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Friday, December 5th, 2008

We bought a condo a few months ago (8, I think), and in the process of moving, my motherboard fried and died, so I had to buy a new motherboard.

I picked one that seemed decent, and I also got a processor that was better than the one I had.

Now, I’m not very knowledgeable about hardware, so I followed the instructions for setting up my motherboard, and plugged everything in including the video card I’d been using with my other motherboard.  Powered up the computer, and nothing showed up on the screen.  After several hours of wrestling with everything, I figured that my video card had also been fried by whatever killed my old motherboard.  I took it off, and was able to get the on-board video card to display with no problems.  So, since April, I’ve been using the much less powerful on-board card for everything, including playing WoW.

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Of Failed Experiments and Art.

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

It’s no surprise by now, to anyone who’s read my posts before, that I suffer from some type of syndrome that prevents me from actually finishing anything I start on… and that the same syndrome also blinds me to this fact once I jump on board with a new idea or project.

Awhile back… I think it was December ‘07, I conceived a project that would be a complex, browser-based RPG, akin to Kingdom of Loathing, but different.  I managed to coerce Louisa into doing a lot of the artwork for the game, and a lot of the illustrations came out looking very, very nice.  Since the project has pretty much collapsed, and I have no current hopes of continuing it, I didn’t want the art to be forgotten, so, I’m posting everything here to show it off!  Enjoy!

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D&D Adventure Update: Background and Synopsis

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Well, I haven’t had much time to work on it (or anything, really)… work has been superchaoticness, and I’ve been working on finalizing Louisa’s Portfolio Site.  But, despite all that, I spent a little bit of time today getting my Background and Synopsis written up for the Adventure.  Now, this is a first, rough draft… I’m having trouble figuring out the exact formula to use for the Background and the Synopsis… I’m more anxious to get to the meat of the adventure, so I don’t really know how to write it out.  I have a ton more than this written up, I just haven’t reached a point where I would like to share it, just yet.  Anyway, here’s the Background and the Synopsis to show where I’m planning to go with it.  As always, comments, suggestions and support are always appreciated.

Background

The town of Heartwood is a quiet, peaceful community, tucked between the Serpent River, the Blue River, and the Thunderhill Mountains.  Although the town is in an ideal spot for trade – sitting at the hub of two trade routes in conjunction with the two rivers – it is relatively far enough away from the major cities and nations that it is able to avoid many of violent wars and disputes over the years.  The people of Heartwood have been very lucky to live in such peace.  However, their peace may be short-lived.  Whispered rumors have been spreading around town, over the last few months, regarding sinister goings on in the abandoned Thundercrown Castle – a fortified stronghold constructed near the top of the Thunderhill Mountains, overlooking the town and the well-traveled mountain pass since time forgotten.  During the reassuring light of day, the townsfolk scoff at such tales, once the sun goes down, the people tend to stay behind locked doors.

(Note: If you’re intending to play in my PbP Campaign, I wouldn’t read the rest… there’s still 3 slots open!)

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Dined and Boozed.

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Azeroth has spent the last 2 weeks celebrating Brewfest – a holiday eerily similar to German Oktoberfest, only with more Dwarves.

There were major changes from last year, and Louisa and I really wanted to get into it.  Last year, we were able the finish up the festivities with a cool mount, which we’ve been using ever since.  This year, they added a new mount: the Great Brewfest Kodo. The first, and currently only Kodo mount that can be owned and used by an Alliance player. The only caveat was that this year, unlike the ram, this mount can’t be bought by doing the simple, fun Brewfest quests and turning in tickets – it only drops from the new, level 73 Elite Boss, Coren Direbrew.

Now, Mr Direbrew hangs out inside the instance known as Blackrock Depths, or BRD for short.  He’s hiding out in the back room of the Grim Guzzler tavern (in the center of the instance), plotting and recruiting people to go crash Brewfest for him to wreak havoc.  It takes a party of 5 level 70s to take him down, and then the mount only has a tiny chance to drop – something like 0.1%.

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Louisa’s Artwork Portfolio

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

After years of her constant prodding, I finally put together a simple gallery for Louisa’s artwork.

Please check it out here: http://louisahely.nfshost.com/

We plan on adding more of her work, a couple of pages for “About” and “Contact”, and adding to the design a little, but I think it looks really nice so far.

Please let me know what you think :D

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Update

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

So, here we are at my new host. So far everything seems to be working nicely, although there are a few items that I’ve removed for simplicity. I thought I might take this time to kind of readdress this site and see where I should go.

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Campaigning

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

In planning for my upcoming PbP Campaign, I’ve started writing up the Adventure that I want to use for the Campaign.  It’s turning out much better than I had planned (maybe I have a knack for this ‘writing thing’ afterall ;) ).  So, I’m wondering how I can refine my adventure, once it’s finished, to be viable for other people to use?

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