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My brother and his two kids stayed with me and Liz all weekend, we had a great time!  I will be posting some pictures pretty soon.

Both Butler and Purdue played great games, fun and exciting to watch!  Good Luck in the Sweet 16!

We ordered an entertainment center for our finished basement in early January … I finally got the call today letting me know it’s in.  We’ll be getting it delivered on Friday.  It’s about time …

The four CD Neverender collection that encompasses a four night stand covering front to back all of the albums so far released that detail the Amory Wars is awesome.  I’ve had it for sometime, but tonight it really hits the spot.

Why?

I’m not sure.

I just got done watching I Am Legend for the first time … I really didn’t like it.  It was too depressing sorta like Knowing.

I’ve not done a full album review in some and honestly I don’t feel like doing one today so going to deliver some quick thoughts on the music I’ve recently purchased instead.

• Demon Hunter – World Is A Thorn: Loud, Heavy, Good.
• Citizen Cope – Rainwater: A good album that could have been great if it had more than ten songs, mind you tracks nine and ten were acoustic versions of two other songs on the record.
• Eddie Vedder – Into The Wild: Actually a soundtrack, but it’s all Eddie Vedder.  A lighter acoustic sound that is easy to drive to.
• Vampire Weekend – Contra: Airy, the jury is still out forming an opinion on this one …
• Gorillaz – Plastic Beach: This album has a ton of guest artists once again including De La Soul.  It’s defiantly a Gorillaz album, I’m still forming a detailed review.  I like it, I’ll end up writing more about this one.

Signing off.

Well I bought Final Fantasy XIII for the xBox 360 on Tuesday, I’ll be popping it in later today for the first time.  I hope it’s not awful.  I’ll let you know …

Apple Mac Book Pro

Long have I thought about getting a laptop, anymore I don’t generally like being chained to one singular space … I like the idea of mobility.  One of the other ideas I like is the idea that things should be simple and easy to use.  Mind you I’m a Windows Server Team of Lead of six Windows Administrators, I’m not supposed to like Apple products or something to that nature.  I think they’re probably supposed to turn my hands green.

I did a lot of thinking, comparing, and waiting before I bought the Mac Book Pro (2.8Ghz Dual Core, 500GB Hard drive, 4GB of Memory, with a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 512MB Video card).  I’ve had the laptop since Saturday evening, I didn’t turn it on until Sunday morning.  Since then I’m completely happy with this new setup.  I’ve only had one problem and that wasn’t the laptops fault, it was the sales guys for handing me the wrong DVI adapter for my external monitor.  That was exchanged today for the correct one.

I’ll be writing up something more in-depth very soon.

I is very happy with teh lappy.

Well if you’re a “regular” to www.Blocguild.com then you’ve been redirected to here … the personal blog of the GM of Bloc, a guild that resides on the US-Perenolde of the game World of Warcraft.  The demand for the guild website declined so it made no sense to upkeep it anymore.  I still have all the pages and content should we launch it again.  If you like it here, please continue to visit.

I’ve decided to take a break from raiding in WoW, I don’t currently have the passion or desire to do it.  I’m having more fun grinding rep and leveling toons then spending hours in an instance banging my head against a wall.  Our guild is continuing to progress, I just need some time away.  At some point I may catch the raiding bug, but until that day don’t expect me in too many raids.

God gave me my own free will.

I make my own decisions, learning from my successes and failures.

I will never be perfect, nor will I ever try to be.