Ringing In The New Year

Well when the Ball drops at Times Square and millions of couples kiss, and the first baby of the year is born I will be bringing in the new year at Lone Star! For the first time I will actually have to work. Not really looking forward to this, but new Years celebrations tend to loose their importance and charm when you don't drink. I have always gone somewhere or done something cool to bring in the new year, but with the recent drifting between my friends and I. They all made their own plans, not including my sober ass. I could meet up with some of my friends after work, but what's the point of going and meeting them at 1 AM Jan 1st if their all going to be shit faced and ready to pass out. Besides looking into New years celebrations there doesn't seem to be anything to do that doesn't involve drinking besides sitting at home playing CS! All the places my friends are going involve package deals at hotels that you pay for the all night free bar and a hotel room. Well what if you don't drink? Well your shit out of luck! I ask my self, if in our society we're all supposed to drink responsibly, why are business' so geared towards getting you fucked up? All you can drink only $50.00, great well I better get my moneys worth, so I'll drink myself into oblivion! I haven't herd of one place saying come ring in the new year with sobriety and dignity! No its all about getting drunk and hooking up with somebody else. Not that I have a problem with that but, my new found self does. In the past, getting drunk was the easy part, but hooking up....never could seal the deal in that area. So what do I have to look forward to when the clock strikes midnight tonight, being sober, alone, and at work. Sounds fun, rite? Now for the icing on the cake, what I have to look forward to when I come home. My Dad shit faced and on one of his racist rants about someone being in his parking space like the two previous years. Hopefully by the time I get home he'll be passed out, but some how I don't foresee this happening .

Now that I'm done ranting, onto my New Years resolutions

1. Get a new Job. I think I have made this resolution for the past 5 years, but can't seem to remember.
2. Move out of my parent's house. If I have a new Job I should beable to afford to move out on my own, in theory of course.
3. Kill my father (Im joking.......ya thats rite....its a joke..No need to alert the authorities just yet.......I mean.....Its a joke....ya ya thats the ticket just a joke)
4. Quite smoking and all that other mumbo jumbo people tell themselves about getting into shape and fit ....Healthy crap, that I won't do, and will just end up disappointing myself.
5. Gain weight, although I don't see this happening in actuality. Most people want to loose it I want to gain it. I could see myself up to 140lbs from 125lbs.

whats the point of new years resolutions any how? I don't think I ever went through with one, unless it was going to happen anyways. I think I might have made one to quit drinking last year, but I didn't decide to do that until I was actually ready too, ie my life was turning to shit faster than milk through my digestive track and I was ready to boldly go where I had never been before, dealing with life.

Anyways ending on a happy note, happy new year every one, and try not to think about the 120,000 dead in Indonesia.

Hello My Name is Franswiggdy and I'm a Counter Strikeoholic

Wow! Hard for me to believe its been over 3 weeks since I last posted. I have been roped into the whole online addiction thing. It seems I have replaced drinking with gaming. Maybe one day my parents will find me locked in my room slumped over my keyboard with the sounds of CS blasting away in the background, when a voice comes over the mic and says "pwned you!" Another scenerio could go something like this http://www.pwned.nl/. Thats so true it cracks me up!

Three weeks of saturation in the online gaming community I have picked up the lingo rather fast. Let me just say, having never experienced online chat rooms, makes deciphering abbreviated text quite a chore. I don't want to look like a nub for asking wtf does rolf stand for, just so someone can reply with stfu! Get my drift? I don't even want to go into the words containing numbers and symbols, which my brother Jon tells me is known as l33t speak in the computer geek world.

I've been playing pretty consistently (6 hours a day/7 days a week) on this server called When Darkness Falls IP 70.84.59.100:27015. Its a 24/7 custom map server which rocks because it also supports about 44 players, and I get an awping of 40. In my mind the more players the better. If you got CS:Source I suggest you check it out, the maps there are custom and you won't find them on other servers. Come on, you know your tired of playn Dust 1 and 2 ,and assault office! I must worn you though, the admins are total dicks and they mess with the server on a consistent basis. Once, an admin thought it would be funny to swipe all the other players keyboard control's! What an asshat! The Admins don't even follow their own rule cheating on a consistent basis and using racial slurs and obscene porno sprays. Admins aside a lot of fun can be had on this server, and its also almost always full. Even in the wee hours of the morning when I do all my playing. It seems once you have a fav server you always come back. Many of the players there show up around the same time everyday. So a consistent crowd, but Just because you play with them all the time doesn't mean their friendly, its almost always the opposite.

