I just heard from the realtor in Colorado that the owners of the property we're most interested in want to draw up a purchase agreement!  This was a major hurdle to overcome in my ongoing 1600 mile move to Colorado Springs, and leaving without a definite place to land would've been a real mess.Read more

Update:  Newegg saves the day once more.  Fresh drive arrived right on time.

Well, after only about three years of admittedly strenuous service my Raptor drive is kicking the bucket.  While in Windows, Everest can't even read the SMART data, so I had to use a SpinRite boot disk to learn the fate of my games and media drive.Read more

Well,  I got back from my road trip out to Colorado a couple days ago and have been busy playing catch up.  Among more serious matters, it would seem that my absence from home is an open invitation to all electronic devices to throw a kegger and end up thoroughly hung over upon my return.  I still haven't figured out why Steam refuses to work on my system, but runs just fine on my dad's box.  It takes several decades to load (actually about 10-15 minutes) and constantly freezes for several seconds when any action is performed, including chat or clicking basically anywhere.  Just having it running in the background causes a myriad of problems including explorer windows for folders not loading file icons and freezing randomly for extended periods of time.Read more

If the title of this post makes you recoil in horror with shell shocked flashbacks of Korean kids rolling your face in Starcraft after a hundred hours perfecting your strategy...you may want to stop reading here.  Because I'm going to say some things you won't agree with, and I'd like to spare you the aggravation.  It's a moot point, I know...since people that into Starcraft are probably still playing the sequel right now instead of reading my useless blog.Read more

Hit up your Settings window and opt-in to the current Steam update beta.  You'll be able to arrange messages into a single window using tabs, instead of juggling one IM window per friend.  Unfortunately right now it seems you have to manually drag and drop tabs onto a single window to use it.