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Putting things in order

Sorted under Gaming, Personal on August 27th, 2008

I think I'm finally going to get my butt in gear and start working on my website again. I do kind of miss blogging, and I hate that I'm letting the site sink into a bit of a hole. Tomorrow I'm going to try to dedicate some of my time to working on a redesign. This current design has been up far too long, and I'm way too bored of it. I've got a few ideas sketched out in my head but I'm probably going to stick to the route of simplicity.

I've already finished up the redesign for my portfolio (and created a PDF resume), so I've got that knocked out of the way. Hopefully I can get the design for atourworst.org done tomorrow, so I can get back to working on a redesign for Holdfire.

Other than that life has been quite peachy. I'm still on the lookout for a full time job, but I've managed to tide myself over with some gigs here and there. Things with my boyfriend Armando are going quite well, and I'm happy with that.

Some websites, applications, and anything else that I've been into lately:

What applications or websites have you recently found?

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Oh Xbox, how you have failed me!

Sorted under Gaming on May 17th, 2008

So for the past few months I've had random friends deal with issues relating to the Xbox, primarily with red rings, etc. I didn't know if my console was still under a warranty, but I didn't really think much of it--until today, that is.

I turned off the console, and decided to boot it back up only to get a red ring, with the error code E 74.

Needless to say that I've tried the troubleshooting for it, and it's still unresolved. My warranty expired apparently, so the Xbox repairs would be out of my pocket. I'm not sure what I plan on doing, but I'll probably end up dropping out some cash for a new system on Tuesday.

Hopefully I can get my sister's friend to let me borrow his system for the time being. And oddly enough, I'm surprisingly calm about it right now.

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What have I been up to? Halo 3, that’s what.

Sorted under Gaming on November 17th, 2007

I've probably started at least 10 or so entries in the past week or so, but I just never want to finish writing them. That will explain my lack of posting in the past few months. I just haven't truly had something worthwhile in my life to really blog about.

I work, I go to school, and I play Halo 3. If anything, I should be blogging about Halo 3, considering that's the one thing I do the most in my life right now. I admit that I am ridiculously addicted to the game, more specifically the XLIVE part of it. For almost four weeks, I've watched cable television maybe 2 of the 24 days. The other 22 days I've been on Halo. And it definitely shows. And on that note, the rest of this blog is going to be about Halo 3.

Riane On Half

My character is a UNSC Spartan which basically means that in multi-player (Xbox Live), I've won 20 or more ranked games. Bungie has this ridiculously intricate ranking set up for XBox Live. Currently I'm a Lieutenant Grade 3. I haven't received too many achievements from playing campaign as I've only done two missions thus far, but I play more online matchmaking than anything else. But online matchmaking has a lot of medals that you win throughout matches, regardless of it being social and ranked. Some of them are achievements but not all of them.

So far I've played about 805 matchmade games, most of those being Team Slayer. I'm just not big on playing Social matches simply because I hate dealing with parties larger then 4-per-team and the arrogant people that tend to stick to social. There are times when I'll have really bad games (usually Shotty Snipers) and there are times when I'll have really amazing games, like this gem right here. I had 50% of the games kills (25/50), and ended up getting some uber sweet medals I haven't gotten before like Overkill (Kill 4 opponents within 4 seconds of the previous kill.), Extermination (Get an overkill on an opposing team that results in all of the team being dead.) Needless to say I was pretty stoked about that, but I think I intimidated the other guys on my time, because noone partied up with me.

I'm really a huge sucker for Halo 3 though. I honestly can't get enough of it, so much that I've put off buying Call of Duty 4 and The Orange Box because I don't feel like stopping with H3 just yet. Though when you couple that with not wanting to spend money, it's a perfect reason to stick with Halo! Though since I don't want to really buy a game I won't like, I ended up caving in and subscribing to Gamefly.

The first three games on my queue are:

  • CSI: Hard Evidence - Shut up! I just love CSI and wanted to see if the game was any fun.
  • Half-Life 2: The Orange Box - This will be the deciding factor in whether I'll buy it or not.
  • Gears of War - I've been told that the campaign is ridiculously sweet, but that the online multi-player sucks donkey doo.

So there. Now you know what I've been up to and currently obsessing with. Oh, and for those of you that have Xbox Live, feel free to share your gamertag. I'd be willing to hit you guys up for some matches on Halo 3 (cos you know, that's the only game I ever play!)

Riane on XBOX Live

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