaming thing though, partially because we only have dialup. Up until this point though I had managed to avoid blogs, although I did have my own website on geocities for a while, which got scarily out of date.

Geek guys and a challenge.
Definitely can’t resist a challenge. Ask Jamie about the foozeball or Merodie about the pool. Current challenges I am working on are the juggling (mentioned in a previous post) and trying to find my flatmate Emily’s blog. Usually I can find stuff in a matter of seconds, but I don’t think her one has hit google yet… Ayley and Kelly can tell you how fast I found their blogs. In breaking news, I couldn’t be bothered waiting and she told me what it was. If it had been on google I would have found it with the search terms I was using…

Humor.
For obscure references see Blog title and URL… Currently I’m stuck on a bit of a “you’re” kick. You take what the other person has said and you kind of modify it and make it funny by adding “you” or “you’re” or “your” to it.
For example:
Yesterdays Dilbert cartoon
Statement: “That’s crazy”
Reply: “You’re crazy”
Statement: “This pan’s kind of hot.”
Reply: “You’re kind of hot”
Sometimes it’s funnier to just do it in your head…
You get the picture.

Dress. Casual, comfortable and ‘wearable.’
Yes, although I do try not to look too heinous… and do even make an effort on occasion.

Geek guys and a mystery.
Similar to the challenge. Possibly what keeps me up for hours when some part of my computer isn’t working quite right

Music.
I do own a guitar, but definitely plink and I listen to most things. A lot of Christian rock/pop/hip-hop, along with the beatles and pretty much anything. Don’t really like lyrics which have heaps of swearing or otherwise bad – really couldn’t figure out how to put that. And no, I don’t really like country. I’m definitely not as opinionated about music as this.

Diet.
I can cook and usually eat reasonably healthily, if maybe somewhat too much. But as the article says I do tend to eat junk food when gaming.

Loyal
I’d like to think so, but I’m not shy and I think I make friends reasonably easily.

Intelligence.
Pretty much – like what it says in the article, although I don’t really like blowing that trumpet.

Parents love Geek guys.
Everybody loves me 🙂

Geek guys are romantic.
Not something people see in me every day, but it’s there. Although, I don’t think I would make a heart out of microchips or write a poem comparing a girl to a piece of hardware.

Geek guys are passionate about pleasure.
meh, never really thought about it.

Occupation.
I am a system test software engineer, which is fairly technical, although sometimes it’s not challenging enough, and I really don’t work well when I’m not being challenged.

Where the Geek guy hangs out.
Yeah, pretty much anywhere.

Well, hopefully that wasn’t too boring…

Just finished watching this weeks episode of “The Queen’s Tour” with John Campbell. As you can probably guess from the title, it was in Wanganui. As per usual, Jaquie Brown was profiling the Saturday nightlife, which consisted of attending a roller hockey practice, followed by annoying the design school students who were working on their assignments, then watching the rugby at a boarding school – probably the one redeeming feature, but then I guess they have rugby everywhere, followed by visiting some wierd cafe which wasn’t exactly pumping. Possibly a little lacking in terms of an awesome night. At the start of the night she was trying to flag down cars which were off to Palmerston North for their night out to see why they would want to leave.

Anyway, I’m sure it’s an alright place to live… Possibly the most disturbing part of the show was the end where John Campbell did the titanic “I’m the king of the world” scene on the paddle steamer Waimaire.

That was followed by the stunning revelation on Nightline that Saddam never had any weapons of mass destruction.

Well, that’s 3 posts in one day. I wonder if there is any way that I am going to keep that up… Probably not, but at least if I get into the habit there’s more chance that it will happen.

Lately, I have been trying to learn how to juggle… Well, actually I have kind of been trying since I was about 12, which I think is how long I have had my juggling balls, although they do still look new. However, now I actually am starting to be able to do it, as Lindsay at work has given me a bit of an added incentive. I’m allowed to go home once I have done one more catch than the previous day. Today I have to do 9, which I have already done, so I can go home when I like! I started on Monday with 6. You’d think that once you got that many happening you’d be into a rythm, but for some reason it’s still not working for me. I’m just going to blame my unco-ness and leave it at that. I may be spending a lot of time at work next week though.

The title says it all really. Now I’m just going to have to find some time – probably when I’m not at work… to actually set it all up.