Anyway, enough about old stuff, summer is here, I have been enjoying it, walking the dogs, sweating my ass off out in the yard.  About to take some time off to spend with the kids, i am really looking forward to that.

Work is work, never ending, just when you think things suck they have a funny way of turning around…long story, not something I feel like sharing at this time, check back another day…

I got new tires for my car, I had no idea how much a difference new tires can make.  I actually enjoy driving now.

I apologize for my jumping from subject to subject, bear with me, I am out of practice…

Our house is slowly, I stress slowly, coming together, the never ending list of things to do is actually down to a single page.  There is light at the end of the tunnel after all.

I went back to Lord of the Rings Online, it lasted 30 days and I just wasn’t feeling it, so I am back in WoW, focusing on playing my shadow priest, Rekkr, when I find time of course.

The new PC is running like a champ, no issues with it at all…knock on wood…until next time friends, have fun out there!

I feel I was a bit harsh on my feedback to the company because when I filled it out I was frustrated because I didn’t know what was causing the random crashes and bluescreens of death…but now after it is all said and done i can honestly say I am satisfied with my purchase and would recommend buying from them in the future.  Albeit, the tech support might not be available 24 hours a day, if you tell them about your problem you will most likely get a response within a few days.

So, out of 5 I rate them a 4.5, only reason they aren’t a full 5 is because the system supposedly went through a 24 hour burn-in period, and if the technician would have noticed the bad memory stick I wouldn’t have had to find it on my own…

If you have any knowledge of PC’s and can successfully diagnose issues I would say they are your best bet.  The price is right and the ability to customize your rig is very cool.

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Let me go back a bit and share a little about my life.  First of all I have a somewhat busy job, being active duty air force isn’t exactly a cakewalk, this all depends on your job, who you work for and all that, but for myself ever since I went back to what you could call the “9-5″ shift, which in reality is actually getting up at 5 am and getting home usually at 5:30 pm…anyway, I am in a supervisor position, and with that I have found myself very busy, and I like being busy.  There is nothing worse than just sitting at a desk all day staring at a screen with nothing to do, just counting the minutes as they go by.  But because of or perhaps in conjunction with that I have found myself shifting my priorities in the rest of my life.  You see, I have never been one of those guys who are “ate up” and I do not kiss anyone’s ass just to get an advantage.  I do my job to the best of my ability and that’s it.  Now how does all this relate to gaming?  Well, in case you aren’t aware I was in a pretty deep depression for a while over the winter and I found myself escaping into the digital world more and more as a way to cope with my inability to deal with it.  I made a lot of good friends in this digital world, some of them actually really helped me during this time.  The key to all of it though is my wife.  Without her I wouldn’t be the person I am today.  No matter what I do or say she has always been by my side and loved me.

Of course, finding balance in all things is essential to a healthy life.  But when you have an addictive personality such as myself this simple thing becomes a monster if you let it take over.  So, yes, the World of Warcraft became my second life and for a while was my only life besides work.  So, I passed on the guild leader position of the Soul Bound guild to someone I trust and have full faith in and am taking a break from it with plans on returning when the Wrath of the Lich King comes out.

What am I doing now?  Well, if anyone who has been around my blog for a while knows, I also play Lord of the Rings Online.  So I went ahead and reinstalled it and renewed my subscription with the plan of only playing occasionally as a way to relax and have some fun.  After all that is what playing video games is all about.

I know there are a lot of other artists out there doing the same thing, but not very many of the “mainstream” artists do this…enjoy!

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In other news, I have updated my myspace page a bit, mostly added some new videos…if you would like to be added as a friend just drop me a line…peace!

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I am just glad this is all resolved, and without one single phone call to the dreaded tech support line.  Look forward to some updates soon, I am installing Lord of the Rings Online once again…I am going to try it out for a month to see if I enjoy playing it again.

If anything I can take some nice screenshots to share here with you all.

There is a return policy for the machine and tech support is available.  I have 30 days from the date of invoice, 21 May 08, but I still will have to pay for shipping which is non-refundable.  So, what to do next?  I honestly think the machine itself is fine and will work good, and I would have to send it back and be out the shipping charges…so I am going to install windows xp and see how that works.  If anything there shouldn’t be any driver issues…you would think right?

And yes, I did open up and case and inspect every square inch of it, and believe it or not, they did take time to tidy up cables and it seems they tried to do a good job of putting it together anyway…one thing for sure, heat isn’t an issue with all the case fans installed on it.

I will update more in a few days and let you all know how things are going.  My wife feels I should have called tech support from the very beginning, which she might be right, but I have the feeling if I do that all that will happen is I will get even more frustrated than I already am.  It is my last resort, but it seems inevitable.

I get home last night and attempt to install WoW…after 3 tries with drive errors I give up.  I go to install 3D Mark 06 to give it a whirl…two tries and each time it comes up with a “CATOSTROPHIC” failure and isn’t installed…now I know I am a vista noob, but I did manage to turn off windows defender and the user account control…so I know that isn’t an issue.

This morning, I decide to run a full chkdsk on the drive, it was scanning the drive when I left for work this morning.  If the issue is still there when I get home today I will be calling the dreaded tech support line and getting put on hold and whatever…but damn it, this is really annoying, I can’t even install a game…what the hell…any ideas would be welcome…but so far I am at a loss.  Only thing I can think is get a new hard drive.

Not only was I putting in 15 hour days working, but my wife was back in South Dakota for her sisters’ wedding, so the poor dogs got to sit at home all alone all day…luckily they didn’t leave me any messes or tear anything up…

The cyberpowerpc has been shipped as of yesterday, scheduled to arrive at my doorstep on 28 May courtesy of Fedex…fingers are crossed it comes in one piece and there aren’t any major issues when I plug it in and fire it up.

As far as gaming goes, I haven’t had much time to do much besides play my hunter, Giznad, he has been neglected for quite a while, I have primarily been focusing on doing dailys for gold and battlegrounds for some gear, also joined up on a 2vs2 arena team, we won 1 out of 10…better than I figured we would do…give me a break, I have yet to get a single piece of pvp epic gear…so shoot me!  Also, I took up leatherworking as his primary profession since he has maxed out skinning, it made sense, I spent over 100 gold getting leather off the AH, it will take time, but eventually I hope to get to the point where I can craft my own armor to wear.

Oh yeah, finally getting some much needed time off, big 4 day weekend coming up…woohoo!  I just wish my new machine was here to enjoy it…oh well, 6 more days!