I haven't got a whole lot of actual content to put in here, it's just been a while since my last journal and a holiday seemed a fitting time to update it. Happy Veterans Day and such.

Because it totally is.

After being assured that tungsten carbide was better than simple gold for an indestructible wedding band, I cracked mine at work last night. The first day after our first month of marriage and my ring is broken. It's still wearable, the damage is on the outside and not touching my skin, but I'm still irate about it. So I invite you to take part in my newly-declared holiday by going to a jewelry store, fetching a salesman, and asking for their most resilient men's wedding ring. If he shows you something in tungsten, you know what to do.

So I've been offline the last few days after my old computer basically exploded. It was close to four years old and finally gave in to a combination of old age, spyware, and being 86% full of lolcat pictures and pirated music. It finally collapsed one day while doing a Google search which proved just a touch too stressful for it (God forbid I search for a band name). After realizing I couldn't even keep the OS up for more than twenty seconds without the Blue Screen of Death claiming it with its cold, boney fingers, I rebooted it a few times until I managed to get the couple "critical" files I needed off of it onto my external hard drive and then kissed it good-bye.

The new one came home today. A Gateway, same as before. For those who care:

AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor, 2.4GHz
7934 MB RAM
1 Terabyte hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 4650 (never used an ATI vid card before, so I'm curious about this one)
23" PnP Monitor which doesn't fit on my desk, requiring some "modification"
Windows Vista, probably upgraded to Windows 7 as it's free.

I've already shut off 95% of all of Vista's safety precautions, making it an actually usable operating system ("Are you sure you want to open your control panel?" No, I just clicked the icon for practice). Now I just need to make my old computer run long enough to retrieve my game CD keys from the registry. I really don't feel like buying them all over again. I've spent the last few hours just re-acquiring my old tools that I wasn't able to carry over to the external hard drive and then to my new PC.

Items Needed To Make My Computer Adequate:
Firefox
Kaspersky AV
Xfire
Paint.NET (You're so next)
Steam
MSN Messenger
YouTube Downloader
Tor
VLC Media Player
Seventeen Oblivion mods
All my stupid games

I'm also gonna enter the hell out of *Ewig's Bemote Contest and I demand you all do too. I hoped to get just so I could make a chainsaw out of old cereal boxes and bicycle parts but I doubt she'll make me that happy. My wife got , apparently, and has been practicing it enthusiastically, only looking a little like a tard while doing so. Tard. TARDFACE.

Side note: I love this song almost as much as the YouTube downloader that's letting me play it on WMP.

Part of my being gone the last week has been due to working 60 hours in 5 days, after trading shifts with another guy. After about the fourth day I stopped caring entirely and just read books through half the day, part of the fun of working over a weekend. I finished two already-begun books in that time and read two others in their entirety, including finally finishing Stoker's original "Dracula" that I had down to the last eighty pages or so about three months back (Spoiler: Dracula dies at the end! I know, I was pissed off too!). Now since I've been off dA for the last week or so between work and computer-asplode, I demand to know the most interesting thing you've all accomplished in that time. You will be graded for your efforts.

Yeah, won't be online a whole lot after this until next week. Me and `MegMcMuffin are getting married at around noon today. Figured I should update this one last time since the current journal still says I'm getting married on the 14th which isn't even accurate I'll talk to you guys next week. Holly, enjoy your dolphin

As title. Me and `MegMcMuffin are aiming to be married on the 14th of August because she's cute and I luffs her



Also, we'll be at the DevMeet in Austin! Join us! I demand it!