Huh, I mentioned fun in the above? What is fun about CS? Its hard to really explain if you haven't played it. If I describe it, it sounds repetitive and boring. Whats fun about two teams that attack eachother in 3 minute rounds, and repeat this a million times? Well, I almost always get a good laugh from some of my fello players comments. I get a tad bit of social interaction in during the hours when the rest of the world is sleeping.
Talking to the guy who works at the gass station when I go buy my cigarettes around 3 AM doesn't count as interaction. Hes quite the odd fello, and I intend to do a post on him. Oh ya and most important of all why CS is fun; it keeps my mind off of my otherwise mundane boring and thoroughly pointless existence to date. The reason I say to date is, well my life may have some sort of meaning or importance in the future, but for now a little distraction from the lack there of is fun!

Bought A New Monitor

What super computer would be complete with out a nice big ass monitor! Besides if the little bro comes home he's going to want his monitor I've been using back. So what do I buy? All kinds of monitors out there, which one will fit my gaming needs? I knew I wanted a 19 inch but LCD or a CRT? I also didn't want to spend a lot of money, at first, but after shopping around I new I was going to pay a decent amount. I first started randomly looking at LCD's over the internet. I also went to Best Buy along with Comp USA to see what I could find. The 19 inchers I saw, LCD's at least, were upwards of 5 hondo! And some didn't look that great. The 19 inch CRT's were grotesquely large and probably wouldn't fit in my den. View the pic below of my den and tell me what you think. So this left me with one choice, I would have to go with an LCD do to the space. Once again, what kind? My efforts searching for a product I knew nothing about, lead me to Mr. Tech know it all Jon. Before I went to Jon it hadn't occurred to me to even type into Google "best LCD computer game monitor." Don't ask, it never occurred to me that LCD monitors and computer games don't always go together. I would later do a substantial amount of research later that explains if the LCD response time is high it will cause ghosting of the picture, not good when you play fast action graphically intense games over the internet. So back to Mr. I know what I'm talking about get away from that computer, I'll find you a monitor for your price range because your retarded and I'm always right Jon! Well with his magic internet fingers at the ready he blazed a trail through the void of the web landing on what would turn out to be the perfect 19 inch LCD monitor for me. I was skeptical at first because Jon was all like "I don't know much about LCD's, something about those number, one of them means something about refresh rates and should be low or something and it would be nice, but I cant tell if it has a DVI slot." What the hell, that's not very reassuring, but never is anything Jon says to me about computer crap. So I went home thinking about the monitor and began to do actual research, and what did I come up with after reading several articles? well al my research led me back to same damn LCD monitor Jon found, and for the cheapest around! so with out further adieu, my new monitor http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?Description=24-014-063&depa=1. A 16 MS response time is ideal for for gaming on your PC, no more no less. The DVI input is pure digital signal from your PC to your monitor without that stupid conversion to analogue and back to digital. Who needs analogue anyways, its the future damn it! Of course I could be wrong about all this tech crap Im spotting and the monitor could be the worst investment I've made since this $1800 paper wait. In that case I'll just go back to blaming Jon for misleading me.

I know this was boreing to read, but I was using this entry to practice my newly appropriated typeing skills , which I might add is still rusty as hell! Although I think typeing is helping with my spelling a little. So mad props goes out to my main woman Mavis Beacon and her killer typeing teaching program! she taught me type properly in a matter of two weeks an hour a day. don't get me wrong, I'm still slow as hell, but speed comes with time. It took me a little over an hour to type all this. You may not be impressed but I am . untill next time, Secrest out!

My room durring remodleing, what a mess.
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My room after remodleing. Optimus seems content sitting in the corner.
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My bed ten feet from the floor!
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My computer set up before, well actually durring the remodleing
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My Den of Despair
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thats my gamer tag/spray. I know it sucjs, but I made it in paint in about 15 minutes
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My computer Box's reached the ceiling, this is also a bit pic of Andrews old room with Jons murial of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon prism in the back
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Andrews old room before
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Andrews old room after
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My Mom cant use a digital camera, so Ill work on fix'n the pic and posting new ones
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Thats all 5'8" of me as the one and only Optimus Prime!
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Got My Pics Up....At Least Some Of Them

Heres a couple of pics! The ones as me as optimus need some work though. My Mom can't work a camera, its to high tech for her! Then again so is useing a cell phone. I promise I will return to regular post soon, but I've been busy playing Counter Strike: Source, that reminds me Ill post my sprays I use in the game too. I Also finished playing Half Life one so expect a review 6 years in the making, or I should say 6 years old. Oh ya I've been learning to type properly so expect a run down on that as well, but for now enjoy the pictures.