Lan Party, Turkey and Scuba

Bob
Bombs over Baghdad. Also, Bob got a job down in the DC area. Sounds like he will be my nieghbor (Cue in Thin Lizzy).

Teh Lan Party |20><0|2
We had a Lan party at the house a few weeks ago. That was sweet. We had like 15 people from work and work contacts in the living room, stress testing our network. It was fun. We had minimal problems and maximum fun. It was a pretty decent spread of people including some who rarely played video games but who play quite often now and some lifers (doit).

As you can see, I got a chance to practice making websites with the Mac. That was fun and easy. I'm gonna have to redo rodericj.com with that. Cuz right now it is like the 2nd lamest website ever. iWeb really does a ton for websites for those of us who have no right brained ability at all.

Additionally, who is the tool who has a 1) Lan Party and 2) a website about the Lan party? What a tool!

Since we had all of the computers and stuff in the dining room/living room, we decided to move the office into the spare bedroom upstairs. Its so sweet now. We actually get to see light when we do marathon game sessions. Plus its helping us keep the room/the house(to some extent) much cleaner that rules. Of course, now the basement is a friggen trash heap.


Thanksgiving
Christie and Dave came over, and Sen and Kathy and they and I all had Thanksgiving dinner (2 days late). It was great. It was the first time I reached into a turkey's sliced open neck to grab its liver and heard and neck and stuff. It was totally gross but totally cool. The Turkey came out AWESOME! We had TONS AND TONS of food. It ruled. We are still enjoying the food. Also, it was totally great to see Christie and Dave finally making the trek down to the house.

Other Family News
My sister Meredith spawned on November 19th. She had a small human female named Maya Ashley. That was pretty cool. I'm planning on heading out there in January to check her out and see Meredith's *new* place. Should be fun.

Scuba
I'm getting PADI certified soon. I'm taking the class this weekend. I'm totally stoked. That and skydiving are things I've ALWAYS wanted to do. I am 100% stoked. While everyone tells me that its unlikely that you will drown, I still run through the scenarios of like a swordfish stabbing not me, but my regulator hose, thereby making it impossible for me to breath. Well hopefully the Marlin fishers will get them all out of the pool by the time we dive Saturday. But man, that would suck.

We have some HW assignments due Saturday for the class. We just started Monday with the book and its like 250 pages long. So basically, no starcraft for me this weekend. I guess we didn't realize how much we'd have to know BEFORE we showed up. Oh well. This week is especially hard for Kathy as she has TONS of work stuff going on this week. Its a bit easier for me as I've got that 2 hours of train riding every day which I can use to read.

I think thats it.