The perfect end to…well, a shitty day.
So today was shitty for the most part. I got a lot of key work done in the morning, and Risto was off work and asked if I wanted to play some Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. I said sure no problem, give me 30 minutes to write an Aced.com Poker Affiliate Program Review for the Poker Affiliate Bible. So I do that with about 5 minutes to spare, tell Risto to fire up the XBox, post the article to my site….
….and everything fucks up.
Suddenly when you would visit the site, it wouldn’t load, then would time out. So I enlisted the help of Frank, my go to guy for techy stuff. So the two of us start brainstorming. There’s no easy way to see what the problem is, so we start by eliminating all problems. First I upgrade WordPress. Still broken. Next I upgrade all plugins manually. Still broken, one hour gone. I remember I installed eaccelerator recently, so we remove that, recompile apache – still busto.
After testing out a few different things, we finally narrowed it down to it being a specific theme/design issue. Okay great. After a bit more work, we figure out it’s in the functions.php file, and narrow it down to the code which posts excerpts for password protected categories. Some other issues crop up, but we manage to fix them all finally. This took about three fucking hours, and it ruined my day. After this was done, I told the wife I was going out for a bit, grabbed my coat and just headed the fuck out, feeling really pissed off at the world.
I caved and bought a pack of smokes and this made me feel better. I headed up to Blockbuster to rent COD World on War, and saw Halo Wars there. Craving a good RTS, and going on the recommendation of Nateeasy, I rented it. Came home feeling emotionally drained, went for a shower, got into my PJs, and felt a lot better. Relaxed and watched the Celebrity Apprentice with the wife, as my day turned around.
Then with the wife up in bed, I was busy finishing off a few work related things, when I remembered Halo Wars. I put it on just to try it out and HOLY SHIT – it’s everything I want in an RTS. Nice and simple, easy to navigate etc, nothing too dumb in it – I fucking love it, and am ready to buy it and all I have did is play one skirmish.
Anyway yay – that’s put me in a great mood, so now I am off to bed, and then tomorrow I’ll be back to conquer the world. Fuck I feel good.
Oh man Halo Wars is super fun….
Oh man Halo Wars is super fun. Finally a good RTS.
Eye of the Tiger
I’ve decided while I work to start watching the pile of (burnt) movies I have siting here waiting for me to watch. It’s hard because I’m someone that generally needs to be in the right mood to watch movies, but I’ve said fuck it and just going to force myself to do so.
Yesterday I watched Rocky Balboa finally. Solid movie, and a great credit to the series. For anyone curious, my Rocky list in terms of favourites is 4,3,1,2,6,5 however I freely admit that isn’t an accurate list in terms of quality. I just really enjoy an arch-nemesis in a movie, and you can’t get any more evil than motherfucking DRAGO from the Soviet Union.
I’ve seriously got a pile of over 100 movies just sitting here, so I am just going to start grabbing a movie at random with my eyes closed, and watching it. I’ll hopefully be able to watch 2 movies a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This mornings movie is Liberty Stands Still.
holy crap rbv2 t hunt is sicki…
holy crap rbv2 t hunt is sickingly addictive.
Hey I bought some games!
It feels like forever since I bought myself an XBox 360 game. I didn’t dare buy any due to the achievement challenge, then I got that Blockbuster Rental thingy so have just been renting. The last game I bought for myself would have Gears of War 2 back last year, whenever that came out. I did buy Rock Band 2 – but that doesn’t really count.
Anyway I picked up Left 4 Dead and Fifa 09 on the weekend. Left 4 Dead is a blast and well worth the purchase. I also finally caved and bought Fifa 09, and glad to say it was also worth it, as it is super fun, especially the Be a Pro mode.
Other than that, I’ve been trying to recuperate from this illness and slowly progressing towards full health again. I’m still coughing up a lung, but other than that I’m fine. I’ve also mostly given up smoking, and am going to try and keep it that way. Only smoking about 5 a day now, and going to cut that down over the next week. Funny because I still really don’t want to quit, but oh well.
I managed to get back to work today(Sunday) and did some stuff. Got about 15 items on my to do list to get through which isn’t too bad considering how sick I have been all week and did no work. Also didn’t help that Mason was off for March break, and Janise & Ella were sick so I wasn’t able to have time alone to work.
Just going to work my ass off over the next little while, as I’ve got a busy April when it comes to non-work. On Sunday the 5th of April, it’s Wrestlemania~! Then on Monday I’m going to Blue Jays baseball opener. On the Tuesday it’s off to Whitby for a poker tournament with coincidentally a bunch of poker room managers – that should be fun.
Then on April 18th it’s off to Montreal, to hang out with people from Bodog then go watch UFC and watch Chuck Liddell kick all kinds of ass. Then at the end of April I am flying off to hang out with Marky Mark in Edmonton for a week.
Whew. Busy time. Off to make some dinner now as I just realize it’s 9pm and I ain’t had shit all day.