Well, well, well…

…look what the cat dragged in

I know, I know…What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it…

I could make all kinds of excuses but I won’t. A lot has happened since my last post and I don’t really want to go into details, so I’ll keep this brief.

I’m on vacation.

I’m single again.

I now own a dog.

I quit my guild.

I went golfing.

I won $800.00 at the Casino.

Bought a new DVD player.

I’m tiling the shower. Sorta.

I turned 45.

The yard-work has begun.

Weather is getting nicer.

I still love Vodka.

Trying to find a use for my iTouch since buying a Droid.

I don’t care about your farm.

Need to buy an external HD.

Pepperoni is NOT the new bacon.

I lost some weight.

I still smoke.

Facebook is crack.

Need to update my WP installation.

Checking out Joomla.

Bought some new shoes.

Filed my taxes.

Developed some film.

And, uh, yeah…

So, that’s all I have to say about that. Let’s see if I can post again before 2011

I hope that all is well in your world…

~KJ

You might be a redneck

…if your photostream looks like mine

As I was looking at my site over the weekend, I couldn’t help but notice that the current pics in my photostream would probably give some the impression that I was truly a redneck. This might be the case, so let’s review. Glancing to the right of this post you will see the following: Me drinking vodka, guitars and a deer head on the wall, (actually an Antelope, but you get the picture), a pack of smokes, more vodka, a burger right off the grill, me playing guitar and the dashboard of a 1975 Monza as well as a Hurst Shifter. To me, nothing says ‘redneck’ like booze, smokes, BBQ, guitars, deer heads and car parts! Just sayin’. For those of you who know me in real life, this is not breaking news.

Last week when by quickly. The website migration was a total success, work was smooth and home life was good. It’s really nice to get back into the swing of things without all of the mental stress. It seems like the year is slipping by and it will soon be Fall and then another Winter. I don’t know know, each year just moves by a little quicker than the last. I really try to live slowly, savoring the moments day to day but lately, the world seems to be in a big freakin’ hurry for whatever reason. I chalk it up to age but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m just more aware of the things around me, maybe I’m seeing my life differently or realizing how short our time on this planet  really is. Not sure. At any rate, I’m trying to keep up with it all.

I decided that I need to have some ‘me’ time. I’ll be taking 4 days off later this week. My Monday is done and I have just two more work days before I take off for some R&R. I booked a room out at Wildhorse Resort Casino, including a couple rounds of golf for myself and @smugirishman. Been golfing with him for many years now and looking forward to some good times on the course this week. I haven’t played much over the last couple of years for various reasons. I miss it. I’m a golfer and that’s all there is to it. I will always love that silly game and hope to enjoy it for the rest of my life. There will be pictures of the course and the bloody outcome as always. Planning on playing some cards as well. Wanna get in a Hold ‘Em tourney and some 3 card poker. Might win, might lose, either way it’ll be fun. Been threatening to go to the museum there for many years and this just might be the trip that I actually do it. We’ll see.

Other than that, not alot going on.

Oh yeah, I haven’t logged on to my WoW account for about 3 weeks now. For some reason, I just haven’t been into it. It kinda comes and goes for me. Love to play and always will but I just haven’t been feeling it lately. The last patch hit, I logged in to check things out and haven’t been back since. Maybe after my vacation I’ll renew my desire to play. I hate it when I dont’ play and know that I’m paying for it. All good though, Supramax will be back in action soon enough.

Well, that about all for now. I just had nice New York strip, a few cocktails and I think it’s time to find something good on TV to watch. Hope that all is well in your world.

All for now…

~KJ

This little piggy went to market

in which I found some killer BBQ at our local Farmers Market…

I’ve kept busy this morning. I’m not used to having the weekends off so I sometimes don’t know what to do with myself. I slept in ’til about 9 or so, made some coffee and had a smoke in the shed while waiting. Pretty much my normal routine every morning. Finally got motivated and decided to get dressed and do something constructive.

Since it’s been so hot lately, I decided to go ahead and get the yard mowed before it got too hot. Ended up just doing the front, set some sprinklers and called it good. I might get to the back later but I doubt it. Tomorrow morning will be better. Anyway, I finished up with the mowing, hopped in the shower cuz I smelled like hell and decided to get my head shaved.

Stopped by the ATM to grab some cash and headed down to Antonio’s for a good shavin’. Love those guys, they do a good job and always trim my eyebrows. hehe I had to wait for quite a while cuz everyone and their kids were waiting for a cut. All good.

Decided to take a walk downtown so I stopped at the Farmers Market to take a gander. I wandered around for a bit and stumbled across a killer little BBQ stand the smelled heavenly. Checked the menu and the Pulled Pork sandwich was calling my name. I mean, omgwtfbbqsauce! I paid 5.00 for a delicious, fresh, juicy sammy that I quickly drenched with their awesomesauce. Found the nearest place to sit and devoured it. Damn good! May have to go back for another in the near future.

Back at the house now and have decided to chill and maybe play some WoW later. May go run and instance or see if I can PuG a 10 man Naxx or something. Either way, I’m gonna try to stay out of the heat today and rehydrate my body a bit. Perhaps a little nap to boot!

