So as I mentioned earlier, I had a nice long weekend and man was it action packed. 🙂 On Friday I bought some computer components and totally overhauled my computer, about time too as my rig was easily 4 years old already. I picked up an Intel i7 2600k along with 8GB of DDR3 memory, a Gigabyte P67 motherboard, Seasonic X760W PSU and topped it off with a Zotac GeForce 580. I know Intel will be refreshing its CPU line up shortly but I’m no longer an enthusiast and didn’t want to wait. I reused my hard drives, I wanted to go SSD but had a hard time justifying the price considering I purchased a 300GB WD Raptor early last year.
After installing Windows 7, I immediately installed Battlefield 3 and that’s when the fun happened. 🙂 I wrapped up the single player campaign on Friday (fun but short) and played a bit of mulitplayer. My new machine doesn’t “feel” much faster than my old computer when I do my office work but my god it’s many times faster when playing games, that’s for sure! Nice that I’ll be ready for the new generation of games, at least for a little while…
Saturday afternoon Stephen, Mario and I went to Chris & Jim’s Werewolf themed game and it was fun. I was not officially tasked with a command position in the game thread but on the field, as usual I was asked to lead. Things started off slowly but the night progressed nicely. On the second and third restarts (after all the humans were dead), I got a lot of action and man I have to say I absolutely love my PVS-14!!! 😀 It’s seriously not fair but whatever that’s not my problem right? Despite having a technological advantage, it was still quite difficult as the majority of the play was in tight quarters indoors. Still I was able to stealthy move around for most of the game, even when I was stalking the other human faction. 😉
At around 2AM Mario, Stephen, Brian & I were on a mission (all of us had NV, we could see everything! :)) and as I was walking through the rear of the second building, I happened to walk right off the loading dock (about 50cm off the ground) as I was scanning for targets outdoors and didn’t really watch where I was going. As I fell though I twisted my body so I landed on my back and thus saving my PTW and PVS-14 from potential damage. I hurt my right ankle a bit (it’s a bit swollen today), my right knee (sore but ok) and my right elbow (very tender, didn’t have elbow pads and I hit the ground with some force…) but so be it, that’s the price one has to pay if they want to play right.
On the way back I felt pretty good but after consuming 10 chocolate timbits (I was hungry) I began to get really tired, so tired I had to pull off and let Stephen drive. Luckily he was completely alert and didn’t mind taking over.
Today I didn’t do much, I played with Brandon, took a nap in the afternoon and played with my computer a bit more. All in all an excellent weekend and I’m so excited to start my new job tomorrow! I won’t have any trouble going to sleep tonight, I’m still pretty wasted from the night game.
