The lan party was a success for the most part. We had a few technical issues with the server, but that was about it for problems.

We started just after 6 and went till about 1am.

The game of the evening was classic Unreal Tournament. We ran as a straight deathmatch, then we played CTF, and finally assault.

I got my share of kills in, but there were some brutal people in-game (read: I got my ass kicked on a few levels).

Here are a few images from the fun:

Dave had the sexiest damn computer on the room!

A pic of the room early on… more people came later but I was too busy playing to take pictures.

I’m getting pissed at my son for handing me my ass for a hat.

All in all, good times! It wasn’t a huge party (15 players in house and one remote), but hell… that’s the max the game will handle, so it was perfect! Huge thanks to my good neighbor, Ben, for hosting the party!!! Special thanks to encap as well for providing the 40 port switch!

I do have a few extras items after the party ended that need to be claimed: A black CD case (full of burns) and an extension cord. If these belong to you… fire off an email to me.

I didn’t get to bed until 4:30 am (there was a small post-lan gathering at my house). We had a few beers, made fun of each other, and laughed a lot.

We’re having a LAN party tomorrow night.

This will be the first one in a couple years and will probobly be much smaller than they used to be (you can see the photos from the older ones here, click the “bring out your dead” links).

Because a lot of the people who are coming have never played before, and they have older machines, we’re probobly going to play classic UT for the most part (though we may break out the BattleField Vietnam with the POE mod if enough people have it).

Normally, I host these parties, but this time it’s being done at my neighbor’s house. He’s already wired his basement with CAT5 and we should be good to go (though we may have a table and chair shortage… we’ll see on that).

Other news:
OMG!! We got a req to hire a graveyard person!!! That means that we can hire someone who’s only shift is the 2am till 10am POS that we’ve had to work once a week each for the past year and a half.

<insert my dance of pure joy here>

Ok.. I try to be clever with the php, I study how you do it and make it as difficult as possible, yet you still figure out a way to spam my blog.

Why the hell is this blog so special? There’s no real content. Yeah, I get hits, but it’s all people looking for porn (the average stay is less than 30 seconds).

Why the fuck would you waste your time modifying your damn Load Dump program just to include all the special “one 0ff” bits of php I’ve written to keep you out?

Bejesus!

Of course, I’ll just keep tweaking on my end, and you’ll keep spamming on your end (a cosmic balance of sorts). But at the end of the day… I’ll still be a blogger, and you’ll still be a goat fucker.

It’s been a slow day. Damn slow.

To fill the void, I decided to make Officer Todd into a South Park character.

Here’s the end result:

Kind of hard to tell them apart, isn’t it.

We’re just 9 days away from fillet of me.

I spent most of the morning at the hospital going through the whole pre-surgical routine. They drew blood, made me pee in a jar, check my oxygen levels, drew blood, took my blood pressure, weighed me, measured me, drew blood, and asked me questions (on… and drew one last thing of blood).

Good times there!

On the website front:
I’ve been working on the whole “floating footer” issue I’ve been having. I can now get the CSS and xml to validate for the most part… it’s still pissy about the java script I have running… but I’ve tried removing it and that makes no difference. There was a suggestion to either A) shorten the sidebar (aka: the right side of the screen) or B) set a minimum height to the same.

I’m probably going to look at modifying the php to create a select box for archives (click the down arrow, pick a month of archives). That should shorten the sidebar enough that it will no longer be an issue.