All for now…

KJ

PC upgrade complete

and I’m totally diggin’ it…

Alright, I got all of my parts last week and did the build over the weekend. I went with a EVGA nForce 730a Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+ 3.0 ghz dual core proccesor, Rosewill varialble speed 92mm heatsink and cooling fan, 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM and a sweet EVGA 9800 GT video card. I also have anoth 2 gigs of RAM sitting on the shelf just in case. Let me tell ya’, this system freakin’ rocks! I gutted my old can Sunday around noon, assembled the new gear and had a desktop within a couple of hours. Smooth upgrade to say the least. Not a hickup one. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, slapped in SP1 and did all the Windows upgrades. Oh, and DirectX 10. So far so good. Not too sure about this whole Vista thing but I’m likin’ what I’m seein’. I ran a benchmark test and came up with 74 fps at the highest possible settings. w00t! Also, the CPU temp idles at 19c and only 36c under a full load. Super cool running machine!

At this point is was time to install WoW and put it to the test. Loaded up the basic WoW, the Burning Crusade and then Wrath of the Lich King. Downloaded and installed all of the latest patches and i was off and running. I’m getting no less than 60fps in all areas including Northrend and frame spikes as high as 72fps. Un-fucking-real! So, it looks like I will stop leveling my Druid (Weedbgone lvl20) and get back to capping my Rogue (Supramax lvl76). At this rate, Supramax will be at 80 in no time and will then start farming honor for PVP gear. I just got on board with the guild <Krawler> and hope to do some raids/runs in the near future.

Anyway, I’m super happy with the new build and looking forward to some lag free gaming. This was my smoothest upgrade to date and all for 308.00…w00t!

KJ

Lemme Lemme Lemme upgrade

in which I groan and agonize over my new PC upgrades…

Last week I purchased a new video card for my home PC and when I installed it I soon found out that my MoBo didn’t have enough balls to run the new card.  So, instead of shipping it back I decided to shop for a new board and chip combo. I looked at several and decided to go with this one.  It’s out for delivery now and I’m super excited to get it. BUT, after looking closer at the specs it seems that I do not have an ample power supply to run the new board with the new card. My current power supply is 450 watts, which is enough juice but it doesn’t have the 24 pin power connector, (just the old 20 pin) that the new board needs as well as the 8 pin lead to the board beacuse I went with AMD instead of Pentium. Soooo, It looks like I will be buying a new power supply in order to get the thing up and running. <Sigh> What started out as a simple video card upgrade has now turned into a complete overhaul. I’m sure that I’ll be happy with the new build but OMFG does it have to be this difficult? I will also be going to Vista Ultimate 64 bit which will allow me to run DirectX 10 and run up to 8 gigs of memory. It’s gonna rock.

All in the name of World of Warcraft!

LOL Yes, I’m a dork.

KJ

The day before

Thanksgiving that is…

A slow day at work fo sho! Phones are hardly ringing. Go figure. I will be off at 7pm and will probably take M to my house for cocktails, food and our Doctor Who fix. w00t! In the morning I will be getting up at the ass-crack of dawn to put my arm up a turkey. That’s right, I do all of the cooking for my family every year. It’s just something that I adopted years ago and continue to do. The nice thing about it is that I KNOW it’s gonna be good. I fuckin’ own Thanksgiving dinner! I went shopping last Monday for all the fixin’s so I’m ready to roll. I may do a little prep tonight but not much.

In other news, I’ve been constantly playing with my new iPod Touch getting it all spiffed up with apps and tunes. It’s total crack and I love it! It’s hard to put down and really no reason to at this point. Well, I guess to shower would be a good reason.

I’ve also been leveling Supramax through the new WOTLK content. I must say that Blizzard has done a great job with improved graphics, story lines and gear. Half way to level 73 and I’m totally diggin’ it! Can’t wait to hit level 80 and start gearing up for some serious PvP action. It also looks like the armory is now out of beta stage. Kinda nice.

I would also like to take this time to welcome Left Coast Girlie to the wonderful world of blogging. Stop by and check her out. I think you’ll dig her blog, I know I do.

So, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I hope you have a good one.

Take care…

KJ

WoW

my warcrack habit is back…

As the seasons change and the weather gets colder, I have decided to fire up my WoW account and resurrect my rogue, aka Supramax. I put him on the back-burner last spring to pursue other things as one might do as the weather gets nicer but now it’s time. I picked up a pre-paid game card and fired my account up last week. I went through about 1.2 gigs of patches to get current and started to grind and quest once again. I soon realized that I a lot had changed and I was really rusty. It took me a few sittings to get back into the swing of things and now it’s just like I never took a break at all.

So, I’m currently getting leveled to 70 as the new expansion will be released next month which will raise the level cap to 80. I should be at 70 within a week or so. The new 3.0.2 patch just went live today and I will have to respec my character and make a few changes to the interface to accommodate the upgrade. I like what I’m seeing for the rogue’s. New talent ladders with a lot of new stuff. All the better to gank you with. w00t! Alli’s beware!

In other news, I have one more car payment and the Buick is paid for. I wanna buy a new crock pot and start building comfort foodz. I have a bunch of yardwork to get done before winter and not really looking forward to it. Just finished season 1 of Torchwood and it totally rocked. I’m just now getting back into the swing of things at work after the trip to Vegas. All in all, things are going pretty good for the time being.

All for now…

KJ