kicking it old skool

Paintball was a wash out. Not for lack of trying (scouts honour). I did forget to book it though, so my bad. But in all fairness, when I finally did try I got nowhere. No phones where answered (couldn't even leave a message) no mails returned, fuck all. So we decided to go check out a drum and bass party that evening instead. Got together at our place, got tanked on vodka and shit and headed out to the spot. Said spot was quite scientificllaly selected, using tried and tested methodology and rock solid metrics (I googled "drum and bass parties in London" and picked the 1st one closest to where I live).

Turned out to be one of the best nights in London!! We had an absolutely fantastic time. The beauty of these parties is that nobody really gives too much of a shit. You can dance, jump, fall around, do whatever you feel like, as long as you're having a good time. I reckon the locals did think us to be a couple of nutters (I said "Nutters"), but hey...

Got woken up Saturday morning to the sound of the door buzzer. And even though I was suffering from a hang over of mega-super-heavy-epic propostions, I couldn't help smiling from ear to ear.

The Wolverine has arrived.

Allow me to enlighten you to the rapture, the joy, the sheer bliss and jaw dropping technological mastery that this kid from the courier company was hauling into my apartment: AMD x64 4200+ CPU, Abit AN8 32x MB, 1 Gig Corsair TwinX Low Cas Ram, 2x 300 Gig Maxtor SATA II Maxline III drives, 19 Inches of Viewing pleasure - courtesy of LG Flatron, Big Fuckoff Creative labs speakers, Logitech MX600 Wireless Laser Keyboard mouse Combo, and, the centre piece, the biggest, baddest, meanest-motherfucker-in-the-valley graphics card money can buy: the Mac Daddy 512mb Sapphire Radeon x1900xtx PCI-E.

Wood was to be had for pretty much the rest of the long weekend.

So I setup some workspace, cleared my calender, put some music on (to set the
mood), grabbed some wine (erm, more like 5 liters of coffee, my head was
fucking killing me!!), switched off my phone and lovingly began to extract the
juicy bits from their recycled-paper prisons and gently, slowly eased all the
parts into place. If ever you wanted to see me in my element, then this would be it. God, this
thing even LOOKS like a super hero!! Check this case out, how sick is that?!

Anyhoo, it's nice to have some decent toys again. Need to get some serious games to throw at it though, but I'm sure I can get a little help from my friends :)

[G], out

I have bested him before