Listening to (on my cell phone): Counting Crows-Long December, The Ataris-Radio #2, Buckcherry-Next 2 You, Evanescence-Lies, ABBA-Chiquita, Evanescence-Call me when you’re sober, Beatles-Norwegian Wood, Nirvana-Come as you are, Eurythmics-Track 12 (don’t know the name), Fort Minor-Believe Me, My Chemical Romance-Welcome to the Black Parade, ABBA-Mama Mia, Barrio Del Rio-La Gasolina, The Real Booty Babes-It’s a Fine Day, Soft Cell-Tainted Love, Wet Wet Wet-Love is all around, All American Rejects-Swing Swing, Avril Lavigne-Skater Boi, and a whole bunch of thai music, which only serves to prove three things. 1 - I have no taste in music, 2 - I have way too many guilty pleasure songs, 3 - I am proud of having too many guilty pleasure songs.

But it’s awsome. I just thought I’d tell you that.

I’m back from the trip, tired, but happy. And darn glad to be home. And kinda thirsty. 

I finished working, and after subtracting the huge amount staying in bangkok always amounts to, I actually made a decent amount of money. Plus I stayed up ’till about two one morning and managed to budget a computer in a practical price range with the top of the line video card, and two gigs of ram, with other features to complment them.

I really am at a lack for amazing things to tell y’all, really, I was just going from one place to another, in a haze of sleep derivation and screaming children, sometimes as young as grade one or two, sometimes refreshingly old, meeting and making new friends, talking having fun, and leaving, knowing that I won’t see any of them again. Which was sad, and tiring. It wasn’t all fun and games after all though I had hoped it would be. The kids were generally younger this time, and much worse at english, which just made it harder as a whole. Though I think enough time was spent either swimming or drinking copious amounts of tea and chocolate to make up for it. So yeah, other than the lingering tiredness, an excellent experience.

Now I’m just bumming around, trying to catch up on enough sleep to truly enjoy Song Kran, the big water festival coming up in a couple weeks, which should eb very big and fun, immediately followed by the sleepless (in seatle, except not) southern tour, which is going to be absolutley amazing and my last ditch attempt to get a tan while I’m here.

 Here’s a sign that I might be too tired, the other night I was watching Battle Star when I paused to go get a glass of water. I got my glass, then walked to the TV and bashed my glass into the screen. I had actually been going to the water dispenser thing we have, oe of those ones were you push the glass against the back and water comes down from above, but somewhere along the way, rerouted to the T.V.. It was very funny at the time. No, wait, yep, it’s still funny. Hee hee.

Oooh! Story! Have to tell! And keep breathing! w00txor!!!11 I saw the most amazing awsome concert ever! Sooo cool! I was only there for one night of the 3 day pattaya music festival, but that night Palmy, Potato, Tata YOung, Dan and Beam (or golf an mike?stupid male duets) all played as well as a bunch of others!!! This paragraph deserves every exclamation mark it gets!!!!!!!! It was awsome and I finally get the whole OMG I SAW (insert band here)!!!!! SIGN MY TSHIRT! attitude that I’ve seen so many times. Maybe I’m more into these bands than any others, maybe it’s just I’ve never been to a concert before, or maybe it’s just another part of thiailand that I have to love, but it was there. The giant MTV ball bouncing off my head, people jumping and screaming and singing. Me jumping and screaming and singing. It was soo awsome. Definitely the highlight of my trip. I missed Silly Fools, which normally would have been absolutely crushing except that it was the english tripe anyways so I couldn’t care less. Bah. Stupid english singer.

 I’ve been goign over the numbers agian and again for graphics cards and settled on the GeForce 8800 series (no suprise there) and more specifically the 8800 GTS (the GTX may pwn hardcore but starting, on sale at more than $700 is a little pricey for me. Now the big debate is the one with 320MB of memory of the slightly more expensive one with 640MB. For games now a days, the most top of the line, graphics intesive, rendered on-the-fly games there won’t be any difference on anyhting under 1680×1050, 1764000 pixels, unless it’s Crysis. BUt with DivX 10 on the rise and new Quakes, Dooms, HalfLifes and the like on the way, the 640 card will be able to keep up better at higher resolutions if I ever upgrade my monitor. However that may not be an issue anyways because suppossedly both models pass off data faster that anything but a high end CPU can feed them, so it won’t ake a difference if I can’t get a better CPU. “Look at all my trials and tribulations” Any thoughts Mr. Schwartz?

2.0 weeks till wapner beta

3.5 weeks till wapner

4.0 weeks till wapner v 2.0

11.0 weeks till wapner Special Edition

*Wapner is currently in the alpha testing stage.

Okay, at least 3 of you know what I’m talking about. And I think I’ve given enough info to reason the rest out. And don’t you dare threaten me with logic. Or Kibibytes. Fricken Kibibytes.

OH! Charla! If Lucy has the specs I’ve found a really good 3D Real Time Strategy. I thought I would never accept the painful slowness and ugly, slugish polygons dragin themselves across the screen that represented 3D RTSs, have found one I truly enjoy, and the graphics are astonishing. From zooming out on the (up to) 81km to scale maps, to zooming in on the exhaust ports of your ships, it was beautiful. And that was graphics at their lowest settings, anti ailiasing turned off, so we could get it to run on Faye, Alex’s notebook. It’s much more strategic than most other RTSs and I highly recommend it to any and all who have ventured to the genre. Plus the Cybran Monkeylord is AWSOME!

Please, if you can find anything by Navi Redd, download it, as the most amazing pure vocal covers you will ever hear. From Mony Mony to Brick in the Wall to The final Countown to MLK (a favorite) they are amazing! I could totally see Dad’s choir doing some of this (note to self, send MP3s), And it’s all guys, which is really hard to believe when you hear somebody belting out sandy’s parts from Grease. All A capella! O, and You’re the Voice is good too.