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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.

I’ve spent the afternoon prepping the house for Bloc Party, I love owning a house, but some of the things you have to do to keep it up are just tiring.  Liz and I bought this house in April of 07, a month before we got married.  We’re to the point now where it actually feels like we’re past the stage of remedial maintenance.  Meaning things like replacing oh let’s say the water softener, water purifier and water heater because they were shot.  We had to replace all the wood and screen on our back porch because we found out it was rotten when we were trying to just simply replace some torn screen.

Today I finished up the wall in our living room  I removed non-functional speakers that we couldn’t get to work, it was a dry wall patch and paint job.  I also rented a carpet cleaner and cleaned all the carpets on the main and second floors.  The basement carpet is in good shape.  In the next couple of weeks we’ll be having the exterior painted and rotten boards replaced.  Once we get that done we’ll start looking at spaces / rooms to remodel.  We’ll probably start in our laundry room.

One thing I’ve learned is I’ll always have something to work on now that I own a house!  I still have a list of things I want to get down before July 28^th, wish me luck!

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I’m trying to keep more current on the xBox gaming world, and with that knowledge I plan to make a few lists…

Games I want to play:

• Ghostbusters
• Red Faction: Guerrilla

Games that I’m looking forward to:

• Dead Rising 2
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Modern Warefare 2
• Brutal Legend *Edit*

Games I currently enjoy:

• Orange Box: Portal
• Left 4 Dead
• Castle Crashers

xBox things I don’t care to ever set my eyes on:

• Project Natal
• Rockband: Beatles

Why wouldn’t I want to rock out with one the best bands ever?  Well because the same reason I’d not want to rock out with Led Zeppelin or other band specific title.  I already know the music and I find no satisfaction playing Hello, Goodbye or Hey Jude on my tricked out Beatles inspired guitar.  I would be bored to tears as really let’s face it … how can you make a game about rocking out and feature the Beatles?

On the flip side I recently played through Portal that I neglected ever since I picked up the Orange Box over a year ago.  Shame on me for not playing that sooner, it was very enjoyable and I now know the cake is a lie.  My favorite sequence is by far when I realized that I was getting dumped into a pit of fire and had to do something.  Grade A fun, I hope they make something to follow, maybe a Portal 2?

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I’ve taken the time to start this blog / resource for myself.  I’m going to use it write about all kinds of things shying away from things like facebook, twitter, and or livejournal.  I’ll be focusing on WoW, Games, Personal Happenings, and Music.

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