The Road to Recovery
I used to be quite an avid gamer, I loved playing video games on my PC, I did a lot of that for a few years. Both online and single player, everything from Doom in the early days to Quake, Everquest, Anarchy Online, Asherons Call, Halo and more. It’s something that I had put away for the past few years though, too many other interests got in the way. I always had to have computers faster than anything you could buy to satisfy my gaming needs, which meant I had to build my own with hand-picked high-performance parts like high end video cards, RAID hard drive arrays, gobs of ultra fast memory, etc.
About a month ago my fastest video card in my fastest computer took a major dump and the PC died on me so I was forced to buy a new one. My first choice was so problematic with spontaneous reboots and random memory errors I had to bring it back after a few days. I went out and bought another card and it seems to be working fine after a week of hammering it with the recently released Quake 4. There’s something very satisfying about mowing down hundreds of evil alien monsters that are hell bent on Earth’s destruction in a realistic 3D environment. Blood, gore and ultra-violence is the way to go!
I’m not sure why I had the sudden urge to go buy a new video game, maybe it was just to see what this new card could do. The one that it replaced cost over $400, the new one was less than $100 and it’s much faster than the old one by far. Yeah, I’m still a kid, just older and not any wiser! It has been a lot of fun though and my surgery is nearly fully healed.
Which is a good thing, maybe the gaming helped keep my mind off the pain, soon I’ll be able to lift things again! LOL Tomorrow is the doctor’s appointment for the follow up from the surgery. Maybe he’ll declare me “healthy” again, that would be nice and I can move on to bigger and better things, I’m tired of feeling like my life is in a constant state of stagnation. I think the thing that bothers me the most though is that I’m having a hard time feeling the “funny”, there’s not much that I like better than writing stuff to this here blog with something silly, stupid or humorous in some way. I’ll be glad when my funny bone gets healed up!
Oh well, time to fire up some Quake 4, the Earth is in danger once again! You guys have a great Memorial Day weekend, buckle up, stay safe, drink one for me!
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Eh! The *funny* will come back!
Glad you are feeling better Se7en. Have a wonderful weekend. Now, go forth and save the Earth!
I know the feeling about video cards. I’ve been wanting to play City of Heroes, have the software but can’t hack forking out for the two video cards that of course are the ONLY two supported for CoH.
So I get my game fix over at Dragonmachine.
Thanks for the link luv–found them this am!
good luck with the dr. appt! I’ll be sure to drink more than one for ya - at least 6 or 7! hey, you DESERVE it!
Get well quick, Ace, and drink along with us!!
Hope all goes well when you see the doctor—-Have a great weekend, please do something fun for you.
Continue on the road to recovery.
Sending you lots of love
Big dork!
Ha, I’m sitting here reading this and thinking, man, we’ve come a LONG way from Pong. (which by the way was my very first ever “game”)
Considering your not technically deemed healthy, you’re doing a damn good job saving the Earth. I haven’t noticed any of those pesky aliens in my back yard lately, good job!
Have fun saving the world!
Feel totally well and healed very soon!!
Hey Se7en, I see you’ve still got my old site linked. I have a new site, with new content at http://misscellania.squarespace.com come on over and see it!
Distraction is one of the best healers. You have at it. Your funny bone is still lurking there.
hope you had a great weekend and glad to hear your feeling better, and that funny bone will be back I am positive. Huggz
Heya punk, hope yer all healed, healthy and beatin’ the crap outta nasty aliens!!
While you are busy saving the earth, can you please beat the crap out of the weather demons who are sending humidity, global warming and hurricanes? Much obliged
Just stopped back by to check in and leave you another hug and a kiss but I think they are all covered in slime and gross mildew so you might want to check on things……Damn you are really slack lately
Hey Sev, Hope you are feeling OK. Thanks so much for all of your support lately. Maybe we can get that “funny” back together.
So glad you are feeling better, the computer is a wonderful way to take your mind off things!
Ok, Sev… what gives? Ain’tcha ready for a new post? Huh?
I used to play games a long time ago and I finally go back into it by buying Tomb Raider Legend…but I can’t live without my PS2 anyway.
Hey Se7en, you doing okay man???
Video games sure are excellent time killers… they’re almost as good as blogging!
Feel better, man!
After what you’ve been through, you’re entitled to have some fun!! xo
Hell don’t want yah and Heaven is still undecided. I guess you’ll just have to stay around here for a lot longer and look for your funny.
**coughs lightly** Um… hellloooo? You in this goblinbox somewhere?
hope things are well.
xo.
Um…Sev? You ok, man? Don’t make me start ringing your phone. lol
Knock, knock…anybody home?
Get off those games….and UPDATE!
….c’mon…please?