This is a test...

...of the new computer's internet connection etc.

I can't say it went off without a hitch or two -- we had to reformat the hard drive twice because it ran into an error the first time, and when I finally got it home NOTHING WORKED. Luckily, the reason nothing worked was because the hard drive cable had come loose, which is the sort of thing I'm qualified to fix. So, it seems to be working now.

Of course, I still need to get the LAN connections up, and install all kinds of crap, and maybe the printer even (it'd be a lot less obtrusive on the table next to this machine than on the floor in the middle of the living room). And THEN I can start thinking about trying out all those damn MMORPGs people keep talking about... q:3 Or maybe I'll start with AC2.

Weather Warning

Yesterday, after discovering that the Togo's near Lazar's house had closed down and was being replaced by a 'Georgios', and being forced to settle for Quiznos (consensus after dinner: wow, Quiznos really does suck as much as we remembered it sucking), and futzing around with the computer that loomed in the middle of the room blocking everyone's view of everyone else (note: this is a good thing, because I got to take the computer home afterwards q:3), we had a session of the GURPS game.

Murdock had spent the time over the two weeks since the last game perfecting his antigravity craft... only problem is, he didn't actually have the tech to do antigravity, since it's TL 9 and he's limited to TL 8. He said that Lazar had told him that this magic metal 'retrosumite' that he'd been using for everything was also good for contragrav, but Lazar corrected him and said that it could only be used for *conducting* gravity and not redirecting it. So he had to start over.

We did eventually get to playing, though.

( game summary )

There were two more mages who were supposed to attack them, but one was going to use lightning and the other cold. Not really terribly useful attacks against the party right now... I'll have to give it some thought and see if there are any indirect attacks that might be worth using.