When it rains it pours. I got this in my email yesterday:

Prepare to join the WAAAGH!

Congratulations, you have been selected to join the Warhammer Online Beta Test.

NOTICE: The Warhammer Online Beta Test is currently under a strict Beta Test Agreement. The only permitted disclosures at this time are:

1) The fact that there is a Warhammer Online Beta Test currently underway.
2) The fact that you are a member of the Warhammer Online Beta Test.

Please ensure that you have read and understand the terms and conditions of the Beta Agreement before creating your Beta Account.

Between this beta and Age of Conan I’ll be pretty busy.

Age of Conan is live!

The server is Wiccana. Made it to level 14 15 16 17 20 22.

It is time for Age of Conan!

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Played [drain file 51 hits] Times

Thank Crom I got in on the early access before it sold out.

Just because I had mentioned to Gawain that I was going to geek out and post some case porn. The first shot is my old new pc. Then you got the new pc insides. Which I think I did a good job on with my use of zip ties. The old pc has the same number of fans. Yet some how it is noisier. The new case is slick as hell. It has a front air filter that can be pulled out and cleaned. It also has they handy hard drive bays that you attach two things (mounts?) that allows you to slide the drive in and out. Very hand for when you need to pull shit out and replace it.

And I’m happy with everything else about the new computer. All of the items I ordered have (so far) worked as I had expected. I went out and bought Crysis to determine what my pc was able to do. I’m happy to say I can run it on high and I get a good 40-60 FPS most of the time.

To round out this one above is my messy computer area. Also here is a new poll:

Do you build your own Computer?

• Yes
• No

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Domain renewal is another purchase I’ve been putting off. Like buying the parts for a new pc, ordering five more years of Hotelblues.com is a satisfying purchase. Now the domain expires in September 2013. 2013! That is the future man. Shit like that still blows my mind.

At the bar with my buddy the old bellman of the worst hotel ever. We are enjoying happy hour at Suds O’Hananans.

Update. We have downed beers one and are halfway into beer two. Beer three sits waiting for us to drink.

Update 2. Beer three is drunken. We wait for the waiter guy to get his ass over to our table for beer four.

Update 3. We finished beer four and wait for waiter guy to cash us out.

It’s time for a new computer. I used the Tech Report 2008 system guide The Grand Experiment as a blueprint. Here are the parts and Newegg prices:

• Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 $199.99
• Asus P5N-E SLI $119.99
• Mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2-800 $75.99
• XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB $229.99
• Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB $89.99
• Samsung SH-S203B $26.99
• Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer $90.99
• Antec Sonata III w/500W PSU $129.95
• Grand Total Spent: $963.88

I’ve been wanting to get a duo core processor for a while. Also Age of Conan is coming up and I had concerns if my current pc could handle it. Luckily I came into some money and I had a $1000 buck budget to build a new computer. I lack the initiative to select my own items so I usually find some tech site that has this kind of info put together before hand. I had some worry about getting the processor from Newegg, as it has been out of stock. It seems to go fast. Hopefully this build will last me for a while. I also hope to be able to play Crysis on this machine as I would like to see what all the hype is about. Now I sit back and wait for UPS to get my stuff to me. And hurray for being able to spend hundreds of dollars in a matter of seconds. What a rush.