Keeping An Eye Out for Ninjas!

In my mind when something unexpected happens it's NINJAS! Or those little rogue squirrels that roam the neighborhood. That is just what happened. Ninjas!

I get home from a long day of work today. As I come into the door I grab my freehand cob pipe and load it with some Early Darkness that I laid out this morning to dry out some. I set the pipe down to go and change into some shorts and t-shirt. At my closet I discover water dripping all over my closes. I look up and see the ceiling dripping. I immediately knew the suspect was a drain pan for the ac unit. I sets right above that location. I mumble a few explicative words cursing those little ninjas that ruined my evening and immediately head into the attic. My suspicions were proven to be correct. It was full to the brim and slowly dripping water out. No doubt caused by these willey rogues hiding in the attic playing havoc on my free time.

So once I snap back to reality and realize that his is real world stuff and it going to take real world mentality to fix this shit. I try to get back into my installer mode, from my days of working in the field long ago. I it is different mind set. Something I would always tell my self when everything seemed it could not get any worse. "Well this is what separates the men from the boys" something my coach in highschool would always yell out and it has stuck with me my whole life. Now I am by no means a handy man, I don't have the tools for this kind of stuff. But hey, I've mastered getting a second OS running on my PC. (In my best fat bastard voice) I can do thas!!!! So four hours later I have the repairs made and will check tomorrow to see if my handy worth is good. I started out trying to mess with it and see if I could flush out the gunk build up, but as with anything else I figured I could cut everything out and rerun a new drain line a lot faster. We will see.

Ok let's see. Nothing for me to talk about with WoW. Most of my guild has been AFK for some time. Summer time everyone is really busy doing real life things. I can't say that I've spent too much time playing lately either. Most of the last week has been messing with Ubuntu.

I am downloading the free trial for Final Fantasy XI. I've been wanting to try this game for some time. To be honest I think it was some the reviews that I have read that talked about it being a huge grind. I figured what the heck it is a free trial it won't matter. If I don't like it no harm done.

Another thing I've been itching to get for some time is a console. I'm mostly leaning towards the Xbox 360, but the PS3 has a good selection of games. From what I've been told it has very good backwards compatibility with previous generation Playstation games. There are several that I work with that play the Xbox and FPS games, and they always seem to have a good time. In some way I think I might be missing out by not giving them a try. Plus I may find that I really like it.

Ok so a little update on my progress with the Lapband. I've lost 91 pounds so far. BIG difference in the way I feel. No more hearburn and the sleep apnea has gone away. I have 77 pounds to go, but I'm in no rush. I already feel a 91 times better than I did before.

And now I've noticed that my download canceled for FFXI.....damn Ninjas are back!

I guess I'll go and enjoy that pipe.