The title sums up just about my entire Sunday. With a couple of colleagues from work and Bas we had a first person shooter LAN day which was altogether very, very nice. From the very beginning it was clear that sportsmanship, friendliness and love thou neighbor were not the terms that we'd hear very often that day as it turned into a classic allied vs. axis battle yesterday. And, exactly like the WWII history has proved earlier: the allied were too strong for the axis once again. :-D But this didn't happen all by itself as we had to fight quite a couple of battles for that. We started out with the classic Battlefield 1942 game but due to some colleagues having major trouble adapting to its game play we soon switched to Medal of Honor. At first I was (quite) a bit skeptical because I just didn't see the point of running around in a rather large town with only eight people. In my opinion it would turn into a lot of searching for the other team, some short intense firefights and then search some more, etc., etc. Now I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised to find out this was not the case. It went pretty well with the eight of us and there wasn't a boring or silent moment at all. For me using the sniper is one of the greatest things in those games. The classic one shot, one kill approach. My chosen victim (usually from the other team ;-) just hears the loud ‘bang', goes down and needs to choose a new respawn point to re-enter the game. Just lovely :-) Trouble is that the person in my cross hairs is not the only one who hears that bang. No Sir, just about every single player in the game hears it which makes it even more fun to do. Just shoot one, relocate, shoot the next, etc. I can do this for hours, unless I find a really good spot where I can sit for a little longer without them finding me. Over the entire Sunday I had such a spot only once, but the amount of targets I could take out did more than make up for the lack of times I could use it. Together with Bas, who drew their attention, we put down loads of them before they finally figured out where I was. Lucky for me they shouted it out when they did, so I knew it was time to move on. It was a long but very rewarding day and should there be plans on doing this again I'll make sure I'm there again too.

Actually my PC has got 'the power' again, because I just got home with a brand new graphics card. And trust me people, this thing is one word awesome. Had the website Monsterboard.nl not been taken already, that name would have been a very good one to promote this card. Oh sure, the thing ripped a huge gap in my financial situation but when I look at what it's capable off, it's well worth that hole. ;-) For the number freaks among you, this is what I just dropped into my computer: The Gainward 7876-BLISS 7800GS Silent 512MB GS+ It features a GeForce 7800GS GPU, which runs on 450 MHz and has a whopping 512MB of 1,4ns, 1250 MHz DDR3 memory at it's disposal. No matter what game I've started so far, I can just grab all the sliders in the graphic settings department and thrown them on 'max' or 'high', or whatever is the highest possible setting, and it keeps on performing beautifully. It's just amazing how good things look when they look their best. Misa happy again, let's race!

Man, things are starting to heat up around here, and I'm of course talking about the weather. It's the same story every year, when the spring is almost done and the summer is knocking on my door I'm starting to feel a little restless because I know what's coming. Heat. And with the summer a difficult period comes along. Part of the trouble is that I simply can't stand warm weather. Twenty degrees or anything below is absolutely fine for me, but when the thermometer reaches thirty or even little over that it's killing me, and that's almost literally the case. It gives me headaches like you wouldn't believe, and there's little I can do to escape it. Most people look out for the summer the whole year and are glad when it's here. However I sure hope it's just passing along and that we'll have autumn like weather again soon. This is just not my thing.